The View from the Cheap Seats - Selected Non-Fiction by Neil Gaiman
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The View from the Cheap Seats draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art, the speech that went viral, to pieces on artists and legends including Terry Pratchett and Lou Reed, the collection offers a glimpse in ...Show more
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise: Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain by Dario Fernandez-Morera
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Category: Essays
Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—“al-Andalus”—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern Un ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2016 by Geordie Williamson
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Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamsoncurates the year's best non-fiction writing from Australia's finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to ...Show more
Why the Future is Workless : The Long, Slow Death of the Full-Time Job by Tim Dunlop
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Category: Essays
Even as the robots gather on the near horizon this book argues we have choices about the manner in which we greet them. A world without work as we know it could be a good thing. The landscape of work is changing right in front of us, from Uber, Airbnb and the new share economy to automated vehicles, 3D ...Show more
Shrill - Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West
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Category: Essays
Condition: **NEW** 'Women are told, from birth, that it's our job to be small: physically small, small in our presence, and small in our impact on the world. We're supposed to spend our lives passive, quiet and hungry. I want to obliterate that expectation...' Guardian columnist Lindy West wasn't alway ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: General Adult
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity. From the tiniest absurdities to the most universal joys and desolations, Jacobson writes with a thunder, passion and wit unmatched. Just as d ...Show more
How to Fall in Love With Anyone: A Memoir in Essays by Mandy Len Catron
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Category: Essays
In 2014, 33-year- old Mandy Len Catron went on a date with an acquaintance. They decided to try an experiment: inspired by a study designed to create romantic feelings, Mandy and Mark spent the evening asking each other 36 increasingly intimate questions, wondering if it would lead to them falling in lo ...Show more
Total Propaganda: Basic Marxist Brainwashing for the Angry and the Young by Helen Razer
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Category: Essays
Marxism and socialism explained for a younger readership
The Australian Face: Essays From the Sydney Review of Books by James Ley
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Category: Essays
The Sydney Review of Books is Australia's leading space for longform literary criticism. Now celebrating five years online, the SRB has published more than five hundred essays by almost two hundred writers. To mark this occasion, The Australian Face collects some of the best essays published in the SRB ...Show more
Indigenous and Other Australians Since 1901 by Tim Rowse
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Category: Essays
As Australia became a nation in 1901, no one anticipated that 'Aboriginal affairs' would become an on-going national preoccupation. Not 'dying out' as predicted, Aboriginal numbers recovered and - along with Torres Strait Islanders - they became an articulate presence, aggrieved at colonial authority's ...Show more
Courage Is Contagious: And Other Reasons to Be Grateful for Michelle Obama by Nick Haramis
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Category: Essays
Michelle Obama's legacy transcends categorization; her cultural imprint is as nuanced as it is indelible. She used her time in the White House to fight for women, minorities, and health and education advocates. At the same time, her own genre-busting style encouraged others to speak, to engage, even to ...Show more