50 Standout Articles from Australia's Top Thinkers The Conversation Yearbook 2019 by John Watson
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Category: Critical Thinking
A little bit of authority goes a long way in an opinionated world. Here Australia's most erudite thinkers share expert views on the issues that shaped the nation in 2019. The Conversation Yearbook has become an annual bestselling collection that navigates fake news and shouty views and offers a fresh pe ...Show more
A Book of Friends - In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday by Dorothy Driver (Editor)
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Category: Critical Thinking
A Book of Friendsis a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee's friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades. Stretching from th ...Show more
A Fixed Place - The Long and Short of Story by Kathleen Mary Fallon
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Category: Critical Thinking
What was it like, living through the social, cultural and political upheaval of the last fifty years of the twentieth century in this Lucky Country? With Life flying forward into the future, what could be held onto, and what self (that place which is never fixed) could fix and hold the experience of tho ...Show more
A More Exciting Life by The School of Life
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Category: Critical Thinking
A guide to achieving the more joyful and interesting life that we know is within our grasp.One of the things we all deeply crave is a more exciting life. We know that many things have to be routine, hard and a little boring. But we also sense that, if only we could find a way, our lives could be rendere ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
A Writer of Our Time - The Life and Work of John Berger by Joshua Sperling
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Category: Critical Thinking
The first intellectual biography of the life and work of John BergerJohn Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers. As a TV presenter, he changed the way we looked at ...Show more
Aftershocks - Selected Writings and Interviews by Anthony Macris
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Category: Critical Thinking
Against Amazon: and Other Essays by Jorge Carrión
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Biblioasis International Translation Ser.
Picking up where the widely praised Bookshops: A Reader's History left off, Against Amazon explores the increasing pressures of Amazon and other new technologies on bookshops and libraries. Collecting the author's essays on these vital social, cultural, and intellectual spaces, as well as his interviews ...Show more
Archipelago: An Atlas of Imagined Islands by Huw Lewis-Jones
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Category: Critical Thinking
'Think of this atlas as the beginning of a journey and a kind of island guidebook, a rough guide to far-flung places, a Baedeker of make-believe, and a new page waiting to be filled. The cycle of Crusoes continues' Huw Lewis-Jones Islomania is a recognized affliction. But what is it about islands that ...Show more
Because Internet - Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch
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Category: Critical Thinking
A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the ...Show more
Beneath the Skin - Great Writers on the Body by Ned Beauman; Naomi Alderman; Thomas Lynch (Introduction by); Philip Kerr; A. L. Kennedy
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Wellcome Ser.
Our bodies all have stories to tell - and who better to tell them than fifteen of the world's finest writers? Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the S ...Show more