Reports from a Turbulent Decade by No Author Supplied
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Category: Essays
Throughout a decade of remarkable change and upheaval, the Lowy Institute has discussed, dissected and analysed the big issues shaping global politics, and provided fresh policy ideas for Australian decision-makers. Ranked as Australia's leading think tank, the Lowy Institute provides high-quality resea ...Show more
State of the Nation: Essays for Robert Manne by Gwenda Tavan (Editor)
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Category: Essays
A stunning collection of essays that analyses the major issues facing Australia today This nation has a lot of unfinished business. Will we become a republic any time soon? How can we honour our Indigenous peoples and tackle the intractable disadvantage they face? What does our treatment of asylum seek ...Show more
Lucky Peach Issue 8 by David Chang
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Category: Essays
"Lucky Peach" is a journal of food writing, published on a quarterly basis by McSweeney's. It is a creation of David Chang, the James Beard Award-winning chef behind the Momofuku restaurants in New York, "Momofuku" cookbook cowriter Peter Meehan, and Zero Point Zero Production -- producers of the Travel ...Show more
Friendship by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Essays
A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, a type of love. What is the nature of friendship, and what is its significance in our lives? How has friendship changed since the ancient Greeks began to analyze it, and how has modern technology altered its very definition ...Show more
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
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Category: Essays
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Looming Tower, " the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well ...Show more
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood
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Category: Essays
Published when he was thirty-three, "The Broken Estate" is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American readers to a new kind of humanist criticism. Wood is co ...Show more
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 51: The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell by David Marr
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
Cardinal George Pell is the most prominent Catholic leader in Australia at a time when Church's handling of sexual abuse is being closely investigated. He is also the confessor of prime-minister-in-waiting Tony Abbott. A news-breaking and definitive portrait of Pell, at a time of maximum tension and scr ...Show more
The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Category: Essays
In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike. Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...Show more
The Cushion in the Road: Meditation and Wandering as the Whole World Awakens to Being in Harm's Way by Alice Walker
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Category: Essays
The Cushion in the Road is a collection of wide-ranging meditations on the human race's intertwined personal, spiritual and political destinies. It revisits the many themes that the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and activist has addressed throughout her career: racism, Africa, solidari ...Show more
Now We Are Ten: Griffith REVIEW 41 by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Essays | Series: Griffith Review
Griffith REVIEW's tenth-anniversary edition features Australia's best writers tackling the underlying forces that will shape the next decade: sustainability, equality, belonging, technology and the capacity for change. Over its first decade Griffith REVIEW has had an uncanny ability to anticipate emergi ...Show more
The Library At Night by Alberto Manguel
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Category: Essays
Offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. This title conducts a library tour that extends from the author's childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google.