Penguin Books Australia

Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously, or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today.  Though our society is becoming ever more complicated materially, we tend socially to avoid engaging with people unlike ourselves.  Modern politics emphasizes unity and similarity, encouraging the politics of the tribe rather than of complexity...

The most influential and talked about book on society in the last decade – now updated with a new chapter on the controversy the book has ignited.

'Profound . . . brave . . .  transformative . . .  its conclusion is simple: we do better when we're equal'  Lynsey Hanley, Guardian

Why do we mistrust people more in the UK than the Japanese do?  Why do Americans have higher rates...

Most of us have to work.   But is work just a means to an end?   In trying to make a living, have we lost touch with the idea of making things well?

In this provocative and timely book, Richard Sennett examines the forces that erode respect in modern society. Respect can be gained by attaining success, by developing talents, through financial independence and by helping other.

The Fall of Public Man examines the imbalance between private and public experience, and the decline of involvement in political life in recent decades. Tracing the changing nature of urban society from the eighteenth century to the world we now...

The fourth title in UQP's internationally recognised Creative Economy + Innovation Culture series

Joining John Howkins' Creative Ecologies , John Hartley's The Uses of Digital Literacy and Carsten Herrmann-Pillath's The Economics of Identity and Creativity , leading American academic Richard E Lee's Knowledge Matters is the latest in this innovative series featuring international scholars and thinkers...