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My Wonderful World of Fashion: A Book for Drawing, Creating and Dreaming
$15.95 – Paperback / Laurence King Publishing
An interactive colouring book for fashionistas of all ages, "My Wonderful World of Fashion" is packed with beautiful and sophisticated illustrations specially created by the leading fashion-illustrator Nina Chakrabarti. The... Buy or find out more→
My Paper Chase: True Stories of Vanished Times
$15.95 – Hardback / Little Brown and Company
Evans recounts the wild and wonderful tale of his newspapering life--his passion for reporting, his clashes with Rupert Murdoch, and his struggle to use journalism to better the lives of those less fortunate. My Paper Chase ... Buy or find out more→
My Mother Is So Smart!
$13.00 – Hardback / Putnam Publishing Group
Is there anything mothers can't do? The little boy in this tale for readers 4 to 7 doesn't think so. His mom is so smart she can make the perfect Halloween costume, drive a truck, dress like a movie star, dance the polka, make... Buy or find out more→
Mussolini's Barber: And Other Stories of the Unknown Players Who Made History Happen
$12.95 – Hardback / Osprey Publishing
We have all heard about the great generals of military history, and those whose heroic deeds changed the course of war. This is not their book. Instead, this offbeat and engaging book reveals the stories of 75 bit-players of... Buy or find out more→
Mr Large in Charge
$5.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd
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Mozart
$14.95 – Paperback / Oxford University Press Inc
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is one of the great icons of Western music. An amazing prodigy who toured the capitals of Europe as a child, astonishing royalty and professional musicians with his precocious skills, in his adulthood he... Buy or find out more→
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
$16.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
Bestselling author Sam Harris dismantles the most common justification for religious faith--that a moral system cannot be based on science. Buy or find out more→
Moon 3-D: The Lunar Surface Comes to Life
$9.95 – Hardback / Sterling Publishing Co Inc
The journey to other worlds continues! Following the release of "Mars 3-D" comes a stunning three-dimensional tour of our celestial neighbor. Astronomer Jim Bell flies readers to the Moon, just in time to celebrate the 40th... Buy or find out more→
Molotov's Magic Lantern: Travels in Russian History
$14.95 – Hardback / Farrar Straus Giroux
After moving to Moscow, British journalist Polonsky discovers the apartment of Stalin's henchman, Vyacheslav Molotov, and uncovers an extensive library and an old lantern--two things that lead her on a journey throughout Russia,... Buy or find out more→
Modigliani: A Life
$14.95 – Hardback / Scribe Publications
Amedeo ('Beloved of God') Modigliani was considered to be the quintessential bohemian artist, his legend almost as infamous as Van Gogh's. In Modigliani's time, his work was seen as an oddity: contemporary with the Cubists but... Buy or find out more→
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel
$16.95 – Paperback / Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
When the gasoline, diesel and electric shovels arrive, it looks like Mary Anne the steam shovel will be sold for junk, unless Mike can think of a really special job! Buy or find out more→
Midsummer Nights
$14.95 – Hardback / Quercus Publishing Plc
An anthology of opera-inspired stories by the best writers of modern fiction published to celebrate the 75th anniversary of one of Britain's most extraordinary cultural institutions Buy or find out more→
Menus for Chez Panisse: The Art and Letterpress of Patricia Curtan
$29.95 – Hardback / Princeton Architectural Press
Chez Panisse, a small restaurant in Berkeley, California, opened its doors in the summer of 1971. For forty years, the restaurant and its founder, legendary chef Alice Waters, has had a profound influence on food, farming,... Buy or find out more→
The Men Who Stare at Goats
$10.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
American military paranoia at its most extreme, insane, amusing -- and alarming Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? And why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed... Buy or find out more→
Memory Wall
$11.95 – Undefined
From an award-winning author comes a new collection of stories that is even more compelling and accomplished than his previous work. Buy or find out more→
Maurice Guest
$9.95 – Paperback / Capuchin Classics
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using... Buy or find out more→
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
$13.95 – Hardback / Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
This novel, written by a Marine veteran of Vietnam over the course of thirty years, is a remarkable literary discovery, a big, powerful, timeless saga of men in combat. Buy or find out more→
A Manuscript of Ashes
$36.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Following Muñoz Molinas acclaimed 18th book, "Sepharad", this translation of his third novel (published in his native Spain in 1986) dives into a bleak corner of Francos waning dictatorship. In 1969, Minaya, a student who has... Buy or find out more→
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son
$13.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
An entertaining omnibus of opinionated essays previously published mostly in "Details" magazine spotlights novelist Chabon's ("The Yiddish Policemen's Union") model of being an attentive, honest father and a fairly observant... Buy or find out more→
Man's Place in Nature
$16.95 – Paperback / Dover Publications Inc.
A concise, nontechnical survey of primate and human paleontology and ethology, this 1863 work applies the principles of evolution directly to the human race. Immensely readable, it reflects numerous stylistic gifts. Buy or find out more→
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
$11.95 – Undefined / Alfred A. Knopf
In his first work of nonfiction, a Booker Prize-winning author offers this highly personal account of a writer's life. Making an Elephant brings together a richly varied selection of essays, portraits, and interviews, full of... Buy or find out more→
Mahler: A Biography
$15.00 – Paperback / Overlook Press
Originally published in Great Britain by Constable and Co., Ltd., in 1997. Buy or find out more→
Luxury Liners: Life on Board
$29.95 – Hardback / Vendome Press,U.S.
An irresistible world unfolds in this fascinating voyage through the heyday of the great ocean liners. For over a... Buy or find out more→
Love Letters of Great Men and Women
$10.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Offers a collection of the romantic letters in history. This title includes letters by: Anne Boleyn; Beethoven; Edith Wharton; Mark Twain; Mary Wordsworth; Nell Gwyn; Elizabeth Barrett Browning; GK Chesterton; Queen Victoria;... Buy or find out more→
Long Last Happy New And Collected Stories
$15.95 – Hardback / Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Called the best fiction writer to appear in the South since Flannery O'Connor (Larry McMurtry), acclaimed author Hannah ( Airships, Bats Out of Hell ) returns with an all-new collection of short stories. Buy or find out more→
London Deluxe
$99.95 – Hardback / Rizzoli International Publications
Richard Bryant’s London is a fitting love letter to a city with an unparalleled history and an inimitable and tangible soul. Following the path of the river, the reader travels across London, from the bucolic West to the... Buy or find out more→
Living in Normandy
$19.95 – Hardback / Editions Flammarion
A stone's throw from Paris and renowned for its temperate climate, Normandy is a French region with something for everyone. Rich in culture, history, nature, and hearty cuisine, it attracts an increasing number of visitors and... Buy or find out more→
Lights Out in Wonderland
$9.95 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
The spectacular third novel from Booker Prize winner, DBC Pierre: a dazzling odyssey and a universal commentary on our times. Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is... Buy or find out more→
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain
$14.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
In the very last paragraph of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the title character gloomily reckons that it's time "to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest." Tom Sawyer's Aunt Sally is trying to... Buy or find out more→
The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942
$14.95 – Paperback / Vintage
