Behind the Exclusive Brethren by Michael Bachelard
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about w ...Show more
Being And Event by Badiou Alain
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author's whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. It develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth.
ELEPHANT THE TIGER AND THE CELL PHONE by THAROOR SHASHI
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Argumentative Indian - Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, "The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity" brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widel ...Show more
Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
In this classic text, Jane Jacobs set out to produce an attack on current city planning and rebuilding and to introduce new principles by which these should be governed. The result is one of the most stimulating books on cities ever written. Throughout the post-war period, planners temperamentally unsy ...Show more
Rape: A history from 1860 to the present by Joanna Bourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sex ...Show more
Mad, Bad and Sad - A History of Women and the Mind Doctors From 1800 to the Present by Lisa Appignanesi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
From Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Plath to Zelda Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe, from Freud and Jung to Lacan and women-centred therapies, this is the story of how we have understood extreme states of mind over the last 200 years and how we conceive of them today.
The Death of Sigmund Freud : Fascism, Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Fundamentalism by Mark Edmundson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
When Hitler invaded Vienna in the winter of 1938, Sigmund Freud, old and desperately ill, was among the city's 175,000 Jews dreading Nazi occupation. Here Mark Edmundson traces Hitler and Freud's oddly converging lives, then zeroes in on the last two years of Freud's life, during which he was rescued an ...Show more
Minerva's Owl by Abramson Jeffrey
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Mad in America by Robert Whitaker
$23.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Wrath to Come : Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The history America never wanted you to read. ‘The narrative took my breath away’ Philippe Sands ‘An extraordinarily and shockingly powerful read’ Peter Frankopan ‘One of the must-reads of the year’ Suzannah Lipscomb ‘Brilliant and provocative’ Gavin Esler Sarah Churchwell examines one of the most endur ...Show more