Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
The searing, visionary memoir of founding Black Panther Huey P. Newton, in a dazzling illustrated package Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newtonas famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of Americaas Black Panther Party. From ...Show more
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
A #1 New York Times Bestseller, A National Book Award Finalist A profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a black father for his son, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and ...Show more
The Post-American World: And the Rise of the Rest by Fareed Zakaria
$22.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The growth of countries such as India, China, Brazil, Russia, South Africa and Kenya is generating a new landscape. The tallest buildings, biggest dams, highest-grossing movies and most advanced mobile phones are now all being made outside Europe and the United States. Countries that previously lacked p ...Show more
Knowledge Wars by Peter Doherty
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
"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
Life of I Updated Edition, the New Culture of Narcissism by Anne Manne
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"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
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For decades, feminism has argued the case for getting women into the workplace. Affirmative action, support schemes, paid maternity leave... all valuable devices, and yet still we agonize over why women aren't better represented in the boardrooms and ministries of this country. But the answer is so shri ...Show more
The Universe in Your Hand: A Journey Through Space, Time and Beyond by Christophe Galfard
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Category: Science
Imagine if The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy were a real, practical book about the mysteries of the universe...The Universe In Your Hand takes us on a wonder-filled journey to the surface of our dying Sun, shrinks us to the size of an atom and puts us in the deathly grip of distant Black Holes. Along ...Show more
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Books That Changed the World
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable righ ...Show more
War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges
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Category: Words & Ideas
As a veteran war correspondent, Chris Hedges has survived ambushes in Central America, imprisonment in Sudan, and a beating by Saudi military police. He has seen children murdered for sport in Gaza and petty thugs elevated into war heroes in the Balkans. Hedges, who is also a former divinity student, ha ...Show more
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
$55.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of "Christian America" is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and ...Show more
Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty-first-century City by Anna Minton
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Covers the UK property collapse and London's controversial Olympic Park, and shows us the face of Britain today. This title reveals the untested - and unwanted - urban planning that changes not only our cities, but also the nature of public space, of citizenship and of trust.
On Writing by Charles Bukowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: On Writing
'If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him ...There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be ...Show more