Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis by Tim Dean
$77.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
This collection of essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. Works by Freud, Klein, Reich and Lacan are examined.
TED: Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
$17.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Why We Work Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex and urgent. We've long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we've shaped much of the infrastructure of our soc ...Show more
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
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
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
$23.00 AUD
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
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
$22.95 AUD
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.
All Your Friends Like This: How Social Networks Took Over News by Hal Crawford
$27.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
ALL YOUR FRIENDS LIKE THIS is a topical, punchy and provocative look at how social networks are taking over the news. How do you get your news? Chances are not from a newspaper or the TV - that's so old-school. If you're anything like the rest of us, you get it from Facebook or Twitter. The great powe ...Show more
Tristes Tropiques by Claude Levi-Strauss
$50.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Tristes Tropiques" begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he ...Show more