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By: Karl Ove Knausgaard
ISBN: 9781846559419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9781787331938
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Eula Biss
ISBN: 9781910695395
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
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Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays.
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By: Larry Mcmurtry
ISBN: 9781590170991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
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In this acclaimed collection, Larry McMurtry profiles explorers and martyrs, hucksters and scholars-figures in the West's enduring yet ever-shifting mixture of myth and reality.
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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: Lynn Painter
ISBN: 9781665936149
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Gary Kamiya
ISBN: 9781797210285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Chronicle Books
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By: John Daniel
ISBN: 9781582434933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Counterpoint
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(Hardback)
By: Dinah Lenney
ISBN: 9781619023000
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Counterpoint
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This new collection of interconnected essays marches to a provocative premise: what if one way to understand your life was to examine the objects within it Which objects would you choose What memories do they hold And lined up in a row, what stories do they have to tell
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By: John Bunyan
ISBN: 9781853264689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1996
UK Publication Date: 5th November 1996
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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This allegory of Christian life describes the pilgrimage of the hero, Christian, from the Shadow of Destruction via the Slough of Despond, the Hill of Difficulty, the Valley of the Shadow of Death and Vanity Fair, over the River of the Water of Life and into the Celestial City.
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By: Niccol Machiavelli
ISBN: 9781853267758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 1993
UK Publication Date: 5th January 1993
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Written in 1513 for the Medici, immediately following their return to power in Florence, "The Prince" remains as relevant a text on the craft of ruling and the exercise of power in today's world, as it was in the 16th century.
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By: W.G. Sebald
ISBN: 9781784876753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Kabir Helminski
ISBN: 9781570627170
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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In the form of an anthology, this collection brings together translations, undertaken by a number of translators, of the poetry of the 12th century Persian mystic, Rumi
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By: John Berger
ISBN: 9780747554196
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2002
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career. Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement.
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By: John Berger
ISBN: 9780747558101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2002
UK Publication Date: 19th August 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. This work features essays about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, and a man in a radio station.
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By: Thomas Nashe
ISBN: 9780141397245
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, the author had a magical ability with words, where he mulls over ghosts, demons, nightmares and the supernatural. This book deals with his works.
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By: John Ruskin
ISBN: 9780141398143
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes two of author's powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour'.
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By: Harriet Beecher Stowe
ISBN: 9781840224023
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1999
UK Publication Date: 5th August 1999
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery
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By: Rebecca Walker
ISBN: 9781501154324
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 12th May 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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"A searing and fearless anthology of essays exploring the profound impact of money on women's lives, edited by prominent feminist and writer Rebecca Walker"--
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By: Simon Schama
ISBN: 9781471180101
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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A wide-ranging collection of essays written by the award-winning writer and historian over his forty-year career, chosen by the man himself.
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By: Alexandra Christie
ISBN: 9781922725097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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By: Alexandra Christie
ISBN: 9781922725103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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By: Alexandra Christie
ISBN: 9781922725028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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By: Alexandra Christie
ISBN: 9781922725035
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co
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