Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici
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Category: Literary Studies
From the peasant revolts to the Great European Witch Hunt- the crushing of occult traditions and women's reproductive freedom in the transition to capitalism. A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the t ...Show more
Fat Girl Dancing by Kris Kneen
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Category: Literary Studies
"How does a person come to know that they are different from the children around them? To measure themselves against a set normal and find themselves lacking? When did I know that I was plump, and then fat? Fat child, self-denying adolescent, hungry young woman; a body now burgeoning uncontrolled into m ...Show more
A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare) by SparkNotes
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: No Fear Shakespeare
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of A Midsummer Night's Dream on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Each No Fear Shakespeare contains: The complete text of the original play A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday l ...Show more
On Passion (On Series) by Dorothy Porter
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: On Ser.
In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other than romantic love and that 'some of the most deeply passionate experiences of [her] life happened between the cov ...Show more
Shout Out to the Girls: A Celebration of Awesome Australian Women by Various
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Category: Literary Studies
Let's give a shout-out to 50 awesome Australian women with these easy-to-read biographies of their incredible achievements. From Cathy Freeman to Turia Pitt, Edith Cowan to Julia Gillard, Cate Blanchett to Olivia Newton-John, plus rally car drivers, molecular biologists, and more, this book is a celebra ...Show more
Upstream - Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
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Category: Literary Studies
One of O, The Oprah Magazine's 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, be ...Show more
Asian Girls are Going Places: How to Navigate the World as an Asian Woman Today by Michelle Law
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Girls Guide to the World Ser.
The third in the Girls Guide to the World series,Asian Girls are Going Places is a gift book with a difference: it features practical advice (and more) from author Michelle Law and her interviewees that specifically targets the joys, fears and obligations unique to Asian women travelling the world. Sepa ...Show more
Australia on the Brink: Avoiding Environmental Ruin by Ian Lowe
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: In the National Interest Ser.
In 1996, the first independent national report on the state of Australia’s environment found that we faced serious problems. With increasing urgency, five subsequent reports declared those problems were all getting worse, each calling for immediate action to protect our future. The 2021 report determine ...Show more
The Elements of Style, Illustrated by William Strunk, Jr. (Author) , E. B. White (Author) , Maira Kalman (Illustrated by)
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
The only style manual ever to appear on bestseller lists has explained to millions of readers the basic principles of plain English. The book's mantra - make every word tell - is still on point. Whether seventeen or seventy, this much-loved classic, now in its fourth edition, will forever be the go-to g ...Show more
Jacob's Room is Full of Books - A Year of Reading by Susan Hill
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Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and gloriously wedded, as Hill shows in Jacob's Room Is Full of Books. Considering everything from Edith Wharton's novels through to Alan Bennett's diaries, Virginia Woolf and t ...Show more
Help! I'm Living With a (Man) Boy by Betty McLellan
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Category: Literary Studies
Are you tired of finding towels on the bathroom floor? Have you ever walked through a supermarket with a thirty-five-year-old child who wants only the most expensive things on the shelves? How do you go about making men understand the difference between helping out with the housework and doing it? And w ...Show more
The Fat Lady Sings: Black Britain: Writing Back by Roy Jacqueline
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Black Britain: Writing Back Ser.
It is the 1990s, and Gloria is living in a London psychiatric ward. She is unapologetically loud, audacious and eternally on the brink of bursting into song. After several months of uninterrupted routine, she is joined by another young black woman - Merle - who is full of silences and fear.Unable to con ...Show more