How to Be Human by Ruby Wax
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Category: Essays
In How to be Human, Ruby Wax tries to come up with some answers to that niggling question about how we can learn to like and love ourselves. With the input of a Buddhist monk (an expert on our inner lives) and a neuroscientist (an expert on the brain), Ruby explores how to find happiness in the modern w ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 72: Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age by Sebastian Smee
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Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Series: QUARTERLY ESSAY 72 | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
What is the inner life? And is it vanishing in the digital age? Throughout history, artists and philosophers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitudeand reflection. But today, through social media, wall-to-wall marketing, reality television and theagitation of modern life, everything f ...Show more
The Four Horsemen: Dawkins, Harris, Dennett & Hitchens by Richard Dawkins; Daniel C. Dennett; Sam Harris; Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Known as the 'four horsemen' of New Atheism, these four big thinkers of the twenty-first century met only once. Their electrifying examination of ideas on this remarkable occasion was intense and wide-ranging. Everything that was said as they agreed and disagreed with one another, interrogated ideas an ...Show more
Aftershocks - Selected Writings and Interviews by Anthony Macris
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Category: Essays
The Internet is Not the Answer by Andrew Keen
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Category: Essays
"In this sharp and witty book, long-time Silicon Valley observer and author Andrew Keen argues that, on balance, the Internet has had a disastrous impact on all our lives. By tracing the history of the Internet, from its founding in the 1960s to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1989, through the wa ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays - funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient - which seek answers to Burning Questions such as; Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How c ...Show more
Airmail - Women of Letters by Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire
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Category: Essays
Women of Letters have conquered the world with their passion for correspondence. Taking their literary salons on a global tour, they've collected an astounding and sweeping array of contributions from some of the world's brightest talents. From Ubud, award-winning author Lionel Shriver writes with unexp ...Show more
F**ked (Fucked): Being Sexually Explorative and Self-Confident in a World That's Screwed by Corinne Fisher
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Category: Essays
Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't. For many people, that's the sad truth about sex today. When comedians Corinne Fisher and Krystyna Hutchinson decided to start a podcast called Guys We F*cked wherein they interviewed guys they'd slept with, they soon discovered just how fucked we actually are - in ...Show more
Inferior: The True Power of Women and the Science That Shows It by Angela Saini
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Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
From intelligence to emotion, for centuries science has told us that men and women are fundamentally different. But this is not the whole story.Shedding light on controversial research and investigating the ferocious gender wars in biology, psychology and anthropology, Angela Saini takes readers on an e ...Show more
Things I Don't Want to Know by Deborah Levy
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Category: Essays
Things I Don't Want to Know is Deborah Levy's sparkling response to Orwell's Why I Write. 'Things I Don't Want to Know' is a unique response to George Orwell from one of our most vital contemporary writers. Taking Orwell's famous list of motives for writing as the jumping-off point for a sequence of thr ...Show more
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Anna Krien
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Category: Essays
Sex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport. *Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* 'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and w ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 62: Firing Line: Australia and the Path to War by James Brown
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
"Going to war may be the gravest decision a nation and its leaders make. At the moment, Australia is at war with the Islamic State. We also live in a region that has become much more volatile, as China asserts itself and America seeks to hold the line. What is it like to go to war? How do we decide to g ...Show more