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Life Lessons from Remarkable Women: Tales of Triumph, Failure & Learning to Love Yourself by Stylist Magazine
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Category: Essays
We asked remarkable women from all walks of life to reveal the one life lesson they want all women to know. Lessons covering issues that all women face including finding confidence within ourselves, dealing with failure, building long-lasting and meaningful relationships, pursuing a fulfilling and succe ...Show more
What We Talk about When We Talk about Books - The History and Future of Reading by Leah Price
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: near fine
In encounters with librarians, booksellers, and activists who are reinventing old ways of reading, Price offers fresh hope to bibliophiles and literature lovers alike.
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
The Forgotten People by Damien Freeman; Shireen Morris
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Category: Essays
" The Forgotten Peoplechallenges the assumption that constitutional recognition of indigenous Australians is a project of the left in Australia. It demonstrates that there may be a set of reforms that can achieve the change sought by indigenous leaders, while addressing the critical concerns of constitu ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 64: The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming by Stan Grant
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Category: Essays | Series: Quarterly Essay
In Quarterly Essay 64, Stan Grant takes a deep and passionate look at Indigenous futures, in particular the fraught question of remote communities. Moving beyond simplistic talk of "lifestyle choices," Grant explores what makes for a sustainable community and life, and then asks- what can we do to insti ...Show more
And Yet... Essays by Christopher Hitchens
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Category: Essays | Reading Level: good-very good
Christopher Hitchens was an unparalleled, prolific writer, who raised the polemical essay to a new art form, over a lifetime of thinking and debating the defining issues of our times. As an essayist he contributed to the New Statesman, Atlantic Monthly, London Review of Books, TLS and Vanity Fair. Any p ...Show more
On Artists by Ashleigh Wilson
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Category: Essays
The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliche that has forgiven bad behaviour for years- to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused from the standards of conduct that apply to us all. But if we denounce the artist, then what becomes of th ...Show more
Women & Power by Mary Beard
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Category: Essays
An updated edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller. 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 Medus ...Show more
On Sleep by Fleur Anderson
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Category: Essays
On Sleepis the story of our love-hate relationship with slumber. Part-time insomniac Fleur Anderson ponders the big questions- Why can't I sleep? Do politicians and other high-fliers ever admit they too are exhausted? Do they get enough sleep to make sensible decisions? Where is society heading, and why ...Show more
Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Essays
Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their ow ...Show more
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
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Category: Essays
We live in a society where work defines who we are, what we do and who we spend our time with. But this wasn't always the case. For 95% of our history, our ancestors had a radically different view of its importance; hunter gatherers rarely worked more than fifteen hours per week. How did work become the ...Show more
The Moth: This is a True Story by Catherine Burns; Neil Gaiman
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Category: Essays
Pull up an easy chair and settle into the most spell-binding collection of real stories you will ever read, from ordinary people and established writers including Malcolm Gladwell, Sebastian Junger and Nathan Englander. Introduced by Neil Gaiman