Libidinal Economy by Jean-Francois Lyotard
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Is regarded as the most important response to the philosophies of desire, as expounded by thinkers such as de Sade, Nietzsche, Bataille, Foucault and Deleuze and Guattari. It is a major work not only of philosophy, but of sexual politics, semiotics and literary theory, that signals the passage to postmo ...Show more
DOING NOTHING by LUTZ TOM
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Whenever the world of labor c ...Show more
why tv good for kids by LUMBY Catharine FINE
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
High Tide: How climate crisis is engulfing our planet (2005 ed) by Mark Lynas
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The No Logo of climate change - a book that shows how global warming is not a theory we should still debate, but something that has already happened on a global scale. Climate change is not a concern for the future. It's happening right now. In this book - based on the latest scientific evidence - the a ...Show more
The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press by Niall Lucy
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This title argues that the real opponents of democracy are conservatives, whose attack on the left reveals hostility for their ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. "The War on Democracy" focuses on the published ideas of seven of Australia's most influential conservative media commentators, analy ...Show more
Democracy And Populism:Fear And Hat by Lukacs John
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Moral Relativism (Big Ideas) by Steven Lukes
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Everyone holds beliefs. So what gives us the right to judge the behaviour of others in a world where ethics seem increasingly diverse and conflicting? Do universal human rights exist, or do we just have to accept that there's an irreparable moral discord between 'us' and 'the other'?In the current age o ...Show more
Frontline : The true story of the British mavericks who changed the face of war reporting by David Loyn
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'No story is worth a life' is the journalist's rule - but the boys at the Frontline news agency broke rules for a living. Frontline went where other news organizations feared to tread, bringing back footage of war zones that seared itself across the screens of millions of TVs in the 1990s. But the ...Show more
The New Cold War : How the Kremlin menaces both Russia & the West (revised edition 2009) by Edward Lucas
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
With a preface by Norman Davies, author of Europe: A History. Revised and updated following Russia's attack on Georgia. No longer the sick man of Europe, Russia is run by an authoritarian ex-KGB regime with the cash to put its ideas into practice. Under Vladimir Putin's autocratic rule, it silences its ...Show more
On The Nature Of The Things by Lucretius
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Fire Alarm:Reading Walter Benjamin' by Lowy Michael
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Radical Jack London: Writings on War and Revolution by Jack London
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
"Big things are happening secretly all around," says Jack London's prescient hero Ernest Everhard in the 1908 novel The Iron Heel, excerpted in this timely anthology of London's writings about war and revolution. Besides illuminating his surprising literary range, The Radical Jack London establishes the ...Show more