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Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$25.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them.Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Books by David Damrosch
$45.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Pelican Books
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of ...Show more
Classical Literature by Richard Jenkyns
$14.99 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Pelican Books
What makes Greek and Roman literature great? How has classical literature influenced Western culture? What did Greek and Roman authors learn from each other? Richard Jenkyns is emeritus Professor of the Classical Tradition and the Public Orator at the University of Oxford. His books include Virgil's Exp ...Show more
Greek and Roman Political Ideas: A Pelican Introduction by Melissa Lane
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Books
Where do our ideas about politics come from? What can we learn from the Greeks and Romans? How should we exercise power? Melissa Lane teaches politics at Princeton University, and previously taught political thought at the University of Cambridge, where she was a Fellow of King's College. She has receiv ...Show more
How Religion Evolved: And Why It Endures by Robin Dunbar
$48.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Books
Religion is both unique - as far as we can judge - and universal to humans. Our species diverged from the great apes about six to eight million years ago and since then, along with language, our propensity towards spiritual thinking and ritual emerged. How, when and why did this occur, and how did the e ...Show more
Human Evolution: A Pelican Introduction by Robin Dunbar
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Pelican Books
What makes us human? How did we develop language, thought and culture? Why did we survive, and other human species fail? Robin Dunbar is an evolutionary psychologist and former director of the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University. His acclaimed books include How Many ...Show more
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991: A Pelican Introduction by Orlando Figes
$22.99 AUD
Category: European | Series: Pelican Books
AN ORIGINAL READING OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, EXAMINING IT NOT AS A SINGLE EVENT BUT AS A HUNDRED-YEAR CYCLE OF VIOLENCE IN PURSUIT OF UTOPIAN DREAMS In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian Revolution. While other historians have focuse ...Show more
The Blue Commons: Rescuing the Economy of the Sea by Guy Standing
$45.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Pelican Books
The sea provides more than half the oxygen we breathe, food for billions of people and livelihoods for hundreds of millions. But giant corporations are plundering the world's oceans, aided by global finance and complicit states, following the neoliberal maxim of Blue Growth. The situation is dire: rampa ...Show more
The Domesticated Brain: A Pelican Introduction by Bruce Hood
$14.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Pelican Books
Why do we care what others think? What keeps us bound together? How does the brain shape our behaviour? Bruce Hood is an award-winning psychologist who has taught at Cambridge and Harvard universities and is currently Director of the Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol. He delivere ...Show more
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