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The Gastric band nutrition essential
By Helen Bauzon. 2011
Let leading expert Bariatric Dietician Helen Bauzon show you how to work in partnership with the Lap Band and help…
you regain your health and zest for life by losing weight permanently and keeping it off . Also this book that teaches you how to prepare and eat band specific meals.The fuss that never ended: the life and work of Geoffrey Blainey
By Deborah Gare. 2003
Geoffrey Blainey has steered Australian history into the nation's conversation. No one would dispute that he is a courageous public…
intellectual, a writer of rare grace and a master storyteller. And he has indeed provoked a rare fuss, both public and professional, with some of his comments on Asian immigration and Aboriginal land rights. It is time to reassess the work of Geoffrey Blainey, and consider his role in Australian history, politics and public life. A lively and distinguished assembly of fellow historians - Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage - take a fresh look at Blainey's distinguished career.How to be alone
By Jonathan Franzen. 2002
A collection of fourteen essays from the author of The Corrections. Although the subjects range from the sex-advice industry to…
the way a super-max prison works, each piece wrestles with essential themes of Franzen's writing: the erosion of civic life and private dignity, and the hidden persistance of loneliness in postmodern, imperial America. Recent pieces include an essay on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's disease and a rueful account of the author's brief tenure as an Oprah Winfrey writer.Contents: My Father's Brain -- Imperial Bedroom -- Why Bother? -- Lost in the Mail -- Erika Imports -- Sifting the Ashes -- The Reader in Exile -- First City -- Scavenging -- Control Units -- Books in Bed -- Meet Me in St. Louis -- Inauguration Day, January 2001.In the days of the tall ships, one dreaded foe was responsible for more deaths at sea than piracy, shipwreck…
and all other illnesses combined. Cruelly culling sailors and stunting maritime enterprise, this plague of the seas was scurvy. A cure had eluded doctors and philosophers since the time of the ancient Greeks, but in the late eighteenth century, the surgeon James Lind, the great sea captain James Cook, and the physician Sir Gilbert Blane undertook to crack the riddle of scurvy. Their timely discovery, just as Napoleon was mobilising for the conquest of Europe, solved the greatest medical mystery of the Age of Sail and irrevocably altered the course of world history.Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and other excursions
By Martin Amis. 1993
A diverse collection of essays by best-selling author Martin Amis, covering a variety of subjects including literature, sport, politics and…
film. Also includes essays on authors Graham Greene, J.G. Ballard, Salman Rushdie and pop stars John Lennon and Madonna.The best Australian essays 2012
By Ramona Koval. 2012
The Best Australian Essays 2012 presents the country's most eloquent voices at the peak of their powers. Helen Garner, Anna…
Krien and Romy Ash discuss animals; David Marr, Rhys Muldoon and James Button discuss those of the political variety. Peter Robb meets Akira Isogawa, J.M. Coetzee considers Les Murray's black dog, and Gillian Mears her award-winning novel.John Bryson reflects on the drawn-out, unnecessary agony of the Azaria case. With humour, Louis Nowra walks in the shadow of death, while Lee Kofman's teenage passions unfurl in a time of war. There's Andrew Ford on John Cage, Maria Tumarkin on food, Clive James on Pauline Kael, and Nick Bryant on Gina Rinehart. These are essays full of insight and wit, on the subjects that moved us in 2012.The best Australian essays 2009
By Robyn Davidson. 2009
This year's Best Australian Essays ranges far and wide. There are portraits of Michael Jackson, Samuel Beckett, the kookaburra, Julia…
Gillard and Charles Darwin. There are dazzling pieces on commerce and cricket, extinction and translation, perfume and politics. There are journeys through landscapes scorched and recovering, and reflections on turning points both public and deeply personal. For Robyn Davidson, the best essays 'put oneself and the world to the test.' Here is a collection of pieces that do just that - and also entertain, inspire and provoke. Contributors include: David Sedaris, Tim Flannery, Tim Winton, Annabel Crabb, Chloe Hooper, David Marr, Drusilla Modjeska, JM Coetzee, Noel Pearson, Robert Dessaix and more.The best Australian essays 2008
