Enchanted Forests The Poetic Construction of a World Before Time by Boria Sax
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Linking literature, philosophy, art, and personal experience, a moving exploration of the wooded landscape's power. In 1985 Boria Sax inherited an area of forest in New York State, which had been purchased by his Russian, Jewish, and Communist grandparents as a buffer against what they felt was a hostil ...Show more
The God Desire by David Baddiel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the bestselling author of Jews Don't Count ' A hugely heartfelt, funny, kind, fascinating, human and clever book ' ALAIN DE BOTTON' Magnificent. Breathtaking. And shockingly rare ... another one-sitting wonder' STEPHEN FRYDavid Baddiel would love there to be a God. He has spent a lot of time fanta ...Show more
Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
32.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
'An incredible book, the best work of criticism I have read in a very long time' NICK HORNBY 'An exhilarating, shape-shifting exploration of the perilous boundaries between art and life' JENNY OFFILL A passionate, provocative and blisteringly smart interrogation of how we experience art in the age of #M ...Show more
Liberalism as a Way of Life by Alexandre Lefebvre
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriously Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. C ...Show more
American Whitelash: The Resurgence of Racial Violence in Our Time by Wesley Lowery
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking investigation into the cyclical pattern of violence that has marred racial progress in AmericaIn 2008, Barack Obama's historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the USA. And so it would be - just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The ...Show more
Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind by Mike Jay
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind. A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick. "Jay is a leading expert on the history of Western drug use, and Psychonauts is the latest in a series of excellent ...Show more
Puff Piece by John Safran
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Wild, hilarious and thought-provoking, Puff Piece is a probing look into Big Tobacco and the vaping industry, and how words can be literally a matter of life and death.The folks that bring you Marlboro - Philip Morris - are wheezing, slowly dying. Cigarettes are out of favour with everyone, from world g ...Show more
After Sex: The Search for Reproductive Freedom by Edited and introduced by Edna Bonhomme and Alice Spawls
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Author: Edna Bonhomme & Alice Spawls (eds.) The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist cla ...Show more
The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism by John Gray
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A philosophical meeting of minds, as John Gray reads Thomas Hobbes to understand our current predicament Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, Hobbes' cold political vision co ...Show more
Mother: An Unconventional History by Sarah Knott
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What was mothering like in the past? When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herself this question. But accounts of motherhood are hard to find. For centuries, historians have concerned themselves with wars, politics and revolutions, not the everyday details of carrying and carin ...Show more
How to Be Healthy : An Ancient Guide to Wellness by Galen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers Ser.
Timeless wisdom about how to be healthy in body and mind from one of the greatest physicians of the ancient world The second-century Greek physician Galen--the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates--is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer, philosopher, tea ...Show more
On Women: A New Collection of Feminist Essays from the Influential Writer, Activist and Critic, Susan Sontag by Susan Sontag
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For the first time, On Women brings together Susan Sontag's most incisive and direct writing on womanhood. A brilliant new collection of essays on the oppression of women and the tools necessary for liberation from highly-acclaimed author Susan Sontag. Often regarded as one of the most influential write ...Show more