She was born in 1903 in Kiev to a well-off Jewish family. The authors of this fascinating biography have had access to previously unpublished documents and to surviving family members in Russia, researching there her childhood... Buy or find out more→
The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-century France
$14.95 – Paperback / Zone Books
This work details the content of novels written in 18th-century France about the exploits of the noblemen who had been deprived of other battlegrounds, and who therefore used seduction of women - while being careful not to fall in... Buy or find out more→
The Lesbian Kama Sutra
$15.95 – Hardback
Applies the spirit and intention of the original Kama Sutra - the expression of uninhibited pleasure through sex - to the lives of twenty-first century lesbian women. This title encourages love and sex, pleasure and sensuality,... Buy or find out more→
Law Handbook 2012
$19.95 – Paperback / Fitzroy Legal Service
The extensively updated and revised edition of The Law Handbook 2012 features information on a wide range of topics including tenancy, consumer protection, bankruptcy, discrimination, education, family, internet, environmental and... Buy or find out more→
The Last Empress: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the Birth of Modern China
$19.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
With the beautiful, powerful, and sexy Madame Chiang Kai-shek at the center of one of the great dramas of the twentieth century, this is the story of the founding of modern China, starting with a revolution that swept away more... Buy or find out more→
The Last Days
$9.95 – Paperback / Dalkey Archive Press
To tell the tale of his intellectual coming-of-age, Queneau calls on not one character but seven. Three are adults: a petty con man who has just found ambition, a portly geography teacher who has just found guilt, and a... Buy or find out more→
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
$14.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co
Celebrates the artistic and cultural forces in the East. This collection includes 400 voices that represent an artistic movement that challenges traditions, broadening our notion of contemporary literature. Buy or find out more→
The Lacuna
$14.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. "The Lacuna" is a poignant... Buy or find out more→
Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip-hop
$12.95 – Paperback / The Perseus Books Group
Dubbed the Hip-Hop Intellectual by critics and fans for his pioneering explorations of rap music in the academy and beyond, Dyson probes the most compelling and controversial dimensions of hip-hop culture. Buy or find out more→
Knitted Icons: 25 Celebrity Doll Patterns
$6.95 – Paperback / Quirk Books
Albert Einstein proved to us that E=MC2. Marilyn Monroe convinced us that gentlemen prefer blondes and that diamonds are a girl's best friend. Elvis Presley showed us how to swivel our hips to old-time rock 'n' roll. Through... Buy or find out more→
The Kindly Ones
$14.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
"Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened." So begins the chilling fictional memoir of Dr. Maximilien Aue, a former Nazi officer who has reinvented himself, many years after the war, as a middle-class family man... Buy or find out more→
Kicks Japan: Japanese Sneaker Culture
$16.95 – Paperback / Mark Batty Publisher
The Japanese tend to takes things to extremes and become aficionados. Given that many of the world's top sneaker designers reside in Japan, a country with a thriving, at times absurd, consumer culture, it should come as no... Buy or find out more→
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
$12.95 – Paperback / Picador USA
Bestselling author Tom Wolfe introduces the 1960s through essays about extravagant new styles of life, the Beatles, bouffant hairdos, Kar Kustomizers, and much more. Buy or find out more→
Kafka's Soup: A Complete History of World Literature in 14 Recipes
$12.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Literary ventriloquist Mark Crick presents 14 recipes in the voices of famous writers, from Homer to Virginia Woolf to Irvine Welsh. Guaranteed to delight anyone in love with food and books, these witty pastiches will keep readers... Buy or find out more→
Kaddish for an Unborn Child
$10.00 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
The first word in this mesmerizing novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is "No." It is how the novel's narrator, a middle-aged Hungarian-Jewish writer, answers an acquaintance who asks him if he has a child. It... Buy or find out more→
Journal: 1837-1861
$17.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc
Henry David Thoreau’sJournalwas his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most... Buy or find out more→
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison: The Making of a Masterpiece
$9.95 – Paperback / The Perseus Books Group
Scrupulously researched, rich with the author's unprecedented access to Folsom Prison and Columbia Records' archives, illustrated with over 100 photos (many never before published), Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison shows how... Buy or find out more→
Jealousy
$14.95 – Hardback / Grove Press
Millet's bestselling The Sexual Life of Catherine M. was a landmark book--a portrait of a sexual life lived without boundaries and without a safety net. The author's follow-up answers the first book's implicit question: How does... Buy or find out more→
Jacques Offenbach and the Paris of His Time
$15.95 – Hardback / Zone Books
This is a biography of the composer Jacques Offenbach as well as a social and cultural history of Second Empire Paris. Buy or find out more→
Italian Baroque Sculpture
$15.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
The years between 1520 and 1630 in Italy are among the most crucial periods in the history of architecture, but it is a story that has never been fully told. Conventionally, the classic age of the High Renaissance ends with... Buy or find out more→
Italian Architecture: From Michelangelo to Borromini
$19.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
The years from 1520 to 1630 were crucial in the development of Western architecture, but to label as Mannerist the transition from Michelangelo's "licentious" New Sacristy in Florence to Borromini's innovative S. Carlo alle... Buy or find out more→
Isaiah Berlin: Letters, 1928-1946
$24.95 – Hardback / Cambridge University Press
This first selected volume of the celebrated philosopher's prodigious correspondence reveals an intimately charming "Shaya" (as he familiarly signed himself) to match the erudite Oxford don and brilliant conversationalist. The... Buy or find out more→
Irish Literary Tradition
$10.95 – Paperback / University of Wales Press
Ireland is a country where for over a thousand years one cultural force has overshadowed all others: the power of a great literary tradition. This book provides a history of literature in the Irish language from the fifth... Buy or find out more→
Introducing Greek Philosophy
$16.95 – Paperback / University of California Press
"An excellent introduction to early Greek philosophy by an acknowledged expert in the subject. The volume tells beginning students all they need to know about both the key themes and personalities in Greek philosophy and the... Buy or find out more→
The Mountains of Saint Francis: Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth
$32.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Walter Alvarez and his team made one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries of the twentieth century--that an asteroid smashed into the Earth 65 million years ago, exterminating the dinosaurs. Alvarez had the first... Buy or find out more→
In a Heartbeat
$35.00 – Hardback / Henry Holt & Company Inc
Takes us on a journey of faith and love - and teaches us unforgettable lessons about the power of giving. Buy or find out more→
I Kill
$10.00 – Paperback / Murdoch Books
A detective and an FBI agent embark upon the most harrowing case of their careers as they attempt to track down an enigmatic killer in this relentlessly suspenseful thriller. Buy or find out more→
The Hypochondriacs: Nine Tormented Lives
$12.95 – Hardback / Faber & Faber
Through witty, entertaining, and often moving examinations of the lives of nine eminent hypochondriacs--including Charlotte Bront, Charles Darwin, and Andy Warhol--Dillon brilliantly unravels the tortuous connections between real... Buy or find out more→
Humorists: From Hogarth to Noel Coward
$12.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
