Jacinda Ardern (I Know This to Be True): On Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Geoff Blackwell; Jacinda Ardern
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Category: Essays | Series: I KNOW THIS TO BE TRUE
Thoughts on kindness, empathy and strength from Jacinda Ardern, politician, feminist and champion for social equality.
Vesper Flights - New and Collected Essays by Helen Macdonald
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Animals don't exist to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most of what they teach us is what we think we know about ourselves. From the internationally acclaimed author of H is for Hawk comes Vesper Flights, a transcendent collection of essays about the human relationship to th ...Show more
The Beijing Bureau: Reporting China's Rise by Trevor Watson (Editor); Melissa Roberts (Editor)
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Category: Essays
The Beijing Bureau is a collection of essays from twenty-four of Australia's leading foreign correspondents revealing their experiences and insights into China, from the 1970s to present day: the lives of its people, its government and its culture, and what China's rise means for Australia and the world ...Show more
On Indignation( On Series) by Don Watson
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Category: Essays | Series: On Ser.
Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The Sopranos, from the Old Testament to ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
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Category: Essays
A delightful and entertaining collection of a lifetime of musings, meditations and in-depth profiles about animals, by the bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book.
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
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Category: Essays
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did (SF Chronicle)--a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise. Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin class ...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
In Search of Lost Time: Europe Before the Holocaust - Jewish Quarterly 247 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the efforts to recover and remember the Jewish world of Europe before the Holocaust. In Search of Lost Time brings to light recent discoveries of hidden troves of documents and artefacts, and the attempt to retrieve them and preserve the memory of the lives an ...Show more
Wise Words from Bookish Women: Smart and sassy life advice by HARPER BY DESIGN
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Category: Essays
This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. This uplifting collection celebrates inspiring bookish women the world over and their thoughts on life, love, politics, education and beyond. From writers, thinke ...Show more
Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis by James Davies
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Category: Essays
A provocative and shocking look at how western society is misunderstanding and mistreating mental illness. In Britain alone, more than 20% of the adult population take a psychiatric drug in any one year. This is an increase of over 500% since 1980 and the numbers continue to grow. Yet, despite this pres ...Show more
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel
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Category: Essays
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our timesComics and cultural superstar Alison Bechdel delivers a deeply layered story of her fascination, from childhood to adulthood, with every f ...Show more
Iran: What Does It Want? - Jewish Quarterly 249 by Jonathan Pearlman
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Category: Essays
This issue of The Jewish Quarterly examines the motivations behind Iran's changing role and influence in the Middle East. Iran- What Does It Want? investigates Tehran's interventions in the affairs of countries across the region, and assesses the prospects for resolving tensions over its nuclear program ...Show more