An Editor's Burial: Journals and Journalism from the New Yorker and Other Magazines by Wes Anderson, David Brendel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Inspirations for Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch- fascinating essays on the expatriate experience in Paris by some of the twentieth century's finest writers. A glimpse of post-war France through the eyes and words of 14 (mostly) expatriate journalists including Mavis Gallant, James Baldwin, A.J. Lieb ...Show more
Hiding in Plain Sight : The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America by Sarah Kendzior
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
New York Times bestselling author Sarah Kendzior documents the truth about the calculated rise to power of Donald Trump since the 1980s and how the erosion of our liberties made an American demagogue possible.This program is read by the author. The story of Donald Trump's rise to power is the story of ...Show more
Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex & Death by Jenny Kleeman
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
What if we could have babies without having to bear children, eat meat without killing animals, have the perfect sexual relationship without compromise or choose the time of our painless death? To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched fo ...Show more
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy by Melissa Davey
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey covered Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses, and attended each of his trials for his alleged historic sexual offences against children--his committal hearing, mistrial, retrial, and appeal. What she sa ...Show more
Outraged 8 copy pack + a free reading copy by Point of Sale
239.92 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Outraged (9781526625663) 8 copy pack + a free reading copy
The Accursed Share, Volume I: Volume 1: Consumption by Georges Bataille
54.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Most Anglo-American readers know Bataille as a novelist. The Accursed Share provides an excellent introduction to Bataille the philosopher. Here he uses his unique economic theory as the basis for an incisive inquiry into the very nature of civilization. Unlike conventional economic models based on noti ...Show more
The Myths We Live By - Adventures in Democracy, Free Speech and Other Liberal Inventions by Peter Cave
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Discover how philosophy can shine a light on the world's most divisive issues.
Burn It Down! - Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto raging and wanting, quarreling and provocative has always been central to feminism, and it's the angry, ...Show more
Machiavelli - The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Patrick Boucheron
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
A sharp, witty biography that explores how Machiavelli's thought is key to understanding the political crisis of his time - and that of our own. We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to philsophise in dark times. In fact, since his death in 1527, we h ...Show more
The Shallows - How the Internet Is Changing the Way We Think, Read and Remember by Nicholas Carr
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The 10th-anniversary edition of this landmark investigation into how the Internet is dramatically changing how we think, remember and interact, with a new afterword.
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
Bunker: Building for the End of Times by Garrett, Bradley L.
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere. In Bunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rap ...Show more