The author of the masterly volumes "Intellectuals," "Creators," and "Heroes" returns with a collection of biographical portraits of the greatest humorists and wits in history. In "Intellectuals," Paul Johnson offered a... Buy or find out more→
How to Avoid Huge Ships and Other Implausibly Titled Books
$12.95 – Hardback / Aurum Press Ltd
2012 marks the 34th anniversary of the Diagram Prize, the momentous annual contest to determine the oddest book title of the year. Established in 1978 by book packagers the Diagram Group, the prize is a joyous celebration of... Buy or find out more→
The House of Mirth
$10.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
?If there is a more highly regarded female American author of the twentieth century, her name doesn't readily come to mind.' --John Updike Born in 1862 into an exclusive New York society'against whose... Buy or find out more→
A Hostile Beauty: Life on Macquarie Island
$10.00 – Hardback / Melbourne University Press
There are few places today that are truly wild. Macquarie Island is still one such place a small, wind-blasted rocky outcrop between Tasmania and Antarctica. In exquisite pictures and words, A Hostile Beauty tells the... Buy or find out more→
Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades
$15.95 – Hardback / Random House (NY)
From an internationally renowned expert, here is an accessible and utterly fascinating one-volume history of the Crusades, thrillingly told through the experiences of its many players--knights and sultans, kings and poets,... Buy or find out more→
High Financier: The Lives and Time of Siegmund Warburg
$14.95 – Hardback / Penguin Press
In this pathbreaking new biography, based on more than 10,000 hitherto unavailable letters and diary entries, bestselling author Ferguson returns to his roots as a financial historian to tell the story of legendary financier... Buy or find out more→
Heston's Fantastical Feasts
$13.95 – Hardback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Includes chapters that chart the realisation of a feast, with its challenges and ideas, culminating with the final recipes. This title features feasts that are based on themes which range from the whimsical to the... Buy or find out more→
A Handful of Dust
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver... Buy or find out more→
Hammer and Tickle: The Story of Communism, a Political System Almost Laughed Out of Existence
$15.95 – Hardback / Pegasus Books
Communist jokes are the strangest, funniest, most enchanting and meaningful legacy of the eighty years of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe. The valiant and sardonic citizens of the former Communist countries surrounded by... Buy or find out more→
Guide for the Unlucky: A Pop-up Book
$14.95 – Hardback / Universe Publishing
A charming, beautifully designed inventory of the world's best-known superstitions--with good advice on how to avoid bad luck. Misfortune, unfortunate occurrences, unfavorable outcomes, bad luck: whatever you call it, almost... Buy or find out more→
Greed
$14.95 – Hardback / Seven Stories Press
Novelist, poet, and playwright Jelinek's latest novel (published in German four years before she won the Nobel prize) is not for the casual reader or the faint of heart. Set in southern Austria, "Greed" tells the story of a... Buy or find out more→
The Great Upheaval: The Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800
$10.00 – Paperback / Simon & Schuster Ltd
An extraordinarily gripping and sweeping account of the decade that made the modern world, when the pieces were in flux as never before. Buy or find out more→
The Great Trials of Clarence Darrow: The Landmark Cases of Leopold and Loeb, John T. Scopes, and Ossian Sweet
$12.95 – Paperback / Harper Perennial
One of the most famous, if controversial, lawyers in America, defense attorney Clarence Darrow was sixty-seven years old in 1924. His reputation was in tatters after a scandalous trial in Los Angeles and his life and career... Buy or find out more→
Great House
$14.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Krauss pens a powerful, soaring novel about a stolen desk that contains the secrets, and becomes the obsession, of the lives it passes through. Buy or find out more→
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius
$16.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
From the author of A Beautiful Mind, a sweeping history of the invention of modern economics that takes you from Dickens' London to modern Calcutta. Buy or find out more→
The Grammar of Ornament
$24.95 – Paperback / L'Aventurine
Owen Jones' classic book on design. Beautiful and informative, this is a wonderful collection of diverse designs from around the world. Buy or find out more→
God: An Itinerary
$19.95 – Hardback / Verso Books
God, who has changed the lives - and deaths - of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God has... Buy or find out more→
The Glass Rainbow
$12.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
MWA Grand Master Burke offers everything his readers expect--brilliant prose, prosaic situations that suddenly become mystic experiences, and a complex plot that repeatedly plumbs the depths of human depravity and the heights... Buy or find out more→
The Gertrude Stein Reader: The Great American Pioneer of Avant-garde Letters
$12.95 – Paperback / Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
There have been many Anthologies, Chrestomathies, and Readers of Gertrude Stein's work, a multiplicity corresponding to the diversity and development of the writings she produced with such astonishing continuity all her life.... Buy or find out more→
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
$16.95 – Hardback / Farrar Straus Giroux
Germania explores how people are misled by history, how they twist history, and how sometimes it is best to know no history at all. The work is full of curiosities, odd food, castles, mad princes, and fairy tales--the unseen... Buy or find out more→
The General of the Dead Army
$12.95 – Undefined / Arcade Publishing
This is the story of an Italian general, accompanied by his chaplain, charged with the mission of scouring Albania in search of the bones of their fallen countrymen, killed twenty years earlier during World War II. Buy or find out more→
The Galosh
$36.95 – Hardback / Overlook Press
Satirist Zoschenko (1896 -1958) began publishing his topical, colloquial short stories to wild popularity in Soviet newspapers beginning in 1923; many appear here in English for the first time, in Hicks's lively, masterful... Buy or find out more→
Gainsborough
$9.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
William Vaughan puts Gainsborough's work into the context of contemporaneous social and political developments in Britain, and in particular the celebration of original genius in a time of burgeoning entrepreneurial... Buy or find out more→
Fusiliers: The Saga of a British Redcoat Regiment in the American Revolution
$9.95 – Paperback / Walker & Co
A unique perspective on the American Revolution, seen through the eyes of a redcoat regiment. From Lexington Green in 1775 to Yorktown in 1781, one British regiment marched thousands of miles and fought a dozen battles... Buy or find out more→
Frontlines
$14.95 – Hardback / Cornerstone
Acclaimed war photographer Sean Smith has covered all the major conflicts of the past few years, from the Middle East to the Congo. "Frontlines" brings together some of his finest work, and offers both a chronicle of major... Buy or find out more→
From the Hip
$24.95 – Hardback / Damiani
Radical British political activist John "Hoppy" Hopkins--who opened the legendary UFO, London's first psychedelic club, and published "The International Times," London's first daily underground paper--arrived in London in 1960... Buy or find out more→
The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books
The first book to explore the extraordinary story of the legendary friendship -- and quarrel -- between Wordsworth and Coleridge, two giants of English Romanticism. Buy or find out more→
Freud's Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film
$12.95 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
When Freud revised his view of the drives, he was living under the shadow of death and the threat of biological and cultural genocide. Like the early twentieth century, our times are marked by massive geopolitical trauma and... Buy or find out more→
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
$9.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Francis Crick--the quiet genius who led a revolution in biology by discovering, quite literally, the secret of life--will be bracketed with Galileo, Darwin, and Einstein as one of the greatest scientists of all time. In his... Buy or find out more→
Food Wine Burgundy: A Terroir Guide
$14.95 – Paperback / Little Bookroom,U.S.
