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Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
$26.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
In 1999, Saul began arguing that globalism was collapsing. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism. Now Saul has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. Saul describes the financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more ...Show more
Dark Diversions: A Traveller's Tale by John Ralston Saul
$29.99 AUD
Category: General
In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's unnamed journalist narrator moves in privileged circles on bot ...Show more
The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
$24.95 AUD
Category: Current Affairs
"How are citizens to enter into a public debate if the concepts which define our society and decide the manner in which we are governed are open neither to understanding nor to questioning?"According to bestselling novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul, the ramifications of asking this question are en ...Show more
The Doubter's CompanionA Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
$52.00 AUD
Category: Etymology
A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early dicti ...Show more
The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
$24.95 AUD
Category: Social Thought
In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling corporatist structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the seg ...Show more
Voltaire's Bastards - The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
$42.00 AUD
Category: History
With a new Introduction by the author, this erudite and brilliantly readable book ("The Observer," London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction ...Show more
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