Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The worldwide web is now a quarter of a century old. Invented in 1989, there can be no doubt that the web, and the new businesses it has enabled, has transformed the world. But, according to Andrew Keen, this disruption has been a terrible failure. In The Internet is not the Answer, Keen has written a ...Show more
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink
$21.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter Sheri Fink reconstructs five days at New Orleans' Memorial Medical Center during Hurricane Katrina and draws the reader into the lives of those who struggled mightily to survive and ...Show more
Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Description: A French philosopher dies during a savage summer heat wave. Boxes carrying his unpublished miscellany mysteriously appear in Simon Critchley's office. Rooting through piles of papers, Critchley discovers a brilliant text on the ancient art of memory and a cache of astrological charts predi ...Show more
The Transformation of IntimacySexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies by Anthony Giddens
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The sexual revolution: an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does “sexuality” come into being, and what connections does it have with the changes that have affected personal life more generally? In answering these questions, the author disputes many of the dominant interpreta ...Show more
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer. A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring: the very best of his fiction and non-fiction; previou ...Show more
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Ser.
Available in audio for the first time since its publication in 1970, and narrated by the author, Germaine Greer. A worldwide best seller, The Female Eunuch is a landmark book in the history of the women's movement and a ground-breaking feminist tract. Drawing from history, literature, and popular cultu ...Show more
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris (Kettering University, Flint, MI Indiana University, Kokomo, IN Indiana University, Kokomo, IN Kettering University, Flint, MI Kettering University, Flint, MI)
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
"Every revolution in communication technology--from papyrus to the printing press to Twitter--is as much an opportunity to be drawn away from something as it is to be drawn toward something. And yet, as we embrace technology's gifts, we usually fail to consider what we're giving up in the process. Why w ...Show more
More Decent Obsessions by Bernard Salt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
There's matters of fairness, of manners, of pleasures, of observation. Based on his weekly columns for The Australian that have been published for more than a decade they are stories powerfully told. His writing style is light, loose, crisp and fun and at times he can be glitteringly clever. He plays wi ...Show more
Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman
$20.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what's new, surprising, and important. In Focus, he delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed an ...Show more
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
$33.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink - all shades of pink. If I have an accessory, it is probably pink. I read Vogue, and I'm not doing it ironically, though it might seem that way. I once live-tweeted the September issue.' In these funny a ...Show more
How We Are: How to Live Book 1 by Vincent Deary
$39.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
We live in small worlds. An astonishing literary debut and the first book in the monumental How To Live trilogy, How We Are explores the power of habit and the difficulty of change. A story told in three parts, this profound and ambitious trilogy gets right to the heart of what it means to be human: how ...Show more
Adolescent Country: A Lowy Institue Paper - Penguin Specials by Peter Hartcher
$9.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Penguin Specials
The great crises that threaten Australia's national prosperity come from abroad. So do the grandest opportunities. But in Australian politics the big matters are commonly crowded out by the small. International policy is used for domestic point-scoring. Leaders are criticised for travelling beyond the w ...Show more