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Natural History
A fascinating view of how the world was perceived in the first century Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography...
The Ukimwi Road
In January 1992, Dervla Murphy prescribed herself several carefree months and embarked on a cycle tour (pedalling and pushing) from Kenya to Zimbabwe via Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia on...
Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language and Analysis
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This collection of essays offers a wide-ranging examination of the place of AIDS in gay activism, literature, film, news reporting and culture. The contributors stress the connection between language and...
Choice of Kipling's Prose
Gathers twenty-eight stories about Englishmen in the far reaches of the British Empire.
Twenty Years A-Growing
Maurice O'Sullivan was born on the Great Blasket in 1904, and 'Twenty Years A-Growing' tells the story of his youth and of a way of life which belonged to the...
Beyond within: Philosophy for the Inner Life
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An anthology of Sri Chinmoy's essays, talks and poems on the integration of spiritual aspiration into daily life.
Children of the Shadows: Voices of the Second Generation
The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...
Three Danish Comedies
Includes the plays No, Jeppe of the Hill and The Scatterbrain Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791-1860) and Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754) were two of the very few dramatists for whom Henrik Ibsen...
Calendar
A collection of essays in the form of a daybook, written in real-time over a year. Calendar is about tuning in to the unexpected, playful and solemn lives of the...
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works
This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas.
Picador 21st Book
In 1993, Picador celebrates its 21st anniversary. This book marks this event. Twenty-one authors who have contributed to Picador's success were each invited to write and choose a year in...
Penguin Book of Death and Dying
A section of non-fiction pieces that explores many questions related to death and dying, including public and private responses to death and cultures as diverse as Ireland, Mexico, Australia and...
black girl, no magic: reflections on race and respectability
In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium? Until recently, not Black women. Kimberly McIntosh...
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their...
Talking to Strangers
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Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster....
The Impossible Will Take a Little While (Second Edition): A Citizen's
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What keeps us going when times get tough? How have the leaders and unsung heroes of world-changing political movements persevered in the face of cynicism, fear, and seemingly overwhelming odds?...
The Best Australian Essays 2009
The Best Australian Essays 2009 presents a selection of the year's best non-fiction. With wonderful essays by Australia's finest writers, this diverse collection captures the year that was. Whether tackling...
Our First Republicans: Selected writings of Lang, Harpur and Deniehy
Lang, Harpur and Deniehy were three of the most outspoken proponents of the Australian Republic in the mid-19th century. Their arguments - concise, powerful and balanced - are as relevant...
Can You Tolerate This?
Can You Tolerate This? is a collection of twenty-one personal essays by Ashleigh Young. In this spirited and singular book, Young roams freely from preoccupation to preoccupation - Hamilton's 90s...
From the Centre to the City: Aboriginal Education, Culture and Power
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From the Centre to the City: Aboriginal Education, Culture and Power
A Journey Through Other Spaces: Essays and Manifestos, 1944-1990
Polish director Tadeusz Kantor, who died in 1990 at the age of 75, is widely recognized as one of the most important theatre artists of this century. Critics have ranked...
Parallels & Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A...
Arguments for a Theatre
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The author of over 30 plays, including "The Castle", "Scenes from an Execution" and "The Possibilities", Howard Barker does not accept the theatrical conventions of what he terms "The Establishment...
On Lust and Longing
On Lust and On Longing together for the first time. When On Lust was first published it caused a media sensation- Blanche d'Alpuget wrote of a pillar of society who...
Approaching Eye Level
Vivian Gornick's writing has always explored the hard truths of existence: the nature of human loneliness, and the struggle to love, work, and connect. In these seven seminal essays Gornick...
The Little Virtues
'As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones...' So begins the titular essay in Natalia...
Best Australian Essays 2014
In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing....
Plainer Still
The sequel to Let Me Make Myself Plain. Catherine Cookson's previous collection of essays and poems, Let Me Make Myself Plain, was published in response to the enthusiastic reception of...
In Praise of Messy Lives
'Is there some adventure out there that we are not having, some vividness, some wild pleasure, that we are not experiencing in our responsible, productive days? . . . We...
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories
From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...
A Room of One's Own
A reissue of the successful PMC edition of Woolf's landmark feminist polemic A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the...
The Way the World Works
In The Way the World Works, Nicholson Baker ranges over the map of life to examine what ails us, what eases our pain, and what gives us joy. Baker, recently...
When I Was a Child I Read Books
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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A New York Times Bestseller A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year Pulitzer...
English Trader, Indian Maid: Representing Gender, Race, and Slavery in
On March 13th, 1711, an article appeared in "The Spectator about Thomas Inkle, a young and aspiring English trader cast ashore in the Americas, who is saved from violenct death...
The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction
THE VIEW FROM THE CHEAP SEATS draws together myriad non-fiction writing by international phenomenon and Sunday Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman. From Make Good Art , the speech that went...
The Fifth Impossibility: Essays on Exile and Language
A passionate exploration of language, censorship, and exile by the celebrated Romanian writer Norman Manea "Manea demonstrates that he is an indispensable analyst of what it means to be a...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024
Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year. "This was the most...