This Can't Be Happening by George Monbiot
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
In these galvanising speeches and essays, he calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced.
Three Marriages, The by David Whyte
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
A radical, "crystalline" (Elle) approach to integrating our work, relationships, and inner selves from the bestselling author, poet, and speaker. The author of Crossing the Unknown Sea and The Heart Aroused encourages readers to reimagine how they inhabit the worlds of love, work, and self-understandi ...Show more
Trouble - Evolution of a Radical: Selected Writings 1970-2010 by Kate Jennings
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
In 1970 Kate Jennings, twenty-one, stunned a Sydney anti-war rally into silence with a pull-no-punches speech calling for women's empowerment. Brave, impassioned and searingly funny, it set the tone for an unconventional life. A few years later she was on her way to New York, where she would make her na ...Show more
Universal Translator: Everything You Need to Know About 139 Languages that Don't Really Exist by Yens Wahlgren
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
If you think about it, all languages are made up - some are just more open about it than others.In The Universal Translator, Yens Wahlgren heads up an expedition through time, space and multiple universes to explore the words that have built worlds. From the classic constructed languages of Star Trek an ...Show more
Watson's Dictionary Of Weasel Words by Don Watson
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
The prime minister speaks of core and non-core election promises, your boss asks you to commit to an involuntary career event (you're fired), and hospitals refer to negative patient outcomes (you're dead)u How to fight back? This book is a heavy weapon against politicians, managers and all those whose w ...Show more
We Belong to Gaia by James Lovelock
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Non Fiction Classics
James Lovelock draws on decades of wisdom to lay out the history of our remarkable planet, to show that it is not ours to be exploited - and warns us that it is fighting back. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers a ...Show more
We Defy Augury by Helene Cixous; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: The\French List Ser.
We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come ... the readiness is all. Under the sign of Hamlet's last act, Hélène Cixous, in her eightieth year, launched her new book--and the latest chapter in her Human Comedy, her Search for Lost Time. Surely o ...Show more
What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Penguin Green Ideas series) by Wendell Berry
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Category: Essays Language and Writing | Series: Penguin Green Ideas
From the ravages of the global economy to the great pleasures of growing a garden, these powerful essays represent a heartfelt call for humankind to mend our broken relationship with the earth, and with each other.
Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge by Bri Lee
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
In 2018 Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian is named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf ...Show more
Whole Notes by Ed Ayres
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
How can we pause long enough to repair ourselves? How can we make space and time in our lives to know ourselves? One way is through music - learning music, listening to music, being open to music. Because music consoles and restores us. Through music, whether we are listening or playing, we know ourselv ...Show more
Yield by Anne Truitt
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Category: Essays Language and Writing
Named by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals "Anne Truitt's Yield has a tone that is rich and spare, considered and sensuous, inward-looking and utterly vibrant and vivid, ...Show more