By David Marr. 2008
It was the year of Wall Street’s collapse and Australia’s apology, of a film-world tragedy and an art-world scandal. In…
Best Australian Essays 2008, David Marr has selected great writing from a turbulent time. With eyewitness accounts from crisis zones and film sets, deserts and campaign trails, and tales of failing banks and wounded birds, hitchhiking and footy jumpers, mourning brothers and raising children, music, media, art, love and obscenity, these wonderful essays paint a vivid picture of the year that was.The best Australian essays 2010
By Robert Drewe. 2010
This year's Best Australian Essays offers riveting snapshots of the nation's "current loves and angers, its art and myths and…
amusements and gender concerns - and its propensity for bushfires." From Alex Miller on the creative imagination to Mark Dapin on crime myths, from Amanda Hooton on Miss Universe to Tim Flannery on the inner lives of animals, this is a collection that takes the pulse of the nation's writers and thinkers and finds them in rude health. A deeply satisfying collection for that long summer read. Contributors include: Clive James, Christine Kenneally, Shane Maloney, David Marr, Mark Dapin, Andrew Sant, Guy Rundle, Peter Conrad, Jo Lennan, Tim Flannery, Maureen O'Shaughnessy, Ian Henderson, Amanda Hooton, Anne Manne, Elizabeth Farrelly, David Brooks, Sunil Badami, Les Murray, Janet Hawley, David Malouf, Shelley Gare, Paul McGeough, Murray Bail, Kathy Marks, Alex Miller, Melissa Lucashenko, Lorna Hallahan, Pauline Nguyen, Carmel Bird, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Sarah Drummond, Gerard WindsorThe best Australian essays 2014
By Robert Manne. 2014
‘Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some…
essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinching.’ - Robert Manne. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot their origins; Tim Flannery traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears its destruction. With essays traversing madness, liberty under the rule of Tony Abbott, the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy.The best Australian essays 2006
By Drusilla Modjeska. 2006
It has been a good year for essays. The latest Best Essays annual contains life and travel stories, explorations of…
art and politics, that will illuminate and divert. There is Robert Hughes on Rembrandt, and Gideon Haigh on Google. J.M. Coetzee on translation, and David Malouf on Shakespeare. Robyn Davidson goes to Tibet, and Hazel Rowley to Brazil in search of Sartre and de Beauvoir. And there are pieces on many of the year’s key political and social stories that bring depth and eloquence to the public conversation.The best Australian essays 2004
By Robert Dessaix. 2004
A rich and diverse collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's most respected writers, Robert Dessaix. It ranges across…
a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive, still others spell-binding lieterary performances. Richard Flanagan writes an impassioned piece on Tasmania's forests, Thomas Keneally charmingly recounts the beginnings of "Schindler's Ark", and Marion Halligan and Ane-Marie Priest provide two different takes on the erotics of reading. Other contributors to this edition include: John Birmingham, J.M. Coetzee, M.J. Hyland, Peter Mares and Chris Wallace-Crabbe as well as many more.The best Australian essays 2017
By Anna Goldsworthy. 2017
The Best Australian Essays showcase the nation's most eloquent, insightful and urgent non-fiction writing. In her first time as editor,…
award-winning author Anna Goldsworthy chooses brilliant pieces that provoke, unveil, engage and enlighten, and get to the heart of what's really happening in Australia and the world. Previous contributors include Helen Garner, J.M. Coetzee, Karen Hitchcock, Tim Flannery, Robyn Davidson, Richard Flanagan, Clive James, Don Watson, Tim Winton and Caroline Baum.The best Australian essays 2016
By Geordie Williamson. 2016
In The Best Australian Essays 2016, Geordie Williamson curates the year’s best non-fiction writing from Australia’s finest writers. The result…