For decades, David Downie and Alison Harris have been exploring Burgundy--they walked clear across it in 2006--reporting on their finds for top magazines and newspapers worldwide. This is the third Terroir Guide they have... Buy or find out more→
Flannery A Life Of Flannery Oconnor
$9.95 – Paperback / Little, Brown & Company
The first major biography of one of the greatest writers of the South, whose books will 'live on and on in American literature' (Elizabeth Bishop). Buy or find out more→
The Fifth Floor
$9.95 – Hardback / Alfred A. Knopf
Harvey's sizzling, intricately woven follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Buy or find out more→
Feast Day of Fools
$12.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
Interviewing an alcoholic Native American who witnessed a murder along the Texas-Mexico border, Sheriff Hack Holland and his deputy, Sam Tibbs, recognize the work of serial killer Preacher Jack Collins in an investigation that is... Buy or find out more→
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
$14.95 – Hardback / Little Brown and Company
Journalist Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Buy or find out more→
The Fear Index
$12.95 – Paperback / Cornerstone
A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and... Buy or find out more→
Fantastico!: Modern Italian Food
$29.95 – Paperback / Kyle Books
This is a cookbook filled with modern Italian food, infused with Gino's style and sense of humor, encompassing the myriad influences that have pervaded the country's cuisine. Buy or find out more→
A Family Matter
$9.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co
In this classic graphic novel, Will Eisner s pen cuts an expansive swath through all aspects of the human condition. A Family Matter starts close to home, following a family as it gathers to observe the ninetieth birthday of... Buy or find out more→
The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food
$13.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Shows how food affects our moral selves, our health and the environment. This book looks at how denial keeps us from recognising the animal at the end of our fork and investigates each culture's distinctions among animals... Buy or find out more→
French Cinema
$19.95 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
Offering portraits of such key figures as the Lumiere brothers, Georges Melies, Charles Pathe and Leon Gaumont, he looks at the early pioneers who transformed a fairground novelty into a global industry. The crisis caused by... Buy or find out more→
Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom
$15.95 – Hardback / Zephyr Press
"Eye of the Hurricane: My Path from Darkness to Freedom "is a self-portrait of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a twentieth-century icon and controversial victim of the U.S. justice system turned spokesperson for the wrongfully... Buy or find out more→
Mick Rock Exposed: The Faces of Rock 'n' Roll
$19.95 – Hardback / Chronicle Books
Mick Rock's photo career began with him sneaking his camera into rock shows; it ignited when he started shooting a practically unknown David Bowie in 1972 and then went on to document the rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust. Since... Buy or find out more→
Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of a Great Victorian Adventure
$17.95 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton, John Hanning... Buy or find out more→
Eve Arnold's People
$26.95 – Hardback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
This new collection features her exceptional photographs of people, both famous and unknown, captured in formal and informal settings. In addition to Arnold "s superb individual portraits of Monroe, Dietrich, Gable, Crawford,... Buy or find out more→
Eureka!: The Surprising Stories Behind the Ideas That Shaped the World
$10.00 – Paperback / Penguin Putnam Inc
The fascinating inspirations behind common inventions and creations--from Barbie to Sweet and Low to Mt. Rushmore. Eureka! explores the fascinating stories behind these famous creations and many others. Buy or find out more→
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
$12.95 – Hardback
From the acclaimed author of To Engineer Is Human comes an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address the world's most pressing issues, from climate change to the... Buy or find out more→
The Escape of Sigmund Freud
$16.95 – Hardback / JR Books Ltd
A month after the Nazis took over Austria on 12 March 1938, every business owned by Jews had a Nazi appointed to run it. For 82-year-old Sigmund Freud, the world's leading psychoanalyst, the appointed 'commissar' was a... Buy or find out more→
Enlightenment
$36.95 – Hardback / Overlook Press
The celebrated translator of Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize-winning Snow offers an arresting vision of contemporary Turkey, in a story of first love, betrayal, and one American girl trapped in the fray. Buy or find out more→
England's Dreaming Tapes
$13.95 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
Presents the history of music, fashion and attitude of some of the disparate and contentious personalities who emerged in the mid-70s as the harbingers of what became known as punk. This book features interviews with some of the... Buy or find out more→
Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood
$16.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
The Power of Stories in Childhood Highly illuminating for parents, vital for students and book lovers alike, Enchanted Hunters transforms our understanding of why children should read. Ever wondered why little children... Buy or find out more→
Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain's Visionary Music
$12.95 – Paperback / Faber and Faber
In this groundbreaking survey of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, Rob Young investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations - song collectors, composers,... Buy or find out more→
An Edible History of Humanity
$16.95 – Hardback / Atlantic Books
The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages. Buy or find out more→
Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd
$19.95 – Paperback / MInd Head Publishing
From gigs in tiny church halls in the mid-sixties to multi-million selling albums and spectacular stadium shows all around the world, the Pink Floyd story in a rock legend. This remarkable book is a celebration of Pink Floyd's... Buy or find out more→
Echoes from the Dead
$9.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
Can you ever come to terms with a missing child? Julia Davidsson has not. Her five-year-old son disappeared twenty years previously on the Swedish island of Oland. No trace of him has ever been found. Until his... Buy or find out more→
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
$12.00 – Paperback / Random House USA Inc
Updikes sixth collection of essays and literary criticism opens with a skeptical overview of literary biographies, proceeds to five essays on topics ranging from China and small change to faith and late works, and takes up,... Buy or find out more→
Dracula
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
The acclaimed Couture Classics with cover designs by Ruben Toledo have become collector's items in the worlds of literature, fashion, design, and popular culture. Now, Toledo's signature style graces the covers of three new... Buy or find out more→
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills
$16.95 – Hardback / Princeton University Press
What a treasure of a book this is! This is the fourth enthusiastic, informative, and delightful book Paul Nahin has written about the beauties of various areas of mathematics. . . . This book is a marvelous tribute to Euler's... Buy or find out more→
Dismantling the Empire
$35.00 – Hardback / Henry Holt & Company Inc
Dismantling the Empire explores the subjects for which Johnson is now famous, from the origins of blowback to Barack Obama's Afghanistan conundrum, including our inept spies, our bad behavior in other countries, our ill-fought... Buy or find out more→
Descartes: A Biography
$25.95 – Hardback / Cambridge University Press
Although Rene Descartes' (1596-1650) is best remembered today for writing "I think, therefore, I am," his unique contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new... Buy or find out more→
Delicate Edible Birds: And Other Stories
$13.95 – Hardback / Cornerstone
Includes nine stories of different styles and structures. This title features such stories as L De Bard and Aliette that recreates the tale of Abelard and Heloise in New York during the 1918 flu epidemic; and Lucky Chow Fun ... Buy or find out more→
Defend the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
$19.95 – Undefined / Knopf Publishing Group
To mark the centenary of its foundation, the British Security Service, MI5, has for the first time opened its archives to an independent historian. The book reveals the precise role of the Security Service in 20th-century British... Buy or find out more→
L' Ennemi Declare
$9.95 – Paperback / Stanford University Press
This posthumous work brings together articles, interviews, statements, prefaces, manifestos, and speeches dating from 1964 to 1985 (just before Genet's death in 1986). These texts bear witness to the many political causes and... Buy or find out more→
A Dead Hand: A Crime in Calcutta
$10.00 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Jerry Delfont leads an aimless life in Calcutta, struggling in vain against his writer's block, or dead hand. Then he receives a mysterious letter asking for his help, in this atmospheric and masterful novel. Buy or find out more→
Cutty, One Rock: Low Characters and Strange Places, Gently Explained
$9.95 – Paperback / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Cutty, One Rock takes the reader on a wild journey by airplane, bus, ferry, and foot from childhood to early manhood in the company of a New Jersey family in equal measures cultivated and deranged. We witness scenes of... Buy or find out more→
Culture in Practice: Selected Essays
$14.95 – Paperback / Zone Books
"Culture in Practice" collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, "Culture in Practice" unfolds as an intellectual autobiography.... Buy or find out more→
The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia
$15.95 – Paperback / Duke University Press
An analysis of the role medicine and public health played in determining race and nationality in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Australia. Buy or find out more→
Culinaria Italy
$19.95 – Paperback / Ullmann Publishing
In 496 pages and more than 1,200 colour photographs, Culinaria Italy introduces not only kitchen and cellar, but also the land and people who reside between the Alps' peaks and the pointed toe of the Italian boot . It features... Buy or find out more→
Crome Yellow
$8.00 – Paperback / Vintage
Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscilla, are joined by a party of colourful guests... Buy or find out more→
