Friendship by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Essays | Series: Vices and Virtues Ser.
An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has frie ...Show more
The Ellis Laws: Penguin Special by Bob Ellis (Director)
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, beloved polymath Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, youth and old age, competence and charisma. He explains why, among other things: power flows to the most boring man in the room, people are forgiven for almost anything if they are tall enough
Beyond the Boom: Penguin Special by John Edwards
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit. In a striking analysis ...Show more
If This isn't Nice, What is? Advice for the Young (US HB) by Kurt Vonnegut
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Category: Essays
After the publication of his novel Slaughterhouse-Five (Delacorte, 1959) brought him worldwide acclaim in 1969, Kurt Vonnegut became one of America's most popular graduation speakers. There were years when public speaking was his main source of income and he put a great deal of thought and preparation i ...Show more
Art Objects : Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays | Series: Vintage International Ser.
In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the "Mona Lisa" and Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," she frees them from layers of preconception and restore ...Show more
In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki; Thomas J. Harper (Translator); Edward G. Seidensticker (Translator); Charles Moore (Foreword by)
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Category: Essays
An essay on aesthetics by the Japanese novelist, this book explores architecture, jade, food, and even toilets, combining an acute sense of the use of space in buildings. The book also includes descriptions of laquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure.
The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the "Iliad" closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen ...Show more
Plays: v. 1: "Ajax", "Electra", "Oedipus Tyrannus" by Sophocles
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Sophocles (497/6406 BCE), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from mythology and legend. Each play contains at least one heroic figure, a character whose strength, coura ...Show more
Elegies by Sextus Propertius
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Category: Essays | Series: Loeb Classical Library
The passionate and dramatic elegies of Propertius gained him a reputation as one of Rome's finest love poets. Here he portrays the exciting, uneven course of his love affair with Cynthia and tells us much about his contemporaries and the society in which he lives, while in later poems he turns to mytho ...Show more
The Way We Work: Griffith REVIEW 45 by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
The way we work has changed profoundly in recent years. This timely edition of the multi-award-winning Griffith REVIEW explores the extraordinary structural changes triggered by globalisation, the internet and the collapse of unions. Job security is a thing of the past - many welcome the flexibility of ...Show more
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Essays
These interlocking essays uncover art as an active force in the world - neither elitist or remote, present to those who want it, affecting even those who don't. Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, paintin ...Show more
How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays by Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco (University of Bologna)
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Category: Essays | Series: Harvest Book
How to Travel with a Salmon is a highly engaging collection of what Umberto Eco calls his diario minimo - minimal diaries - after the magazine column in which he began "pursuing the pathways of parody." These essays, written in the late eighties and early nineties, are his playful but unfailingly accura ...Show more