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On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates; John Ranard (Photographer)
$22.95 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P. S. Ser.
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
People's History Of The United States 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn
$27.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants “[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times B ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
$32.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more
Plague of Doves by Erdrich Louise
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, The Plague of Doves--the first part of a loose trilogy that includes the National Book Award-winning The Round House and LaRose--is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by ...Show more
Prime Green : Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone
$19.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A memoir of America's most turbulent, whimsical decade, in the words of the man who experienced it all... From the New York City of Kline and De Kooning to the jazz era of New Orleans's French Quarter to Ken Kesey's psychedelic California, Prime Green explores the 1960s in all its weird, innocent, f ...Show more
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
$37.50 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
$24.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: P. S. Ser.
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you ...Show more
Rebels on the Backlot : Six maverick directors and how they conquered the Hollywood studio system by Sharon Waxman
$27.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: P. S. Ser.
The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in Holly ...Show more
River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler
$37.50 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A "New York Times" Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and gr ...Show more
Sam the Sudden by P. G. Wodehouse
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
Having failed miserably while working for his uncle, Sam finds himself shipped off to America. He would much rather have been headed to Canada as he'd fallen in love with the picture of a women he'd found left behind in a remote cabin when he'd vacationed there. That is, until he sees another picture of ...Show more