Demographic Cliff: How to survive and prosper during the Great Deflation of 2014-2019 The by Harry S. Dent Jr.
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Category: Essays
Bestselling author and financial guru Harry Dent shows why we're facing a "great deflation" after five years of desperate stimulus--and what to do about it now Throughout his long career as an economic forecaster, Harry Dent has relied on a not-so-secret weapon: demographics. Studying the predictable t ...Show more
Tim Winton: Critical Essays by Lyn McCredden (Editor); Nathanael O'Reilly (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Why is it that Tim Winton - one of Australia's most popular and literary novelists - has received little sustained critical attention? This collection of essays examines the impact of Winton's work on understanding what it is to be Australian, to be human, to make and question meaning. His novels and sh ...Show more
Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction by Terry Pratchett
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Category: Essays
Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series - but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer's research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings toge ...Show more
Swimming to the Moon by Robert Drewe
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Category: Essays
From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the non-fiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affec ...Show more
Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay
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Category: Essays
The eternal question 'Who am I?' must be weighed against an even deeper question: 'Who are we?' We are writing each other's stories as much as we are writing our own. In his bestselling book, The Good Life, Hugh Mackay argued that kindness and respect for others are the hallmarks of a life well lived. N ...Show more
Meeting the Devil - A Book of Memoir by London Review of Books
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Autobiography has been an essential element of the London Review of Books since its founding in 1979. This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRB's pages. Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the Second World War, Jenny Diski imagine ...Show more
TED: The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings by Mark Kushner
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Category: Essays
Part of the TED series: The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings A pavilion made from paper. An inflatable concert hall. A building that eats smog. A bridge that grows grapes. The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings captures the soaring confidence, the thoughtful intelligence, the futuristic wond ...Show more
Where I'm Reading from: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks
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Category: Essays
Should you finish every book you start? How has your family influenced the way you read? What is literary style? How is the Nobel Prize like the World Cup? Why do you hate the book your friend likes? Is writing really just like any other job? What happens to your brain when you r ...Show more
Mistakes Were Made: Penguin Special by Liam Pieper
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Specials
Liam Pieper's made some poor life choices, but he's (usually) meant well. He's tried to write important stories, fight racial prejudice and rescue traumatised puppies. And he's ended up with life-threatening infestations, a punch in the face at a Leonard Cohen concert and brief detention by counter-terr ...Show more
TED: The Mathematics of Love by Hannah Fry
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Category: Essays | Series: TED
Part of the TED series: The Mathematics of Love There is no topic that attracts more attention-more energy and time and devotion- than love. Love, like most things in life, is full of patterns. And mathematics is ultimately the study of patterns. In her book The Mathematics of Love - and TEDxTalk of the ...Show more
I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting by Rebecca Harrington
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Category: Essays
Rebecca Harrington leaves no cabbage soup unstirred in I'll Have What She's Having, her wickedly funny, wildly absurd quest to diet like the stars. Elizabeth Taylor mixed cottage cheese and sour cream; Madonna subsisted on 'sea vegetables' and Marilyn Monroe drank raw eggs whipped with warm milk. Where ...Show more
Griffith Review 48: Enduring Legacies by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith REVIEW
'As a civil, pluralistic, liberal and democratic society, Australia did not pass the test of the crisis brought about by the war in Europe. The country suffered a setback in its political culture from which it did not recover until long after the next world war.' Gerhard Fische In the year that marks th ...Show more