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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...
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 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...
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,...
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
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...
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...
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...
Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
By combing through the journals that Hannah has kept for much of her life, this collection of narrative essays deliver a fuller picture of her life, her experiences, and the...
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...
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...
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...
The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE
WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK ' an ingenious...
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...
How to End a Story: Collected Diaries 1978-1998
Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book. Spanning two decades-from the publication of her lightning-rod debut novel in the late 70s, to the...
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...
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...
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life's Sake
Author: Tamara Schenkenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 One of the most groundbreaking artists to emerge in American art in the 1960s, Hannah Wilke consistently challenged the prevailing narratives...
My Child, the Algorithm: An alternatively intelligent book of love
Writer and performer Hannah Silva interrogates her life with the input of two unreliable narrators - an algorithm and a toddler. Her living exploration of undoing and redoing love and...
Hannah Collins: The Fragile Feast: Routes to Ferran Adria
The Fragile Feast was born of a creative collaboration between the artist and photographer Hannah Collins (*1956 in London) and Catalan star chef Ferran Adria and offers scintillating insight into...
Burial Rites
$10.00 AUD
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Ten Steps to Nanette: A memoir situation
$15.00 AUD
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The Improbability of Love: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016
$10.00 AUD
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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,...
The Heart's Ground: A Life Of Anne Elder
$30.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the intersection of domestic life and artistic ambition, The Heart's Ground: A Life of Anne Elder chronicles...
The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
Author: Hannah Lillith Assadi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'An unusual, intense, experimental novel' Daily Mail In the aftermath of the Great Depression, Elle Ranier marries Simon to escape...
Capturing The Golden Bird: The Young Hans Christian Andersen
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good — no tears, slight shelf-wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Firm and intact. Before Hans Christian Andersen became the...
I Make My Own Fun: 'A dark, crazed reversal of Notting Hill'
A thrilling, intoxicating debut novel about celebrity and obsession ______________________________ 'Darkly humorous and outrageous, this is your next obsession' LUCY ROSE 'A riotous dissection of celebrity culture' INDEPENDENT 'An absolute...
Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds
In this beautifully written and propulsive memoir, Huma Abedin-Hillary Clinton's famously private top aide and longtime adviser-emerges from the wings of American political history to take command of her own...
A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir
#1 New Zealand bestseller #1 Amazon bestseller #2 Audible bestseller #3 New York Times bestseller #3 Sunday Times bestseller #4 Australian bestseller From the former prime minister of New Zealand,...
I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind the quiet surface of a teenage girl's...
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....
I Know This To Be True: Jacinda Ardern: On Kindness, Empathy & Strength
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn a world hungry for authentic leadership, I Know This to Be True: Jacinda Ardern presents an intimate portrait of one of the most compelling political...
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...