How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism by Diogenes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformityThe Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness a ...Show more
How to Win An Argument - Ancient Gde ... by Marcus Tullius Cicero; James A. May
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
All of us are faced countless times with the challenge of persuading others, whether we're trying to win a trivial argument with a friend or convince our coworkers about an important decision. Instead of relying on untrained instinct-and often failing as a result-we'd win more arguments if we learned th ...Show more
I Know This to Be True: The Guiding Principles of Nelson Mandela by Sello Hatang; Verne Harris
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
A unique insight into the qualities, routines and disciplines of Nelson Mandela, revolutionary anti-apartheid leader and first president of a democratic South Africa (1994-99).
Inner Worlds Outer Spaces by Ceridwen Dovey
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds? Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women's rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master per ...Show more
Intimate Antipathies by Luke Carman
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Category: Critical Thinking
Intimate Antipathies is a collection of essays on the writing life, offering Luke Carman's unique comic perspectives on writers' festivals, residencies and conferences, the particular challenges faced by writers who grow up in contested borderlands like the suburbs of Western Sydney, and the connections ...Show more
Is Sex Necessary? - Or Why You Feel the Way You Do by James Thurber; E. B. White
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Category: Critical Thinking
"If this book isn't a minor classic--and one uses the term 'minor' only because it is so gorgeously funny and not ponderous enough to be a major--well, one doesn't know what book is. Let's compromise and just call it a classic." --Will Cuppy, New York Herald TribuneThe first book of prose published by e ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
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Category: Critical Thinking
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
Letter from Birmingham Jail (Mini Modern Classics) by Martin Luther King
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Ser.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Mediocre - The Dangerous Legacy of White Male Power by Ijeoma Oluo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
From the author of the Sunday Times and number 1 New York Times bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race, a subversive history of white male American identity. 'Deftly combines history and sociological study with personal narrative, and the result is both uncomfortable and illuminating' Washington Post ...Show more
Meditations (Collins Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insight and guidance by leaders and great thinkers alike. Never intended for publication, Med ...Show more
Merchants of Truth: Inside the War for Control of the News by Jill Abramson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Merchants of Truth by Jill Abramson, former editor of The New York Times, is the gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. Drawing on revelatory access, Abramson takes us behind the scenes at four media tit ...Show more