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
This Is What a Feminist Looks Like: The Rise and Rise of Australian Feminism by Emily Maguire
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Women must quit their jobs when they marry. They are barred from trade unions and universities. Their husbands can legally rape them. And they are not allowed to vote. This could be the reality in Australia today — if it weren’t for the many women who, over more than a century of activism, fought for ch ...Show more
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
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50 by Grace Bonney
$55.00 AUD
Category: Essays
POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIESIn this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over 100 trailblazing women describe the ups, downs, and lessons learned while forging their unique paths. Collective Wisdom celebrates the stories of those ...Show more
Country: Future Fire, Future Farming (First Knowledges Series) by Bruce Pascoe, William Leonard Gammage
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Category: Essays | Series: First Knowledges
What do you need to know to prosper as a people for at least 65,000 years? The First Knowledges series provides a deeper understanding of the expertise and ingenuity of Indigenous Australians. For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmen ...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
The Things We Live With: Essays on uncertainty by Gemma Nisbet
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Category: Essays
A meditation on the burden and joy of inheritance, and the strange power of the objects and keepsakes that connect us 'This is how I became interested in things. In their strange pull and power; in the ways they hold on to us and we to them.' After her father dies of cancer, Gemma Nisbet is inundated ...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
Why You Should Give a F*ck About Farming by Gabrielle Chan
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Category: Essays
'Australia has no national food security policy. No national agriculture policy. We know what has been going on with water allocations and there is still no national response. Those with the means and access shop at farmer's market and order their brunch referring to the origins of their eggs, bacon, bu ...Show more