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A Little Give: the unsung, unseen, undone work of women by Marina Benjamin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Sometimes I think that carrying - other people, the continuity of history, generational identity, the emotional load of the everyday - is the main thing that women do. In Marina Benjamin's new set of interlinked essays, she turns her astute eye to the tasks once termed 'women's work'. From cooking and ...Show more
Insomnia by Marina Benjamin
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
With her new memoir Insomnia, Marina Benjamin has produced an unsettling account of an unsettling condition that treats our inability to sleep not as a disorder, but as an existential experience that can electrify our understanding of ourselves, and of creativity and love.Insomnia is a bravura piece of ...Show more
Last Days In Babylon: The History of Jews In Iraq by Marina Benjamin
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The fascinating story of the Iraqi Jews told through one family's story. Marina Benjamin grew up in London feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak the Arabic her mother and grandmother spoke at home and rejecting the peculiar food they ate. But when Benjamin had her ...Show more
Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad by Marina Benjamin
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Marina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways, refusing to speak Arabic or eat their food. But when Benjamin had her own child a few years ago, she realized that she was losing her link to the past, inspiring a journey to Baghdad and into her family's history ...Show more
Rocket Dreams: How the Space Age Shaped Our Vision of a World Beyond... by Marina Benjamin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. "Rocket Dreams" is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and ...Show more
The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty by Marina Benjamin
$29.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience? The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay ...Show more
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