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Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinchi ...Show more
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Political / Economic
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2013 by Robert Manne
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays
In The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne draws out this year's most distinctive voices. This superb collection encompasses the personal, with Robert Dessaix's distant summer of love and touch-typing and Helen Garner's reaction to the death of Jill Meagher; and the political, with Chloe Hooper an ...Show more
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary on Julian Assange: Short Black 9 by Robert Manne
$6.99 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Short Blacks
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutiona ...Show more
The Petrov Affair by Robert Manne
$24.95 AUD
Category: Australian
In the highly charged atmosphere of the Cold War, the 1954 defection of Soviet diplomats Vladimir and Evdokia Petrov detonated under Australian politics like a nuclear explosion. From the moment the famous photo of Soviet thugs manhandling Evdokia Petrova across the Mascot tarmac hit the newstands, the ...Show more
The Words That Made Australia - How a Nation Came to Know Itself by Manne Robert
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian | Reading Level: good
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents the original essays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from federati ...Show more
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