Play All - A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
35.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columni ...Show more
Hands What we do With them and Why by Darian Leader
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands Why do zombies walk with their arms outstretched? How can newborn babies grip an adult finger tightly enough to dangle unsupported from it? And why is everyone constantly texting, tapping and scrolling? For anyone curious ab ...Show more
Big Data: Does Size Matter? by Timandra Harkness
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know ...Show more
End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Professor Anthony Barnosky; Elizabeth A. Hadly
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast popula ...Show more
Black Flags: The Rise of Isis by Joby Warrick
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan ...Show more
Rene Descartes - Meditations and Other Writings by Rene Descartes
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good
One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy, Rene Descartes' "Meditations and Other Metaphysical Writings" is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Desmond M. Clarke in "Penguin Classics". Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty - even to deny those thin ...Show more
This Way Madness Lies: The Three Ages of the Asylum by Mike Jay
60.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations o ...Show more
Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In 1972, Peter Singer published "Famine, Affluence and Morality," which rapidly became one of the most widely discussed essays in applied ethics. Through this article, Singer presents his view that we have the same moral obligations to those far away as we do to those close to us. He argues that choosin ...Show more
Everything is Happening: Journey into a Painting by Michael Jacobs
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance of the painting by following the trails of associations from each individual character in the pictur ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
The Making of Donald Trump by David Cay Johnston
44.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who has covered Donald Trump's rise to power for 30 years, mostly for the New York Times, investigates the mogul's rise to power. Included is a thorough look at Trump's numerous ties to organised crime, his history of litigation, his family background incl ...Show more
What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more