We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more
What Do Men Want?: Masculinity and Its Discontents by Nina Power
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A philosopher asks, what exactly do men get out of being men in the twenty-first century?Something is definitely up with men. From millions online who engage with the manosphere to the #metoo backlash, from Men's Rights activists and incels to spiralling suicide rates, it's easy to see that, while men s ...Show more
Future Metaphysics by Armen Avanessian; James Wagner (Translator)
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Theory Redux Ser.
The triumph of technological rationality and of the sciences as a whole has by no means provided answers to humanity's great questions. Instead, it has raised new and old questions and problems. To orient ourselves in the twenty-first century, we must take a new look at the central categories of philoso ...Show more
Bobuq Sayed – A Brief History of Australian Terror
$18.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Towards the Abyss - Ukraine from Maidan to War by Volodymyr Ishchenko
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Nuanced, melancholy, sophisticated and gratifyingly intimate."-Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism Ukrainian politics, the Russian invasion and the escalating crisis of the post-Soviet world Towards the Abyss presents searching analysis of a decade of war and upheaval in Ukraine. Volodymyr Ishc ...Show more
Rajneeshpuram - Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia by Russell King
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is rich storytelling." --Chapman and Maclain Way, directors of Wild Wild Country In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill h ...Show more
Geopolitics for the End Time - From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis by Bruno Macaes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A sharp vision of our changing world order as Covid and climate breakdown usher in a new 'survival of the fittest'. How well have different cultures and societies responded, and could this become a turning point in the flow of history? Before Covid, a new competition was already arising between alternat ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society by Joseph Stiglitz
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A major reappraisal, by the Nobel-prizewinning economist, of the relationship between capitalism and freedom Despite its manifest failures, the narrative of neoliberalism retains its grip on the public mind and the policies of governments all over the world. By this narrative, less regulation and more ...Show more
Somebody Told Me: One Man's Unexpected Journey Down the Rabbit Hole of Lies, Trolls and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The million-copy bestselling author of Yes Man and Join Me immerses himself in the contagious, dangerous world of disinformation, everyday lies, trolls, conspiracy theories and those trying to fight back. 'Danny Wallace lightens this dark topic about lies and propaganda with his trademark humour and ge ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more