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Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
New to Black Classics from 20th c. Hannah Arendt's authoritative and controversial report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...
On Violence
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still...
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
One of the greatest and most controversial feats of twentieth-century journalism Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi SS leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as...
The Freedom to Be Free
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in which the great twentieth-century political philosopher argues that there can be no freedom without...
On Revolution: Faber Modern Classics
Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of the political landscape. On Revolution is her...
On Violence
$25.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: pages can have notes and/or underlining in grey lead. At a moment when student revolts, anti-war protests,...
The Partisan Review Anthology
$50.00 AUD
Edition: repr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. Tears and chips along folds...
Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and
Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry-its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and political reform and its involvement in the traumatic...
Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live
*Introduced by Rory Stewart* What makes a person good? What does it mean to be evil? And what does it tell us about being human? Philosophers have been grappling with...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
Author: Harald Jahner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and...
A Little History of Philosophy
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so...
The Book of Records
'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?' Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations,...
Minister Of Death: The Adolf Eichmann Story
$20.00 AUD
Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in modern history embody the calculated machinery of genocide quite like Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer whose...
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
A controversial, timely intervention in world affairs from one of the most acclaimed historians of the twentieth century **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A sort of survival book, a sort of...
New York Jew
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the vibrant, turbulent world of mid-twentieth-century New York, Alfred Kazin chronicles his life as a preeminent literary critic, writer, and intellectual in New...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
Author: Louis Menand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
The Book of Records
'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?' Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations,...
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich
The internationally bestselling and prize-winning history of German life in the fallout of the Third Reich, filled with eye-opening, shocking and vitally human stories of ruin, repression and revival. THE...
Bloodlands: THE book to help you understand today's Eastern Europe
A magisterial history of the lands that lie between Stalin's Russia and Hitler's Germany - where 14 million civilians were murdered during the years 1933-1944 Under Hitler and Stalin the...
Authority and Freedom: A Defense of the Arts
$15.00 AUD
From one of our most widely admired art critics comes a bold and timely manifesto reaffirming the independence of all the arts-musical, literary, and visual-and their unique and unparalleled power...
Antimemoirs
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat does a life mean when stripped of the conventions of memoir, chronology, and self-justification? André Malraux's Antimemoirs answers this question with...
Human Rights: Concept and Context
Winner: 2002 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award What are human rights? What justifies us in believing we have them? What are rights-holders and duty-bearers? Who should bear the costs and...
The New Historicism
$12.00 AUD
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Who's Afraid of Gender?
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined...
Art & Anger: Reading Like A Woman
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Poor Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. One tear on front binding near spine - held together with tape inside....
Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind
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Hitler: A Study In Tyranny
$50.00 AUD
Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage, tears and creasing to edges and corners; price clipped. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging....
Taking Sides - Men, Women and the Shifting Social Agenda`
Author: Bettina Arndt Overview and Themes The book is a collection of Arndt's writings, primarily previously published in Australian newspapers, that critique contemporary social issues through the lens of...
What I Believe: Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by
Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and Alice...
The Political Education Of Arnold Brecht: An Autobiography 1884-1970
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded; no tears; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. The hardcover boards appear clean and intact with minimal wear; the yellow cover...
The Book of Records
'Why did people, who lived so briefly in this universe, contain so much time?' Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations,...
Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death
Theodore Hamm uses the 1960 execution of Caryl Chessman as a lens for examining how politics and debates about criminal justice became a volatile mix that ignited postwar California. The...
Letters Of Helena Roerich (Two-Volume Set)
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Acceptable Jacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Good Markings: Reading copy with markingsCondition remarks: Moderate markings in grey lead. Vol I - 1979...
Beasts Of The Modern Imagination: Darwin, Nietzsche, Kafka, Ernst, & Lawrence
$110.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Good - Worn/faded - no tears. Fading on spine. Page Condition: Good. Light foxing on top of block. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Binding intact,...
The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing
A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing selects writing from across time and throughout the world, creating...
The Architecture of Modern Empire
From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight back...
Einstein In His Own Words
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis compelling collection presents the profound insights and personal reflections of one of history's most brilliant minds, Albert Einstein. It chronicles...
The Unsaid "Anna Karenina"
Lev Tostoy is commonly identified with his character Levin in "Anna Karenina", but the discovery that the author repeats himself in other male characters and pre-eminently in his heroine Anna,...
Hanns and Rudolf: The German Jew and the Hunt for the Kommandant of
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary true story of the Jewish investigator who pursued and captured one of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals. _____________________________________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER...
Cultural Dementia: How the West has Lost its History, and Risks Losing Everything Else
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Philosophy In A New Key: A Study In The Symbolism Of Reason, Rite, And Art
$40.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed, good. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. At the intersection of philosophy, art, and human consciousness stands Susanne K....
AretinoÕs Dialogues
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