Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Revolution in a minor key: how young black women invented freedom. WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipati ...Show more
The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Fran Lebowitz
$45.00 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
A brilliant collection of acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious essays from New York icon Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City Fran Lebowitz is a New York legend. Arriving in the city over fifty years ago, she made her name as a columnist on Andy Warhol's Inter ...Show more
The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam by Douglas Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic | Reading Level: near fine
Lionel Shriver: "We praise too many writers for being “brave,” but with The Strange 'Death of Europe' Douglas Murray put himself in such potentially physical peril that he keeps his itineraries and address under wraps. Compellingly readable and lucidly argued, this is a thoughtful, meticulously resear ...Show more
Bluets: AS SEEN ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS by Maggie Nelson
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Yves Klein, Leonard Cohen, and Andy Warhol. While its narrator sets out to construct a sort of 'pillow book' about her lifelong obsession with ...Show more
What We Owe the Future: The Million-Year View by William MacAskill
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
We are remarkably early in the story of human civilisation. We are still five hundred million years away from the sterilisation of the Earth by the Sun, and one hundred trillion years away from the dying of the last stars. Leaving a shard of broken glass on the ground may harm someone tomorrow or one hu ...Show more
Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
$19.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
The Stuff of Thought: : Language as a window into human nature by Steven Pinker
$26.95 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The Stuff of Thought is an exhilarating work of non-fiction. Surprising, thought-provoking and incredibly enjoyable, there is no other book like it - Steven Pinker will revolutionise the way you think about language. He analyses what words actually mean and how we use them, and he reveals what this can ...Show more
Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world? Illustrations throughout.
Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums, and What They Tell You About Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Are you an authoritarian or a libertarian? Are we morally obliged to end the world? And just what's wrong with eating your cat? Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these, and many other questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to challeng ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
$14.95 AUD
Category: Essays
THE CASE OF THE POPEdelivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should h ...Show more
The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In this profound and playful book, Nassim Nicholas Taleb presents his ideas about life in the form of aphorisms, the world's earliest - and most memorable - literary form. Procrustes was a character from Greek mythology who abducted travellers and invited them to spend the night in a special bed, which ...Show more
When China Rules the World by Martin Jacques
$26.95 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
China will replace the United States as the world's dominant power. In so doing, it will not become more western but the world will become more Chinese. Jacques argues that we cannot understand China in western terms but only through its own history and culture. To this end, he introduces a powerful se ...Show more