Suite for Barbara Loden by Nathalie Leger
$39.99 AUD
Category: Little Books
‘Brilliant little book’ – Valeria Luiselli (winner of the 2015 LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for her debut novel, Faces in the Crowd) ‘An extraordinary book. It reads compulsively and is unlike anything else I have read.’ – Selma Dabbagh‘Immensely readable, extremely thought-provoking and really quite ...Show more
Little Labours by Rivka Galchen
$16.99 AUD
Category: Little Books
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.' Boston Globe One August day, a baby was born, or as it seemed to Rivka ...Show more
How to Spot a Fascist by Umberto Eco
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Category: Little Books
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'? HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on freedom and fascism, censorship and tolerance - including Eco's iconic essay 'Ur-Fascism', which lists the four ...Show more
The Freedom to Be Free by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'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 politics, and no politics without freedom. One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas ...Show more
The Power of Words by Simone Weil
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher and activist Simone Weil was one of the most courageous thinkers of the twentieth century. Here she writes, with honesty and moral clarity, about the manipul ...Show more
Reflections on the Guillotine by Albert Camus
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out' Written when execution by guillotine was still legal in France, Albert Camus' devastating attack on the 'obscene exhibition' ...Show more
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Aristotle
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' What does it mean to be a good person? Ranging over eternal questions of right and wrong, pleasure and self-control, friendship and courage, Aristotle's lectu ...Show more
How to Be a Stoic (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Epictetus; Seneca; Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These words of consolation and inspiration from the three great Stoic philosophers - Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius - offer ancient wisd ...Show more
Suffragette Manifestos (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Penguin Great Ideas Series
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We women are roused. Now that we are roused, we will never be quiet again' Bringing together the voices of women who fought for equal rights and representation - from aristocrats and actresses to mill workers and trade unionists - these speeches, pamphlets, letters and articles form an inspiring test ...Show more
Anarchist Communism (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Peter Kropotkin
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Category: Little Books | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor' Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a better, truly communal society, the anarchist writings of Peter Kropotkin have influenced radicals the world over, from nineteenth ...Show more
On Money by Rick Morton
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Category: Little Books | Series: On Ser.
Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too much money often corrupts people - too little can make people feel desperate. Growing up in rural Queensland, journalist Rick Morton has known poverty ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
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$24.99 (40% off)
Category: Little Books | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more