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A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper...

It created a worldwide furore when Tariq Ramadan was barred from US entry to accept a prestigious appointment at Notre Dame University. After all, Ramadan is one of the Muslim...

This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take...

McDonald s restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? Does the introduction of...

"The New Yorker" is one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era it occupied an almost unique niche of...

This introductory study argues that a broadly based nuclear criticism ought to be a component of cultural studies in a post-Cold War period characterized by fewer nuclear weapons and more...

How we chooseand loseour mates has always been a source of fascination. This controversial book is the first to present a unified theory of human mating behavior. The Evolution of...

In this book, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - teacher, feminist, cultural critic, literary theorist - addresses the crisis of multiculturalism. How are debates over the canon, ethnicity, Third World feminism, and...

The fear of playing the fool is a universal psychological phenomenon and an underappreciated driver of human behavior; in the spirit of Malcolm Gladwell's Blink, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and...

"Number" reassesses conventional views of civilization. It seeks to challenge, provoke and fascinate as it takes the mystery out of the world of number. Ranging from prehistoric times through the...

The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass....

Prove you are the most cultured person in the room with 500 true trivia facts about pop culture. These facts are so absurd some might even say that they sound...

In Magic Made Real, you'll journey to worlds unknown, full of dragons, unicorns, fairies, mermaids, and more, with 96 double-sided pages of intricate designs and imaginative illustrations. Each page invites...

When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's...

The book titled Murdoch by the author William Shawcross. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For years Rupert Murdoch's newspapers had been hacking, spying, blagging, bribing and destroying the evidence. They thought they were untouchable. They were wrong.This is the book that exposed the shadow...

Part confessional memoir, part vital guide, No Lost Causes Club is a compassionate exploration of what navigating sobriety looks like in our modern world, from the author behind the popular...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...

An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....

Lively and informative, The World Atlas of Tattoo is a superbly illustrated and compelling reference book that, through examining the meeting point between tattoo artists and their personal understanding of...

From viral meme to one of the year's most exciting new YouTube series, Idiot Sandwich is the ultimate cookbook dedicated to that special heaven served up between two slices of...

Embark on a voyage through a chronological history of anime that explores both the marquee cinematic touchstones and enduring series that have shaped the medium. The Anime Archives celebrates it...

In August, 2008, Facebook signed up its 100 millionth user. Eight months later its 200 millionth user signed up. Today it is closing in on 250 million users. This phenomenal...

Set aside your preconceptions of postcard scenery, chocolate and cheese, faceless bankers, and spotless cities. The real Switzerland is anything but bland. This small, rugged, landlocked country at the heart...

A comprehensive guide to cultivating wellbeing, combining cutting edge science and primordial folk wisdom. 'A brilliant read... a gamechanger' Paul Ross, Talk Sport 'Essential reading... Written with clarity, vivacity and...

'This book reads like a spy novel full of personal drama, colourful identities, and issues of high principle.' - Canberra Times 'Murdoch's Pirates is a staggering feat of research' -...

This book examines the notion of free trade and the issues raised by adopting the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)....

In this collection of interviews, Chomsky addresses a variety of topical issues such as: the effect of "family values" crusades on family life; the relationship between free markets and competition;...

This study deals with the forms, aspects and significance of the phenomenon of rehabilitation in the Soviet Union between 1953 and 1980.

All too often social psychology concerns itself with situations that far divorced from the realities of everyday life. In The Social Psychology of Everyday Life Michael Argyle concentrates on real-life...

A comprehensive and thought-provoking investigation into one of the most polarizing words in the English language. Few words in the English language are as misunderstood as "like." Indeed, excessive use...

We live in a world increasingly dominated by the fake, the prepackaged, the artificial: fast food, scripted reality TV shows, Facebook 'friends', and fraudulent memoirs. But people everywhere are demanding...

In Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Today's Big Changes, Mark Penn shows that 75 of the most important trends in the world today are the smallest ones. Exploring everything from...

Originally published in 2004, Jessica Williams' book has been reprinted numerous times and translated into 14 foreign languages. It's now time for an update. This substantially revised edition includes new...

An updated edition of artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir. Australian artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir. Born in respectable (read: dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey...

This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of today's underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings....

A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalisation and intense economic competition. The political divisions of the...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat comes a powerful expose of how the processed food industry exploits our evolutionary instincts, the emotions we associate...

Guardians of Power is a thought-provoking and controversial challenge to the idea that western media is unbiased, fearless and open to different ideas. This book argues that a corporate media...

A series of interviews exploring the process of creativity with the great artists, composers and writers of our time. The interviewees include: Howard Hodgkin, Antony Caro, Elliot Carter, Eve Arnold,...

A timely, provocative and urgent look at how our world has become slowly but surely corporatised. Douglas Rushkoff was mugged outside his apartment on Christmas Eve, but when he posted...

'A Carlton please!' a name that's still shouted across every bar and hotel in Australia. It was one of six breweries that united to form the company we know today...

The book titled War Report: The War Correspondent's View of Battle from Crimea to the by the author Trevor Royle. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

From Stephen King's Salem's Lot to superhero Wakanda, from Lilliput of Gulliver's Travels to Springfield in The Simpsons, a wondrous atlas of imagined places around the world. Locations from film,...

From the mind behind YouTube sensation Into the Fog with Peter Laws. The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to...

Three of Europe's greatest rivers begin in the same geological cradle: one fertile patch of high Alpine ice in the jagged heights of central Switzerland. The consequences of this small...

This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving cultural landscape, at once familiar...