Cox Architects and Planners: 1960 - 2010
$24.95 – Hardback / Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
From its origins as a leading proponent of the 'Sydney School of Architecture' in the 1960s, Cox Architects & Planners has grown to become one of Australia's largest and most successful practices and now spans four continents.... Buy or find out more→
Corduroy Mansions
$39.95 – Hardback / Birlinn General
Corduroy Mansions itself - described in a guide to the architecture of the area as 'a building of no interest whatsoever' - is believed to have been built as an asylum, or possibly a school, or maybe it was a mansion block -... Buy or find out more→
A Cook's Tour
$12.00 – Paperback / Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Anthony Bourdain sets off to eat his way around the world - but this is no conventional culinary tour! Bourdain heads out to Saigon where he eats the still-beating heart of a live cobra, and travels deep into landmined Khmer Rouge... Buy or find out more→
Conspirator: Lenin in Exile the Making of a Revolutionary
$14.95 – Hardback / The Perseus Books Group
A vivid account of Lenins years of exile in Europe, where he relentlessly plotted the toppling of Czarist Russia Buy or find out more→
The Comics Journal Library: Drawing the Line
$16.95 – Paperback / Fantagraphics
The fourth volume in the series of coffee-table-book collections of interviews drawn from the Utne Award-winning magazine's archives, this volume gathers together interviews with four of the sharpest commentators of our times:... Buy or find out more→
Collingwood: A Love Story
$12.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Read Paul Daley's blog post about writing Collingwood: A Love Story. A... Buy or find out more→
Cleaver
$15.95 – Undefined / Arcade Publishing
London's most successful journalist, Harold Cleaver abandons home, partner, mistresses, and television, in the quest to climb above the noise line, and to get beyond the interminable clamour of the public voice. Weeks later,... Buy or find out more→
Clawing at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane and the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever
$14.95 – Hardback / Thomas Dunne Books
When the renowned trumpeter and bandleader Miles Davis chose the members of his quintet in 1955, he passed over well-known, respected saxophonists such as Sonny Rollins to pick out the young, still untested John Coltrane. What... Buy or find out more→
Claiming the Real: Documentary: Grierson and Beyond
$46.00 – Paperback / British Film Institute
CLAIMING THE REAL II tells the story of the emergence, development and current state of documentary film emerged and addresses the social, political, industrial and ethical factors that have determined documentary production,... Buy or find out more→
The Churchills: A Family at the Heart of History - from the Duke of Marlborough to Winston Churchill
$19.95 – Hardback / Little, Brown & Company
Lovell presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill. Buy or find out more→
Choke: Use the Secrets of Your Brain to Succeed When it Matters Most
$12.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
An insider's look at Australia's defense strategies and potential, this is a thorough analysis of the country's military strengths, weaknesses, and perceived future threats. A frank discussion on how military funds are actually... Buy or find out more→
Child 44
$14.95 – Undefined / Grand Central Publishing
The million-copy international bestseller reissued in Tom Rob Smith's striking new series style Buy or find out more→
Chasing a Dream
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Australia
Eleven years ago, Sydney girl-about-town Carla Coulson swapped a corporate job and a cushy life for an old camera, an uncertain future and a way of living that would ignite her soul. She recorded the first part of her... Buy or find out more→
Champlain's Dream
$15.95 – Undefined / Simon & Schuster
In this sweeping, enthralling biography, an acclaimed historian brings to life the remarkable story of Samuel de Champlain--soldier, spy, artist, and Father of New France. Buy or find out more→
A Certain 'Je ne Sais Quoi': Words We Pinched from Other Languages
$12.95 – Hardback / Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
English as we know it today is enriched with many borrowings and influences from other languages. Aficionado, chutzpah, pro bono, hoi polloi, ketchup, nous, zeitgeist - we use these foreign words every day without thinking of... Buy or find out more→
Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
$10.95 – Paperback / The Perseus Books Group
Contrary to the dogmas of raw-foods enthusiasts, cooked cuisine was central to the biological and social evolution of humanity, argues this fascinating study. Harvard biological anthropologist Wrangham ("Demonic Males") dates... Buy or find out more→
Catullus: A Poet in the Rome of Julius Caeser
$13.95 – Paperback / Amberley Publishing
Born around 84 BC Catullus belonged to an influential and wealthy family. Later on in life, when Catullus moved to Rome, he was entertained in a style suitable for a fashionable young man. During this time it is thought that he... Buy or find out more→
The Cambridge Companion to Salman Rushdie
$14.95 – Paperback / Cambridge University Press
Rushdie is a major contemporary writer, who engages with some of the vital issues of our times: migrancy, postcolonialism, religious authoritarianism. This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to his entire oeuvre.... Buy or find out more→
The Cambridge Companion to Primo Levi
$14.95 – Paperback / Cambridge University Press
A stimulating overview of the works, life and times of this important twentieth-century writer. Buy or find out more→
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
$13.95 – Paperback / Mariner Books
Like the author's classic King Leopold's Ghost, this new work abounds in atmosphere, high drama, and nuanced portraits of epic antislavery crusaders, heroes, and villains in Britain. Buy or find out more→
Brush
$12.95 – Hardback / Pointed Leaf Press
What began with a small set of unique handmade brushes found by French design consultant Daniel Rozensztroch and writer and collector Shiri Slavin quickly escalated into an obsession. The result is a visual compendium of more... Buy or find out more→
Broken Republic: Three Essays
$39.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
War has spread from the borders of India to the forests in the very heart of the country. Combining brilliant analysis and reportage by one of India's iconic writers, Broken Republic examines the nature of progress and... Buy or find out more→
Breakdowns
$10.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
A memoir about becoming a comix memoirist. It chronicles the author's own nervous breakdown, his experiments with psychedelic drugs, his mother's suicide and his incarceration in a mental hospital. It is suitable for those... Buy or find out more→
Brave New World
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone... Buy or find out more→
The Box: Tales from the Darkroom
$14.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
In an audacious literary experiment, Grass writes in the voices of his eight children as they record memories of their childhood, of growing up, of their father, who was always at work on a new book, always at the margins of their... Buy or find out more→
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
$12.95 – Hardback / Riverhead Books
A love-struck ranch hand, an aging Argentine lover, a trusted confidante who isn't a friend and two hitchhikers named Bonnie and Clyde. Caught between opposing forces Meloy's unforgettable characters have each reached a fork in... Buy or find out more→
Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
As Pogo once said, We have met the enemy and he is us. Buy or find out more→
The Bookshop
$16.95 – Hardback / Everyman
A novel about Florence Green's battle against natural and supernatural influences, as she tries to open a bookshop in a small coastal town in East Anglia. Buy or find out more→
The Book of Exploration
$29.95 – Hardback / Orion Publishing Co
A chronological tour of the history of exploration in the style of THE MAP BOOK and THE SCIENCE BOOK, by the world's leading expert. Buy or find out more→
Book Of Clouds
$9.95 – Paperback / Grove Press
Book of Clouds is a haunting, masterfully wrought debut novel about a young woman adrift in Berlin, where a string of fateful encounters leads to romance, violence, and revelation. Buy or find out more→
Bollywood Posters
$19.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
On the streets of the vibrant and anarchic city of Mumbai, the film poster is a familiar splash of colour. It is an invitation to the pleasures of Bollywood, the worlds largest film industry. This book is suitable for film buffs,... Buy or find out more→
The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music
$14.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
Over 50 years ago, Miles Davis and his sextet walked into a church basement in midtown Manhattan that had been converted into a music studio. The album that emerged just nine hours later, "Kind of Blue", not only changed jazz... Buy or find out more→
Blek le Rat: Getting Through the Walls
$19.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
Street artist Blek le Rat is revered and acknowledged by the international graffiti community, and his work has influenced CD design, advertising, and graphics, as well as the work of urban artists around the world. From small,... Buy or find out more→
Sounds of the Wild - Birds: Pop-up Book with Sound
$12.95 – Hardback / The Five Mile Press Pty Ltd
Every page of this spectacular pop-up book bursts with life, colour and sound. Each scene is accompanied by fascinating information about birds so you can look, listen AND learn. The interactive elements of this book will keep... Buy or find out more→
Billy Liar
$9.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped... Buy or find out more→
A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Putnam Inc
Two maverick neuroscientists use the world's largest psychology experiment-the Internet-to study the private activities of millions of men and women around the world, unveiling a revolutionary and shocking new vision of... Buy or find out more→
The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
$12.95 – Paperback
In this lively and engaging book, Nadler brings to life a debate between three brilliant and resolute philosophers in 1672 Paris that had obsessed its participants, captivated European intellectuals, and continues to inform our... Buy or find out more→
The Beatles
$15.95 – Paperback / WW Norton & Co
The worldwide bestseller that defines the band that defined an era-now updated and with 135 photographs and illustrations. Buy or find out more→
The Atlantic Ocean: Essays on Britain and America
$49.95 – Hardback / Faber and Faber
