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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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'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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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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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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A new collection of writing from the prize-winning author of Findings and Sightlines.

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The Book Against Deathis the work of a lifetime: a collection of Canetti's aphorisms, diatribes, musings and commentaries on and against death published in English for the first time since his death in 1994 interposed with material from philosophers and writers including Goethe, Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser.

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Consists of four essays about life and walking, bookended by a preamble and an afterword, and interrupted by 21 poems about the Christchurch earthquakes and their aftermath. The poems jolt into the essays like aftershocks, like cracks in the text; they make you pause and reconsider.

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A timely collection of 64 essays about dictators through the ages by acclaimed historians, politicians, journalists and academics, edited by Iain Dale.

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A great American writers confrontation with a great European critic a personal and intellectual awakening.

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Using the concept of the everyday as a lever for social transformation

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From the renowned poet, novelist and memoirist, an ingenious constellation of writings on light, image, seeing . . . and the unseen.

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A collection of speeches, articles, essays and introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author, commentator and craftsman Neil Gaiman.

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A cult book at the intersection of fiction and essay, onthe connections between art, literature, spirituality and the occult through history.

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Extracts from Cicero, Nepos, Sallust, Livy, Petronius, Seneca, Pliny and Tacitus In Latin with notes and introductory material in English.

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When Nona Fernandez accompanies her mother to her neurological exams, she notices that the brain activity projected on the monitor is very similar to the astronomical images with which she's familiar. Like the Voyager, her antenna pointed to her own history as well as her country's, she takes note of everything she reads, observes and thinks.

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Looking outwards, into the past, and to the natural landscape for inspiration, these masterful essays offer elegant ruminations on the experience of living. Divided into four distinct sections, the collection explores memories of a small-town childhood, examines subjects such as the Rosetta Stone, and investigates the meaning of dreams.

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One of the most influential books in early American literature.

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The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesnt have to mean the world is ending.

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