Empty Labor: Idleness and Workplace Resistance
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African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2...
African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade: Volume 2, Ess...
The Death of the Artist as Hero: Essays in History and ...
The Death of the Artist as Hero: Essays in History and Cultu...
Whitening Race: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism...
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Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance
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Essays on Social and Political Questions
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Nothing If not Critical - Selected Essays On Art And Ar...
The most controversial art critic in Americaauthor of the ...
The Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, ...
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the sam...
How To Write Psychology Research Reports and Essays
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All My Januaries - Pleasures of Life and Other Essays
This island, this solitude, this rainy day, this stack of bl...
Essays In Idleness - And Hojoki
Essays
The articles collected in George Orwells Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwells longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes My Country Right or Left, Decline of the English Murder, Shooting an Elephan...
The Dreaming And Other Essays
W.E.H. Stanners words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, in essays such as The Dreaming Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a cult of forgetfulness practised on a national scale, regarding the fate of the Aborigines, for which he coined the phrase the great Australian silence. And in h...
You Don't Have To Like Me - Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism
Alida Nugents self-deprecating everygirl approach continues to win the internet-savvy writer and blogger new fans. Now, she takes on one of todays hottest cultural topics: feminism. Nugent is a proud feminist and shes not afraid to say it. From the scarlet F thrust upon you if you declare yourself a feminist at a party to how to handle judgmental Boots staff when you pop in for th...
The Best Australian Essays 2017
The Best Australian Essays showcase the nationâs most eloquent; insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor; award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke; unveil; engage and enlighten; and get to the heart of whatâs really happening in Australia and the world.Previous contributors include Helen Garner; J.M. Coetzee; Karen Hit...
Changing My Mind - Occasional Essays
Changing My Mind is a collection of essays by Zadie Smith on literature, cinema, art and everything in between. A supremely good read. Smith writes about reading and writing with such infectious zeal and engaging accessibility that it makes you want to turn up at her house and demand tutoring Dazed and Confused Alarmingly good Metro Striding with open hearted zest and eloquence b...
Masters of Mankind - Essays and Lectures, 1969-2013
In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes the real nature of state power. With unrelenting logic, he holds the arguments of empire up to critical examination and shatters the myths of those who protect the power and privilege of the few against the interests and needs to the many. Covering subjects like Human Intelligence and the Env...
Too Much and Not the Mood - Essays
On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writers Diary with the words too much and not the mood. She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the cramming in and the cutting out to please other readers, wondering if she had anything at all that was truly worth saying.The character of that sentiment, the attitude of it, inspired Durga Chew-Bose to w...
The Undiscovered Self - With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams
These two essays, written late in Jungs life, reflect his responses to the shattering experience of World War II and the dawn of mass society. Among his most influential works, The Undiscovered Self is a plea for his generation and those to come to continue the individual work of self-discovery and not abandon needed psychological reflection for the easy ephemera of mass culture. Only ...
Girl Logic - The Genius and the Absurdity
From breakout stand-up comedian Iliza Shlesinger comes a subversively funny collection of essays and observations on a confident womans approach to friendship, singlehood, and relationships. Girl Logic is Ilizas term for the way women obsess over details and situations that men dont necessarily even notice. She describes is as a characteristically female way of thinking that appears to b...
Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Loyal readers of the monthly Universe essays in Natural History magazine have long recognized Neil deGrasse Tysons talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with stunning clarity and almost childlike enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favorite essays across a myriad of cosmic topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory d...
Common Sense and Rights of Man - Bold-faced Thoughts on Revolution, Reason, and Personal Freedom
This is an innovative and fascinating reading of Thomas Paines two most influential essays. It is an inspirational, unique edition, which features the authoritative text with important passages highlighted. It also includes an introduction that examines Paines concepts from todays perspective and writing exercises with lined pages. The newest entry in the popular Bold-faced series offers an ...
The Opposite of Loneliness - Essays and Stories
The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegans posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marina Keegans star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for ...
It's Messy - On Boys, Boobs, and Badass Women
In this deeply personal collection of essays, creator of the The Conversation Amanda de Cadenet shares the hard-won advice and practical insights shes gained through her experiences as businesswoman, friend, wife, and mother.Amanda is on a mission to facilitate conversations that allow all women to be seen, heard, and understood. Through her multimedia platform The Conversation, she interviews s...
Essays and Aphorisms
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by will the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauers last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he pub...
The Best Australian Essays 2016
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamson curates the years best non-fiction writing from Australias finest writers. The result is a collection that reads as a wake-up call- from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochanis inside account of life on Manus Island. There...
Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries
Readers of his essays in Natural History magazine recognise Neil deGrasse Tysons talent for guiding them through the mysteries of the cosmos with clarity and enthusiasm. Here, Tyson compiles his favourite essays across a myriad of topics. The title essay introduces readers to the physics of black holes by explaining the gory details of what would happen to your body if you fell into one. Holy ...
The Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016
Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He m...
O's Little Book of Calm and Comfort
The fifth instalment in our series of small, inspirational books from the editors of O, the Oprah Magazine this one a collection of contemplative and meditative essays that will soothe and inspire the reader to lead a full life with ease. A tranquil, peaceful collection of soul-stirring writing designed to guide readers toward an easier, less-anxious existence. The editors at O, The Oprah Maga...
Improve Your Written English - The essentials of grammar, punctuation and spelling
It will enable you to approach any written task whether it be letters, essays, reports, job applications, filling in forms, even short stories with confidence. Part One deals with the basic rules of grammar and punctuation, identifying the various punctuation marks and showing how each is used. It also covers parts of speech and demonstrates their uses. Part Two uses practical tasks and exer...
Freedom Is A Constant Struggle - Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
In these essays, interviews and speeches, Angela Y. Davis illuminates connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of black feminism, intersectionality and prison abolitionism for todays struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles. She highlights connections and analyses toda...
The Age of Kali - Travels and Encounters in India
William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in `City of Djinns, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays. Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying Indias first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and...