As he grew up, Andrew O'Hagan witnessed the decline of Britain and the rise of America, the end of British industry and the rise of Blair and the tabloids. This collection of essays tells the story of that period in our... Buy or find out more→
Bali: The Food of My Island Home
$29.95 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Bali is one of our most popular travel destination with its warm and welcoming people, a culture rich in tradition and, of course, let’s not forget the mouth-watering food… 26 years ago, a young woman from Melbourne... Buy or find out more→
Bad Ideas?: An Arresting History of Our Inventions
$14.95 – Paperback / Transworld Publishers Ltd
A fascinating history of our inventiveness - and whether it is a blessing or a curse Buy or find out more→
Awakening the Heroes within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
$12.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
This companion to the bestselling THE HERO WITHIN outlines twelve archetypal patterns that can aid inner development and the quest for wholeness. Buy or find out more→
Augustus John: The New Biography
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
This updated biography of the British painter reveals the complete story of John and his circle. New material which includes letters from Joyce, Dylan Thomas, Shaw, Oskar Kokoschka, the Sitwells and Sean O'Casey, reveals John to... Buy or find out more→
France
$19.95 – Hardback
An elegant boxed set of travel classics about France, with an introduction from the best-selling author ofLe Divorce. In this inaugural edition of our Atlas Pocket Classics series, Diane Johnson introduces three masterpieces of... Buy or find out more→
Assorted Poems
$26.00 – Paperback / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
"Assorted Poems "is a generous selection from the first four books by one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary poetry. In "Bag o' Diamonds "(1993), "Smokes "(1998), "Source Codes "(2001), and "Ledger "(2005), Susan... Buy or find out more→
The Art of the Middle Ages
$9.95 – Paperback / Thames & Hudson Ltd
This comprehensive and authoritative study of medieval visual arts in Europe covers the period from Early Christian and Byzantine, through 'Barbarian', Carolingian and Ottonian, to Romanesque and Gothic. Architecture, painting,... Buy or find out more→
The Art of Rockefeller Center
$39.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
From the beginning, John D. Rockefeller incorporated art into hisplans for the Rockefeller Center in New York City, commissioningpieces meant to inspire the viewer with idealism, work ethics,and religion. Each Chapter of The... Buy or find out more→
Armageddon: Two Men on an Anzac Trail
$12.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Almost a century after the Australian Light Horse fought a series of epic and bloody battles against the Turkish Army across the deserts of the Middle East, Paul Daley and Mike Bowers retrace the steps of the men and boys who... Buy or find out more→
Arithmetic Refresher
$18.95 – Paperback / Dover Publications Inc.
These 937 most-asked questions deal with tax problems, interest and discount, time-payment, etc. Features 809 problems and answers. "More than just a refresher . . . contains a great number of items that are not just... Buy or find out more→
Architecture Now! 7
$19.95 – Paperback / Taschen GmbH
TASCHEN's "Architecture Now! "7 features an arching overview of today's architecture, from modern to radically avant-garde. As with previous books in the series, "Architecture Now! 7 "includes a broad variety of projects from... Buy or find out more→
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives
$10.00 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan Australia
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide... Buy or find out more→
Antonio and Lucia: Recipes and Stories from My Australian-Calabrian Kitchen
$29.95 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan Australia
Riccardo Momesso's family moved from Calabria to Australia in the 1950s, bringing their cooking traditions with them foraging, hunting, fishing, preserving and, most importantly, the tradition of sharing food with family and... Buy or find out more→
Antic Hay
$12.95 – Paperback / Vintage
When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser ('a comfort to all travellers, indispensable to first-nighters, the concert-goers' friends') to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he... Buy or find out more→
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
$14.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers Inc
In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, Anne crafted a memoir that has become one of the... Buy or find out more→
The Animation Bible: A Practical Guide to the Art of Animating from Flipbooks to Flash
$19.95 – Paperback / ABRAMS
"The Animation Bible" is the first book any aspiring animator will want to own--and with increasingly affordable tools for digital animation and the vast forum of the Internet for free distribution, animation is becoming more... Buy or find out more→
The Animal Factory
$9.95 – Paperback / Oldcastle Books Ltd
Ronald Decker, guilty of a first offence, is put away in San Quentin where he is befriended by an old lag. Bunker writes of the sordid, horrifically violent and lawless prison where life is cheap and death by shiv awaits anyone... Buy or find out more→
The Animal Connection: A New Perspective on What Makes Us Human
$13.95 – Hardback / WW Norton & Co
A bold, illuminating new take on the love of animals that drove human evolution. Buy or find out more→
An American Dream
$10.00 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
Stephen Rojack is a decorated war hero, a former Congressman, and a certified public intellectual with his own television show. He is also married to the very rich, very beautiful, and utterly amoral Deborah Caughlin Kelly. But... Buy or find out more→
The Aloe
$7.95 – Paperback / Capuchin Classics
Linda Burnell dreams, listless and distant, whilst downstairs her mother sets in order the family's new home in the New Zealand countryside. Her vigorous and exhausting husband, Stanley, is at the office, but will return with... Buy or find out more→
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
$13.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
In unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us no clear way to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it's quite new. In medieval Europe, God's... Buy or find out more→
All in One Piece
$5.95 – Paperback / Walker Books Ltd
Trying to get ready to go out to a dinner-dance with four little elephants underfoot is certainly a challenge for Mrs. Large. With one playing in her makeup and another in the kitchen, she wonders, "Can't I have just one night... Buy or find out more→
All in a Day
$12.95 – Paperback / Abrams
This lovely text illuminates all the possibilities a day offers - the opportunities and chances that won't ever come again - and also delivers a gentle message of good stewardship of our planet. Buy or find out more→
Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems 1964-2001
$12.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Brings together poems published during the author's life, with an additional selection of those which were found in his literary archives in Marbach and never published while he was alive. This book includes poems that expresses... Buy or find out more→
A Handbook on Hanging
$11.95 – Paperback / The History Press Ltd
'A very deadly squib - likely to upset the equanimity of upholders of capital punishment far more than any ponderous tome of high explosiveA argument or invective.' Observer A Handbook on Hanging is a satiric tribute to that... Buy or find out more→
9-11
$13.00 – Paperback / Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Chomsky's international bestseller, analyzing terrorism, Osama bin Laden, U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, and the long-term implications of America's military response to September 11. Buy or find out more→
21st-century Jewelry: The Best of the 500 Series
$16.95 – Hardback / Lark Books,U.S.
The definitive art jewelry collection! "21st Century Jewelry" features a decade's worth of memorable pieces selected from the prestigious and best-selling 500 Series, all gathered in one beautiful edition. Juried by an... Buy or find out more→
You Are What You Speak Grammar Grouches Language Laws And The Power Of Words
$13.00 – Paperback / Black Inc.
Why does language move some of us to anxiety or even rage? For centuries, sticklers have donned the cloak of authority to control how people use words. In this sensational new book, Robert Lane Greene strikes back to defend the... Buy or find out more→
The Woman Who Changed Her Brain: And Other Inspiring Stories of Pioneering Brain Transformation
$17.95 – Hardback / Simon & Schuster
Young began life severely learning disabled, and built herself a better brain and a brain training program that has helped thousands of others do the same. In the past five years, the idea that self-improvement can happen in... Buy or find out more→
Vegetables from an Italian Garden: Season-by-Season Recipes
$24.95 – Hardback / Phaidon Press Ltd
No cuisine is better than Italian at making the most of a huge variety of seasonal vegetables in simple but tasty dishes. Following the phenomenal success of The Silver Spoon, Vegetables from an Italian Garden brims with 400... Buy or find out more→
Sunday's Kitchen: Food and Living at Heide
$14.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Sunday Reed was a passionate cook and gardener, who believed in home-grown produce, seasonal cooking and a communal table. 'Sunday's Kitchen' tells the story of food and living at the home of John and Sunday Reed, two of... Buy or find out more→
Remembered Gardens: Eight Women and Their Visions of an Australian Landscape
$14.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
About this Title Elizabeth Macarthur sailed into the fledgling settlement of New South Wales in 1790, after a horrific voyage from England. As a comfort and a way to evoke home in this distant and foreign land, Elizabeth... Buy or find out more→
The Prague Cemetery
$16.95 – Hardback / Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
The story of a secret agent who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent. Buy or find out more→
Movida's Guide to Barcelona
$13.95 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
Frank Camorra, chef of the renowned Spanish restaurant MoVida, teams up with food writer Richard Cornish in this beautifully illustrated, insider's guide to Barcelona. They share the best culinary experiences the city offers,... Buy or find out more→
The Gardener's Book of Days
$12.00 – Paperback / Melbourne University Press
The Gardener's Book of Days is a perpetual calendar for every garden lover. The Gardener's Book of Days is a perpetual calendar for every garden lover. Organised into daily readings for the whole year,... Buy or find out more→
Dreaming And Other Essays
$13.00 – Paperback / Black Inc.
