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Portraits from Memory: And Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.’ – Bertrand Russell Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an ...Show more
Chomsky for Activists by Noam Chomsky, Charles Derber, Suren Moodliar, Paul Shannon
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Those who regard him as a “doom and gloom” critic will find an unexpected Chomsky in these pages. Here the world-renowned author speaks for the first time in depth about his career in activism, and his views and tactics. Chomsky offers new and intimate details about his life-long experience as an activi ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
If Then - How One Data Company Invented the Future by Jill Lepore
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined data, targeted voters, accelerated news, manipulated consumers, destabilized politics, and disordered knowledge--decades before Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Cambridge Analytica. Silicon Valley likes to imagine it has no past but the scientists of Simu ...Show more
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life by John Kaag
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Princeton ANZ Paperbacks Ser.
From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical que ...Show more
Why the Germans Do It Better: Lessons from a Grown-Up Country by John Kampfner
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A provocative and entertaining exploration of the country that Britons love to hate by one of our most respected journalists.
Climate Crisis and the Global Green New Deal - The Political Economy of Saving the Planet by Noam Chomsky; Robert Pollin; C. J. Polychroniou (Contribution by)
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Climate change: watershed or endgame? In this compelling new book, Noam Chomsky, the world's leading public intellectual, and Robert Pollin, a renowned progressive economist, map out the catastrophic consequences of unchecked climate change--and present a realistic blueprint for change: the Green New De ...Show more
The Antinomies of Antonio Gramsci by Perry Anderson
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An explosive analysis of the central strategic concepts in Gramsci's thought, as revelatory today as on first publication in New Left Review in 1976. This landmark essay has been the subject of keen debate across four decades for its disentangling of the hesitations and contradictions in Gramsci's highl ...Show more
Machiavelli - The Art of Teaching People What to Fear by Patrick Boucheron
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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, ...Show more
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius by Ryan Holiday; Stephen Hanselman
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the bestselling authors of The Daily Stoic comes an inspiring guide to the lives of Stoicism's greatest practitioners. For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of ...Show more
Boys Will Be Boys - Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship by Clementine Ford
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Clementine Ford reports that one of the questions she is most asked in person and online is 'how do I raise my son to be a feminist? How do I make sure he's a supporter rather than a perpetrator?' That is a question that many parents with sons are haunted by. Now that Clem is mother to a baby boy of he ...Show more
Twilight of Democracy by ANNE APPLEBAUM
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Anne Applebaum is a leading historian of communism and a penetrating investigator of contemporary politics. Here she sets her sights on the big question, one with which she herself has been deeply engaged in both Europe and America: how did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written w ...Show more