The Dark Net by Jamie Bartlett
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The online world most of us inhabit represents only a small fraction of the internet. Beyond Google and commercial web browsers lies a parallel universe, a 'deep web' twenty-five times larger than the surface web: a world of private chat rooms, second lives and anonymous markets; places where people str ...Show more
Microelectronics and societya report to the Club of Rome by Club of Rome
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit’s concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style ...Show more
Iconoclast by Berns - HBP
$21.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
No organization can survive without iconoclasts - innovators who single-handedly upturn conventional wisdom and manage to achieve what so many others deem impossible. Though indispensable, true iconoclasts are few and far between. In "Iconoclast", neuroscientist Gregory Berns explains why. He explores t ...Show more
Trouble in Paradise by Slavoj Zizek
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism. There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist paradise. But why do we find it so difficult to imagine a w ...Show more
The Islamist Phoenix - The islamic State and the Redrawing of the Middle East by Loretta Napoleoni
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A timely, piercing study of the Islamic State, as its rise to prominence and domination of Middle Eastern politics, is explained in revealing detail by economist and bestselling author Loretta Napoleoni. Napoleoni illuminates the singularity of IS and how it differs from other jihadist organisations, pa ...Show more
Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written a ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Description: A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predi ...Show more
The Transformation of IntimacySexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does “sexuality” come into being, and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life more generally? In answering these questions, the author disputes many of the dominant interpreta ...Show more
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer. A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring: the very best of his fiction and non-fiction; previou ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more