Talkin' up to the White Woman - Indigenous Women and Feminism (20th Anniversary Edition) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
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Category: Essays
In this ground-breaking and timeless book, Distinguished Professor Aileen Moreton-Robinson undertakes a compelling analysis of the whiteness of Australian feminism and its effect on Indigenous women. As a Goenpul woman and an academic, she operationalises an Indigenous women's standpoint as she 'talks ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition by JEREMY GRIFFITH
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Category: Essays
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery-the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and ev ...Show more
Why Orwell Matters by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays
"Hitchens presents a George Orwell fit for the 21st century. "-Boston Globe. In this widely acclaimed biographical essay, Christopher Hitchens assesses the life, the achievements, and the myth of the great political writer and participant George Orwell. In true emulative and contrarian style, Hitchens i ...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
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
AS I WAS SAYING is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the con ...Show more
Larrikan Bush Tales by Graham Seal
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Category: Essays
From one of our master storytellers, author of the bestselling Great Australian Stories, comes another collection of yarns, tall tales, bush legends, and colorful characters. Taking us from the deep outback to the glistening sea, they go to the heart of what makes us distinctively Australian.
An Inconvenient Genocide - Who Remembers the Armenians? by Geoffrey Robertson
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Category: Essays
The most controversial issue left over from the First World War - was there an Armenian Genocide? - comes to a head on 24 April 2015, when Armenians throughout the world commemorate the centenary of the murder of 1.5 million - over half - of their people, at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government. ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 56: Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer by Guy Rundle
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Who is Clive Palmer, and what does his ascent say about Australia's creaking political system?In Clivosaurus, Guy Rundle observes Palmer close up, examining his rise to prominence, his beliefs, his deals and his politics - not to mention his poetry. Rundle shows that neither the government nor the media ...Show more
TED: Follow Your Gut: How the Bacteria in Your Stomach Steer Your Health, Mood and More TED by Robert Knight
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Category: Essays | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: Follow Your Gut Today we study the brain with painstaking detail. But we largely ignore what might prove to be the most important part of our body: the trillions of microbes that live inside us, especially in our gut. Increasingly, it looks like the harmless bacteria we each have ...Show more