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  • Saving Time

    Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER)

    by Jenny Odell ...
    ****THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**We're living on the wrong clock. And it's destroying us.'To read it is ... to experience how freedom might feel' Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks**Our life is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside. It wasn't devised for people, but for profit. We need to embrace a whole new concept of time: one that ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Wages of Rebellion

    by Chris Hedges ...
    Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges -- who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class -- ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD $3.99 AUD

  • Small Is Beautiful

    A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

    by E F Schumacher ...
    Small is Beautiful is E. F. Schumacher's stimulating and controversial study of economics and its purpose. This remarkable book examines our modern economic system - its use of resources and impact on how we live - questioning whether they reflect what we truly care about. The revolutionary ideas are as pertinent, inspirational and thought-provoking today as when they were first published in 1973. ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • The Communist Manifesto

    by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels ...
    series Penguin Little Black Classics
    'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.'Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated.Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD

  • Reason and Revolution

    Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    "Brilliant and penetrating ... the most important work which has opened up an understanding of Marx's humanism." - Erich FrommReason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory is the philosopher Herbert Marcuse's first major work in English - a masterful interpretation of Hegel's philosophy and the influence it has had on European political thought from the French Revolution to the ... Read more

    $20.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Start With Why

    The Inspiring Million-Copy Bestseller That Will Help You Find Your Purpose

    by Simon Sinek ...
    THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER - BASED ON THE LIFE-CHANGING TED TALK!WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT START WITH WHY:'It's amazing how a book can change the course of your life, and this book did that' Reader Review'Imagine the Ted Talk expanded to 2 hours long, with more depth, intrigue and examples' Reader Review'What he does brilliantly is demonstrate his own why - to inspire others - th... ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Second Mountain

    The Quest for a Moral Life

    by David Brooks ...
    **NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMALAre you on your first or second mountain?Is life about you - or others?About success - or something deeper?**The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

    by Jia Tolentino ...
    A Times book of the year A Guardian book of the year **‘Magnificent’**The Times ‘Dazzling’ New Statesman ‘It filled me with hope’ Zadie SmithWe are living in the era of the self, in an era of malleable truth and widespread personal and political delusion. In these nine interlinked essays, Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker’s brightest young talent, explores her own coming of age in this warped and ... Read more

    $9.99 AUD

  • Democracy and Its Crisis

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters.First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Philosophical Posthumanism

    by Francesca Ferrando, Professor Rosi Braidotti ...
    series Theory in the New Humanities
    The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative.The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human, includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD

  • What Money Can't Buy

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? Isn't there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale ... Read more

    $15.99 AUD

  • 12 Rules for Life

    An Antidote to Chaos

    by Jordan B. Peterson ...
    **The #1 Sunday Times and International Bestseller from 'the most influential public intellectual in the Western world right now' (New York Times)What are the most valuable things that everyone should know?**Acclaimed clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson has influenced the modern understanding of personality, and now he has become one of the world's most popular public thinkers, with his lectures ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • The Spirit Of Laws (Mobi Classics)

    by Charles de Montesquieu,Thomas Nugent (Translator),J. V. Prichard (Editor) ...
    The Spirit of Laws is a treatise on political theory first published anonymously by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu in 1748 with the help of Claudine Guérin de Tencin. Originally published anonymously partly because Montesquieu's works were subject to censorship, its influence outside of France was aided by its rapid translation into other languages. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Order

    12 More Rules for Life

    by Jordan B. Peterson ...
    The inspirational sequel to 12 RULES FOR LIFE, which has sold over 5 million copies around the world - now in paperbackIn 12 Rules for Life, acclaimed public thinker and clinical psychologist Jordan B. Peterson offered an antidote to the chaos in our lives: eternal truths applied to modern anxieties. His insights have helped millions of readers and resonated powerfully around the world.Now in this ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance

    An Inquiry into Values

    by Robert Pirsig ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR AND A READER'S GUIDEZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance caused a sensation when it was first published in 1974.The story of the narrator, his son Chris and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California profoundly affected an entire generation.Both personal and philosophical, this book is a compelling study of relationships, values, ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD

  • Utopia for Realists

    And How We Can Get There

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Listen out for Rutger Bregman. He has a big future shaping the future' Observer'A more politically radical Malcolm Gladwell' New York Times'The Dutch wunderkind of new ideas' GuardianIn Utopia for Realists, Rutger Bregman shows that we can construct a society with visionary ideas that are, in fact, wholly implementable.... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Enlightenment Now

    The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

    by Steven Pinker ...
    **THE TOP TEN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Bristles with pure, crystalline intelligence, deep knowledge and human sympathy' Richard Dawkins**Is modernity really failing? Or have we failed to appreciate progress and the ideals that make it possible?If you follow the headlines, the world in the 21st century appears to be sinking into chaos, hatred, and irrationality. Yet Steven Pinker shows that this is ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • This One Wild and Precious Life

    A hopeful path forward in a fractured world

    by Sarah Wilson ...
    Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and precious life?We live in truly overwhelming times. The climate crisis, political polarisation, racial injustice and coronavirus have left many of us in a state of spiritual PTSD. We have retreated, morally and psychologically; we are experiencing a crisis of disconnection - from one another, from our ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • How To Be an Antiracist

    THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER

    by Ibram X. Kendi ...
    **Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist.*THE GLOBAL MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER - NOW REVISED AND UPDATED***In HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST Ibram X. Kendi, one of the world's most influential scholars on racism, demolishes the idea of a post-racial society, punctures the myths and taboos that cloud our understanding of racism and presents a radically new approach to tackling it.He shows ... Read more

    $16.99 AUD

  • How to Do Nothing

    Resisting the Attention Economy

    by Jenny Odell ...
    A galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention – and our personal information – that redefines what we view as productivity and reveals what we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world.Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our data productivity, doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance.So ... Read more

    $12.99 AUD

  • Das Kapital (Mobi Classics)

    by Karl Marx,Samuel Moore (Translator),Edward Aveling (Translator) ...
    Das Kapital (Capital, in the English translation) is an extensive treatise on political economy written in German by Karl Marx and edited in part by Friedrich Engels. The book is a critical analysis of capitalism and its practical economic application and also, in part, a critique of other related theories. Its first volume was published in 1867. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason

    by Douglas Murray ...
    SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER‘The most important book of the year’ Daily MailThe brilliant and provocative new book from one of the world’s foremost political writers‘The anti-Western revisionists have been out in force in recent years. It is high time that we revise them in turn…’In The War on the West, international bestselling author Douglas Murray ... ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD

  • Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...
    From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today – written as a letter to a friend.I have some suggestions for how to raise Chizalum. But remember that you might do all the things I suggest, and she will still turn out to be different from what you hoped, because sometimes life just does its thing. What matters is that ... Read more

    $6.99 AUD

  • The Diet Delusion

    by Gary Taubes ...
    Where mainstream nutritional science has demonised dietary fat for 50 years, hundreds of millions of dollars of research have failed to prove that eating a low-fat diet will help you live longer. Nutrition and obesity scientists have struggled to make sense of the paradox that obesity has become an epidemic, that diabetes rates have soared and the incidence of heart disease has not declined ... Read more

    $18.99 AUD