The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage Wolf Ser.
Provocative, punchy and important, this is one of the essential classics of modern feminist literature. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wol ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Before the concept of equality between the sexes was even conceived, Wollstonecraft wrote this book, a treatise of proto-feminism that was as powerful and original then as it is now. In it she argues with clarity and originality for the rational education of women and for an increased female contributio ...Show more
The Truth About French Women by Marie Le Moel
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The Truth About French Women shows us that French women really are fascinating, but not for the reasons you think. French women have a mystique about them. They have, throughout the ages, been considered by some as a species apart - apparently flawless women, for whom sex and sensuality are central to t ...Show more
The Resilience Dividend: Managing Disruption, Avoiding Disaster, and Growing Stronger in an Unpredictable World by Judith Rodin
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Category: Contemporary Thought
New York. Athens. Wenzhou. Boston. Oslo. Dhaka. New Orleans. Nairobi. In recent years, dozens of cities across the globe have been hit by large-scale catastrophes of every kind: natural disaster, geopolitical conflict, food shortages, disease and contagion, terrorist attacks. If you haven't been directl ...Show more
Brief History of Thought: Philosophical by Luc Ferry
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Learning to Live Ser.
Eight months on the bestseller lists in France! From the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry's instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy--including its profound relevance to ...Show more
In the Dust of This Planet by Eugene Thacker
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Category: Contemporary Thought
The world is increasingly unthinkable, a world of planetary disasters, emerging pandemics, and the looming threat of extinction. In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world. To confront this idea is to confront the li ...Show more
Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone
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Category: Contemporary Thought
**Winner of the 2013 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award**Though Amazon.com started off delivering books through the mail, its visionary founder, Jeff Bezos, was never content with being just a bookseller. He wanted Amazon to become 'the everything store', offering limitles ...Show more
Swallow This : What the Food Industry Wants You to Eat by Joanna Blythman
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Category: Contemporary Thought
From the author of What to Eat and Shopped, a revelatory investigation into what really goes into the food we eat. Even with 25 years experience as a journalist and investigator of the food chain, Joanna Blythman still felt she had unanswered questions about the food we consume every day. How 'natural' ...Show more
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacres in Norway by Asne Seierstad
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Category: Contemporary Thought
On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norwegians in a terrorist atrocity that shocked the world. Many were teenagers, just beginning their adult lives. In the devastating aftermath, the inevitable questions began. How could this happen? Why did it happen? And who was Anders Brei ...Show more
Blueprint for Revolution - How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Non-violent Techniques to Galvanise Communities, Overthrow Dictators, Or Simply Change the World by Srdja Popovic
$28.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
How Do Ordinary People Become Revolutionaries? In 2000, too-cool-to-care Belgrade rock kid Srdja Popovic found himself at the centre of a movement which was about to change the world. Popovic was one of the unexpected leaders of the student movement Otpor! That overthrew dictator Slobodan Milosevic and ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
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Category: Contemporary Thought
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
Legal Highs by Wensley Clarkson
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Legal Highs are without doubt the biggest drug scourge to blight the world since recreational drugs first hit the streets more than 100 years ago. Their growing menace opens up a new front in the drug war, shifting the battle line from the Colombian jungles, Moroccan valleys, Afghan hills and the Winneb ...Show more