is a collection that reads as a wake-up call: from Jo Chandler on the devastating bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef and Richard Flanagan on the Syrian exodus to Kurdish-Iranian journalist Behrouz Boochani’s inside account of life on Manus Island. There is also space for Bowie, TV box-sets and Aussie rules. Spanning politics, music, literature, art, ecology, linguistics and more, this anthology showcases the nation’s most eloquent and insightful writing.The best Australian essays 2015
By Geordie Williamson. 2015
In The Best Australian Essays 2015, Geordie Williamson compiles the year’s outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC…
Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain.The best Australian essays 2013
By Robert Manne. 2013
In The Best Australian Essays 2013, Robert Manne draws out this year’s most distinctive voices. This superb collection encompasses the…
personal, with Robert Dessaix’s distant summer of love and touch-typing and Helen Garner’s reaction to the death of Jill Meagher; and the political, with Chloe Hooper and Pamela Williams reflecting on the last days in office of Gillard and Rudd, while Christos Tsiolkas tells us why we hate asylum seekers and Julian Assange warns of the internet’s threat to civilisation. In the spaces between, Richard Flanagan and Murray Bail peer into the world of art, David Free savours the legacy of Monty Python, Julian Meyrick remembers Margaret Thatcher, and Tim Flannery reveals the terrors of jellyfish.The best Australian essays 2011
By Ramona Koval. 2011
The Best Australian Essays 2011 offers up bliss and illumination in equal measure - from the pleasures of the flesh…
to the events that convulsed the world in a year of change. Paul Kelly meditates on Frank Sinatra, and Robert Manne excavates the past and thoughts of Julian Assange. Inga Clendinnen dreams on cricket memories, and Anna Krien delves into the saga of the St Kilda schoolgirl. There is Peter Robb on Italian food, Anthony Lane on News of the World, Gail Bell on rats and Richard Flanagan on photography. This is a collection with something for everyone that never wavers in its quality. Contributors include: Gillian Mears, David Malouf, Nicolas Rothwell, Robert Manne, Anthony Lane, M.J. Hyland, Craig Sherborne, Anna Krien, Inga Clendinnen, Gail Bell, Helen Elliott, Morris Lurie, Maria Tumarkin, Andrew Sant, Shakira Hussein, Lian Hearn, Amanda Lohrey, Paul Kelly, Peter Robb, Clive James, Delia Falconer, Richard Flanagan and Andrew O'Hagan.The best Australian essays 2005
By Robert Dessaix. 2005
The Best Australian Essays 2005 is a rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers,…
Robert Dessaix. It ranges across a variety of styles: some selections are quirkily seductive, others urgent and persuasive while still others are spellbinding literary performances. This selection includes visits to Freud's art collection, to the beach and to the end of the world. There are film-star portraits and political dissections, quirky stories, nostalgic journeys and up-to-the-minute social analyses.Anything we love can be saved: a writer's activism
By Alice Walker. 2005
From the author of The Color Purple, a unique collection of essays about her life and her activism. In a…
world where cynicism and political apathy is commonplace, Alice Walker believes that the things we treasure, and the world we live in, can all be saved if only we will act. Beginning with an autobiographical essay about the roots of her own activism, she then goes on to explore diverse public issues such as single parenthood, freedom of the press, civil rights and religion.Another day in the colony
By Chelsea Watego. 2021
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations…
people.In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing and daily racism faced by First Nations peoples in so-called Australia. Rather than offer yet another account of 'the Aboriginal problem', she theorises a strategy for living in a social world that has only ever imagined Indigenous peoples as destined to die out.Drawing on her own experiences and observations of the operations of the colony, she exposes the lies that settlers tell about Indigenous people. In refusing such stories, Chelsea tells her own: fierce, personal, sometimes funny, sometimes anguished. She speaks not of fighting back but of standing her ground against colonialism in academia, in court, and in media. It's a stance that takes its toll on relationships, career prospects, and even the body. Yet when told to have hope, Watego's response rings clear: Fuck hope. Be sovereign.