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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
$35.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
Arthur Rimbaud Complete Works by Paul Schmidt; Arthur Rimbaud
$25.00 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: P. S. Ser.
One of the world's most influential poets, Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) is remembered as much for his volatile personality and tumultuous life as he is for his writings, almost all of which he produced before the age of twenty. Paul Schmidt's acclaimed collection brings together his complete poetry, prose ...Show more
BLACK POWER by WRIGHT RICHARD A
$30.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Originally published in 1954, Richard Wrightâ²s Black Power is an extraordinary nonfiction work by one of Americaâ²s premier literary giants of the twentieth century. An impassioned chronicle of the authorâ²s trip to Africaâ²s Gold Coast before it became the free nation of Ghana, it speaks eloquentl ...Show more
Barmy in Wonderland by P. G. Wodehouse
$32.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
With each volume edited and reset and printed on Scottish cream-wove, acid-free paper, sewn and bound in cloth, these novels are elegant additions to the legions of Wodehouse fansa libraries.
Beautiful Ruins (US ED) by Jess Walter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
From the moment it opens--on a rocky patch of Italian coastline, circa 1962, when a daydreaming young innkeeper looks out over the water and spies a mysterious woman approaching him on a boat--Jess Walter's Beautiful Ruins is a dazzling, yet deeply human, roller coaster of a novel. From the lavish set o ...Show more
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P. S. Ser.
The National Book Award Finalist from acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose--now the major motion picture Submission "Screamingly funny ... Blue Angel culminates in a sexual harassment hearing that rivals the Salem witch trials." --USA TodayIt's been years since Swenson, a professor ...Show more
Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
$15.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
"Huxley uses his erudite knowledge of human relations to compare our actual world with his prophetic fantasy of 1931. It is a frightening experience, indeed, to discover how much of his satirical prediction of a distant future became reality in so short a time." -- New York Times Book Review When Aldous ...Show more
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern tr ...Show more
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
$28.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
A powerful literary classic from one of contemporary fiction's most acclaimed and important writers, Russell Banks's Continental Drift is a masterful novel of hope lost and gained, and a gripping, indelible story of fragile lives uprooted and transformed by injustice, disappointment, and the seductions ...Show more
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution-the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God ...Show more
DEVIL SENT THE RAIN MUSIC AND WRITING IN by PIAZZA TOM
$27.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Tom Piazza's sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in desperate times. For his first book since his award-winning novel City of Refuge and his stunning and influential post-Katrina polemic Why New Orleans Mat ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
$25.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more