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The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
$29.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: P.S.
Previously published in slightly different form in hardcover: HarperCollins, 2010.
The Red Convertible - Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 by Louise Erdrich
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
"Erdrich is a true original... and] one of our major writers: She illuminates large swaths of U.S. history and culture, and The Red Covertible] is a good demonstration of her compelling stylistic innovations, not to mention her literary cunning." --Washington Post Book World From New York Times bestsell ...Show more
The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Development of an Extraordinary Species We human beings share 98 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Yet humans are the dominant species on the planet -- having founded civilizations and religions, developed intricate and diverse forms of communication, learned science, built cities, and created ...Show more
The Weight of Heaven by Thrity Umrigar
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Frank and Ellie Benton lose their only child, seven-year-old Benny, to a sudden illness, the perfect life they had built is shattered. Filled with wrenching memories, their Ann Arbor home becomes unbearable, and their marriage founders. Then an unexpected job half a world away in Girbaug, India, of ...Show more
The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
As university students in late 1970s Bombay, Armaiti, Laleh, Kavita, and Nishta were inseparable. Spirited and unconventional, they challenged authority and fought for a better world. But over the past thirty years, the quartet has drifted apart, the day-to-day demands of work and family tempering the r ...Show more
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Geoffrey Firmin, a former British consul, has come to Quauhnahuac, Mexico. His debilitating malaise is drinking, an activity that has overshadowed his life. On the most fateful day of the consul's life--the Day of the Dead, 1938--his wife, Yvonne, arrives in Quauhnahuac, inspired by a vision of life tog ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more
Wonderful World by Javier Calvo
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Lucas Giraut inherits the family company from a father who never really cared enough to get to know him, it comes with a lot of unanswered questions...and an archenemy: Lucas's mother, Fanny. An ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur, Fanny believes her son is as useless as his father, whose recent, m ...Show more