The Perils of Perception - Why We're Wrong about Nearly Everything (PB) by Bobby Duffy
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
New Statesman's Best Books of 2018 'Mandatory reading' Steven Pinker Do you eat too much sugar? What proportion of your country are immigrants? What does it cost to raise a child? How much tax do the rich pay? Are we more ignorant than we used to be? Take a minute to answer these questions. No matter ...Show more
Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
Award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe turns her attention to the things that really matter to humans - sex, power and money. 'A genuinely hilarious explanation of the science of sex.' FRANKIE BOYLE Following her hit book Animal, Sara Pascoe decides to confront her fear of the male libido, and turns her att ...Show more
The University Is Closed for Open Day: Australia in the Twenty-First Century by Stephen Knight
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Where is analysis in this age of banal tweets and narcissistic comments? Stephen Knight turns his modernly analytical and historically aware mind to current attitudes and actions in need of serious examination. What is the impact of the bush myth on the national consciousness of Australian fiction? What ...Show more
What Happened? by Hanif Kureishi
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' - William Boyd Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too fringe or too mainstream for this insatiable-and much-loved-author. From social media to the ancient ...Show more
The Battle For Lone Pine by David Cameron
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Surprisingly, as we near the 100th anniversary of the legendary Gallipoli campaign, this is the first book solely dedicated to one of its key battles - that at Lone Pine, where Australian and Turkish soldiers fought an ultimately futile battle that claimed thousands of lives in incredibly close quarters ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
42.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Broken Republic: Three Essays by Arundhati Roy
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
There's an India we don't know about. Behind the public image of a country of astonishing growth, with swelling cities and a burgeoning middle class, there's a country at war with itself. For India's poor are being displaced on an industrial scale as companies move into rural areas to plunder their min ...Show more
The Corpse Walker by Liao Yiwu & Wen Huang
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Corpse Walker is a collection of twenty-seven extraordinary interviews that opens a window, unlike any other, onto the lives of ordinary, often outcast, Chinese men and women. Liao Yiwu reconstructs conversations he had between 1990 and 2008 with a range of remarkable people: a professional mourner, ...Show more
Do it Like a Woman - And Change the World by Caroline Criado-Perez
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Every day, all around the world, women are reinventing what it means to be female in cultures where power, privilege or basic freedoms are all too often equated with being male. Here, Caroline Criado-Perez, one of the most vocal and tenacious campaigners of her generation, introduces us to some of these ...Show more
The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999: Short Black 5 by John Birmingham
6.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Short Blacks
'As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage ...Show more
How to Sound Cultured - Master the 250 Names That Intellectuals Love to Drop into Conversation by Hubert Van Den Bergh
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
'Damn, all my cheating secrets revealed. In book form' Stephen Fry Which philosopher had the maddest hairstyle? Which novelist drank 50 cups of black coffee every day? What on earth did Simone de Beauvoir see in Jean-Paul Sartre? How to Sound Cultured offers a wry and yet profoundly useful look inside t ...Show more
24/7 Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep by Jonathan Crary
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
24/7 explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding, non-stop processes of twenty-first-century capitalism. The marketplace now operates twenty-four hours of every day and demands our constant activity, eroding forms of community, political expression, and the fabric of everyday life.Jonatha ...Show more