Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
Wikileaks Files - The World According to US Empire by WikiLeaks
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
When WikiLeaks first came to prominence in 2010, releasing millions of top secret State Department cables, the world saw for the first time what the US really thought about national leaders, friendly dictators, and supposed allies. It also discovered the dark truths of national policies, human rights vi ...Show more
Takeover: Foreign Investment and the Australian Psyche by David Uren
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Did the Chiko Roll change Australian history? As a matter of fact, yes. Efforts by the reviled US company IT&T to take over the company making the Roll in the early 1970s marked a turning point in Australian foreign investment policy. And this is just one of the strange twists and turns in the buyi ...Show more
Life of I Updated Edition, the New Culture of Narcissism by Anne Manne
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"Far from being the work of a madman, Anders Breivik's murderous rampage in Norway was the action of an extreme narcissist. As the dead lay around him, he held up a finger asking for a Band-Aid.Written with the pace of a psychological thriller, The Life of Iis a compelling account of the rise of narciss ...Show more
Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age by Michael Wolff
$49.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"The closer the new media future gets, the further victory appears." --Michael Wolff This is a book about what happens when the smartestpeople in the room decide something is inevitable, andyet it doesn t come to pass. What happens when omenshave been misread, tea leaves misinterpreted, gurusembarrassed ...Show more
Unfinished Business: Women Men Work Family by Anne-Marie Slaughter
$29.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
A powerful, persuasive, thought-provoking vision for how to finish the long struggle for equality between women and men, work and family When Anne-Marie Slaughter accepted her dream job as the first female director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department in 2009, she was confident she could jugg ...Show more
Twelve Who Don't Agree by Valery Panyushkin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Journalist Valery Panyushkin profiles 12 Russians from across the country's social spectrum who have one thing in common: participation in the historic March of the Dissidents in 2007. In flagrant violation of increasingly stringent laws, they shared a belief that the government of Vladmir Putin was bet ...Show more
The Politics of Myth by Stephen Knight
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
In The Politics of Myth, Stephen Knight studies nine figures still vividly alive, all of them appearing in twenty-first century film and television. Analysing how they relate to the major themes of Power, Resistance and Knowledge, he shows how fact and fiction mix to help us explore and understand the c ...Show more
Now and at the Hour of Our Death by Susana Moreira Marques
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
"This book is fearless and luminous and full of grace; it travels to the edge of death and finds life there. Its attention to the particulars of love - between the ones who will go and the ones they will leave - is something close to sublime."--Leslie Jamison, author of "The Empathy Exams"A nurse sleeps ...Show more
Speaking from the Heart by Sally Morgan
$27.95 AUD
Category: Essays
Eighteen Aboriginal Australians from across the country each share a powerful story which is central to their own lives, and or to their family or community.
Quarterly Essay 60: Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern by Laura Tingle
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Whatever happened to good government? What are the signs of bad government? And can Malcolm Turnbull apply the lessons of the past in a very different world? In this crisp, profound and witty essay, Laura Tingle seeks answers to these questions. She ranges from ancient Rome to the demoralised state of ...Show more
Plato's Republic by Alain Badiou
$35.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its un ...Show more