An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Here are seven detailed and fascinating portraits of neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette's syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and ...Show more
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Uncle Tungsten Sacks evokes, with warmth and wit, his upbringing in wartime England. He tells of the large science-steeped family who fostered his early fascination with chemistry. There follow his years at boarding school where, though unhappy, he developed the intellectual curiosity that would shap ...Show more
She's Having a Laugh - 25 of Australia's Funniest Women on Life by George McEncroe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In She's Having a Laugh, 25 of the funniest women in Australia write about life, love and laughter. Their stories are irreverent, intimate and - most of all - often hilarious. They reflect on why they became comedians, celebrate the funny women in their own lives, explore what's different about the fema ...Show more
Overwhelmed: How to Work, Love and Play When No One Has Time by Brigid Schulte
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Overwhelmed is a map of the stresses - individual, historical, biological and societal - that have ripped working mothers' leisure to shreds, and a quest for how it might be possible for them to put the pieces back together. In her attempts to juggle work and family life, Brigid Schulte has baked cakes ...Show more
Four Blood Moons by John Hagee
$26.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Inspired by NASA projections and recorded history, Pastor John Hagee shows direct connections between four blood-moon eclipses and major world events. Further, he reveals the significance of the four upcoming blood moons and what they portend for Israel and all of humankind.
European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche by Frank M. Turner
$72.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures-lucid, accessible, beautifully written, and delivered with a notable l ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs. Ours ...Show more
Flashpoints: the Emerging Crisis in Europe by George Friedman
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines "flashpoints," unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout history, and where ...Show more
The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage Wolf Ser.
Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wol ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
The Truth About French Women by Marie Le Moel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The Truth About French Women shows us that French women really are fascinating, but not for the reasons you think. French women have a mystique about them. They have, throughout the ages, been considered by some as a species apart - apparently flawless women, for whom sex and sensuality are central to t ...Show more
The Resilience Dividend: Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster, and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World by Judith Rodin
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
New York. Athens. Wenzhou. Boston. Oslo. Dhaka. New Orleans. Nairobi. In recent years, dozens of cities across the globe have been hit by large-scale catastrophes of every kind: natural disaster, geopolitical conflict, food shortages, disease and contagion, terrorist attacks. If you haven't been directl ...Show more