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Chinese Thought: From Confucius to Cook Ding by Roel Sterckx
45.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially co ...Show more
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
39.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
Feminisms: A Global History by Lucy Delap
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
Feminism's origins have often been framed around a limited cast of mostly white and educated foremothers, but the truth is that feminism has been and continues to be a global movement. For centuries, women from all walks of life have been mobilizing for gender justice. As the last decade has reminded ev ...Show more
Government of No-One by Anon; Ruth Kinna
39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Pelican Bks.
A magisterial study of the history and theory of one of the most controversial political movements Anarchism routinely gets a bad press. It's usually seen as meaning chaos and disorder -- or even nothing at all. And yet, from Occupy Wall Street to Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky to David Graeber, this philosop ...Show more
Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information by John D Caputo
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
Renowned thinker John D. Caputo has spent his career recasting theology and philosophy for a new world. In Interpretations from the Margins, he explores the cross-disciplinary world of modern hermeneutics, blazing a new trail in the most modern of fields. Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does int ...Show more
Islam: The Essentials by Tariq Ramadan
22.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: Pelican Bks.
Hardly a day goes by without mention of Islam. And yet, for most people, and in much of the world, Islam remains a little-known religion. Whether the issue is violence, terrorism, women's rights or slavery, Muslims are today expected to provide answers and to justify what Islam is - or is not. But littl ...Show more
National Populism by Roger;Goodwin Eatwell
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
A crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populismAcross the West, there is a rising tide of people who feel excluded, alienated from mainstream politics, and increasingly hostile towards minorities, immigrants and neo-liberal economics. Many of ...Show more
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
Our Universe - An Astronomer's Guide by Jo Dunkley
49.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Pelican Bks.
For many years now, we have known the story of the Solar System, and the Earth's place in it. We have mapped out the stars in the night sky, and have known that we live in a disk of stars that makes up the Milky Way galaxy. But, in the past few decades, huge steps have been taken in the field of astrono ...Show more
Plunder of the Commons: A Manifesto for Sharing Public Wealth by Guy Standing
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
We are losing the commons. Austerity and neoliberal policies have depleted our shared wealth; our national utilities have been sold off to foreign conglomerates, social housing is almost non-existent, our parks are cordoned off for private events and our national art galleries are sponsored by banks and ...Show more
Social Mobility by Lee Elliot Major; Stephen Machin
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Pelican Bks.
What are the effects of decreasing social mobility? How does education help - and hinder - us in improving our life chances? Why are so many of us stuck on the same social rung as our parents? Apart from the USA, Britain has the lowest social mobility in the Western world. The lack of movement in who ge ...Show more
The Art of Statistics by Spiegelhalter David
39.99 AUD
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Pelican Bks.
Statistics has played a leading role in our scientific understanding of the world for centuries, yet we are all familiar with the way statistical claims can be sensationalised, particularly in the media. In the age of big data, as data science becomes established as a discipline, a basic grasp of statis ...Show more