BLACKWATER - THE RISE OF THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MERCENARY ARMY by JEREMY SCAHILL
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
On September 16, 2007, machine gun fire erupted in Baghdad's Nisour Square leaving seventeen Iraqi civilians dead, among them women and children. The shooting spree, labeled "Baghdad's Bloody Sunday," was neither the work of Iraqi insurgents nor U. S. soldiers. The shooters were private forces workin ...Show more
The Pen and the Stethoscope by Leah Kaminsky
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The Pen and the Stethoscope is a unique collection of fiction and non-fiction by doctor-writers that gives us a fascinating look behind the doctor's mask and gets inside the minds of those who deal with enormous existential issues and traumatic situations on a daily basis. It is through writing that man ...Show more
Swimming to the Moon by Robert Drewe
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the non-fiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affec ...Show more
More Decent Obsessions by Bernard Salt
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
There's matters of fairness, of manners, of pleasures, of observation. Based on his weekly columns for The Australian that have been published for more than a decade they are stories powerfully told. His writing style is light, loose, crisp and fun and at times he can be glitteringly clever. He plays wi ...Show more
Australia Under Surveillance by Frank Moorhouse
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
ASIO has kept a file on Frank Moorhouse since he was seventeen. Now Frank has decided it is time to report on ASIO. This year ASIO has extended its surveillance powers, made the issuing of warrants easier and limited the freedom of journalists. At a time when the government has raised the terrorist aler ...Show more
How to be Normal: Advice for the Perplexed by Guy Browning
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"Normal people are extremely unusual. Think of all the people you know and ask yourself how many are normal. None of them! In fact you're probably the most normal of the lot and, let's face it, even you're not that normal. All normal people believe they are a little bit different, a little bit unique an ...Show more
Introducing Graphic Guide - Why am I Here? by Richard Appignanesi
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Introducing...
Using comic-book style illustration combined with accessible but authoritative text, the Introducing Graphic Guide series is a uniquely brilliant way to get your head around some of humankind's most thrilling ideas. In Introducing Existentialism: A Graphic Guide, Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal q ...Show more
The Call of the Weird : Travels in American Subcultures by Louis Theroux
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: good
Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For ten years Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to discover what motivates them, why t ...Show more
But at the Same Time and on Another LevelClinical Applications in the Kleinian/Bionian Mode by James S. Grotstein
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
James Grotstein describes in detail how to understand and to interpret in an analytic session. Clinical sessions are described in stenographic detail and display complete sessions. The author goes to great lengths to detail his private observations, reveries, and countertransferences as well as his thin ...Show more
Fragrant The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Mandy Aftel is widely acclaimed as a trailblazer in natural perfumery. Over two decades of sourcing the finest aromatic ingredients from all over the world and creating artisanal fragrances, she has been an evangelist for the transformative power of scent. In Fragrant, through five major players in the ...Show more
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments by Ali Almossawi
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Silly Rabbit! Your Argument is Ill-founded. Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online debates? Ali Almossawi certainly had, so he wrote An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments! This handy guide is here to bring the internet age a much-needed dose of old-school logic (really old-school ...Show more