A Light History Of Hot Air by Peter Doherty
$32.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Peter Doherty's A Light History of Hot Air is a wide-ranging meditation on the theme of heat and heating. An atmospheric pleasure of a book about the world we live in.
The Last Revolution : 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World by Patrick Dillon
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The last successful invasion of England; mobs burning Catholic chapels; one king, James, driven from his palace by night while another, William, rode in at the head of a foreign army; and the events of winter 1688 were among the most dramatic in our history. The settlement which followed would place Eng ...Show more
The Complete Book of Mothers-in-law: A celebration by Luisa Dillner
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Most of us either have a mother-in-law or will be one, and it's not a role most women take on gladly. Mothers-in-law are traditionally the butt of jokes, declared to be nasty, possessive and interfering - but are they really as bad as this reputation suggests? Luisa Dillner looks beyond the stereotype o ...Show more
Apology for the Woman Writing by Jenny Diski
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Category: New Hardbacks
Marie de Gournay was eighteen when she read, and was overwhelmed by, the essays of the French philosopher Montaigne. She had to be revived with hellebore. When she finally met Montaigne, she stabbed herself with a hairpin until the blood ran in order to show her devotion. He made her his adopted daughte ...Show more
The Coffee Book by Gregory Dicum
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A freshly updated edition of the best introduction to one of the world's most popular products, The Coffee Book is jammed full of facts, figures, cartoons, and commentary covering coffee from its first use in Ethiopia in the sixth century to the rise of Starbucks and the emergence of Fair Trade coffee i ...Show more
Eugene O'Neill's America: Desire Under Democracy by John Patrick Diggins
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the face of seemingly relentless American optimism, Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal an America many would like to ignore, a place of seething resentments, aching desires, and family tragedy, where failure and disappointment are the norm and the American dream a chimera. Though derided by critics during ...Show more
Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner
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Category: New Hardbacks
Three young people, born thousands of miles apart, each cut themselves adrift from their birthplaces and set out to discover what - or who - might anchor them in their lives. Over the course of the next ten years, Noah, Joyce, and an unnamed narrator will each settle for a time in Montreal, their paths ...Show more
A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
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Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has grippe ...Show more
Why Not Catch-21? : The Stories Behind the Titles by Gary Dexter
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Category: New Hardbacks
"Why Not Catch 21?" is an expansion on Gary Dexter's long-running "Sunday Telegraph" column. Each of its fifty chapters focuses on the origins of one of the great titles of world literature, presenting a bite-sized piece of literary history, with fascinating details of the work's genesis and composition ...Show more
Play Money : Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks