Scout, Atticus & Boo: A Celebration of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy
$22.99 AUD
Category: Essays
âe~You come away from Murphyâe(tm)s book with a renewed amazement at what Lee was able to achieve with a single perfect novelâe(tm) Entertainment Weekly First published in 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird is not only a beloved classic, but also a touchstone in literary and social history. This book commemo ...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
Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
"Climate scientists have warned that we need to change our behaviour in ways that may be inconvenient and threaten the commercial status quo. The result has been a polarising division in society and a sustained attack on their research. In The Knowledge Wars, Nobel prizewinner Peter Doherty makes a pass ...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
The End of Absence : Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Soon enough, nobody will remember life before the Internet. What does this unavoidable fact mean? Those of us who have lived both with and without the crowded connectivity of online life have a rare opportunity. We can still recognize the difference between Before and After. We catch ourselves idly reac ...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
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
Allie Brosh, the "gut-bustingly funny" (NPR), award-winning, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hyperbole and a Half, shares a new collection of autobiographical and illustrated essays. A Touchstone book. Touchstone has a great book for every reader.
On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory by Alan Ryan
$20.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Liveright Classics
In On Machiavelli: The Search for Glory, Alan Ryan illuminates the political and philosophical complexities of the often-reviled godfather of realpolitik. Thought by some to be the founder of Italian nationalism, regarded by others to be a reviver of the Roman Republic as a model for the modern Western ...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.