Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy
$27.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S ...Show more
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche; Tom Butler-Bowdon (Series edited by); Christopher Janaway (Introduction by)
$20.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark work continues to be one of the most well-known and influential explorations of moral and ethical philosophy ever conceived. Expan ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
Choice Words: A collection of writing about abortion by Louise Swinn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Edited by Louise Swinn, Choice Words is a timely collection of stories, essays, rants and raves from high profile women that seeks to demystify abortion and its surrounding stigma.
Choice Words: Writers on Abortion by Finch, Annie
$49.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A landmark literary anthology of poems, stories, and essays, Choice Words collects essential voices that renew our courage in the struggle to defend reproductive rights. Twenty years in the making, the book spans continents and centuries. This collection magnifies the voices of people reclaiming the sol ...Show more
Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language by Don Watson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia's public language, Don Watson's Death Sentenceis scathing, funny and brilliant.' ... in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politic ...Show more
Don't Be Evil - How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles - and All of Us by Rana Foroohar
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Today Google and Facebook receive 90% of the world's news ad-spending. Amazon takes half of all ecommerce in the US. Google and Apple operating systems run on all but 1% of cell phones globally. And 80% of corporate wealth is now held by 10% of companies - not the GEs and Toyotas of this world, but the ...Show more
Easy Lies & Influence (In the National Interest) by Fiona McLeod
$19.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Grift and stacking are commonplace as those chasing influence infiltrat ...Show more
Elena Ferrante. Key Words by Tiziana De Rogatis; Will Schutt (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent."--ELENA FERRANTE, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng Huo Zhou Kan Ferrante's four-volume novel cycle known in English ...Show more
Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women by Kate Manne
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Male entitlement takes many forms. To sex, yes, but more insidiously to admiration, bodily autonomy, knowledge, power, even care. In this urgent intervention, philosopher Kate Manne offers a radical new framework for understanding misogyny.In clear-sighted, powerful prose, she ranges widely across the c ...Show more
Everybody Lies - What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
$24.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
'This book is about a whole new way of studying the mind ... endlessly fascinating' Steven Pinker Everybody lies, to friends, lovers, doctors, pollsters and to themselves. In Internet searches, however, people confess their secrets about sexless marriages, mental health problems, even racist views. Seth ...Show more
Fame (Mini Modern Classics) by Andy Warhol
$2.50 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern
'Good b.o means good "box office." You can smell it from a mile away'The legendary sixties New York pop artist Andy Warhol's hilarious and insightful vignettes and aphorisms on the topics of love, fame and beauty.