Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity: Confronting the Fear of Knowledge: 2016 by Joanna Williams
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Palgrave Critical University Studies
Universities, once at the forefront of campaigns for intellectual liberty, are now bastions of conformity. This provocative book traces the demise of academic freedom within the context of changing ideas about the purpose of the university and the nature of knowledge and is a passionate call to arms for ...Show more
Islamic Exceptionalism by Shadi Hamid
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In Islamic Exceptionalism, Brookings Institution scholar and acclaimed author Shadi Hamid offers a novel and provocative argument on how Islam is, in fact, "exceptional" in how it relates to politics, with profound implications for how we understand the Middle East. With unprecedented access and drawing ...Show more
American Rhapsody by Claudia Roth Pierpont
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big screen command of Katharine Hepburn and the da ...Show more
The Soul of the Marionette - A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom by John Gray
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every actio ...Show more
Lure of the North by LIBRARY, LONDON
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: London library
"If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many words" The Lure of the North is part of 'Found on the Shelves', published with The London Library. The books in this series have been chosen to give a fasc ...Show more
The Prose Factory: Literary Life in Britain Since 1918 by D.J. Taylor
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What do we mean when we talk about 'taste'? 'Taste' takes countless forms. There is the exclusive taste of highbrow critics such as T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis. There is the taste of ordinary book lovers persuaded to buy the best-sellers of the day. And there is the taste of Virginia Woolf's elusive 'com ...Show more
Philosophy: The World's Greatest Thinkers by Philip Stokes
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This book brings together the world's greatest philosophers in one comprehensive and easy to use volume. Designed to be dipped into again and again, this book will please people with both a casual and more serious interest in philosophy.
Aftershock: Fighting War, Surviving Trauma, and Finding Peace by Matthew Green
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Over the last decade, we have sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green tells the story of our v ...Show more
Little History of Religion by Richard Holloway
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Little Histories Ser.
In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion - from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century - with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those w ...Show more
Listen Liberal: or whatever happened to the party of the people by Thomas Frank
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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Ecology of Wisdom by Arne Naess
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'The smaller we come to feel ourselves compared with the mountain, the nearer we come to participating in its greatness.' Philosopher, mountaineer, activist and visionary, Arne Naess's belief that all living things have value made him one of the most inspirational figures in the environmental movement. ...Show more
False Choices: The Faux Feminism of Hillary Rodham Clinton by Lisa Featherstone
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of the most powerful women in world politics, and the irrational right-wing hatred of Clinton has fed her progressive appeal, helping turn her into a feminist icon. To get a woman in the White House, it's thought, would be an achievement for all women everywhere, a kind of ...Show more