The Abundance by Annie Dillard
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Category: Essays
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. She conjures currents of magic and wisdom, illuminating the seemingly ordinary moments of a life lived fearlessly - as a breathless teenager, as a roving young adult ...Show more
From Despair to Hope by James Arvanitakis
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Specials
A few days before the terrorist attacks in Paris, a car bomb exploded in Beirut killing dozens. Though this may happen on the other side of the world, deep divisions emerge that are exploited for political expediency. Strangers are no longer people reading quietly on the bus, but potential threats. How ...Show more
A Curiosity of Doubts by T. L. Uglow
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Specials
"While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence in their beliefs. Culture and science are rooted in unknowns, and when we accept doubt we are more creat ...Show more
On Listening: Penguin Special by Martin Flanagan
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Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Penguin Specials
'If you're quiet enough, quiet as a tree, people will camp beneath your branches and tell you stories you would never otherwise hear.' Martin Flanagan shares how listening has been an essential part of his life from when he started hitch-hiking at fourteen through to writing a book about Aboriginal foot ...Show more
Discontent and its Civilizations: Dispatches from Lahore, New York and London by Mohsin Hamid
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Category: Contemporary Thought
Discontent and its Civilizations collects the best of Mohsin Hamid's writing on subjects as diverse and wide-ranging as Pakistan; fatherhood; the death of Osama Bin Laden and the writing of The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Unified by the author's humane, clear-headed and witty voice, the book makes a compe ...Show more
Being and Time by Heidegger Martin
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought Ser.
A knowledge of Heidegger's Sein und Zeit is essential foranyone who wishes to understand a great deal of recent continentalwork in theology as well as philosophy. Yet until this translationfirst appeared in 1962, this fundamental work of one of the mostinfluential European thinkers of the century remain ...Show more
Watching Brief by Julian Burnside
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Category: Words & Ideas
The first decade of the twenty-first century has seen a sharp decline in respect for human rights and the international rule of law. The legal conventions of the new realpolitik seem to owe more to Guantanamo than Geneva. Australia has tarnished its reputation in the field of human rights, through its ...Show more
The Disappearing Spoon...and other true tales from the Periodic Table by Sam Kean
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Category: Science
Fascinating and hilarious true stories from the Periodic Table - Longlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2011 Why did Gandhi hate iodine (I, 53)? Why did the Japanese kill Godzilla with missiles made of cadmium (Cd, 48)? How did radium (Ra, 88) nearly ruin Marie Curie's reputatio ...Show more
Peacock and Vine: Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work by A. S. Byatt
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Category: Essays
An alluring and atmospheric enquiry into the creative impulse -- as seen through the work and lives of Mariano Fortuny and William Morris -- by one of our greatest novelists. This ravishing little book, glowing with colour and generously illustrated throughout, opens a window on to the lives, passio ...Show more
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
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Category: Contemporary Thought
It is short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. It is the winner of the Jerwood Prize. It is a constellation of everyday digital phenomena is rewiring our inner lives. We are increasingly coaxed from the three-dimensional containment of our pre-digital selves into a wonderful and eerie ...Show more
The Stone Reader - Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments by Peter Catapano
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Category: Philosophy
Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when "The Stone" was launched in the New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column has since attracted millions of readers throug ...Show more