The War of the Worlds Short Black 3 by Noel Pearson
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'How many Australians born in the 137 years since Truganini's death learnt her legend and scarcely thought deeper about the enormity of the loss she represented, and the history that led to it? Her spirit casts a long shadow over Australian history, but we have nearly all of us found a way to avert our ...Show more
Fat City Short Black 2 by Karen Hitchcock
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
'I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. 'Nothing,' he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: 'I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I'm addicted to eating ...Show more
The Australian Disease on the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks Ser.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which ...Show more
How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco
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Category: On Writing
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a The ...Show more
The Givenness of Things: Essays by Marilynne Robinson (University of Iowa)
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Category: Essays
The spirit of our times can appear to be one of joyless urgency. As a culture we have become less interested in the exploration of the glorious mind, and more interested in creating and mastering technologies that will yield material well-being. But while cultural pessimism is always fashionable, there ...Show more
Capital by Karl Marx
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian capitalist society. It has also proved to be the most influential work in social science in the twentieth century; Marx did for social science what Darwin had d ...Show more
Montaigne by Stefan Zweig
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Pushkin Collection
'He who thinks freely for himself, honours all freedom on earth.' Stefan Zweig was already an emigre-driven from a Europe torn apart by brutality and totalitarianism-when he found, in a damp cellar, a copy of Michel de Montaigne's Essais. Montaigne would become Zweig's last great occupation, helping him ...Show more
Spinster - Making a Life of Ones Own by Kate Bolick
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Category: Contemporary Thought
'Whom to marry and when will it happen - these two questions define every woman's existence.' So begins Spinster, a revelatory and slyly erudite look at the pleasures and possibilities of remaining single. Using her own experience as a starting point, Kate Bolick invites us into her carefully considered ...Show more
Cosmos: An Infographic Book of Space by Stuart Lowe
$49.99 AUD
Category: Science
The Universe is the ultimate in extremes and superlatives. The biggest. The heaviest. The oldest. The most powerful explosions. Even black holes - which can literally lead to regions beyond our infinite Universe! In this truly mind-blowing book, we use cutting edge infographics to illuminate - in a new ...Show more
Words of Wisdom: Philosophy's Most Important Quotations and Their Meaning by Gareth Southwell
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Category: Philosophy
Words of Wisdom brings together 360 of Philosophy's most famous quotations, explaining their meaning and telling the stories behind them. Western philosophy may be said to have begun in ancient Greece, where, inscribed in his temple at Delphi, the words of the god Apollo commanded those who sought wisdo ...Show more
Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets by John Plender
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Capitalism has lifted millions out of poverty. Under its guiding hand, living standards throughout the Western world have been transformed. Further afield, the trail blazed by Japan is being followed by other emerging market countries across the globe, creating prosperity on a breathtaking scale.And yet ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 59: Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path To Power by David Marr
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
The top job is within Bill Shorten's grasp. But who is he? How did he rise to become Labor leader? And does he have what it takes to beat Malcolm Turnbull and lead the country? In this dramatic essay, David Marr traces the hidden career of a Labor warrior. He shows how a brilliant recruiter and formidab ...Show more