Rape Culture (In the National Interest) by Louise Newman
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Category: Essays | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
The recent revelations and allegations of sexual harassment and assault in the Australian Parliament have prompted furious responses. Political leaders have attempted to limit the damage by referring to the lack of criminal charges, resisting a discussion of entrenched misogyny.Advocates for survivors o ...Show more
Purple Prose by Liz Byrski, Rachel Robertson
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Category: Essays
Purple Prose introduces fifteen new works of non-fiction by Australian women writers, each responding to the colour purple. In their hands, purple takes on many meanings. From a story about King George's coronation gown to pigeon fanciers and the Dockers' Purple Haze, this is a book for women readers ev ...Show more
How to Think Like an Entrepreneur (The School of Life series) by Philip Delves Broughton
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Category: Essays | Series: The School of Life
Explore how entrepreneurial thinking can dramatically improve your work, your life and your relationshipsHaving the drive, ambition and inspiration to start a new business takes a particular mindset - no wonder we regard successful entrepreneurs as modern-day magic-makers. But what if that spirit and dr ...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
Chronicles of a Liquid Society by Umberto Eco
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Category: Essays
Umberto Eco was an international cultural superstar. In this, his last collection, the celebrated essayist and novelist observes the changing world around him with irrepressible curiosity and profound wisdom. He sees with fresh eyes the upheaval in ideological values, the crises in politics, and the unb ...Show more
Who Are You, Really?: The Surprising Puzzle of Personality by Brian Little
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Category: Essays | Series: TED 2
Dr Brian Little challenges what we think we know about how our personality works and is shaped. It's time to think beyond the nature vs. nurture debate. It is our pursuit of our dreams and our personal passions that shape who we are. Previous praise for Dr Brian Little: 'Brian Little is one of the wises ...Show more
Misogynation - The True Scale of Sexism by Laura Bates
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Category: Essays
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AND FOUNDER OF THE EVERYDAY SEXISM PROJECT, LAURA BATES. 'Following [Everyday Sexism] will make most women feel oddly saner.' Caitlin Moran 'Piercingly astute.' Stylist Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice ...Show more
Decisions and Dissents of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg - A Selection by ustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg + Corey Brettschneider (Editor)
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Category: Essays | Series: Penguin Liberty Ser.
Penguin Liberty is a newly curated series of classic historical, political and legal classic texts relevant to constitutional rights. This collection includes key concurrences, dissents, and selected writings by Justice Ginsburg that address gender equality and women's rights, reproductive health care, ...Show more
Griffith Review 73: Hey, Utopia! by Ashley Hay (Editor)
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Category: Essays
Coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, the word ‘utopia’ is a play on the Greek for no place and good place. But is an ideal society unattainable — or optimal?This edition of Griffith Review visits utopias old and new, near and far, to explore the possibilities and pitfalls of imagining a b ...Show more
The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity by Lynda Gratton; Andrew Scott
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Category: Essays
*A new edition of the international bestseller (a #1 bestseller in Japan), featuring a new preface*Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?Many of us have been raised on the tr ...Show more
And What Do You Do, Mr Gable? by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Essays
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The collected short pieces of nonfiction from one of Australia's best novelists. 'And what do you do, Mr Faulkner?' asked Clark Gable after being introduced to William Faulkner at a party. 'I write,' replied Faulkner. 'And what do you do, Mr Gable?' Over the year ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.