Literally Me by Julie Houts
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From Julie Houts, `Instagram's favourite illustrator' (Vogue), comes a collection of brilliant and darkly comic illustrated essays, satirizing modern female identity. Based on her popular Instagram account @jooleeloren, this collection of witty, illustrated essays centre around `slightly antisocial hero ...Show more
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This expanded edition of the bestseller that changed the way women think about their bodies features a diverse set of new monologues in addition to those previously included, as well as a new introduction by a leader in feminist thought and a new afterword about the global influence of The Vagina Monolo ...Show more
Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those rare books ...Show more
Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days by Witold Szablowski; Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'One of the truest and most beautiful things I've read.' Tim Flannery I used to bottle-feed my father's two bears. When my son was born, they were kept together. There were plenty of times when I got it wrong--the baby drank from the bear's bottle, and the bear from his. So when they fired me from the ...Show more
The Displaced : Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives by Viet Thanh Nguyen
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle in the United States each year. The American people spoke up, with protests, marches, donations, and l ...Show more
My Katherine Mansfield Project by Kirsty Gunn
29.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: General Adult
A new work by a highly acclaimed author - The Big Music(2012) was described as 'One of the finest novels of the past decade' by the TLS The essay will appeal to all fans of Katherine Mansfield A profound meditation on the nature of home and artistic influence When Kirsty Gunn received a Randell Fellowsh ...Show more
Making the Heavens Speak - Religion As Poetry by Peter Sloterdijk; Robert P. Hughes (Translator)
36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The idea of a connection between poetry and religion is as old as civilization. Homer consulted the Olympian gods on the fate of the fighters on the plain before Troy, and the poet made the heavenly ones speak. It was through poetry that the gods were brought within reach of human hearing, even if thi ...Show more
Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers
26.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A vital exploration of equality and the body from an acclaimed political philosopherThe pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy ageing, build our biceps, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. Surrounded by filtered photos and surgically-enhanced features, we must contort ou ...Show more
The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Zizek
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The\Essential Zizek Ser.
Slavoj Zizek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the "Elvis of cultural theory," and today's most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the fields of philosophy, psychoanalysis, theology, history and political theory, taking in film, popular culture, literatu ...Show more
The New Long Life: A Framework for Flourishing in a Changing World by Lynda Gratton; Andrew Scott
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A practical guide to how we can flourish as longevity and technology change our world, from the internationally bestselling authors of The 100-Year Life Smart new technologies. Longer, healthier lives. Human progress has risen to great heights, but at the same time it has prompted anxiety about where w ...Show more
Aspiration and Anxiety by Christina Ho
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The children of Asian migrants are often perceived to be perfect students: ambitious, studious and compliant. They are remarkably successful—routinely outperforming other students in exams, dominating selective school intakes, and disproportionately winning places at prestigious universities. While thei ...Show more
Splinters in Your Eye - Essays on the Frankfurt School by Martin Jay
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Although successive generations of the Frankfurt School have attempted to adapt Critical Theory to new circumstances, the work done by its founding members continues in the twenty-first century to unsettle conventional wisdom about culture, society and politics. Exploring unexamined episodes in the scho ...Show more