Small is Powerful by Adam Lent
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Humanity started small. Where did we get the idea big is better? The establishment promote big business, big government or big culture, more often than not, all three. In Small is PowerfulAdam Lent reveals how our faith in big was manufactured in the 1900s - by a group of powerful business leaders, pol ...Show more
Because We Say So by Noam Chomsky
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Because We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on U.S. politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomsky's arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of U.S. politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on ...Show more
Winning Arguments by Stanley Fish
34.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A lively and accessible guide to understanding rhetoric by the world class English and Law professor and bestselling author of How to Write a Sentence. Filled with the wit and observational prowess that shaped Stanley Fish's acclaimed bestseller How to Write a Sentence, Winning Arguments guides readers ...Show more
Dream of Reason .. Greeks to Renaissance by Anthony Gottlieb
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Already a classic, this landmark account of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. The Dream of Reason takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites ...Show more
The End of Power : From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moises Naim
21.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
We know that power is shifting: From West to East and North to South, from presidential palaces to public squares, from once formidable corporate behemoths to nimble startups and, slowly but surely, from men to women. But power is not merely shifting and dispersing. It is also decaying. Those in power t ...Show more
Princesses and Pornstars: Sex, Power, Identity by Emily Maguire
32.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
This sharp, funny and insightful book reveals how the treatment of young women as fragile or in need of male assistance can be as objectifying and damaging to women as pornography and raunch culture.
When We are No More: How Digital Memory is Shaping Our Future by Abby Smith Rumsey
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Our memory gives the human species a unique evolutionary advantage. Our stories, ideas, and innovations--in a word, our "culture"--can be recorded and passed on to future generations. Our enduring culture and restless curiosity have enabled us to invent powerful information technologies that give us inv ...Show more
A Good Life by Mark Rowlands
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son after Myshkin's death, A Good Life is one man's reckoning ...Show more
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future by Johan Norberg
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
It's all over our televisions, newspapers and the internet. Every day we're bludgeoned by news of how bad everything is - Brexit, financial collapse, unemployment, poverty, environmental disasters, disease, hunger, war. Indeed, our world now seems to be on the brink of collapse, and yet: * We've made mo ...Show more
Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy by Alain Badiou
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
In Pocket Pantheon Alain Badiou, one of today's leading political and philosophical minds, invites readers to engage with some of the great thinkers of the postwar Western tradition such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault. Drawing on his own encounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and allies ...Show more
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by YOEL HOFFMAN YOEL HO
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The celebrated and controversial Zen Buddhist text on koans and their elusive answers, now updated for new readers When The Sound of the One Hand came out in Japan in 1916 it caused a scandal. Zen was a secretive practice, its wisdom relayed from master to novice in strictest privacy. That a handbook e ...Show more
Quicksilver by Nicolas Rothwell
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Quicksilver begins on a quiet day in contemplation of a lizard deep in the heart of the outback but quickly moves to the Russia of Tolstoy and Gorky, and on to other lands and times, bringing into play universal questions about the essential nature of the human condition. Rothwell's chief subject is alw ...Show more