Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow: Short Black 12 by Galarrwuy Yunupingu
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Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
I will continue my work on my land, building a future. It is the only thing that is certain to me now and I want to advance while I can. I am trying to light the fire in our young men and women. We are setting fires to our own lives as we really should, and the flame will burn and intensify - an immense ...Show more
From the Heart Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy
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Category: Essays
'Letters, we have witnessed firsthand, stir some unusually beautiful things in people,' write Women of Letters curators Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire. In From the Heart, the full power of letter-writing is on display. Rock star Amanda Palmer thanks a song for reminding her of the importance of musi ...Show more
The Climb: Conversations with Australian Women in Power by Geraldine Doogue
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Category: Essays
Iconic journalist and television presenter Geraldine Doogue turns her attention to an issue central to our times. How are we, as women, represented at the top levels of power in Australia? In candid and personal conversations with fourteen women leading the way in fields as wide-ranging as business, pol ...Show more
TED: The Great Questions of Tomorrow by David Rothkopf
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Category: Essays | Series: Ted 2 Ser.
Government, war, the economy, human identity, philosophy and the way we work. All of these, among others, are soon to be transformed. As technological advancements usher in a time where each and every human being on the planet will be connected by more than 50 billion manmade devices, our global society ...Show more
The Great Multinational Tax Rort : How We're Being Robbed by Martin Feil
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Category: Essays
" Enough is enough,' Australia's tax commisssioner, Chris Jordon, told a Senate inquiry earlier this year. The Great Multinational Tax Rort explains what he was talking about. Multinational corporations have avoided trillions of dollars of tax over the past 25 years. Tax avoidance is legal, but its mass ...Show more
Books for Living: A Reader's Guide to Life by Will Schwalbe
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Category: Essays
From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully engaging new book: both a celebration of reading in general and an impassioned recommendation of specific books that can help guide us through our daily lives. 'I'm on a search and have been all my life: to fi ...Show more
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Testosterone Rex is the powerful myth that squashes hopes of sex equality by telling us that men and women have evolved different natures. Fixed in an ancestral past that rewarded competitive men and caring women, these differences are supposedly re-created in each generation by sex hormones and male an ...Show more
Sex Lives of Australian Women by SAUERS Joan
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Category: Essays
Sex is everywhere, yet we rarely discuss our own intimate experiences. Even our lovers often don't know our secret histories or desires - until now. Australian women believe that an active sex life is vital to their sense of wellbeing, but we still see sex as something that's a bit dirty, a bit naughty, ...Show more
Black Paper - Writing in a Dark Time by Teju Cole
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Category: Essays | Series: Berlin Family Lectures | Reading Level: near fine
A profound book of essays from a celebrated master of the form. "Darkness is not empty," writes Teju Cole in Black Paper, a book that meditates on what it means to sustain our humanity--and witness the humanity of others--in a time of darkness. One of the most celebrated essayists of his generation, Col ...Show more
Fratriarchy: The Sibling Trauma and the Law of the Mother by Juliet Mitchell
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Category: Essays
In Fratriarchy, Juliet Mitchell expands her ground-breaking theories on the sibling trauma and the Law of the Mother. Writing as a psychoanalytic practitioner, she shows what happens from the ground up when we use feminist questions to probe the psycho-social world and its lateral relations. 1. The new ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more