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Two Thousand Million Man-Power - Two Thousand Million Man-Power by Gertrude Trevelyan
$42.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
'A 20th century literary classic!' This was best-selling novelist Rachel Hore's reaction when asked to introduce Gertrude Trevelyan's 1937 novel Two Thousand Million Man-Power. Utterly forgotten for over 80 years, neither the book nor its author are mentioned in any history of 20th century English liter ...Show more
Typewriter Century - A Cultural History of Writing Practices by Martyn Lyons
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This book captures the intensity of the relationship between writers and their typewriters from the 1880s, when the machine was first commercialized, to the 1980s, when word-processing superseded it. Drawing on examples from the United States, Britain, Europe, and Australia, The Typewriter Century focus ...Show more
Verdigris by Michele Mari; Brian Robert Moore (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A lonely little boy's unlikely friendship with his grandparents' grizzled old groundskeeper leads him down the rabbit hole from a life lived solely in books to a wonderful and terrifying hell of long-buried secrets, shadowy partisans, murdered Nazis, thefts, lies, doppelgängers, bloodthirsty slugs, and ...Show more
Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation by BHANOT
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Vladimir Mayakovsky and Other Poems by Mayakovsky, Vladimir, Womack, James
$37.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This book is the only single-volume anthology in English that fully represents the scope of Mayakovsky's artistic work. It includes new translations of his major lyrics, as well as versions of several poems that have never been translated into English before. The predominant image presented in earlier t ...Show more
War And An Irish Town by Mccann Eamonn
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
War and an Irish Town is Eamonn McCann's classic account of growing up Catholic in a Northern Irish ghetto.
What If One Day... by Bruce Handy; Ashleigh Corrin (Illustrator)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
This thought-provoking, playful picture book from NYT Best Children's Book author Bruce Handy and Ezra Jack Keats Award winning illustrator Ashleigh Corrin plays with the idea of how life would be if certain of the things we love most were no longer here. What if one day, all the birds flew away? Morni ...Show more
What Is to Be Done? by Nikolai G. Chernyshevsky; Michael R. Katz (Translator); William G. Wagner (Notes by)
$54.00 AUD
$55.95 (3% off)
Category: Special Orders | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
"No work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history. For Chernyshevsky's novel, far more than Marx's Capital, supplied the emotional dynamic that eventually went to make the Russi ...Show more
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life's most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears t ...Show more
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times [Thorsons Classics edition] by Pema Chodron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Pema Chodron reveals the vast potential for happiness, wisdom and courage even in the most painful circumstances. She teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it -- ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering ...Show more
William's Wife by Gertrude Trevelyan
$49.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
One of the most powerful psychological portraits in all fiction, back in print after over 80 years. When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to ...Show more
Winged Shoes and a Shield - Collected Stories by Don Bajema
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence ...Show more