Intact: A Defence of the Unmodified Body by Clare Chambers
$26.99 AUD
Category: Classics
A vital exploration of equality and the body from an acclaimed political philosopherThe pressure to change our bodies is overwhelming. We strive to defy ageing, build our biceps, cure our disabilities, conceal our quirks. Surrounded by filtered photos and surgically-enhanced features, we must contort ou ...Show more
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
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Category: Classics
In this Tenth Anniversary Edition of The Life You Can Save, Peter Singer brings his landmark book up to date. In addition to restating his compelling arguments about how we should respond to extreme poverty, he examines the progress we are making and recounts how the first edition transformed the lives ...Show more
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good
In this mind-bending introduction to modern physics, Carlo Rovelli explains Einstein's theory of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, the complex architecture of the universe, elementary particles, gravity, and the nature of the mind.Everything you need to know about modern physics, the u ...Show more
Become What You Are by Alan Watts
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Category: Classics | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
Renowned lecturer and author Alan Watts presents his meditations on the dilemma of seeking your true self. In this collection of writings, Alan Watts displays the intelligence, playfulness of thought, and simplicity of language that has made him so perennially popular as an interpreter of Eastern t ...Show more
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Presents an account of the author's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment.
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more
Devil-Land: England Under Siege, 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Classics
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history. Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land'- a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, origin ...Show more
The Art of War (Hero Classics) by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics | Series: Hero Classics Ser.
Although there are many classic treatises on the subject, it may be said that no greater work on the subject of military theory exists than Sun Tzu's "The Art of War." It is certainly one of the oldest known books on the subject having been written some 2500 years ago. Sun Tzu, a Chinese general, milita ...Show more
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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Category: Classics
Written in China more than 2,000 years ago, Sun Tzu's classic The Art of War is the first known study of the planning and conduct of military operations. These terse, aphoristic essays are unsurpassed in comprehensiveness and depth of understanding, examining not only battlefield maneuvers, but also rel ...Show more
Common Sense: And the American Crisis by Thomas Paine
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Category: Classics
Common Sense is the book that created the modern United States. Thomas Paine's incendiary call for Americans to revolt against British rule converted millions to the cause of independence and set out a vision of a just society liberated from the yoke of the crown. Published anonymously in 1776, six mont ...Show more
The Penguin History of Economics (New and Revised) by Roger E. Backhouse
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Category: Classics
The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publication Roger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the story of economic thinking from the ancient world to the present day, with a brand-new chapter on the twenty-first century and updates throughout to re ...Show more
The Anxious Triumph by Sassoon, Donald
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Category: Classics
The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, state ...Show more