Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Freedom: The End of the Human Condition by JEREMY GRIFFITH
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Category: Essays
The fastest growing realization everywhere is that humanity can't go on the way it is going. Indeed, the great fear is we're entering endgame where we appear to have lost the race between self-destruction and self-discovery-the race to find the psychologically relieving understanding of our 'good and ev ...Show more
Women & Power - A Manifesto by Mary Beard
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Britain's best-known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit, she revisits the gender agenda and shows how history has treated powerful women. Her examples range from the classical world to the modern day, from Medusa and Athena to Theresa May and Hillary Clinton. Bea ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future by Judith Brett
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Category: Essays | Series: QE78
Australia is the world’s biggest coal exporter, accounting for over a third of coal exports worldwide. In 2018, coal overtook iron ore as our most valuable export. Scott Morrison’s government has embraced coal, doubling down on supporting the industry, calling climate-based boycotts of coal companies “i ...Show more
Fair Play by Eve Rodsky
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shouldered for too long--from a woman tapped by Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine as the expert on this topic for a new generation of women. Eve Rodsky is changing society one marriage at a time with a twenty- ...Show more
Ex Libris - Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
The author is the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of "Fanny Hill", and who once found herself poring over a 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only thing in her apartment that she had not read at least twice. This title recounts her lifelong obsession with books. ...Show more
The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse by Geoffrey Robertson QC
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Category: Essays
THE CASE OF THE POPEdelivers a devasting indictment of the way the Vatican has run a secret legal system that shields paedophile priests from criminal trial around the world. Is the Pope morally or legally responsible for the negligence that has allowed so many terrible crimes to go unpunished? Should h ...Show more
A Life With Books by Julian Barnes
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Category: Essays
Julian Barnes writes about his early awareness of books and about his obsessive book-collecting and time spent in second-hand bookshops around the country. He ends by praising the physical book and expressing the confident hope ...Show more
Here on Earth : An Argument for Hope by Tim Flannery
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: vert good
"We stand at a crossroads, where comprehension of our place in nature - of our true abilities and of our history - is supremely important. We have formed a global civilisation of unprecedented might, driven forward by the power of our minds - a civilisation which is transforming our Earth. We are master ...Show more
Great Australian Outback School Stories by Bill Marsh
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Category: Essays | Series: Great Australian Stories
Fabulous yarns and memories of going to school and teaching in the Outback. If your teacher commuted to school in a plane; if you had to watch out for rogue bulls rather than traffic; if your daily pick-up was done by a horse - you probably went to an outback school. this collection of more than sixty s ...Show more
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby
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Category: Essays
Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), ...Show more
The News - A User's Manual by Alain De Botton
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
Alain de Botton explores our relationship with 'the news' in this book full of his trademark wit and wisdom. Following on from his bestselling Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton turns now to look at the manic and peculiar positions that 'the news' occupies in our lives. We invest it with an authorit ...Show more