Pleasure of Thinking by Wang Xiaobo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time. Wang Xiaobo made his name as a novelist but his essays, too, have become ongoing bestsellers in China since their publication in the 1990s. Bringing together hi ...Show more
Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby
$23.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You. This is not an advice book. Samantha Irby doesn't know anything. Irby is working in Chicago when the pandemic hits. After fleeing the city and returning home to Michigan, she finds herself bleaching groceries and wondering if her uppe ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
$55.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
Wandering with Intent: essays by Kim Mahood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
To essay means to try, to endeavour, to attempt -- and to risk failure. For Kim Mahood, it is both a form of writing and an approach to life. In these finely observed and probing essays, award-winning artist and writer Kim Mahood invites us to accompany her on the road and into the remote places of Aust ...Show more
Ways of Seeing by John Berger
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. "Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak." "But, there is also another sense in whi ...Show more
2023: A Year of Consequence by The Conversation; Justin Bergman (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
"This was a year of consequential decisions - not just for Australia, but the world. In Australia, the year was dominated by a historic referendum on the Voice to Parliament, transforming its military to respond to the shifting security challenges in the region and how the government help everyday Austr ...Show more
AZADI: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction. by Arundhati Roy
$14.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
With fascism on the march once more, this is an urgent dispatch from one of the great writers and intellectuals of our time'Azadi!' - Urdu for 'freedom' - is the iconic chant of the Kashmiri freedom struggle. And now, while Kashmir's streets have been silenced, the irony is that this same anthem echoes ...Show more
Berlin: The Passenger by Various
$36.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: The\Passenger Ser.
'Essential in these times of narrowing national horizons.' - Caroline Sanderson, The Bookseller
Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is an unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grac ...Show more
Conversations with Creative Women - Volume Three (Pocket Edition) by Tess McCabe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The Conversations with Creative Women: Pocket Edition series contain exclusive interviews with some of Australia’s most talented female creatives from industries as varied as ceramics, interior design, styling, photography, illustration, filmmaking, furniture, and book design. Following the success of t ...Show more
Conversations with Creative Women - Volume Two (Pocket Edition) by Tess McCabe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Theory & Essays
The Conversations with Creative Women: Pocket Edition series contain exclusive interviews with some of Australia’s most talented female creatives from industries as varied as ceramics, interior design, styling, photography, illustration, filmmaking, furniture, and book design. Following the success of t ...Show more