Télécharger le livre :  On Life's Lottery
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Birth is a throw of the dice. The consequences last a lifetime.We like to think of Australia as the land of the 'fair go', a land of choice and equal opportunity. But behind the facade of meritocracy lies an uncomfortable truth: much of your life is already decided by...

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Parution : 2021-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  On Rage
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ON RAGE is Germaine Greer's timeless essay about Aboriginal dispossession. With characteristic acuity and passion, Greer looks to the causes of rage and its consequences in Indigenous Australians.Originally published six months after Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  On Rape
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It's time to rethink rape. Centuries of different approaches to rape - as inflicted by men on women - have got us nowhere. Rape statistics remain intractable: one woman in five will experience sexual violence. Very few rapes find their way into court. The crucial issue...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  On Ecstasy
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'My polish grandmother made a chicken soup like no other chicken soup. To this day, it has, to my knowledge and experience, never been bettered ... Her chicken soup was the Caravaggio of soups. The Rainer Marie Rilke of soups. The Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli of...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  On Artists
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If we denounce the artist, then what becomes of the work that remains?The #MeToo movement is overturning a cliché that has forgiven bad behaviour for years: to be creative is to be prone to eccentricity, madness, addiction and excess. No longer can artists be excused...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  En Garde
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When Sarah Hanson-Young called out the abuse she received from male parliamentarians as slut-shaming, she sparked a national conversation about the rampant sexism in politics. Placing the responsibility on women to defend themselves is the same cheap trick as asking,...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  On Luck
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'Australians' fervent belief in luck is deeply etched in our consciousness. More than with the citizens of other countries, it affects the way we see most things. When someone escapes serious injury or death in an accident, we remark on how lucky they were. We don't say...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Digestion
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'In the kitchen, via the garden, I am often torn between theory and praxis, when surely the latter is all that matters here. Yet the largest bench, the one dividing the dining area from the kitchen itself, is never used for culinary preparation. It is this surface which...

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Télécharger le livre :  On Merit
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Merit has very little to do with the increasing dominance of men in the modern Liberal Party. Yet Liberal women continue to defend it. Until now. OnMerit explores this imbalance, its implications for the party's future, and how a pair of red shoes may spark a rebellion...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2020-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  On Us
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Stop. Listen. Step outside the echo chamber.How do we step outside our own echo chamber to understand others? What are we losing when we share fewer and fewer national moments? The new media is enabling despots and disempowering democracy. So when every opinion seems to...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Passion
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'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves...

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Télécharger le livre :  On Beauty
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In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: 'Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Experience
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Australia's much-loved author David Malouf presents a dazzling and illuminating personal essay on the power of imagination-and its effects on the life of a writer-in this first instalment of a collectible new series. Beautifully packaged as a pocket-sized keepsake, this...

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Télécharger le livre :  On Fairness
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Most of us believe in fairness. Why then do we have creeping inequality in the land of the fair go?The answer lies in stagnant wage rises, gender pay inequity, insecure work and the lack of real opportunities for all while corporations are still consuming large profits...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Aunty
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Australia's public broadcaster, 'Aunty', is about to turn 90, yet your ABC has seldom been in this much trouble: budget cuts, ferocious political pressure, sagging staff morale, leadership chaos and hostile commercial rivals.Meanwhile audiences are deserting broadcast...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Obsession
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'When we are young adults, not only are we looking for signposts but we are afraid of ourselves, frightened of where our tendencies may lead. Are we all just a tiny bit mad, and were my obsessions, like my grandfather's, always going to take on a mild and manageable...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Humbug
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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Hate
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How is hate shaping our society? When nationalist populism has the capacity to threaten social cohesion, it's time to question the powers at play. On Hate is an urgent call for citizens to defend democracy against extremism. 'A searing analysis of hate, and what happens...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Indignation
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Corrosive, mad and frequently fatal, indignation is a great destructive force in human affairs, and just as often a wellspring of mirth and merriment. Don Watson traces this seemingly ineradicable emotion in a journey that takes us, via his forebears, Flaubert and The...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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Télécharger le livre :  On Resilience
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Elizabeth Wynhausen tells the story of an extraordinary inspirational character and reflects on the mysterious quality that is resilience. A humorous, irreverent essay that arrives at contentment and joy.

Editeur : Hachette Australia
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