Democracy Hacked - Political Turmoil and Information Warfare in the Digital Age by Martin Moore
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Technology has fractured democracy, and now there's no going back. All around the world, the fringes have stormed the palace of the elites and unleashed data miners, dark ads and bots on an unwitting public. After years of soundbites about connecting people, the social media giants are only just beginn ...Show more
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Penguin Psychology Ser.
Helps adults become aware of the importance of fairy tales. By revealing the content of such stories he shows how children may make use of them to cope with their emotions, whether they be feelings of smallness and helplessness or the anxieties the child feels about strangers.
Hivemind by Sara Rose Cavanagh
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
PRAISE FOR HIVEMIND: Cavanagh brings you along on her journey through an exquisite collection of scholarly knowledge and empirical insight to ground both your mind and your gut. From zombies to bees, moral panics to conspiracy theories, Hivemind mixes the dark with the light to help readers find a path ...Show more
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
29.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, fought for ch ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
Heinemann Media student Book 2nd ed by Roger Dunscombe
78.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Heinemann Media Second Edition incorporates Units 1-4 in a single volume. Complementing the student book is Pearson Reader which brings technology to life in the Media classroom. It contains extra material including an interactive glossary, videos, samples of student work and exam preparation.
Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappe
19.99 AUD
Category: Judaica
Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoken and radical thinkers writing on the history of Israel. In this groundbreaking and controversialbook he examines ten of the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel. Once andfor all he explodes the myths that just ...Show more
Draw Your Weapons by Sarah Sentilles
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
''How to live in the face of so much suffering? What difference can one person make in this beautiful, imperfect, and imperilled world?'' In Draw Your Weapons, Sarah Sentilles offers an impassioned defence of life lived by peace and principle. Through a dazzling combination of memoir, history, reportin ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe - Immigration, Identity, Islam (HB) by Douglas Murray
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: hardback
The Strange Death of Europe is a highly personal account of a continent and culture caught in the act of suicide. Declining birth-rates, mass immigration and cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have come together to make Europeans unable to argue for themselves and incapable of resisting their own ...Show more
Mythomania by Peter Conrad
17.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Despite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops and smartphones are sold under a logo that invokes the forbidden fruit of the Garden of Eden; skimpily clad classical nymphs cavort in TV reality shows; Narcissus makes a comeback ...Show more
2020: World of War by Paul Cornish
35.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The year is 2020 and civilisation is on the verge of a Third World War. Will the Russian invasion of the Arctic trigger the military response called for in the NATO treaty? Will the simultaneous Chinese cyber-attack on the Pentagon cripple the world's biggest military machine? Who's arming the refugees ...Show more
The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence by Catherine Lacey
28.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy. McCarthy left the father of her child to marry Edmund W ...Show more