Mr. Personality - Profiles and Talk-Pieces by Mark Singer

$10.00 AUD

Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Picador Bks.

A collection of the author's journalistic pieces from The New Yorker, including his profiles and Talk of the Town pieces. They consist of comic explorations of the madder ranges of American citizenship. Singer's first book, Funny Money, was published in 1985.

HOURS IN A LIBRARY - 3 VOLUME SET by LESLIE STEPHEN

$45.00 AUD

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DICKENS IN EUROPE by ROSALIND VALLANCE (ed)

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Aspects of the Present by Margaret Mead; Rhoda Bubendey Métraux

$15.00 AUD

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Arguably by Christopher Hitchens

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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good

He raises hackles or receives resounding cheers, he's loved or hated but never ignored. Christopher Hitchens is possibly the most provocative writer of our time, fearless and forthright with no subject off limits. This volume of essays spans a remarkable four decades of writing. From early articles in t he New Statesman, where he worked alongside writers such as Ian McEwan and Martin Amis, through to his pieces for Salon, The Atlantic and Vanity Fair, these articles display his rare genius, indomitable wit and singular command of language. World figures from Clinton to Mother Teresa, Kissinger to Benazir Bhutto go under his unforgiving microscope. Issues from Vietnam to Iraq, Afghanistan to Iran and literary musings on the leading writers of the last fifty years form the richest tapestry a reader could ask. 'Don't mince words' is the title of one of these pieces. Nor does he, nor has he over the course of a dozen books of which the most recent are the best-selling God is not Great and Hitch-22, and hundreds of articles of which the cream of the crop is here. ...Show more

The Medicine: A Doctor's Notes by Karen Hitchcock

$29.99 AUD

Category: ESSAYS

What happens when a doctor kills a patient? Are GPs overprescribing antidepressants? Does 'female Viagra' work? What role can psychedelics and cannabis play in treating pain? What is sickness, and how much of it is in our heads? In The Medicine, Dr Karen Hitchcock takes us to the frontlines of everyday treatment, turning her acute gaze to everything from the flu season to dementia, plastic surgery to the humble sick day. In an overcrowded, underfunded medical system, she explores how more of us can be healthier, and how listening carefully to a patient's experience can be as important as prescribing a pill. These dazzling essays show Hitchcock to be one of the most fearless and illuminating medical thinkers of our time - reasonable, insightful and deeply humane. ...Show more

Electric Delights by William Plomer; Rupert Hart-Davis (Introduction by)

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Writing the Circle - Native Women of Western Canada, an Anthology by Jeanne Perreault (Compiled by); Sylvia Vance (Editor); Gloria Bird (Introduction by); Emma LaRocque (Preface by)

$20.00 AUD

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Stories&#44 poetry&#44 essays&#44 and biographical pieces from western and northwestern Canadian Native women make available seldom&#45heard voices of strength&#44 resolution&#44 anger&#44 sorrow&#44 wit&#44 laughter&#44 and tenderness&#46

THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF SYDNEY SMITH by W H AUDEN

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THE FOUR CONTINENTS : BEING MORE DISCURSIONS ON TRAVEL, ART AND LIFE by OSBERT SITWELL

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Life: Selected Writings by Tim Flannery

$39.99 AUD

Category: ESSAYS | Reading Level: near fine

Tim Flannery is one of the world's great thinkers, environmental scientists and writers. Sir David Attenborough once described him as being 'in the league of the all-time great explorers like Dr David Livingstone.' This definitive collection of his work brings together thirty years of essays, speeches a nd occasional writing on palaeontology, mammology, environmental science and history, including the science of climate change and the challenges and opportunities we face in addressing this issue, so critical for all of us.   ...Show more

Coventry by Rachel Cusk

$32.99 AUD

Category: ESSAYS

After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work. Encompassing memoir and cultural and literary criticism , with pieces on gender, politics and writers such as D. H. Lawrence, Olivia Manning and Natalia Ginzburg, this collection is essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, both startling and rewarding to behold. The result is a cumulative sense of how the frank, deeply intelligent sensibility - so evident in her stories and novels - reverberates in the wider context of Cusk's literary process. Coventry grants its readers a rare opportunity to see a mind at work that will influence literature for time to come. ...Show more