Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes by Tariq Ali
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The modern Churchill cult is out of control, closing down historical debate and encouraging support for twenty-first-century wars. The man has become a household god for many, preserving an antiquated vision of Britain. In this coruscating portrait, Tariq Ali audits Churchill's crimes -both globally and ...Show more
Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine by Owen Matthews
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
*A Telegraph Book of the Year* *Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards* An astonishing investigation into the start of the Russo-Ukrainian war – from the corridors of the Kremlin to the trenches of Mariupol. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the most serious geopolitical crisis since the Second World Wa ...Show more
Communion: The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Love Song to the Nation Ser.
Renowned visionary and theorist bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the critically acclaimed All About Love: New Visions. She continued her national dialogue with the bestselling Salvation: Black People and Love. Now hooks culminates her triumphant trilogy of ...Show more
Salvation - Black People and Love by Bell Hooks
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Love Song to the Nation Ser.
Acclaimed visionary and intellectual, bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring Salvation: Black People and Love. Intimate and revo ...Show more
The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being by Simone Weil
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work- a political, philosophical, and spiritual treatiseOne of the foremost French philosophers of the last century, Simone Weil has been described by Andre Gide as 'the patron saint of all outsiders' and by Albert Camus as 'the only great spirit of our time ...Show more
Man Alone with Himself by Friedrich Nietzsche
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
Friedrich Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy. Here he sets out his subversive views in a series of aphorisms on subjects ranging from art to arrogance, boredom to passion, science to vanity, rejecting conventional notions of morality to celebrate the individual's ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "The Communist Manifesto" is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in "Penguin Classics". Marx and Engels' revolutionary summons to the working classes, "The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most ...Show more
Humanly Possible - Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope by Sarah Bakewell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.*** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *** A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR ***'I can' ...Show more
Kin: Family in the 21st century by Marina Kamenev
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Written by journalist Marina Kamenev, Kin: Family in the 21st century is an incisive and powerful look at how families are created today, and how they might be created in the future. Here’s an exercise: take a piece of paper. Grab a pen, pencil, crayon — any drawing utensil within reach. Now, draw a ty ...Show more
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing ...Show more
Third Millennium Thinking by Saul Perlmutter
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decisions, and solve problems--individually and collectively--using scientists' tricks of the trade. In our deluge of information, it's getting harder and harder to distinguish the revelatory from the contradic ...Show more
The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World by Vincent Bevins
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States. In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent ci ...Show more