No Fixed Address Short Black 11

Author : Robyn Davidson
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957731
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 11 No Fixed Address written by Robyn Davidson and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In every religion I can think of, there exists some variation on the theme of abandoning the settled life and walking one's way to godliness. The Hindu Sadhu, leaving behind family and wealth to live as a beggar; the pilgrims of Compostela walking away their sins; the circumambulators of the Buddhist kora; the Hajj. What could this ritual journeying be but symbolic, idealised versions of the foraging life? By taking to the road we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves. After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures. In this fascinating and moving essay she evokes a vanishing way of life, and notes a paradox: that even as classical nomads are disappearing, hypermobility has become the hallmark of contemporary life. In a time of environmental peril, she argues, the nomadic way with nature still offers valuable lessons. No Fixed Address is part lament, part evocation and part exhilarating speculative journey.

Author : Susin Nielsen
Publisher : Wendy Lamb Books
ISBN 13 : 1524768367
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Fixed Address written by Susin Nielsen and published by Wendy Lamb Books. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Wendelin van Draanen and Cynthia Lord, a touching and funny middle-grade story about family, friendship, and growing up when you're one step away from homelessness. Twelve-and-three-quarter-year-old Felix Knutsson has a knack for trivia. His favorite game show is Who What Where When; he even named his gerbil after the host. Felix's mom, Astrid, is loving but can't seem to hold on to a job. So when they get evicted from their latest shabby apartment, they have to move into a van. Astrid swears him to secrecy; he can't tell anyone about their living arrangement, not even Dylan and Winnie, his best friends at his new school. If he does, she warns him, he'll be taken away from her and put in foster care. As their circumstances go from bad to worse, Felix gets a chance to audition for a junior edition of Who What Where When, and he's determined to earn a spot on the show. Winning the cash prize could make everything okay again. But things don't turn out the way he expects. . . . Susin Nielsen deftly combines humor, heartbreak, and hope in this moving story about people who slip through the cracks in society, and about the power of friendship and community to make all the difference.

Author : Simon Leys
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957707
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 8 Prosper written by Simon Leys and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A big liner, brightly lit, passes us one or two cable-lengths ahead. ‘Ow! They are guzzling champagne but cannot see what's in front of them!’ grumbles Etienne, who has the helm and puts Prosper back on course. Our wooden boat, which one long wave can carry, is a mere cork in the wake of that ship, which crushes three dozen such waves under her uncaring steel plates. How many hundreds of men does she carry? Up there, people laugh, play, dream, eat and sleep … while we, a few feet above the water, surrounded by dancing lights, keep watch till dawn. One summer, Simon Leys joined the crew of a tuna-fishing boat in Brittany, one of the last boats working under sail. In this exceptionally beautiful and elegiac essay, he evokes the traditions, hardships and dangers of the oldest and finest form of seamanship.

Author : Robert Manne
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957715
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 9 Cypherpunk Revolutionary written by Robert Manne and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 revolutionary cypherpunk underground, all the way through to the creation of WikiLeaks. Pulling together the threads of his development, Manne shows how Assange became one of the most influential Australians of our time.

Author : Anna Krien
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957685
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 6 Booze Territory written by Anna Krien and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Tuesday morning, I make my way to the Gap View Hotel for a drinking session starting at 10 a.m. I'm told this is one of Alice Springs' three notorious 'animal bars' … As I wander around, a Sudanese security guard approaches me, his face concerned. Am I lost? he wants to know. In a way, I am. I don't want a beer. It's 10 a.m., for Chrissake. In Booze Territory, Anna Krien takes a clear-eyed look at Indigenous binge-drinking – who does it, why, and what it means. She visits bars brimming with morning drinkers and investigates alcoholic after-effects ranging from extreme violence to extraordinarily high rates of cirrhosis of the liver. This is an essay which never fails to see the human dimension of an intractable problem and shine a light on its deep causes.

Author : Karen Hitchcock
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957626
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 3 Fat City written by Karen Hitchcock and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. “Nothing,” he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: “I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottles of Coke every afternoon. The truth is I’m addicted to eating. I’m addicted.” He punches his thigh. In Fat City, Karen Hitchcock unpicks the idea of obesity as a disease. In a riveting blend of story and analysis, she explores chemistry, psychology and the impulse to excess to explain the West’s growing obesity epidemic.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957723
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 10 Killing the Black Dog written by Les Murray and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later … at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. What I didn't know was that I was heading home in order to go mad. Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's frank and courageous account of his struggle with depression. Since this essay first appeared, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. Murray describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life.

Author : Richard Flanagan
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870494
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 1 The Australian Disease written by Richard Flanagan and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness – Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts. The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.

Author : John Birmingham
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957677
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 5 The Brave Ones written by John Birmingham and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage pants, long hair and bandanas, with axes in their eyes and guns at the ready. The Brave Ones follows the Indonesian Army's Battalion 745 as it withdrew from East Timor after the 1999 independence vote, leaving a trail of devastation in its wake. Birmingham's unflinching account reveals the scorched-earth tactics of the retreating troops, and shows just how close Australia came to armed conflict with Indonesia.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957693
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Short Black 7 The One Day written by David Malouf and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-09-23 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Silence was a deeply established tradition. Men used it as a form of self-protection; it saved those who had experienced the horrors of war from the emotional trauma of experiencing it all over again in the telling. And it saved women and children, back home, from the terrible knowledge of what they had seen and walked away from … One result of this was that the men who had actually lived through Gallipoli and the trenches did not write about it. In the century since the Gallipoli landing, Anzac Day has taken on a different tenor for each succeeding generation. Perceptively and evocatively, David Malouf traces the meaning of this 'one day' when Australians stop to reflect on endurance, service and the folly of war. He shows how what was once history has now passed into legend, and how we have found in Anzac Day ‘a truly national occasion.’