The Sagas of the Icelanders by Jane Smilely, Jane Smilely
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.
How to Read a Novelist by John Freeman
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Category: Literary Studies
John Freeman, author and editor of Granta magazine, has interviewed nearly every name in fiction and the literary world. In this collection Freeman has compiled the most insightful and fascinating of his interviews, essays and articles. Paul Theroux on the state of sex in America, Margaret Atwood as inv ...Show more
Griffith REVIEW 39: Tasmania: The Tipping Point by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Griffith Review
Tasmania, the smallest of Australia's states, has long been on the edge of national conversations about prosperity, equality and identity. In Tasmania: The Tipping Point? Griffith REVIEW serves up strategic slices of Tasmania's past, present and future, prepared by many of the state's best writers. Thin ...Show more
Granta 123: Best of Young British Novelists 4 by John Freeman
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Category: Literary Studies
The fourth instalment of Granta's always compelling, prescient and star-making Best of Young British Novelists list.
The Curtain by Milan Kundera
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Category: Literary Studies
In this entertaining and always stimulating collection of seven essays, Kundera deftly sketches out his personal view of the history and value of the novel. Too often, he suggests, a novel is thought about only within the confines of the nation of its origin, when in fact the novel's development has alw ...Show more
Boyer Lectures 2014: the Promise of Science - A Vision of Hope by Suzanne Cory
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Boyer Lectures
Professor Cory is not just a scientist: she is a humanist, an environmentalist, and an unremitting optimist. Cory's Boyer Lecture series reflects her hope for a bright future. In The Promise of Science: A vision of hope, Professor Cory explores what Australian science has given the nation and the world, ...Show more
The Australian Disease on the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1 by Richard Flanagan
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Short Blacks Ser.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which ...Show more
If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
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Category: Literary Studies
Blackie delivers a rallying cry for women to reawaken their natural power--not just for the sake of their own well-being, but for love of this threatened earth.arth.
The Thinking Woman by Julienne Van Loon
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: 4
One of the age-old questions of philosophy is whatdoes it mean to live a good life? In this extraordinary book, scholar and writer, Julienne van Loon, applies a range of philosophical ideas to her own experience. Van Loon engages with the work of six leading contemporary thinkers and writers -- Rosi Bra ...Show more
Why We Can't Sleep: Generation X Women's New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun
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Category: Literary Studies
When Ada Calhoun found herself in the throes of a midlife crisis, she thought that she had no right to complain. She was married with children and a good career. So why did she feel miserable? And why did it seem that the women around her were miserable, too? Calhoun decided to find some answers. She lo ...Show more
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
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Category: Literary Studies
Imagine a world where… Your phone is too big for your hand Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured. If any of that sounds familiar, chances are you’re a woman. From government policy and medical research, to technology, workplac ...Show more
Oneness vs the 1% Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom by Vandana Shiva with Kartikey Shiva
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Category: Literary Studies
Widespread poverty and malnutrition, an alarming refugee crisis, social unrest, economic polarisation... have become our lived reality as the top 1% of the world’s seven-billion-plus population pushes the planet – and all its people – to the social and ecological brink. In Oneness vs The 1%, Vandana Sh ...Show more