Sleeping and Dreaming by Helga Raulff
$60.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Sleeping and Dreaming", which accompanies the exhibition of the same name at Wellcome Collection and the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum,Dresden, takes a fresh look at the apparently simple questions of why humans need to sleep and dream, and what happens to our brain and body during sleep. These fascinating ...Show more
What Should I Do with My Life? The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question by Po Bronson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: good
Po Bronson's new book tackles the biggest, most threatening, most obvious question that anyone has to face, What should I do with my life? It is a problem, he explains, that is increasingly encountered not just by the young but by people who have half their lives or more behind them. With the intoxicati ...Show more
Interpreting Dreams by Sigmund Freud
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts Ser.
By a detailed investigation of the universal phenomenon of dreaming, Freud discovered a radical new way of exploring the unconscious and recognized that dreams are a conflict and compromise between conscious and unconscious impulses. Through his insights about dreams, Freud was able to revise his method ...Show more
The Shock of the Old : Technology and Global History Since 1900 by David Edgerton
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The first proper global account of the place of technology in twentieth century history, this brilliant, thought-provoking book will radically revise our understanding of the relationship between technology and society.This first ever history of technology casts aside the usual stories of inventions and ...Show more
Matters of Substance: Drugs Debated by Griffith Edwards
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Matters of Substance is a fascinating global tour of drugs and our ambivalent relationship with them.
Turning Back the Clock by Umberto Eco
$29.94 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Turning Back the Clock is a brilliant collection of essays by one of the leading intellectuals of our time. After the Cold War, the 'Hot War' has made its comeback in Afghanistan and Iraq. Exhuming Kipling's "Great Game", we have gone back to the clash between Islam and Christianity. The ghost of the Ye ...Show more
WAR OVER WORK by EDGAR DON
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Many workers are caught in a spiral of longer hours, growing job insecurity, work stress and family conflict. Many want to spend more time with their family but fear being labelled uncommitted. The War Over Work is a bold and authoritative account of work patterns and the labour market in Australia. As ...Show more
River Runs Black,The by Economy Elizabeth
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
On Literature by Umberto Eco
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
After the opening essay on the general significance of literature, Eco examines a number of major authors from the Western canon. A stimulating chapter on the poetic qualities of Dante's Paradiso is followed by one on the style of the Communist Manifesto. The next three essays centre on nineteenth- and ...Show more
Kant and the Platypus by Umberto Eco
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
An attempt to answer the question, how much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability and how much on our linguistic resources? Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, to expound a clear critique of Kant.
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation by Umberto Eco
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the world famous author of In The Name of the Rose, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation 'Translation is always a shift, not between two languages but between two cultures. A translator must take into account rules that are not strictly linguistic but, bro ...Show more
Five Moral Pieces by Umberto Eco
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Recalls experiencing liberation from fascism in Italy as a boy, and examines the various historical forms of fascism, always with an eye toward ugly manifestations. The author reflects on a question underlying the reflections in this book - what does it mean to be moral or ethical when one doesn't belie ...Show more