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After Such Knowledge : A meditation on the aftermath of the Holocaust by Eva Hoffman
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
An important and timely book on the legacy of the Holocaust from a world-renowned commentator on the subject. As the Holocaust recedes from us in time, the guardianship of its legacy is being passed on from its survivors and witnesses to the generation after. How should we, in turn, convey its knowledg ...Show more
How to Be Bored by Eva Hoffman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
How to embrace boredom and find meaning in doing nothing. Lethargic inactivity can be debilitating and depressing; but for those living in the modern world, the pendulum has swung far in the other direction. We live in a hectic, hyperactive, over-stimulated age. Excessive busyness and overfilled schedul ...Show more
Illuminations by Eva Hoffman
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked by rare intensity. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent flights, anonymous hotels and arb ...Show more
Lost in TranslationA Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
$22.15 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptica ...Show more
Time by Eva Hoffman
$29.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Big Ideas
Time is the one dimension of experience we cannot elude. But the nature of lived time is changing dramatically. We are living ever longer, but we suffer from endemic shortages of time. For many, in the inversion of the old motto, time has become a more valuable commodity than money. Middle age and old a ...Show more
Time by Eva Hoffman
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This title offers a radical exploration - are we coming to the end of time as we know it? Time has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. Medical advances extend our longevity, while digital device ...Show more
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