Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov
$55.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordinary career. Each phase of his wandering life is included, from a precocious essay written while still at Cambridge in 1921, t ...Show more
Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews and Letters to the Editor by Vladimir Nabokov; Brian Boyd (Editor); Anastasia Tolstoy (Editor)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'Masterly, hilarious, truly insightful' - Philip Hensher, The Spectator A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019 The last major collection of Nabokov's published material, Think, Write, Speak brings together a treasure trove of previously uncollected texts from across the author's extraordina ...Show more
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, fought for ch ...Show more
Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her? All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?All Sloane wanted was to be admire ...Show more
Tomorrows Versus Yesterdays: Conversations in Defense of the Future by Andrew Keen
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In a collection of 18 exclusive interviews, Andrew Keen discusses the impact of the digital revolution and possible solutions to the challenges we face today with some of the most influential thinkers of our time.
Understanding Power: the Indespensable Chomsky by Noam Chomsky; Peter R Mitchell; Joel Schoeffel
$45.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Imprint. A collection of the best of Chomsky's recent talks on the politics of power. Characterised by Chomsky's accessible and informative style, this is the ideal book for those new to his work as well as those who have been listening for years.
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now by Joshua Wong
$19.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the 22-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests - Nobel Peace Prize nominee and TIME, Forbes, and Fortune world leader - with an introduction by Ai Weiwei Aged 14, Joshua Wong made history. While the adults stayed silent, Joshua staged ...Show more
Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: I Know This to be True
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...Show more
We Are Here: Stories of Home, Place & Belonging by Meg Mundell (Editor)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
How can you feel anchored when you have no place to call your own? Australia has a large shadow population of people who experience homelessness - whether couch-surfing, staying in a refuge, boarding house or caravan park, or sleeping rough. Too often they are dismissed or blamed. They are spoken fo ...Show more
Webtopia - The Worldwide Wreck of Tech and How to Make the Net Work by Peter Lewis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Sydney in the 1970s and 1980s was a world of limited choice, one where we all watched the same television programs and the household phone was at the heart of allnetworks people belonged to: family, school, church and the neighbourhood. The arrival of the internet promised a utopian, creative and democr ...Show more
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher by MARIE ROBERT
$18.89 AUD
$26.99 (30% off)
Category: Critical Thinking
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make li ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more