Spoilt Rotten by Theodore Dalrymple
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple grinds his axe at our child-centric culture where children have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving, education, taking of responsibility (none), sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture fro ...Show more
The Interrogative Mood by Padgett Powell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'If Duchamp or maybe Magritte wrote a novel (and maybe they did. Did they?) it might look something like this remarkable little book of Padgett Powell's: immensely readable, ingenious, witty, and ultimately important-feeling in a way you can't quite describe but don't need to' - Richard Ford. Through a ...Show more
Greek Pilgrimage: In Search of the Foundations of the West by John Carroll
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Category: Philosophy
Greek Pilgrimage is a meditation on classical Greece, journeying through its great sites, monuments, and cultural works. On the way, it examines the country's pivotal role in the foundation of the modern world. We who are born into the West are all Greeks. Here lie our roots. The ancient Greeks invite u ...Show more
Poisoned Pens: Literary Invective from Amis to Zola by Gary Dexter
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Category: Essays
'With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare.' George Bernard Shaw From what Byron really thought of Keats to Salman Rushdie's savage put-down of John Le Carre, from Cocteau's damning view of Victor Hu ...Show more
At ...: Writing, Mainly About Art, from the London Review of Books by Peter Campbell
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Category: Essays
For more than ten years, typographer and illustrator Peter Campbell has been the resident art critic for the London Review of Books, as well as serving as its resident designer since it began in 1979. Not easily characterized in professional terms, Campbell's writing thoughtful, jargon-free, and notably ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
On Balance by Adam Phillips
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Category: Contemporary Thought
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance. When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the pala ...Show more
The Idea of Justice by Amartya K. Sen
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Category: Philosophy
Is justice an ideal, forever beyond our grasp, or something that may actually guide our practical decisions and enhance our lives? In this wide-ranging book, Amartya Sen presents an alternative approach to mainstream theories of justice which, despite their many specific achievements have taken us, he a ...Show more
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking by Jessica Mitford
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Category: Essays
Jessica Mitford was a member of one of England's most legendary families (among her sisters were the novelist Nancy Mitford and the current Duchess of Devonshire) and one of the great muckraking journalists of modern times. Leaving England for America, she pursued a career as an investigative reporter a ...Show more
Scribble, Scribble, Scribble: Writing on Ice Cream, Obama, Churchill and My Mother by Simon Schama
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Category: Essays
'Wednesday brought a pungent sheepy smell emanating from the greyish lamb and barley soup my mother optimistically called 'Taste of the Garden of Eden'. Expel me, please. Haddock in the air? That would be Thursday. The faintest whiff of roasting garlic? That would be what my sister and I uncharitably du ...Show more
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Provocative and lyrical, "The Notebook" is a record of a year in the life of Jose Saramago. On the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, the author started jotting down his reflections on the world in which he lives. He evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, conversations with friends, and medit ...Show more
The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman
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Category: Contemporary Thought
It created a worldwide furore when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. In a gripping portrait, Paul Berman details Ramadan's disturbing ties to radical Islam, and notes a troubling tendency among Western liberals to overlook his questionab ...Show more