Award Winning Australian Writing 2014 by Chloe Brien
$29.95 AUD
Category: Essays
The seventh edition of Award Winning Australian Writing (AWAW) continues its commitment to showcasing the best short stories and poems that have won competitions around the country. Like the 2013 anthology, this year's collection will feature over fifty writers and competitions, promoting the work of bo ...Show more
Crisis Without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe by edited by Helen Caldicott
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Category: Essays
The only document of its kind, Crisis Without End represents an unprecedented look into the profound aftereffects of Fukushima. In accessible terms, leading experts from Japan, the United States, Russia, and other nations weigh in on the current state of knowledge of radiation-related health risks in Ja ...Show more
The Trip to Echo Spring - On Writers and Drinking by Olivia Laing
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Category: Essays
Shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award.Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing takes a journey across America, examining the links between creativity and drink in the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. ...Show more
Rapt : Attention and the Focused Life by Winnifred Gallagher
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Category: Essays
A revolutionary look at how what we pay attention to determines how we experience life Acclaimed behavioral science writer Winifred Gallagher's "Rapt" makes the radical argument that much of the quality of your life depends not on fame or fortune, beauty or brains, fate or coincidence, but on what you ...Show more
Let's Talk About Love Why Other People Have Such Bad Taste 33 1/3 by Carl Wilson
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Category: Essays
For his 2007 critically acclaimed 33 1/3 series title, Let's Talk About Love, Carl Wilson went on a quest to find his inner Celine Dion fan and explore how we define ourselves by what we call good and bad, what we love and what we hate. At once among the most widely beloved and most reviled and lampoone ...Show more
When the Facts Change by Tony Judt
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Category: Essays
A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and Thinking the Twentieth Century, spanning a career of extraordinary intellectual engagement. Edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans. Tony Judt's first collection of essays, Re ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2014: the Promise of Science - A Vision of Hope by Suzanne Cory
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Category: Essays | Series: Boyer Lectures
Professor Cory is not just a scientist: she is a humanist, an environmentalist, and an unremitting optimist. Cory's Boyer Lecture series reflects her hope for a bright future. In The Promise of Science: A vision of hope, Professor Cory explores what Australian science has given the nation and the world, ...Show more
The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts: A 2,000-Year History by John Kampfner
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Category: Essays
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Rich is the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money. Starting with the Romans and Ancient Egypt and culminating with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it ...Show more
Hand to Mouth : The Truth About Being Poor in a Wealthy World by Linda Tirado
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Category: Essays
Linda Tirado knows from experience what it is to be poor, to struggle to make ends meet. She was working all hours at two jobs - as a food service worker in a chain restaurant and as a voting rights activist at a non-profit organization - to support her young family. She knows what it's like to have pro ...Show more
The Rich: From Slaves to Super-Yachts - A 2,000-Year History by John Kampfner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
From the Orwell Prize shortlisted author of Freedom for Sale, The Richis the fascinating history of how economic elites from ancient Egypt to the present day have gained and spent their money. Starting with Ancient Egypt and Greece and culminating with the oligarchies of modern Russia and China, it comp ...Show more
Ham: Slices of a Life: True Life Tales by Sam Harris
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Category: Essays
In a collection of personal essays that are "both rip-roaringly funny and sentimental, drawing natural (and justified) comparisons to David Sedaris and David Rakoff" ("Esquire"), longtime recording artist and actor Sam Harris recounts stories of friendship, love, celebrity, and growing up and getting so ...Show more
The Terrorist's Son - A Story of Choice by Zak Ebrahim
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Category: Essays | Series: Ted Ser.
What is it like to grow up with a terrorist in your home? Zak Ebrahim was only seven years old when, on November 5th, 1990, his father El-Sayed Nosair shot and killed the leader of the Jewish Defense League. While in prison, Nosair helped plan the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. In one of his ...Show more