Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Should we believe in God? In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't.Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed by the beauty and complexity of living things, he'd felt certain they must have had ...Show more
On Secrets (On Series) by Annika Smethurst
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: On Ser.
On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever. Police claim they were investigating the publication of classified information, her employer called it a 'dangerous act of intimidation', Smethurst believes she was simply doing her ...Show more
God Made My Face: a Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als (Editor); Stephen Best (Text by); Daphne A. Brooks (Text by); Teju Cole (Text by); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Text by); Barry Jenkins (Text by); Jamaica Kincaid (Text by); David Leeming (Text by); Darryl Pinckney (Text by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A ...Show more
Junkspace/Running Room by Koolhaas, Rem, Foster, Hal
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Going Mainstream: How extremists are taking over by Julia Ebner
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The internationally bestselling author of Going Dark: the secret social lives of extremists (A Telegraph Book of the Year) returns to explore why radical ideas are increasingly infiltrating politics, popular culture and our everyday lives. Incels. Anti Vaxxers. Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, th ...Show more
Why You Should Read Children's Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell
12.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Katherine Rundell - Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and prize-winning author of five novels for children - explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives ...Show more
Cunt, 20th Anniversary Edition A Declaration of Independence by Inga Muscio
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
An ancient title of respect for women, the word "cunt" long ago veered off this noble path. Inga Muscio traces the road from honor to expletive, giving women the motivation and tools to claim "cunt" as a positive and powerful force in their lives. In this fully revised edition, she explores, with candid ...Show more
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young J ...Show more
The Order of Things: Archaeology of the Human Sciences by Michel Foucault
24.95 AUD
32.99 (24% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features in a human face, gave way to the modern sci ...Show more
General Introduction to Psychonalysis by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Classics of World Literature Ser.
Sigmund Freud's controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The 'Freudian slip', the 'Oedipus complex', 'childhood sexuality', 'libido', 'narcissism' 'penis envy', the 'castration complex', the 'id', the 'ego' and the 'superego', 'denial', 'repre ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World by Elle Hardy
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
How has a Christian movement, founded at the turn of the twentieth century by the son of freed slaves, become the fastest-growing religion on Earth? Neo-Charismatic Pentecostalism has some 600 million followers worldwide, and by 2050 their numbers will grow to 1 billion: that's one in ten people. This i ...Show more