W.E.H. Stanner's words changed Australia. Without condescension and without sentimentality, Stanner conveyed the richness and uniqueness of Aboriginal culture. In his Boyer Lectures he exposed a 'cult of forgetfulness practised on... Buy or find out more→
The Crimean War
$15.00 – Hardback / Metropolitan Books
From the great storyteller of modern Russian historians, ( Financial Times ) comes the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age. Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global... Buy or find out more→
City Lost And Found Whelan The Wreckers Melbourne
$13.00 – Paperback / Black Inc.
The demolition firm of Whelan the Wrecker was a Melbourne institution for a hundred years, 1892-1992. Here Robyn Annear uses their demolition sites as portals to explore layers of the city laid bare by their pick axes and iron... Buy or find out more→
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies
$39.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
Winners of the Man Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012. This elegantly presented double-hardback slipcased set is available for a limited time only. The perfect gift for any book lover. Buy or find out more→
The Earthsea Quartet
$13.95 – Paperback / Penguin Books Ltd
Tehanu Ged is but a goatherd on the island of Gont when he comes by his strange powers over nature. Sent to the School of Wizards on Roke, he learns the true way of magic and proves himself a powerful magician. And it is as the... Buy or find out more→
Farmer Buckley's Exploding Trousers: And Other Odd Events on the Way to Scientific Discovery
$10.00 – Paperback / Profile Books Ltd
Contrary to the widespread belief that science and technology move steadily from one discovery to the next, the stories in this collection present some of the unfamiliar characters and events that litter the path of scientific... Buy or find out more→
A Nation In The Making: Australia at the Dawn of the Modern Era
$24.95 – Paperback / Business & Professional Publishing
The output of the two largest photographic studio's inAustralia in the late 19th century were bought & placedin storage. It became known as the Tyrell Collection.Largely unseen ever-since it is now stored at thePowerhouse... Buy or find out more→
The Misunderstanding
$12.00 – Hardback / Vintage
Tells a story of self-destructive and blighted love, and a tragic satire of French society after the Great War. This book shows an unbridgeable gap between a life of idle wealth and the demands of making a living, between a... Buy or find out more→
Merivel: A Man of His Time
$13.00 – Paperback / Vintage
Robert Merivel, physician and courtier to Charles II, loved for his ability to turn sorrow into laughter, now faces the agitations and anxieties of middle age. Questions crowd his mind: has he been a good father? Is he a fair... Buy or find out more→
Memory of the World: The Treasures That Record Our History from 1700 BC to the Present Day
$19.95 – Paperback / HarperCollins Publishers
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, priceless documentary heritage record the diversity of languages, peoples and knowledge that have influenced humanity from the early days of human history to the present. This heritage documents... Buy or find out more→
Living In History Tasmanias Historic Homes
$29.95 – Hardback / Allen & Unwin
A beautiful journey in colour to some of the most spectacular and historic houses in Tasmania, filled with surprising stories of the people who inhabit them. Buy or find out more→
Lake Eyre: A Journey Through the Heart of the Continent
$39.95 – Hardback / ABC Books
Fully illustrated and beautifully produced, LAKE EYRE documents Paul Lockyers' journey to Lake Eyre over the three years when it flooded -- previously a once-in-a-generation event. Paul tells the story of the region -- how it... Buy or find out more→
Fragile Earth: Dramatic Images of Our Changing Planet
$19.95 – Hardback / HarperCollins Publishers
This unique book provides a stark look at the catastrophic effects that are happening to our planet. Buy or find out more→
Inheritance Cycle Eragon Eldest Brisinger Inheritance
$24.95 – Paperback
When Eragon finds a polished stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy; perhaps it will buy his family meat for the winter. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon soon realises he... Buy or find out more→
The Stranger's Child
$13.95 – Hardback / Pan Macmillan
In the late summer of 1913 the aristocratic young poet Cecil Valance comes to stay at 'Two Acres', the home of his close Cambridge friend George Sawle. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for all the Sawles, but... Buy or find out more→
Joseph Anton
$19.95 – Paperback / Vintage
On 14 February 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been 'sentenced to death' by the Ayatollah Khomeini. For the first time he heard the word fatwa. His crime? To have... Buy or find out more→
The Reason Why: The Miracle of Life on Earth
$14.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Argues that we owe our existence to the impact of a 'supercomet' with Venus 600 million years ago. Buy or find out more→
Best American Travel Writing 2011
$12.00 – Paperback / Mariner Books
The hilarious and well-traveled Sloane Crosley, author of the New York Times bestseller I Was Told There'd be Cake, helms this collection of the genre's gems. Buy or find out more→
A Man of Parts
$13.95 – Hardback / Viking Books
A riveting novel about the remarkable life-and many loves-of author H. G. Wells. H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds," was one of the twentieth century's most prophetic and creative writers,... Buy or find out more→
Awakening the Brain
$13.95 – Hardback / Beyond Words Publishing
Drawing from her unique background as a neuropsychologist and former nun, Tomaino explores the impact of belief and spirituality on the actual function and structure of the brain. Readers will use effective, hands-on exercises to... Buy or find out more→
As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis Devoto
$12.95 – Paperback / Cengage Learning, Inc
This dishy and delightful, never-before-published correspondence between America's queen of food, Julia Child, and her mentor Avis DeVoto, shows not only the blossoming of a lifelong friendship, but also an America on the verge... Buy or find out more→
The Appointment
$12.00 – Paperback / Granta Books
'I've been summoned, Thursday, ten sharp'. So begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceaucescu's totalitarian regime. She has been questioned before, but this time she knows it will be worse. Buy or find out more→
All the Time in the World: New and Selected Stories
$15.00 – Hardback / Random House
A wedge is driven between a husband and wife when a mysterious stranger arrives, claiming to have grown up in their home. After agreeing to marry a beautiful, headstrong Russian immigrant in exchange for a promotion, a bus boy... Buy or find out more→
Timmy the Tug
$9.95 – Hardback
Timmy was a paddle-boat, sound as a gong, Not a worm in his timbers, fresh paint all over. He was hale as a whale and twice as strong, And he sailed on the peaceful river. So begins the tale of Timmy the Tug and his... Buy or find out more→
An Apple a Day...: Old-Fashioned Proverbs and Why They Still Work
$12.00 – Hardback / Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Does absence really make the heart grow fonder? Can beggars be choosers? Is it always better late than never? Proverbs are short, well-known, pithy sayings that offer advice or words of encouragement and are used in everyday... Buy or find out more→
Remember, Remember (The Fifth of November): The History of Britain in Bite-Sized Chunks
$12.00 – Hardback / Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
Britain and its people have a long and noble history that is now over 2000 years old. Like all the best stories it is one of blood, death, love, sex and betrayal, yet also a tale of courage, honour, pride, skill, invention,... Buy or find out more→
Automobiles: Legendary Models of History and Innovation
$29.95 – Hardback / White Star
This book, enriched with splendid photographs of the cars and featuring exclusive period pictures, follows the history, evolution and success of car models that have left their mark on the pavement. Buy or find out more→
Ancient Thailand
$29.95 – Hardback / White Star
Dedicated to the art and culture of Thailand, this volume explores the ancient and various origins of this modern country's identity. The Thai identity is the result of an extraordinary process of integration, clash and selection... Buy or find out more→
White House 3d Puzzle
$19.95 – Multiple copy pack
A 64 piece 3D puzzle of America's White House. Buy or find out more→
Statue Of Liberty 3d Puzzle
$19.95 – Hardback
