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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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The irrepressible Ben Pobjie takes on the topic of controversial comedy, and explains why he doesn't particularly care if you're offended. Maria Tumarkin makes a potent argument for the role of storytelling in expanding our 'moral imagination' towards asylum seekers in Australia. We feature travel writing from Jacqueline Dutton and much, much more.
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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By: Meanjin Quarterly
ISBN: 9780522877434
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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In the December issue of Meanjin, an edition titled Words, Australian writers respond to one-word titles in a special series of non-fiction pieces.
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By: Janet Malcolm
ISBN: 9781925773705
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Text Publishing
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A brilliant and eclectic new essay collection from a master of the form
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By: Hilda Doolittle
ISBN: 9780872861411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2001
Publisher: City Lights Books
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(Paperback)
By: Albert Wendt
ISBN: 9781869401122
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 1995
Publisher: Auckland University Press
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By: Henry David Thoreau
ISBN: 9781619021730
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Sarah Ferguson
ISBN: 9780733644160
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Hachette Australia
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By: Marshall McLuhan
ISBN: 9781584235828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
Publisher: Gingko Press, Inc
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Essays covering 25 years of McLuhan's career, demonstrating his abiding interest in the materiality of mediation, from comic books to fashion, from technology to biology.
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By: Mary Gaitskill
ISBN: 9781788168168
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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A career-spanning collection by the legendary Mary Gaitskill - now in paperback
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By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781529032697
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A collection of Orwells compellingly perceptive essays on subjects from food to weather to unemployment, edited and introduced by Professor Michael Gardiner.
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By: Dan Fox
ISBN: 9781804270936
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2024
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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What is pretentiousness Why are we afraid of it And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture Drawing on the author's own experiences growing up and working at the more radical edges of the arts, this book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and diversity in our culture.
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By: Vivien Goldman
ISBN: 9781399601740
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2024
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The best writing from Vivien Goldman, the trailblazing, radical, feminist music writer
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By: Various
ISBN: 9781787703544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2022
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
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'Fresh and diverting, informative and topical without being slight or ephemeral [...] This supremely well-edited combination of current affairs, journalism, commentary, and fun facts is perfect for our pause-button moment.' - Australian Financial Review, Best Books of the Year
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By: Richard Holmes
ISBN: 9780006550129
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1996
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Richard Holmes brings together Shelley's almost unknown prose writings on love as well as the better-known love poetry for which he is famous. The collection presents an intellectual and emotional portrait of a great poet's beliefs and personality.
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By: Anthony Veasna So
ISBN: 9780063049949
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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By: Joan Didion
ISBN: 9780008257200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
UK Publication Date: 22nd March 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.
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By: Manning Clark
ISBN: 9780522847703
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 1993
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Brings together forty-two selected speeches and lectures by Professor Manning Clark. They range over fifty years from ""What of Germany"", delivered in 1940, to the last, delivered in 1991 just before his death at the launch of Barry Humphries' book ""The Life and Death of Sandy Stone"" and reveal recurring themes in his thinking.
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By: Jamaica Kincaid
ISBN: 9781529077049
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 8th August 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Originally featured in the New Yorkers Talk of the Town column, these are Jamaica Kincaids first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York.
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By: Annie Dillard
ISBN: 9781782117735
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Canongate Books
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The best writing from the Pulitzer Prize-winning nature writer, with a foreword by Geoff Dyer.
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By: John Green
ISBN: 9781529109894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2023
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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By: Sun Tzu
ISBN: 9781853267796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 1998
UK Publication Date: 5th February 1998
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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The two political works in this text are the product of a time of intense turmoil in Chinese history. Dating from an epoch in Chinese history known as the "Period of the Warring States" (4003 - 221 BC), they anticipate by nearly 2000 years Niccolo Machiavelli's treatises on the same subjects.
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By: Padma Lakshmi
ISBN: 9780063370647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 5th December 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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