Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love by Elizabeth A. Johnson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Science
For millennia plant and animal species have received little sustained attention as subjects of Christian theology and ethics in their own right. Focused on the human dilemma of sin and redemptive grace, theology has considered the doctrine of creation to be mainly an overture to the main drama of human ...Show more
Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
$26.95 AUD
Category: On Writing
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
Faith: Embracing Life in All its Uncertainty, Beauty and Mystery by Tim Costello
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Faith is an important message of hope and reconciliation -- as well as an invitation to think about the many soul-searching events that challenge belief. Tim Costello, who is a respected speaker on social justice issues, points us to an inclusive faith, bringing people from across the spectrum of societ ...Show more
Bounded Mobilities: Ethnographic Perspectives on Social Hierarchies Global Inequalities by Miriam Gutekunst
$81.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Mobility is a keyword of late modernity that suggests an increasingly unrestrained and interconnected world of individual opportunities. However, as privileges enable some to live in a seemingly borderless world, others remain excluded and marginalised. Boundaries are created, modified and consolidated, ...Show more
Criminal The Hidden Truth about Why People Do Bad Things by Tom Gash
$35.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
How our views of crime and its causes are wrong -- and how we can begin to understand and tackle it properly. The way we see and understand crime falls into two types of story that, in essence, have been told and retold many times throughout human history -- in fiction, as in fact. Criminality is e ...Show more
A Short History of Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Wittgenstein by Roger Scruton
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Des ...Show more
Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction by Patricia Highsmith
$23.00 AUD
Category: On Writing
Named by The Times as the all-time number one crime writer, Patricia Highsmith was an author who broke new ground and defied genre cliches with novels such as The Talented Mr Ripley and Strangers on a Train. In the classic creative writing guide Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction, Highsmith reveals h ...Show more
Theodore Gray's Completely Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home, but Probably Shouldn't (Complete and Updated HB Edition) by Theodore Gray
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
Bestselling author Theodore Gray has spent more than a decade dreaming up, executing, photographing, and writing about extreme scientific experiments, which he then published between 2009 and 2014 in his monthly Popular Science column "Gray Matter." Previously published in book form by Black Dog in two ...Show more
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis by Jacques Lacan
$45.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan
This volume is based on a year's seminar in which Dr. Lacan addressed a larger, less specialized audience than ever before, among whom he could not assume familiarity with his work. For his listeners then, and for his readers now, he wanted to "introduce a certain coherence into the major concepts on wh ...Show more
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire by Robert Leckey
$71.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Queer Theory: Law, Culture, Empire uses queer theory to examine the complex interactions of law, culture, and empire. Building on recent work on empire, and taking contextual, socio-legal, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches, it studies how activists and scholars engaged in queer theory projec ...Show more
Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler¿s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the ca ...Show more
Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose
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Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Interpretations
Ten years ago queer' was a term of abuse; now it is routinely, although controversially, used as self-description. Queer Theory traces the intriguing history of same-sex sex over the last century through the mid-century homophile movements, gay liberation, the women's movement and lesbian feminism to th ...Show more