Black Paper - Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
$36.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: near fine
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Col ...Show more
Urban Indigenous Youth Reframing Two-Spirit by Marie Laing
$83.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
This book offers insights from young trans, queer and two-spirit Indigenous people in Toronto who examine the breadth and depth of meanings that two-spirit holds. This book offers insights from young trans, queer, and two-spirit Indigenous people in Toronto who examine the breadth and depth of meanings ...Show more
Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother by Juliet Mitchell
$41.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the psycho-social world and its lateral relations. 1. The new ...Show more
Four Fish: The Story of Fishing and What's Left to Eat by Paul Greenberg
$32.95 AUD
Category: Sustainability/Environment
People are increasingly interested in where our food comes from, and what impact our consumption has on the natural world, as other books such as Fast Food Nation, Not on the Label and The Omnivore's Dilemma have shown. None have yet focused on the sea, a subject of particular interest in seafood-loving ...Show more
Opium Nation: Child Brides, Drug Lords and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan by Fariba Nawa
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sociology
When she was just nine years old, Fariba Nawa and her family fled Afghanistan, escaping the Soviet invasion, the last proxy of the Cold War. She settled in the United States and did not return to her homeland until 2000. The country she found upon her return was dramatically different than the Afghanist ...Show more
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer
$9.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the w ...Show more
Paper - An Elegy. A Celebration of the Age of Paper by Ian Sansom
$24.99 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues | Reading Level: very good
What do reading a book, smoking a cigarette, throwing confetti and voting in an election have in common? The answer, of course, is paper. Paper serves nearly every function of our lives. It is the technology with which we have made sense of the world. Yet the age of paper is ending. Ebooks now outsell t ...Show more
Beyond Religion: Ethics for a Whole World by Dalai Lama
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling "Ancient Wisdom: Modern World", which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium. A decade later, His Holiness enters the contemporary debate about religion vs atheism, and returns to the theme of ethics with a major new work: "B ...Show more
Concealed and Exposed by Rodney Liddell
$38.05 AUD
Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
Good Book: A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible that draws on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing about all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life ...Show more
Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All--And What We Can Do about It by FAIRCLOTH, SEAN
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Downfall : How the Labor Party Ripped Itself Apart by Aaron Patrick
$29.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
It's the biggest and most puzzling story in Australian politics: how did the Australian Labor Party go from a thumping win in 2007 to facing annihilation in the forthcoming election? Other books have pointed to a lack of coherent policies and an over-reliance on polls--all true--but as this book makes c ...Show more