Political Correctness Gone Mad? by Stephen Fry; Jordan B. Peterson; Michael Eric Dyson; Michelle Goldberg
$16.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
"Without free speech there is no true thought." Jordan Peterson Is political correctness an enemy of free speech, open debate and the free exchange of ideas? Or is it a progressive force, eroding the dominant power relationships and social norms that exclude marginalised groups from society?
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
$24.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Series: Trump
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER With extraordinary access to the Trump White House, Michael Wolff tells the inside story of the most controversial presidency of our time. The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous - and absolutely m ...Show more
Thus Spake Zarathustra by FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Wordsworth Classics of World Literature
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster,contains the kernel of Nietzsche's thought. 'God is dead', he tells us. Christianity is decadent, leading mankind into a slave morality concerned not with this life, but with the next. Nietzsche emphas ...Show more
Has the Luck Run Out? The End of Old Australia by David Fagan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
Why have we lost trust in Australia? What's going wrong? What's going right? And what we can do to regain confidence in Australia's future? Why are Australians anxious and pessimistic? Who or what has caused our loss of trust in Australia? Why has a feeling of powerlessness crept in for so many? Has the ...Show more
Stop Being Reasonable by Eleanor Gordon-Smith
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be...wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable,philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human reason. Susie realis ...Show more
The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost: Quarterly Essay 74 by Erik Jensen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
What went wrong for Labor and how did Scott Morrison achieve his remarkable victory? In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and co ...Show more
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the EssayNamed a Best Book of 2018 by TIME, Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Wired, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Paste, Bitch, Bustle, The Chicago Review of Books and iBooksAs a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as 'masterful' by ...Show more
Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power by David Crowe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A cracking account of the rivalries and hatreds that split the Liberal Party, brought down Malcolm Turnbull and propelled Scott Morrison to power. They plotted. They schemed. They unleashed chaos. Australia lost two prime ministers in three years in a period of political bloodshed that took the nation' ...Show more
Invisible Women - Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'Invisible Women takes on the neglected topic of what we don't know - and why. The result is a powerful, important and eye-opening analysis of the gender politics of knowledge and ignorance. With examples from technology to natural disasters, this is an original and timely reminder of why we need women ...Show more
Coventry by Rachel Cusk
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism ...Show more
Is Masculinity Toxic?: A primer for the 21st century by Andrew Smiler
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Series: The\Big Idea Ser.
This timely title weighsmasculinity's capacity forgood against its potentialfor destruction in thecontext of contemporarydebates on the topic. In the wake of the MeToo movement and the upsurge in both feminist and men's rights activism, traditional masculinity has become the topic of impassioned debate ...Show more