Orange: Hugh Mackay Launches Just Saying

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Warm, witty, wise - and occasionally challenging - Just Saying is Hugh Mackay's highly personal reflections on 25 quotes from great thinkers

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Warm, witty, wise – and occasionally challenging – Just Saying is bestselling social psychologist Hugh Mackay’s highly personal reflections on twenty-five quotations from some of the world’s greatest thinkers and writers, from Confucius and Plato to Susan Sontag and Miles Franklin; from Samuel Johnson and Mary Wollstonecraft to Bertrand Russell and Gloria Steinem.Interpreting our world and inspiring us to do better, Mackay explores themes ranging from kindness and humility to power and prejudice; from gender equality to ethnic diversity; from coping with change to the damage inflicted on ourselves by revenge, and the great gulf between propriety and virtue.As Mackay says: ‘Writing these reflections has felt a bit like the beginning of a conversation . . . now it’s over to you.’Meet bestselling social psychologist Hugh Mackay at Orange City Library on Tuesday 25 November at 5.30pm supported by Collins Booksellers. Copies of Just Saying will be available for sale and signing during the evening.About Hugh Mackay:Described as ‘the man who explains us to ourselves’, Hugh Mackay is a social psychologist and the bestselling author of twenty-five books, including The Way We Are and The Kindness Revolution. He had a sixty-year career in social research and was for thirty years a weekly newspaper columnist.In recognition of his pioneering work in social research, he has been awarded honorary doctorates by five Australian universities and in 2016 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia.

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