12 Rules for Strife by Jeff Sparrow, Sam Wallman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This is a handbook for change. Because we all know ways in which life could be better. And it can be better. We can make it better. We don't need to wait for a leader or saviour. We don't need to limit ourselves to comments and clicks. In this stunningly original comic-book tour of a serious topic, Jeff ...Show more
Gaza in Crisis: Reflections on Israel's War Against the Palestinians by Ilan Pappé, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the targeting of schools and hospitals, to the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus, Israel's conduct in 'Operation Cast Lead' has rattled even some of its most strident supporters. In this book, Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe survey the fallout from that devastation, and place the massacre in Gaza ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$17.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...Show more
The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling shouts out loudly but narratives no longer have their binding force. Wher ...Show more
Discourses and Selected Writings by EPICTETUS
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ide ...Show more
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: very good
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeatedly - and what the troubling social and political implications of this are. Throughout history, some books ...Show more
Cannibal Capitalism by Nancy Fraser
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracio ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism by Martin Wolf
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in liberal democracy ...Show more
A Message from Ukraine by Volodymyr Zelensky
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The words of a man. The message of a people. Bringing together a new introduction by Volodymyr Zelensky with his most powerful war speeches, this book recounts Ukraine's war through the words of its president. It is the story of a people valiantly defending themselves from Russian aggression. And it is ...Show more
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacr ...Show more
We Need To Talk About Xi: What we need to know about the world's most powerful leader by Michael Dillon
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A short, urgent book that sorts the fact from the fiction about Xi Jinping - one of the world's most powerful political leaders - to truly understand how he came to power, his hold on China and why we should care. Meet the most powerful leader in the world. Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our televisi ...Show more