The Republic of Learning: Higher Education Transforms Australia by Glyn Davis
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Boyer Lectures
Each year the ABC Board invites a prominent Australian to present six radio lectures expressing their thoughts on major social, cultural, scientific or political issues. In 2010 Professor Glyn Davis presents the 51st Boyer Lecture series, titled 'The Republic of Learning: Higher Education Transforms Aus ...Show more
The Best Technology Writing: 2010 by Julian Dibbell
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best Technology Writing Ser.
The iPad. The Kindle. Twitter. When "The Best Technology Series" was inaugurated in 2005, these technologies did not exist. Today, they not only make headlines: they define our twenty-first-century lives. In his introduction to "The Best Technology Writing 2010", Julian Dibbell addresses the collective ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2010 by Christopher Hitchens (ed.)
$19.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Essays (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good
The provocative and best-selling author Christopher Hitchens takes the helm of the twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this perennial favorite that is "reliable and yet still surprising--the best of the best" ("Kirkus Reviews").
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 by Dave Eggers
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Nonrequired Reading (Paperback)
An eclectic volume introduced by David Sedaris and compiled by Dave Eggers and students of his San Francisco writing center, who don't leave a stone unturned in their search for nonrequired gems. Cover art by art by Maurice Sendak.
The Best American Short Stories by Richard Russo
$21.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Best American Short Stories (Paperback)
Edited by the award-winning, best-selling author Richard Russo, this year's collection boasts a satisfying "chorus of twenty stories that are by turns playful, ironic, somber, and meditative" ("Wall Street Journal"). With the masterful Russo picking the best of the best, America's oldest and best-sellin ...Show more
A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx by Elaine Showalter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Fascinating, incisive, intelligent and never afraid of being controversial, Elaine Showalter introduces us to more than 250 writers. Here are the famous and expected names, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Willa Cather, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O'Connor, Gwendolyn Brooks, Grace Paley, Toni Morrison, and ...Show more
Are We Related?: The New Granta Book of the Family by Liz Jobey
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"Granta" magazine has published some of the best writing about family relationships in the English language. Over the years, its writers have dealt with the most difficult, the most important and the most personal relationships of their lives. Granta Books' publication, in 1993, of Blake Morrison's "Whe ...Show more
The Annual Fiction Edition by Julianne Schultz
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Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Griffith Review
The second annual fiction collection will focus on the Pacific region: from the Americas to Asia, the Pacific islands, New Zealand and Australia. What binds us? What pulls us apart? As economic, political and cultural power moves from North America and Europe to the Asia-Pacific, Australia is enjoying a ...Show more
BEST OF 2010 BOXSET THE by DREWE ROBERT & KENNEDY CATE (EDS)
$69.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A special boxset of The Best Australian Stories 2010, The Best Australian Essays 2010 and The Best Australian Poems 2010. The subjects addressed are wide-ranging and often topical. Each book showcases the latest work of Australia's finest contemporary writers, and each is an ideal way to encounter the b ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2010 by Robert Drewe
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'I wanted to showcase those subjects which thoughtful and talented Australian writers were absorbed by in this particular year; indeed (I thought), wouldn't it be good to show what this country, and its culture, was about in 2010?' - Robert Drewe This year's Best Australian Essaysoffers riveting snapsho ...Show more
The Best Australian Stories 2010 by Cate Kennedy
$29.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
In The Best Australian Stories 2010 , Cate Kennedy selects the year's most exciting short fiction. Featuring established masters alongside fresh new voices, this diverse collection is a perfect companion for summer and an ideal introduction to Australia's best contemporary fiction writing. Previous cont ...Show more
The Pen and the Stethoscope by Leah Kaminsky
$32.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor-writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that man ...Show more