Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural Hi...
Shifting Views: Selected Essays on the Architectural History...
Property&Sustainability: Selected Essays
Property&Sustainability: Selected Essays - University textbo...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essay...
Foreign Affairs and the EU Constitution: Selected Essays - U...
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity: Selected Essay...
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity: Selected Essays - U...
Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
Selected essays from the rich and complex collection of Edou...
The Plague, the Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Select...
Brings together a collection of the Nobel Prize-winning writ...
Nothing If not Critical - Selected Essays On Art And Ar...
The most controversial art critic in Americaauthor of the ...
Upstream - Selected Essays
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...
Bitch Doctrine - Essays for Dissenting Adults
An invaluable case for truth-telling in an age of chaos and lies. Emily Nussbaum [Penny] bravely keeps thinking and talking and learning and trying to make the world better. Caitlin MoranSmart and provocative, witty and uncompromising, this collection of Laurie Pennys celebrated essays establishes her as one of the most important and vibrant political voices of our time. Bitch Doctri...
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...
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...
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 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 ...
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...
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...
Movement Matters - Essays on Movement Science, Movement Ecology, and the Nature of Movement
If you could fit our culture of convenience into a petri dish, what would it look like? Movement Matters is a series of essays in which biomechanist Katy Bowman continues to explain the mechanics of a sedentary culture and the deep complexity of the phenomenon we call movement. By exposing convenience as a way of outsourcing movements, Katys groundbreaking work in the relationship between moveme...
Does it Matter? - Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality
This series of essays represents philosopher Alan Watts thinking on the confounding problems of our relation to our material environment. In it, Watts argues that modern people confuse symbol with reality, as well as ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself. Thus we put ourselves into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the di...
All My Januaries - Pleasures of Life and Other Essays
This island, this solitude, this rainy day, this stack of blank paper, I shall transform you, by these sorceries I have learned, into the stuff of friendship. Barbara Blackman has been a muse and an iconic Australian arts identity throughout her long life. This collection of essays,aAll My Januaries,ais both insightful and memorable. Ranging from her Brisbane childhood to her marriage to renown...
The Essays
A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaignes most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the h...
Upstream - Selected Essays
One of O, The Oprah Magazines Ten Best Books of the Year! The New York Times bestselling collection of essays from beloved poet, Mary Oliver. In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be. So begins Upstream, a collection of es...
Nature and Selected Essays
Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young country of Europes traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many ...
Keeping an Eye Open - Essays on Art
Flaubert believed that great paintings required no words of explanation. But, as Barnes notes, it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And when this does happen, we feel compelled to explain the very silence into which we have been plunged. In this illuminating collection of essays on art, Barnes turns his narrative gifts toward some of the most important paintings in the West...
Ethics in the Real World - 87 Brief Essays on Things that Matter
In this book of brief essays, Singer applies his controversial ways of thinking to issues like climate change, extreme poverty, animals, abortion, euthanasia, human genetic selection, sports doping, the sale of kidneys, the ethics of high-priced art, and ways of increasing happiness. Singer asks whether chimpanzees are people, smoking should be outlawed, or consensual sex between adult siblings ...
Daemon Voices - Essays on Storytelling
In over 30 essays written over 20 years, one of the worlds great storytellers meditates on story-telling. Warm, funny, generous, entertaining and, above all, deeply considered, they offer thoughts on a wide variety of topics, including the origin and composition of Philips own stories, the craft of writing and the storytellers who have meant the most to Philip. The art of story-telling is everywhe...
Industrial Relations Reform: Looking to the Future - Essays in honour of Joe Isaac AO
Industrial relations is critically important for economic performance as well as the social cohesion of a nation. In Australia, industrial relations has been subject to numerous reforms by both Labor and Liberal-National Party Coalition governments during recent decades.This book critically analyses recent changes in work and employment relations and their policy implications for Australia. Schola...
Feel Free - Essays
The one and only Zadie Smith, prize-winning, bestselling author of Swing Time and White Teeth, is back with a second unmissable collection of essays No subject is too fringe or too mainstream for the unstoppable Zadie Smith. From social media to the environment, from Jay-Z to Karl Ove Knausgaard, she has boundless curiosity and the boundless wit to match. In Feel Free, pop culture, high culture, ...
Writing Essays for Dummies
Do ever wish that you could write the perfect university essay? Are you left baffled about where to start? This easy-to-use guide walks you through the nuts and bolts of academic writing, helping you develop your essay-writing skills and achieve higher marks. From identifying the essay type and planning a structure, to honing your research skills, managing your time, finding an essay voice, and re...