Political Awakenings: Conversations with History by Harry Kreisler & others
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Discover what it was that prompted luminaries such as Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Kenzaburo Oe, Michael Pollan, Albie Sachs, Oliver Stone, Elizabeth Warren and Howard Zinn to become indefatigable voices fighting for social equity.
Green Metropolis: Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability by David Owen
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From the acclaimed "New Yorker" writer comes a thought provoking, innovative, and challenging new approach to protecting our environment. He explains why living smaller, living closer, and driving less are the keys to sustainability.
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson
$32.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Mark Stevenson has been to the future a few years ahead of the rest of us - and reckons it has a lot going for it. His voyage of discovery takes him to Oxford to meet Transhumanists (they intend to live forever), to Boston where he confronts a robot with mood swings, to an underwater cabinet meeting in ...Show more
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The bestselling author of "The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat" describes how we experience the visual world. In "Musicophilia", Oliver Sacks explored music and the brain; now, in "The Mind's Eye", he writes about the myriad ways in which we experience the visual world: how we see in three dimensions ...Show more
Land of the Remotosaurs (Charlie Small Journals #10) by Charlie Small
$14.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Charlie Small Journals
Something happened to Charlie when he was just eight years old. He went on a journey - and he's been trying to get back for over four hundred years! Crumbs! Charlie is about to be devoured by deadly dinosaurs. Will he and his piggy pals survive this deadly game of life and death? And will Charlie EVER g ...Show more
My Dark Places by James Ellroy
$24.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Ellroy is a unique voice in American fiction' - Jonathan Kellerman. On 21 June 1958, Geneva Hilliker Ellroy left her home in California. She was found strangled the next day. Her 10 year-old son James had been with her estranged husband all weekend and was informed of her death on his return. Her murde ...Show more
The Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and al ...Show more
Spoilt Rotten by Theodore Dalrymple
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In Spoilt Rotten, social commentator Theodore Dalrymple grinds his axe at our child-centric culture where children have become the yardstick of everything we do: safe driving, education, taking of responsibility (none), sentimentality (everywhere). In this forensic polemic of maudlin popular culture fro ...Show more
Here On Earth: An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Tim Flannery's first major book since The Weather Makers charts the history of life on our planet. Here on Earth, which draws its points of departure from Darwin and Wallace, Lovelock and Dawkins, is an extraordinary exploration of evolution and sustainability. Our success as a species has had disastrou ...Show more
On Balance by Adam Phillips
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance. When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the pala ...Show more
The Notebook by Jose Saramago
$36.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Provocative and lyrical, "The Notebook" is a record of a year in the life of Jose Saramago. On the eve of the 2008 US presidential election, the author started jotting down his reflections on the world in which he lives. He evokes life in his beloved city of Lisbon, conversations with friends, and medit ...Show more
The Flight of the Intellectuals by Paul Berman
$29.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
It created a worldwide furore when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. In a gripping portrait, Paul Berman details Ramadan's disturbing ties to radical Islam, and notes a troubling tendency among Western liberals to overlook his questionab ...Show more