Friday, July 31, 2020

Assorted

Tony Parsons - My Favourite Wife
Jane Green - Saving Grace

Book depots are great!

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Assorted

David Suzuki - Time To Change
John Gray - Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus 
Dave Eggars - What Is The What
David Suzuki And Holly Dressel- Naked Ape To Superspecies

All interesting books sourced from West Hobart book depots.

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Jonathan Holslag - A Political History Of The World


Problems stemming from colonisation was thrusting the liberal ideals onto the colonised. Many people in the enlightenment periods in Europe thought that they had unearthed the world's secret and spread liberalism throughout the world. This concept of shared values, or to put it bluntly, nationalism, believes people have shared values. So it was pitting white Europeans against the significant ''other''. It was brutal systemic colonisation of Africa, America and the rest of the world, and what the colonisers left behind was boundaries, many that don't match up with the colonised. They may not be a nation, but merely a collection of a tribal, linguistic or ethnic group. They weren't obedient nations. Liberalism manifests itself into freedom, and the ultimate freedom is to discriminate against others. To pit yourself higher than others. Racism.

Richard Flanagan - Toxic / Christos Tsiolkas - Damascus

Massive figures in Australian literature.