This kit has 39 pieces and is over 23cm tall. It has authentic details, museum quality, no glue required, easy to assemble, sturdy construction & makes a great souvenir. Buy or find out more→
Third Policeman
$10.00 – Paperback
A masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of 'At Swim-Two-Birds' -- Flann O'Brien. A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village police force, a surrealistic vision of eternity,... Buy or find out more→
Tactical Exercise & Other Late Stories
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Includes stories: The Sympathetic Passenger and Charles Ryder's Schooldays . Buy or find out more→
Mr Loveday's Little Outing & Other Early Stories
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
A collection of short stories. It includes Mr Loveday's Little Outing , which is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident and Cruise , which sees a series of letters from a naive young woman as she... Buy or find out more→
Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences
$12.00 – Paperback / Harvard University Press
Female and male brains are different, thanks to hormones coursing through the brain before birth. That’s taught as fact in psychology textbooks, academic journals, and bestselling books. And these hardwired differences explain... Buy or find out more→
Cage of Bones
$5.00 – Paperback / Little, Brown Book Group
The third book and the first in our new two-book contract with the internationally bestselling author of The Surrogate and The Creeper, starring cop Phil Brennan and psychologist Marina Esposito. Buy or find out more→
When the Going Was Good
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Between 1929 and 1935 the author travelled widely and wrote about his experiences. This title discusses a cruise around the Mediterranean; a train trip from Djibouti to Abyssinia to attend Emperor Haile Selassie's coronation in... Buy or find out more→
A Little Learning
$35.00 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
'Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography'. The author begins his story with heredity, writing of the energetic, literary and sometimes eccentric men and women who,... Buy or find out more→
Decline and Fall
$15.95 – Hardback / Penguin Books Ltd
Serious-minded theology student Paul Pennyfeather, sent down from Oxford for indecent behaviour and forced to take up schoolmastering, finds himself an unwitting accomplice in the white slave trade. Buy or find out more→
Chocolate Mousse for Greedy Goose
$5.95 – Paperback / Pan Macmillan
Chocolate mousse! says greedy Goose. Don't just grab it, says angry Rabbit. Good manners aren't on the menu at this meal. Duck won't eat his carrots. Moth's eating the cloth, and Sheep would rather sleep than wash the dishes. Buy or find out more→
Reclaim the Power of the Witch: Making Magic Make Sense
$27.95 – Paperback / Red Wheel/Weiser
Return to the roots of witchcraft with a discussion of what makes magic work. This book examines the philosophical aspects of witchcraft and magic, with chapters on divination, ritual, dreams and magical tools. The importance of... Buy or find out more→
Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies
$39.95 – Hardback / Palgrave Macmillan
A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr are all clear examples of this dangerous byproduct of democracy. Demagogue takes a long view... Buy or find out more→
The Grand Design
$13.95 – Audio / Cornerstone
In the last thirty years of his life, Albert Einstein searched for a unified theory - a theory which could describe all the forces of nature in a single framework. But the time was not right for such a discovery in Einstein's... Buy or find out more→
Pershing
$19.00 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
This persuasive biography sheds light on the nation's first modern combat commander who set the standard for today's four-star officers. Though the U.S. entered WWI with inadquate forces, in just over a year Pershing had built... Buy or find out more→
Adventures In The Orgasmatron How The Sexual Revolution Came To America
$19.95 – Hardback / Farrar Straus Giroux
Well before the 1960s, a sexual revolution was under way in America, led by expatriated European thinkers who saw a vast country ripe for liberation. In Adventures in the Orgasmatron, Christopher Turner tells the revolution's... Buy or find out more→
Into the Tunnel: The Brief Life of Marion Samuel, 1931-1943
$29.95 – Hardback / Henry Holt & Company Inc
A respected historian and author of Hitler's Beneficiaries offers an intriguing portrait of a child victim of the Holocaust, eleven-year-old Marion Samuel, killed in 1943 in Auschwitz, reconstructing her brief life and that of... Buy or find out more→
Oink Oink Oink Savage Modern Fable
$10.00 – Paperback / Hunter Publishers
A surreal, black comedy - a seductively hip, hilariously funny satire about popular culture and consumerism. A savage modern fable about science, family, television and love gone wrong. Buy or find out more→
Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge
$9.95 – Paperback / Verso Books
Jorge Luis Borges is generally acknowledged to be one of the 20th century's most significant writers. But, the fact that he is an Argentine writer is rarely discussed. This is an introduction to the work of Jorge Luis Borges. Buy or find out more→
Pierce the Skin: Selected Poems, 1982-2007
$38.00 – Hardback / Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Henri Cole has been described as a "fiercely somber, yet exuberant poet" by Harold Bloom, who identifies him as the central poet of his generation. Cole's most recent poems have a daring sensitivity and imagistic beauty unlike... Buy or find out more→
Christian World, The
$38.95 – Hardback
In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world's largest... Buy or find out more→
X-rated!: The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture
$42.00 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
Many attack pop culture as a crude 'sexual' and 'celebrity-based' culture that is purportedly bringing about the end of moral values. Renowned semiotician Marcel Danesi adds his signature insight to the debate by delving deep... Buy or find out more→
Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses
$42.00 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
The central theme of this volume is the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings, including Pentecostal-charismatic churches and Islamic movements, and the use... Buy or find out more→
Diversity and Direction in Psychoanalytic Technique
$16.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
New diversity in psychoanalytic technique offers analysts and therapists a wide array of treatment options. But many of these techniques, says Dr. Fred Pine, can be viewed as additions to a clinician's approach rather than... Buy or find out more→
In Quest of Jinnah: Diary, Notes, and Correspondence of Hector Bolitho
$12.95 – Hardback / OUP Pakistan
The greatest travail to be undertaken by writers is that of the official biographer. In 1953, Beverly Nichols suggested Hector Bolitho, the New Zealand born biographer of Prince Albert, as the person best suited to write the... Buy or find out more→
The Western Theory of Tradition: Terms and Paradigms of the Cultural Sublime
$19.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
This elegantly written book offers a new way to conceive of cultural tradition. Sanford Budick reveals an operative concept of Western cultures that has been only partially understood: according to this concept, the act of... Buy or find out more→
Art Attack Even More Cool Stuff
$7.95 – Hardback
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The Turkish-Israeli Relationship: Changing Ties of Middle Eastern Outsiders
$49.95 – Paperback / Palgrave Macmillan
Turkey and Israel are two of the most important countries in the Middle East, but also are outsiders to the region for political and cultural reasons. Here Bengio examines the historic, geo-strategic and political-cultural... Buy or find out more→
Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts
$20.00 – Hardback / Yale University Press
Includes bibliographical references and index. Buy or find out more→
Freudian Analysts/Feminist Issues
$15.95 – Hardback / Yale University Press
In this important book Judith M. Hughes makes a highly original case for conceptualizing gender identity as potentially multiple. She does so by situating her argument within the history of psychoanalysis. Hughes traces... Buy or find out more→
Journal: 1837-1861
$17.95 – Paperback / The New York Review of Books, Inc
Henry David Thoreau’sJournalwas his life’s work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied his daily walks, the workshop where he developed his books and essays, and a project in its own right—one of the most... Buy or find out more→