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Devotion by Patti Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The national bestseller from the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, exploring the nature of creative invention A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audi ...Show more
Devotion: Why I Write by Patti Smith
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? ...Show more
Do You Know About Animals? (Why?) by DK
$25.00 AUD
Category: Information Books | Series: Why?
This is the perfect first reference book, Why? Animals answers trivia questions about wild animals for kids through engaging facts and beautiful pictures of animals. Why? Animals uses a fun and interactive question and answer format, encouraging kids' curiosity as they engage with the information to fin ...Show more
Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly by John Quiggin
$30.00 AUD
Category: Business & Economics | Series: Why Markets Work so Well & Why They Can Fail Badly
A masterful introduction to the key ideas behind the successes--and failures--of free-market economics Since 1946, Henry Hazlitt's bestselling Economics in One Lesson has popularized the belief that economics can be boiled down to one simple lesson: market prices represent the true cost of everything. B ...Show more
For Now (Why I Write) by Eileen Myles
$26.95 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
"[Myles] has a good time journeying through Hell, and like a hip Virgil, . . . is happy to show us the way."--NPR In this raucous meditation, Eileen Myles offers an intimate glimpse into creativity's immediacy. With erudition and wit, Myles recounts their early years as an awakening writer; existentia ...Show more
Happy Never After - Why the Happiness Fairytale Is Driving Us Mad (and How I Learned to Flip the Script) by Jill Stark
$35.00 AUD
Category: General | Series: Why the Happiness Fairytale is Driving Us
Jill Stark was living the dream. She had a coveted job as a senior journalist, she was dating a sports star, and her first book had just become a bestseller. After years of chasing the fairytale ending, she'd finally found it. And then it all fell apart. Getting her happy-ever-after plunged Jill into t ...Show more
Inadvertent by Karl Ove Knausgaard; Ingvild Burkey
$18.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Administered by Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the series publishes works based on the lecture ...Show more
Inadvertent: Why I Write by Karl Ove Knausgaard
$28.00 AUD
Category: On Writing | Series: Why I Write Ser.
The second book in the Why I Write series provides generous insight into the creative process of the award-winning Norwegian novelist Karl Ove Knausgaard "Why I Write" may prove to be the most difficult question Karl Ove Knausgaard has struggled to answer yet it is central to the project of one of the ...Show more
Perils of Perception: Why We're Wrong .. by Bobby Duffy
$25.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Why We'Re Wrong about Nearly Everything
Do you eat too much sugar? Is violence in the world increasing or decreasing? What proportion of your country are Muslim? What does it cost to raise a child? How much do we need to save for retirement? How much tax do the rich pay? When we estimate the answers to these fundamental questions that directl ...Show more
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson
$39.95 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Why X Matters Series
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, examining the allure of the performing arts for both the a ...Show more
Why Acting Matters by David Thomson
$26.95 AUD
Category: Essays | Series: Why X Matters Series
A provocative, highly engaging essay on the art of pretending on the stage, on screen, and in daily life.
Why Food Matters by Paul Freedman
$41.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: Why X Matters Ser.
An award-winning historian makes the case for food's cultural importance, stressing its crucial role throughout human history
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