The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
With the courage, honesty, and compassion that have made her one of America's most provocative authorities on modern culture, bell hooks takes on the interior lives of men and answers their most intimate questions about love. Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. In this groundbreaking book, ...Show more
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza ...Show more
The Big Con - How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato; Rosie Collington
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting industry and the way business and government are managed today which must change.Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington show that our economies' reliance on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, PwC, Deloitte, ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
The Palestine Laboratory: how Israel exports the technology of occupation around the world by Antony Loewenstein
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal deployment globally of Israel's occupation-enforcing technologies. For more than 50 years, the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza has given the Israeli state invaluable experience in controlling an 'enemy' p ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
Freedom - A Disease Without Cure by Slavoj Žižek
$40.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
We are all afraid that new dangers pose a threat to our hard-won freedoms, so what deserves attention is precisely the notion of freedom.The concept of freedom is deceptively simple. We think we understand it, but the moment we try and define it we encounter contradictions. In this new philosophical exp ...Show more
Gaia and Philosophy by Lynn Margulis; Anicka Yi (Illustrator); Dorion Sagan (Introduction by)
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In the 1970s, microbiologist Lynn Margulis and atmospheric chemist James Lovelock developed the Gaia theory. Embracing the circular logic of life and engineering systems, the Gaia theory states that Earth is a self-regulating complex system in which life interacts with and eventually becomes its own en ...Show more
Edible Economics - A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too-disciplined subject of economics For decades, a single, free-market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this intellectual monoculture is bland and unhealthy. Bestselling author and economist Ha ...Show more
The Choreography of Everyday Life by Annie B. Parson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A renowned choreographer explores the dance of everyday life and reveals that art-making is as natural as walking down the street. In this sparkling, innovative, fully-illustrated work, world-renowned choreographer Annie-B Parson translates the components of dance - time, proximity, space, motion and ...Show more
Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures by Mark Fisher
$38.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This collection of writings by Mark Fisher, author of the acclaimed Capitalist Realism, argues that we are haunted by futures that failed to happen. Fisher searches for the traces of these lost futures in the work of David Peace, John Le Carre, Christopher Nolan, Joy Division, Burial and many others. ...Show more
In The Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more