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
12.95 AUD
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
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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
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
38.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
As Ferguson, Missouri, erupted in August 2014, and media commentators across the ideological spectrum referred to the angry response of African Americans as "black rage," historian Carol Anderson wrote a remarkable op-ed in the Washington Post showing that this was, instead, "white rage at work. With so ...Show more
Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores: True Tales and Lost Moments from Book Buyers, Booksellers, and Book Lovers by Bob Eckstein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From beloved"New Yorker"cartoonist Bob Eckstein, "Footnotes from the World s Greatest Bookstores"invites you into the heart and soul of every community: the local bookshop, each with its own quirks, charms, and legendary stories. This collection of seventy-five of the most cherished bookstores from arou ...Show more
The Wealth of Humans: Work and its Absence in the Twenty-First Century by Ryan Avent
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
To work is human. It puts food on the table, meaningfully structures our days, and strengthens our social ties. When work works, it provides the basis for a stable social order. Yet the world of work is changing fast, and in unexpected ways. With rapid advances in information technology, huge swathes of ...Show more
On The Aesthetic Education Of Man by Friedrich Schiller
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Man defines himself by his deeds - and what kind of image of man do we see in the mirror of our present times?' The poet and dramatist Friedrich Schiller was also a profound philosopher, who described his work On the Aesthetic Education of Man as 'the best thing that I have done in my life'. This impas ...Show more
Unforbidden Pleasures by PHILLIPS ADAM
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"We frequently talk about forbidden pleasures. But why do we rarely discuss pleasures we take for granted? We worry over the things we deny ourselves while paying little attention to our real enjoyment of available pleasures. But in neglecting what we have in favour of what we don't, asks Adam Phillips ...Show more
Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? by Karen Dawisha (University of Maryland, College Park)
35.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant "Putin's Kleptocracy" provides an answer, describing how Putin got to power, the cabal he brought with him, the billions they have looted, and his plan to restore the Greater R ...Show more