Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere by Christopher Hitchens
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Unacknowledged Legislation is a celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world'. In over thirty magnificent essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie, and with his trademark wit, rigour and flair, master critic Christopher Hitchens dispels ...Show more
Post-God Nation by Roy Williams
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
At the time of Federation 98% of Australians identified themselves as Christians. Now only 5% regularly go to Church. The reasons for this steep decline in faith are broad - they include the failings of the Church itself; its relentless negativity and hypocrisy as well as misunderstandings about what be ...Show more
The Anatomy of Fascism by Professor of History Robert O Paxton (Columbia University)
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What "is "fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteemed historian Robert O. Paxton answers this question for the first time by focusing on the concrete: what the fascists did, rather than what they said. From the first violent uniformed bands be ...Show more
World Beyond Your Head by Matthew B. Crawford
29.99 AUD
35.00 (14% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In the follow-up to his inspiring bestseller The Case for Working with Your Hands, Matthew Crawford examines daily life as a whole - doing the shopping, sharing a meal, going to the park. He asks: with ever-increasing demands on our attention, and without the guidance once supplied by tradition and reli ...Show more
After Before Time by Robbi Neal
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Stories of life from a remote Aboriginal community that sing with vivid and simple life, truth and power. At the end of 2008, Robbi Neal and her family travelled to the other end of mainland Australia to a remote Aboriginal community. They planned to stay for twelve months. Seven years later, they are ...Show more
Machines that Think: Everything you need to know about the coming age of artificial intelligence by New Scientist
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: New Scientist Instant Expert
Sometime in the future the intelligence of machines will exceed that of human brain power. So are we on the edge of an AI-pocalypse, with superintelligent devices superseding humanity, as predicted by Stephen Hawking? Or will this herald a kind of Utopia, with machines doing a far better job at complex ...Show more
Deviant Desires - Incredibly Strange Sex, Expanded Edition by Katharine Gates
49.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A classic exploration of niche kinks, sexual misfits and DIY fetish, now revised and updated! Author Katharine Gates, curator of the year-long exhibition KINK at Museum of Sex, has added a new introduction, plus chapters on Cannibal Play ("Eat Me!"), Suburbs of the Foot Fetish, and more. The expanded b ...Show more
A Free Flame : Australian Women Writers and Vocation in the Twentieth Century by Ann-Marie Priest
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
***Highly commended in the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript*** 'I need to be a writer, ' Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. 'That's what I need from life.' She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of bein ...Show more
What are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
New essays by the Orange and Pulitzer Prize winning author of Gilead, Home and Lila. In this collection, Marilynne Robinson, one of today's most important thinkers - admired by President Obama, and so many others - impels us to action and offers us hope.Marilynne Robinson has plumbed the human spirit in ...Show more
Free Women, Free Men by Camille Paglia
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Canons Ser.
Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has remained one of feminism's most outspoken, independent, and searingly intelligent voices. Now, for the first time, her best essays on the subject are gathered together in one concise volume. Whether she's calling for e ...Show more
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy - A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
Yanis Varoufakis, the bestselling author of Adults in the Room, uses personal stories and famous myths to explain what economics is and why it has the power to change our world. Why is there so much inequality?In this intimate and accessible book, world famous economist Yanis Varoufakis sets out to answ ...Show more
Trainwreck by Sady Doyle
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
She's everywhere once you start looking for her: the trainwreck. She's Britney Spears shaving her head, Whitney Houston saying, "crack is whack," and Amy Winehouse, dying in front of millions. But the trainwreck is also as old (and as meaningful) as feminism itself. From Mary Wollstonecraft--who ...Show more