Genius and Ink - Virginia Woolf on How to Read by Virginia Woolf
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Category: General
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITH WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADE Who better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf? In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest writers in English: T. S. Eliot, Henry James and E. M. Fors ...Show more
Glory Daze How a World Beating Nation Got So Down on Itself by Jim Chalmers
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Category: General
The book asks how a nation with the developed world's best economy has a dimmer view of its performance than some of the basket case economies of southern Europe have of their own, and how a country that escaped recession and mass unemployment despite the biggest global downturn since the Great Depressi ...Show more
God Save the Queen: The Strange Persistence of Monarchies by Dennis Altman
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Category: General
An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.An avowed republican investigates the unexpected durability and potential benefits of constitutional monarchies.When he was deposed in Egypt in 1952, King Farouk predicted that there would be ...Show more
Hobart : Updated Edition by Peter Timms
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Category: General | Series: City Ser.
A journey through Hobart--Australia's smallest, most southerly, least prosperous, but arguably most beautiful state capital--this updated edition reveals a city in transition, shaking off its dark and troubled past to claim its special place in the post-modern world. From Hobart's convict legacy, its sp ...Show more
How We Love: Notes on a life by Clementine Ford
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A deeply personal exploration of love in all its forms from a feminist icon and bestselling author of Fight Like a Girl and Boys Will Be Boys. There is love in this place, just like there is love everywhere we care to look for it. There is beauty and there is hope and there is a boy and there is a mothe ...Show more
How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
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Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
A galvanising critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity and reveals what we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world. Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value i ...Show more
Intimations - Six Essays by Zadie Smith
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about th ...Show more
Is Rape a Crime? - A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto by Michelle Bowdler
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Category: General
She Said meets Lucky in Michelle Bowdler's provocative debut, telling the story of her rape and recovery while interrogating why one of society's most serious crimes goes largely uninvestigated. The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and ...Show more
Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference by Luce Irigaray; Alison Martin (Translator)
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Category: General | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy. As s ...Show more
Kamala Harris: Quotes to Live By by Orange Hippo! (General Editor)
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Category: General | Series: The\Little Book Of... Ser.
A life-affirming collection of over 150 quotes from one of the world's most admired, relevant and exciting public figures today.
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
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Category: General
From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” (Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author) that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough. Extra-curricular activities. Honors classes ...Show more
Let This Radicalize You - The Revolution of Rescue and Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes; Mariame Kaba
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Category: General | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.Longtime organizers and movement educators Mariame Kaba a ...Show more