Surplus-Enjoyment - A Guide for the Non-Perplexed by Slavoj Zizek
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Zizek's guide to surplus (and why it's enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstan ...Show more
I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country by Elena Kostyuchenko
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Blending personal memoir with frontline reportage, this is an intimate and fearless portrait of contemporary Russia by one of Russia's most prominent independent journalists An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and fearless cri de coeur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritari ...Show more
The Most Good You Can Do - How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas aboutLiving Ethically by Singer Peter, Peter Singer
$24.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Internationally renowned philosopher Peter Singer presents a challenging new movement in the search for an ethical life, one that has emerged from his work on some of the world's most pressing problems. Effective altruism requires a rigorously unsentimental view of charitable giving: a substantial prop ...Show more
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume. "If we can detach ourselves fr ...Show more
The Ledger: Accounting for Failure in Afghanistan by David Kilcullen, Greg Mills
$30.00 AUD
Category: History
'These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world,' said Charlie Wilson of America's role in supporting the mujahideen against the Soviet Union. 'And then we fucked up the endgame.' The scandal-prone US Congressman lamented the absence of support for Afghanistan after that war, a vac ...Show more
Politics On the Edge: The instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller from the host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics by Rory Stewart
$37.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of breakout hit podcast The Rest Is Politics'An instant classic' MARINA HYDE'At last a politician who can write' SEBASTIAN FAULKS'Candid, angry, funny, and self-revelatory' JO ...Show more
Freedom: How we lose it and how we fight back by Nathan Law
$38.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
This urgent manifesto from a Nobel Peace Prize nominee argues that until all of us are free, none of us are.Nathan Law has experienced first-hand the shocking speed with which our freedom can be taken away from us, as an elected politician arrested simply for speaking his mind.He remembers what it is li ...Show more
A Decade of Drift (In the National Interest) by Martin Parkinson
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The erosion of public trust in government has been a characteristic of liberal democracies in recent years. How much have the twists and turns in climate change policy over the past decade contributed to this in Australia? As a senior public servant during six prime ministerships, Martin Parkinson had a ...Show more
Leadership (In the National Interest) by Don Russell
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The level of public frustration and disengagement with political leaders has never been higher. At the same time, the problems we need them to deal with, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis in aged care and accelerating climate change, are immediate and urgent. The system is designed to make our pol ...Show more
Home Work Essays on Love & Housekeeping by Helen Hayward
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
When Helen Hayward had her two children in London, 25 years ago, she found looking after them easy. Loving and looking after her kids was straightforward. However loving and looking after her home was not. She had long been instructed to put her career first. So she did. Yet what to do with the mushroom ...Show more
The Great Experiment: How to Make Diverse Democracies Work by Yascha Mounk
$26.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Modern Thought
* SELECTED FOR BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER READING LIST 2022 * ‘Anyone interested in the future of liberal democracy should read this book’ ANNE APPLEBAUM One of our most important political thinkers looks to the greatest challenge of our time: how to live together equally and peacefully in diverse democracie ...Show more
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."-- ...Show more