I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
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Category: Literary Studies
Aged fifteen and on track to be an Olympic gymnast, Lucia Osborne-Crowley was violently raped in Sydney on a night out, sparking a series of events that left her devastatingly ill for more than ten years of her life. Her path to healing began a decade later, when she told someone about her rape for the ...Show more
Strong Female Lead: Lessons From Women In Power by Arwa Mahdawi
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Category: Literary Studies
The first two decades of the 21st Century have seen financial collapse, a global pandemic, the devastation of our environment and the disintegration of democracies. But while some at the top are telling us 'it is what is it', there's a new generation of leaders showing the world how to be better. They' ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 84: The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia by Jess Hill
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Category: Literary Studies
This year, Australia's #MeToo moment erupted in the national parliament. In this electrifying essay, Jess Hill, the acclaimed author of See What You Made Me Do, traces the meaning of those events and what could happen next. What are the politics of rage? What couldn't Scott Morrison see? And what hope i ...Show more
How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: A Touchstone book | Reading Level: very good
With half a million copies in print, " How to Read a Book" is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a "living" classic that introduces and eluci ...Show more
Reading Pleasures by BYRNE JENNIFER
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Category: Literary Studies
This is a little gem of a book-the perfect Christmas gift for lovers of reading! Reading Pleasures is filled with gorgeous photographs and artworks, each paired with an inspiring quotation. Book lover and host of The Book Club Jennifer Byrne introduces the book magnificently in her Foreword: 'Here are b ...Show more
Elements of Style (4th revised edition) by E.B. White; William Strunk
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Category: Literary Studies
This style manual offers practical advice on improving writing skills. This 'little' book can help students communicate more effectively, showing them how to enliven their sentences, put statements in the positive form and write in a clear and simple style.
PLUTARCH S LIVES Vol 2 by Plutarch
$29.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Series: Modern Library
Offers biographies of Greek and Roman leaders and compares their personal qualities and accomplishments.
Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Literary Studies
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a man recently diagnosed with HIV writes a letter home to a friend. he describes not only the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made from Switzerland across northern Italy to Venice, but reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search ...Show more
Great Ideas: On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca
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Category: Literary Studies | Series: Penguin Great Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 74: The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison Won and Bill Shorten Lost by Erik Jensen
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Category: Literary Studies
What went wrong for Labor and how did Scott Morrison achieve his remarkable victory? In this dazzling report from the campaign trail, Erik Jensen homes in on the insecurities that drive Bill Shorten and the certainties that helped Scott Morrison win. He considers how each man reflects, challenges and co ...Show more
Words are Eagles by Gregory Day
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Category: Literary Studies
Exquisite and challenging essays on the wonders of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaA collection of beautiful and moving essays on the wonder of the natural world and the cultural complexities of writing landscape in AustraliaWords are Eagles collects in o ...Show more
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies And Other Writing From The London Review Of Books by Hilary Mantel
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Category: Literary Studies
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, author of The Wolf Hall trilogy. In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be mo ...Show more