Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
$45.00 AUD
Category: Essays
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
Who Cares Wins: Reasons for Optimism in our Changing World by Lily Cole
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Optimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruction and uncertainty. Global warming has reached terrifying heights of severity, human expansion has caused the extinction of countless species, and Neolibera ...Show more
The Queer Bible by Jack Guinness (Editor)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Essays
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants. Now we learn their names.' The Queer Bible is a collection of essays written by queer icons, about the queer trailblazers throughout history who inspired them. From Elton John on Divine to Graham Norton on Armistead Maupin; Russell Tovey on David Robilliard to Lady ...Show more
Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
The Checklist Manifesto - How To Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
One of the top ten greatest doctors in the world looks at the lowly checklist, and how this simple idea - which is free to reproduce - will revolutionise the way we approach problems, and help save lives. Today we find ourselves in possession of stupendous know-how, which we willingly place in the hands ...Show more
A Question of Age: Women, Ageing and the Forever Self by Jacinta Parsons
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Category: Essays
A beautifully written, searing and powerful examination of women and ageing that you will not be able to put down: intense, compelling, poetic, raging. Warning: this is not a self-help book. Or, a helpful book, necessarily. No one really needs 'help' with ageing. It will happen no matter what we do. Ne ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'For the past three years, Jon Ronson h ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 91: Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS by Micheline Lee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Essays
What ails the NDIS? In this powerful essay, Micheline Lee tells the story of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), a transformative social change that ran into problems. For some users it has been an "oasis in the desert," but for others it has meant still more exclusion. Lee explains how a ...Show more
Stories of Hope - Finding Inspiration in Everyday Lives by Heather Morris
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
Heather Morris, author of the internationally bestselling novels The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Cilka's Journey, grew up on a farm in rural New Zealand. On her way back across the paddocks from school, Heather would visit her great-grandfather and listen to his experiences of war - stories he told only ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
This is Joan Didion's first work of nonfiction, offering an incisive look at the mood of 1960s America and providing an essential portrait of the Californian counterculture. She explores the influences of John Wayne and Howard Hughes, and offers ruminations on the nature of good and evil in a Death Vall ...Show more
My Body by Emily Ratajkowski
$32.99 AUD
Category: Essays
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. 'This is the book for every woman trying to place their body on the map of consumption vs control, and every woman who wants to better understand h ...Show more
Waleed Aly (I Know This to Be True): On Sincerity, Compassion and Integrity by Waleed Aly; Geoff Blackwell
$17.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: I Know This to be True | Reading Level: new
One of Australia's leading commentators on national and international issues, Waleed Aly answers fundamental questions about leadership and what really matters to him. Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project, a daily primetime television news ...Show more