A Human History of Emotion: How the Way We Feel Built the World We Know by Richard Firth-Godbehere
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A sweeping exploration of the ways in which emotions shaped the course of human history, and how our experience and understanding of emotions have evolved along with us. We humans like to think of ourselves as rational creatures, who, as a species, have relied on calculation and intellect to survive. Bu ...Show more
Sad Little Men - Private Schools and the Ruin of England by Richard Beard
38.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'Insanely readable and enjoyable' - TOM HOLLAND, author of DominionIn 1975, as a child, Richard Beard was sent away from his home to sleep in a dormitory. So were David Cameron and Boris Johnson.In those days a private boys' boarding school education was largely the same experience as it had been for ge ...Show more
The Unreality of Memory: Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse by Elisa Gabbert
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills. 'A work of sheer brilliance, beauty and bravery' - Andrew Sean Greer, author of ...Show more
Work Mate Marry Love - How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny by Debora L. Spar
36.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A crucial guide to life before―and after―Tinder, IVF, and robots. What will happen to our notions of marriage and parenthood as reproductive technologies increasingly allow for newfangled ways of creating babies? What will happen to our understanding of gender as medical advances enable individuals to ...Show more
Love: A Very Short Introduction by Ronald De Sousa
16.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Very Short Introductions
Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why shoul ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita (King's College London, UK and Australian Catholic University, Australia)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loy ...Show more
Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers - Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis by John Nichols
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A furious denunciation of coronavirus criminals This short book calls to account the government misrulers and corporate criminals who made suffering from the global coronavirus pandemic more acute. Modeled on a famous 1940 bestseller--a pamphlet exposing appeasers of Nazi Germany--Guilty Men shows h ...Show more
Guilty Pigs: The Weird and Wonderful History of Animal Law by Katy Barnett, Jeremy Gans
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An illuminating and entertaining history of the law's treatment of animals Trespassing bees, murderous zebras, reasonable cows ... Ever since Biblical times, animals have been clashing with human laws.What to do with animals that injure or kill people, in particular, has long troubled humans. In medie ...Show more
The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The\Addicted Brain Ser.
An authoritative, illuminating, and deeply humane history of addiction - a phenomenon that remains baffling and deeply misunderstood despite having touched countless lives - by an addiction psychiatrist striving to understand his own family and himself. Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, ...Show more
The Meat Paradox: Brilliantly provocative, original, electrifying Bee Wilson, Financial Times by Rob Percival
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Our future diet will be shaped by diverse forces. It will be shaped by novel technologies and the logic of globalisation, by geopolitical tensions and the evolution of cultural preferences, by shocks to the status quo - pandemics and economic strife, the escalation of the climate and ecological crises - ...Show more
Sexual Revolution: Modern Fascism and the Feminist Fightback by Laurie Penny
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This is a story about how modern masculinity is killing the world, and how feminism can save it. It’s a story about sex and power and trauma and resistance and persistence. It’s a story about how you can track the crisis of democracy against the crisis of White masculinity, and how the far right is risi ...Show more
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
10 years after founding the Everyday Sexism Project, feminist writer and activist Laura Bates connects the dots between the 'isolated incidents' of violence against women and the institutional and systemic misogyny that is so deeply ingrained in our society. Every three days in the UK, women are murdere ...Show more