A Shakespeare Motley - An Illustrated Compendium by The Shakespeare The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
A Shakespeare Motley is a delightful cabinet of Shakespearean curiosities, arranged in alphabetical order, that will inform, enthuse, intrigue, and amuse anyone who wants to know more about the life and work of the world's best-known author. Drawing unusual connections, this ingenious guide will show yo ...Show more
A Short Philosophy of Birds by Philippe J. Dubois; Élise Rousseau
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
The greatest wisdom comes from the smallest creatures There is so much we can learn from birds. Through twenty-two little lessons of wisdom inspired by how birds live, this charming french book will help you spread your wings and soar. We often need the help from those smaller than us. Having spent a li ...Show more
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
$49.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenome ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The social revolution for women's rights has made great progress in recent years. But how many casual observers - or advocates, for that matter - are aware that the roots of this movement extend deep into Western history? Even before launching the great campaign to attain universal suffrage, strong ...Show more
A World of Three Zeroes: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero carbon emissions by Muhammad Yunus
$32.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
The bestselling author of Banker to the Poorand Creating aWorld Without Povertyand co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize outlines his radical economic vision for tackling inequality, joblessness, and environmental degradation, and describes the worldwide movement already working to make it a reality. Muham ...Show more
Acts Against God - A Short History of Blasphemy by David Nash
$44.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
Blasphemy is a phenomenon that spans human experience, from the ancient world right up to today's ferocious religious debates. Acts Against God is the first accessible history of this crime--its prosecution, its impact, and its punishment and suppression. While acknowledging blasphemy as an act of indiv ...Show more
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology: Essential Works of Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Aesthetics offers a focused study on the philosophy, literature and art which have informed Foucault's particular engagement with ethics and power, including brilliant commentaries on the work of de Sade, Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Roussel and Boulez.
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Infamous as the inspiration for the novel which slowly corrupts Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray", Joris-Karl Huysmans' "Against Nature" (A Rebours) is translated by Robert Baldick with an introduction by Patrick McGuinness in "Penguin Classics". A wildly original fin-de-siecle novel, "Against Nature" contain ...Show more
Against The Double Blackmail by Slavoj Zizek
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
How do we respond to the refugee crisis - by opening our doors, or pulling up the drawbridge? Both solutions, argues Slavoj Žižek, offer ideological blackmail, and both are wrong. He proposes that instead we see the crisis as an opportunity: a unique chance for Europe to redefine itself and its future. ...Show more
Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Peter Kropotkin
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth ...Show more
Ancient Rhetoric - From Aristotle to Phi by Thomas N. Habinek
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
A new and original anthology that introduces the key writings on rhetoric in the classical world, from Aristotle to Cicero and beyond.Classical rhetoric is one of the earliest versions of what is today known as media studies. It was absolutely crucial to life in the ancient world, whether in the courtro ...Show more
Anecdotes of the Cynics : Little Black Classic by Robert Dobbin (Translated by)
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics
'It's you who are the dogs...' What makes us happy? For over 800 years the Cynic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome argued that the answer lay in a simple, self-sufficient life.