Dickens and Prince - A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
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Category: Critical Thinking
When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the album came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original. In awe, Nick Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years ...Show more
Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 by Margaret Atwood
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Category: Critical Thinking
An exhilarating collection of non-fiction from the bestselling, double Booker Prize-winning phenomenon that is Margaret Atwood From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions su ...Show more
Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future by Tracey Spicer
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Category: Critical Thinking
Walkley Award-winning journalist Tracey Spicer exposes the next frontier of feminism. Man Made aims to open readers’ eyes to a transformative technological shift in society and give them the tools to make positive change. `Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her ...Show more
Map Reading: The Nobel Lecture and Other Writings by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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Category: Critical Thinking
'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers - He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel CommitteeDelivered in London on 7 December 2021, 'Writing ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
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Category: Critical Thinking
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
Secrets of the Sprakkar - Iceland's Extraordinary Women and How They Are Changing the World by Eliza Reid
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Category: Critical Thinking
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!A New York Times Book Review Editor's Pick"Secrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equal world could look like, and why it's worth striving for. Iceland is doing a lot to level the playing field- paid parental leave, affordable childcare, and ...Show more
The School of Life: Collected Essays by The School of Life
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Category: Critical Thinking
A 15th anniversary collection of The School of Life's most popular andessential essays on self-knowledge, relationships, work and culture. The School of Life is an organisation with a focused mission at its heart: to help foster calm, self-understanding and greater emotional maturity. Over 15 years, we ...Show more
The Canceling of the American Mind: How Cancel Culture Undermines Trust, Destroys Institutions, and Threatens Us All by Greg Lukianoff, Rikki Schlott
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Category: Critical Thinking
A new way of thinking about cancel culture and the much-needed antidote for our dangerous and divisive times Cancel culture isn't just a moral panic- it erodes our ability to argue productively, listen generously and to be civil when we disagree. Whether on university campuses, in the workplace or on s ...Show more
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (TPB) (EE) by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Critical Thinking
Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell revolutionises the way we understand the world within. Blink is a book about about choices that seem to be made in an instant - in the blink of an eye - that actually aren't as simple as they seem. Why are some people brilliant decision makers, while others are consis ...Show more
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: FSG Classics Ser.
2013 Audie Award Nominee, Short Stories/Collections Universally acclaimed from the time it was first published in 1968, Slouching Towards Bethlehem has been admired for decades as a stylistic masterpiece. Academy Award-winning actress Diane Keaton (Annie Hall, The Family Stone) performs these classic e ...Show more
Writing from Ukraine: Fiction, Poetry and Essays since 1965 by Various
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Category: Critical Thinking
A selection of fifteen of Ukraine's most important, dynamic and entertaining contemporary writersUnder USSR rule, the subject matter and style of literary expression in Ukraine was strictly controlled and censored. But once Ukraine gained independence in 1991 its literary scene flourished, as the moving ...Show more
On Animals by Susan Orlean
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Category: Critical Thinking
NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Magnificent." --The New York Times * "Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny." --San Francisco Chronicle * "Spectacular." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * "Full of astonishments." --The Boston Globe Susan Orlean--the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as "a national tre ...Show more