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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisisHow can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism ac ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of ...Show more
An End to Suffering : The Buddah in the world by Pankaj Mishra
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Spanning centuries, covering the globe, and encompassing politics, philosophy and religion, The End of Suffering is both unprecedented in its scope and immaculate in its execution. An accomplished and impressive history of the Buddha, it separates the man and his beliefs from the many myths and ideologi ...Show more
Bland Fanatics: Liberals, Race and Empire by Pankaj Mishra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Bland Fanatics - Liberals, the West and the Afterlives of Empires by Pankaj Mishra
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial atavism to paranoia about invading or hectically breeding Muslim hordes that has affected even the most intelligent in Anglo-America. In Bland Fanatics, Pankaj Mishra examines this hysteria and its f ...Show more
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: near fine
Pankaj Mishra's provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image - shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2013. It is shortlisted for the Orwell prize 2013. Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by As ...Show more
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world. A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to ...Show more
Literary Occasions : Essays by V.S. Naipaul (ed Pankaj Mishra)
$25.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A spectacular, illuminating work of fiction' Jennifer Egan'Terrific . . . Elegantly written, incisively observed, and deeply satisfying to read' Kamila Shamsie 'A book that demands to be read and rewards reading' Mohsin Hamid_____________________Arun knows there is only way out of this small railway to ...Show more
Run And Hide by Pankaj Mishra
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Marvellous' SATHNAM SANGHERAFROM THE AWARD WINNING AUTHOR OF AGE OF ANGER COMES A GATSBY-ESQUE TALE OF WEALTH AND AMBITION'A book that demands to be read' MOHSIN HAMID 'Terrific . . . deeply satisfying to read' KAMILA SHAMSIEArun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of th ...Show more