Adam Smith - What He Thought and Why It Matters by Jesse Norman
$22.99 AUD
Category: Politics
A dazzlingly original account of the life and thought of Adam Smith, the greatest economist of all time Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent ad ...Show more
Adani and the War over Coal by Quentin Beresford
$8.75 AUD
$34.99 (74% off)
Category: Politics
Coal is the political, economic and cultural totem for debates about climate change. Yet Australian politicians have had a love affair with coal, which has helped lock our politics--and our country--into the fossil fuel age. This searing book takes apart the pivotal role of the Adani Carmichael mine in ...Show more
Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'HILARIOUS' Stylist 'DAZZLING' Marian Keyes 'WITTY' Guardian 'HEARTBREAKING' Dolly Alderton 'INCREDIBLE' Candice Carty-Williams Jenny McLaine: * can't afford her mortgage since her ex moved out * is about to get dumped by her best friend * spends all day online-stalk ...Show more
Advancing Human Rights by Michael Mintrom
$19.95 AUD
Category: Politics | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
Human rights come into question in times of crisis. But should we wait for crises to arise before we discuss these rights? Advancing human rights should be everyone’s business, not just that of a select group of public interest lawyers, conspiracy theorists or those who prefer tinfoil hats.Human rights ...Show more
Africa39: New Writing from Africa South of the Sahara by Ellah Wakatama Allfrey
$21.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
Africa has produced some of the best writing of the twentieth century from Chinua Achebe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and the Nobel Laureates Wole Soyinka, Nadine Gordimer, J.M. Coetzee and Doris Lessing, to more recent talents like Nuruddin Farah, Ben Okri, Aminatta Forna and Brian Chikwava. Who ...Show more
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe by Johny Pitts
$22.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
'Afropean. Here was a space where blackness was taking part in shaping European identity ... A continent of Algerian flea markets, Surinamese shamanism, German Reggae and Moorish castles. Yes, all this was part of Europe too, and these were people and places it needed to understand and embrace if it wan ...Show more
After the Fact? - The Truth about Fake News by Marcus Gilroy-Ware
$24.99 AUD
Category: Politics
Why do we no longer trust facts, experts and statistics? In this essential guide to the turbulent times in which we live, Marcus Gilroy-Ware investigates our era of post-truths and fake news and answers the question of where we can go from here. We are supposed to have more information at our disposal n ...Show more
Against Interpretation And Other Essays by Susan Sontag
$27.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'A dazzling intellectual performance' VogueAgainst Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and made her name as one of the most incisive thinkers of our time. Sontag was among the first critics to write about the intersection between 'high' and 'low' art forms, and to give them equa ...Show more
Ain't I a Woman? (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Sojourner Truth
$9.99 AUD
Category: Gender Studies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any man that is now' A former slave and one of the most powerful orators of her time, Sojourner Truth fought for the equal rights of Black women throughout her life. ...Show more
All Art Is Ecological (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Timothy Morton
$9.99 AUD
Category: Climate | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the basis for a deep philosophical engagement with ecology.
All Made Up: The Power and Pitfalls of Beauty Culture, from Cleopatra to Kim Kardashian by Rae Nudson
$29.99 AUD
Category: Cultural Studies
A fascinating journey through history and culture, examining how makeup affects self-empowerment, how people have used it to define (and defy) their roles in society, and why we all need to careThere is a history and a cultural significance that comes with wearing cat-eye-inspired liner or a bold red li ...Show more
All Our Relations: Indigenous trauma in the shadow of colonialism by Tanya Talaga
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The world's Indigenous communities are fighting to live and dying too young. In this vital and incisive work, Tanya Talaga explores intergenerational trauma and the alarming rise of youth suicide. From Northern Ontario to Nunavut, Norway, Brazil, Australia, and the United States, the Indigenous experien ...Show more