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What is Australia’s place in the new global landscape? Are we ready for our post-American future? In an era of rising danger for all, and dramatic choices for Australia, Hugh White explores how the world is changing and Australia should respond. Under Donald Trump, America's retreat from global leadership has been swift and erratic. China, Russia and India are on the move. White explains the big strategic trends driving the war in Ukraine, and why America has "lost" Asia.

The essays in this collection came about during the unhurried months when one who had traveled incessantly was obliged to stay still, even as events flared on all sides in a world that never stops moving. Wade Davis brings his unique cultural perspective to such varied topics as the demonization of coca, the sacred plant of the Inca; the Great War and the birth of modernity; the British conquest of Everest; the endless conflict in the Middle East; reaching beyond climate fear and trepidation; on the meaning of the sacred.

Old Truths and New Clichés collects nineteen essays—most of them previously unpublished in English—by Isaac Bashevis Singer on topics that were central to his artistic vision throughout an astonishing and prolific literary career spanning more than six decades. Expanding on themes reflected in his best-known work, the book illuminates in new ways the rich intellectual, aesthetic, religious, and biographical background of Singer's singular achievement as the first Yiddish-language author to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

When Roland Barthes's groundbreaking Mythologies first appeared in English in 1972, it was immediately recognized as one of the most significant works in French theory - yet nearly half of the essays from the original work were missing. This new edition of Mythologies is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic. It includes the brilliant "Astrology", never published in English before.

"My friend International journalist Researcher Paola Harris believes that "we are not alone in the Universe" and that we have hope for the evolution of mankind into a peaceful, cooperative species worthy of joining others civilizations in exploring ‘inner’ as well as ‘outer’ space!" -Uri Geller "Paola Harris has succeeded brilliantly in exposing the truth about the extraterrestrial presence and how that may affect our lives and future relationships. Reading Paola will open your eyes to the reality of what you have only dared to imagine. " -Hon. Paul Hellyer, former minister of ...

In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine. Huxley consistently examined the spiritual basis of both the individual and human society, always seeking to reach an authentic and clearly defined experience of the divine.

1. To See or Not to See 1 2. To See or Not to See 2 3. To See or Not to See 3 4. Eternally Yours 5. False Knowledge 6. War Party 7. Vanilla Sky 8. Mayan Palace Motel 9. Razor Redux 10. Working Class Gita 11. Senseless Awareness 12. 13th Floor Redux 13. Trust Factor 14. Purple Rose 15. Killing Buddha 16. A Tricky Ascent 17. B.Y.O.G. 18. Unio Mystica 19. On Wisdom 20. Heaven & Reincarnation 21. Twenty-One Words 22. An Eyelid’s Thickness 23. Now, Voyager 24. Not-Two vs All-Is-One 25. Simulation Games 26. Krishna the Terrible 27. This Is Not a Simulation 28. Setting Free the Angel 29. ...

Originally released in fall 2017, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump was a runaway best seller. Alarmed Americans and international onlookers wanted to know: What is wrong with him? That question still plagues us. The Trump administration has proven as chaotic and destructive as its opponents feared, and the man at the center of it all remains a cipher.

Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers and listeners, having been “re-framed and re-hung”, with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.

America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker.

Biographer Michael Shelden called Orwell’s Politics and the English Language “his most important essay on style”. First published in 1946, the essay exploded the language trends of the time and served as an inflection point in the debate about communication in the 20th century. This collection of essays published 1946-48 provides a comprehensive critique of the status of politics and speech in the mid-century.

First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermaths of the 1960s. Examining key events, figures, and trends of the era—including Charles Manson, the Black Panthers, and the shopping mall—through the lens of her own spiritual confusion, Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision, The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography.

Volume 7 Contents 1. Puzzle Master 2. Riptide 3. Reality Check 4. Phantom Numbers 5. Deus Deceptor 6. A Nobler Race of Men 7. The Curse of the Brainy Class 8. Defeat Is Victory 9. Cancer Inc 10. Lucidity and the Tao 11. Nonduality (does not equal) Spirituality 12. Sagan’s Folly 13. Graduate Redux 14. Practical Mindfulness 15. There Can Be Only One 16. Dharma Dueling with A.I. 17. Seahaven 18. Black Comedy 19. Animated Mannequins 20. Intelligent Awareness 21. Eat When Tired 22. Head on Fire 23. Zen Is Dead 24. Wrong-Ass Mountain 25. Figure the Odds 26. Burning Discontent 27. Nonduality Is ...

1. The Mayan Trinity 2. Unaccountable 3. Dark Forest 4. The Sisyphean Struggle 5. An Uphill Battle 6. Thinking About Thinking 7. Distrust the Science 8. Burning Down the House 9. Process of Elimination 10. Team Brahman 11. The Crucible 12. Plato’s Condom 13. The Nonduality Trap 14. Where We All Live 15. Warpath (part two) 16. Rational Absurdity 17. Reasonable Doubt Redux 18. Door Number Two 19. Flow & Obstruction 20. Benevolent Demon 21. Friend or Foe 22. Nonduality Is Super Stupid 23. Bouncy Castle 24. The Gum in Our Eyes 25. Not-Two vs All-Is-One Redux 26. Is Everything a Hoax? 27. ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. The Way That Is in You 2. Radical Nonduality 3. The Scream 4. Nondual Ramblings 5. The Matrix Revelations 6. The Play Is the Thing 7. Spiritual Autolysis 8. Your Happy Place 9. Nothing Exists 10. The Spiritual Fairytale 11. The Joy of Not Dying 12. The Madness of Crowds 13. Negative Buoyancy 14. A Pathless Land 15. The Hook-Up Imperative 16. A Simple Life 17. The Parable of the Matrix 18. Warpath (part one) 19. The Joy of Death 20. The Great Equalizer 21. A Happy Sadness 22. The Human Zoo 23. ...

Jedvaita subscriber content is now available in ebooks containing 33 Jed McKenna essays each. 1. Your Creative Output 2. Hellivator 3. Unringing the Bell 4. Game of Veils 5. On Adulthood 6. A Closer of Doors 7. Guilty Until Proven Innocent 8. To Seek and Find 9. The Truth of You 10. On Writing II 11. Dustbunny Overkill 12. The Fable of the Search 13. Hopeless Optimism 14. The Lesser Evil 15. Spiritual Bypassing 16. Practical Wishcraft 17. Zerothink 18. The Hole Problem 19. The Power of Focus 20. Truth vs Reality 21. The Whole Truth 22. The Ignoble Eightfold Path 23. Dark Asylum 24. In ...

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted. As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces—more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson’s children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mother’s papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion.

A burnt-out media executive. A chance to leave it all behind. Can she take that leap into the unknown, or is she doomed to fail? Alison was stuck going nowhere. Her shiny career had well and truly lost its lustre, despite the money her TV bosses were offering. Nothing would make up for the sacrifices she’d made these past fifteen years. When she spotted an opportunity for her other half Down Under, could she leave behind a well-paid job and all that was familiar to up sticks? When the restoration on the couple's dream home became unaffordable, they were off once again, crisscrossing the ...

Fifteen years ago, Robert Fulghum published a simple credo that became the phenomenal #1 New York Times bestseller All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten. Now, seven million copies later, Fulghum returns to the book that was embraced around the world.

For acclaimed writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, it can be wearying to dwell relentlessly upon the broken, the fragmented, the dead and dying and doomed to extinction. Activism is a necessary part of the environmental movement, but so is the time-honored celebration of the beauty that inspires us.