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Best Australian Essays 2014 by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays & Letters
'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 flinchi ...Show more
On Borrowed Time by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays & Letters
A stunning new collection of essays from Australia's leading public intellectual. In On Borrowed Time, Manne applies his brilliant mind to the topics that have shaped our world over the last five years, including climate change, the media, Australia's asylum seeker policy and Wikileaks. This provocative ...Show more
Sending Them Home : Refugees and the New Politics of Indfference (Quarterley Essay 13) by Robert Manne; David Corlett; Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: Social Thought | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the first Quarterly Essay of 2004, Robert Manne tells the stories of individual asylum seekers and finds in their experience the seeds of a devastating critique. Balancing sorrow and pity with a controlled anger, Manne develops a sustained argument about what could, and should, be done for the nine t ...Show more
The Best Australian Essays 2013 by Robert Manne
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Category: Short Stories
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 an ...Show more
The Cypherpunk Revolutionary on Julian Assange: Short Black 9 by Robert Manne
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Category: Essays & Letters | Series: Short Blacks
There are few original ideas in politics. In the creation of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange was responsible for one. This essay reveals the making of Julian Assange - both his ideas and his world-changing actions. Robert Manne explores Assange's unruly childhood and then his involvement with the revolutiona ...Show more
The Mind of the Islamic State: Milestones Along the Road by Robert Manne
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Category: Current Affairs
"'A deep dive into how the ideologues behind Salafi jihadism shaped the global menace that we now know as Islamic State. If you want to understand how it all began, this is an essential read.' - Martin Chulov, Middle East correspondent for theGuardian, winner of the 2015 Orwell Prize for journalism So o ...Show more
The Words That Made Australia: How a Nation Came to Know Itself by Robert Manne (Editor); Chris Feik (Editor)
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Category: General
This is not a book of documents, snippets or worthy speeches. Instead it presents theoriginalessays and the moments of insight that told us what Australia is and could be. These are the essential statements - from historians, reporters, novelists, mavericks and visionaries - that take us from Federation ...Show more
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