Essays & Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Essays | Series: Library of America Ralph Waldo Emerson Edition Ser.
Our most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called "the great and crescive self," he dramatizes and records its vicissitudes. Here are all the indispensable and most renowned works ...Show more
Selected Journals, 1820-1842 by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Category: Essays
When Emerson died in 1882 he was the most famous public intellectual in America. Yet his most remarkable literary creation-his journals- remained unpublished. Begun when he was a precocious Harvard junior of 16 and continued without significant lapse for almost 60 years, Emerson's journals were his life ...Show more
Writing Life
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Category: Essays
Who else, but a writer, is really able to interrogate the work of other writers? From Christina Stead, Les Murray and Patrick White to Proust, Shakespeare and Charlotte Bronte, David Malouf reads and examines the work of writers who have challenged, inspired and entertained us for generations. He also e ...Show more
The Most of Nora Ephron by Nora Ephron
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Category: Essays
This is a comprehensive anthology of Nora Ephron at her funniest and most acute, here are her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman; on the importance of food (with favourite recipes), and on the bittersweet reality of growing old. This collection includes extracts from her bestselling nov ...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
@War by Shane Harris
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Category: Essays
The United States military now considers cyberspace as the 'fifth domain' of warfare (alongside land, air, sea and space). The Department of Defense, the NSA and CIA all field teams of hackers who can, and do, launch computer virus strikes against enemy targets. In fact, U.S. military hackers played a c ...Show more
The Hall of Uselessness: Collected Essays by Simon Leys
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Category: Essays
An NYRB Classics Original Simon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao's Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousn ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2014 by John Jeremiah Sullivan
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Category: Essays | Series: Best American
"A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating." -- "Publishers Weekly""The Best American Essays 2014" is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sul ...Show more
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-play Invades our Lives by Joanna Bourke
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Category: Essays
Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertaining us at the movies or in front of game consoles. Our taxes pay for those war machines. Our loved ones are killed and maimed. With killing now an integral ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
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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
I Think You'll Find it's a Bit More Complicated Than That by Ben Goldacre
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Category: Essays
The very best journalism from one of Britain's most admired and outspoken science writers, author of the bestselling Bad Science and Bad Pharma. In Bad Science, Ben Goldacre hilariously exposed the tricks that quacks and journalists use to distort science. In Bad Pharma, he put the $600 billion global ...Show more