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Dorothy Porter
The Best 100 Poems of Dorothy Porter draws from her life’s work to present the many facets of Porter the poet, from stretching the fabric of ancient mythology to delving…
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Alex Leefson is astronomy’s glamour girl, in love with the satellite Europa and the equally unreachable Phoebe. Meanwhile, her husband Daniel mourns the demise of his marriage and his life.Full…
Known for her passionate, sensual and edgy poetry, Dorothy Porter was one of Australia’s truly original writers. She was twice short-listed for Australia’s premier literary award, the Miles Franklin, and…
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The Monkey’s Mask is a totally unique experience. It’s poetry. It’s a crime thriller. It’s where high art meets low life, passion meets betrayal, and poetry faces profanity on the…
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Pre-modern society was overshadowed by illness and the threat of death. This book examines the sick in Britain between 1650-1850, focusing on the personal and sociological bonds between patients and…
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Dorothy Porter writes about love, sex, heartbreak and desire like no one else. Love Poems collects her most powerful love poetry: portraits of longing and infatuation, of bliss, passion, uncertainty…
There is a serial child killer stalking the streets of Melbourne. He kills his victims gently and places a gold mark on their head. The mark of El Dorado.He doesn’t…
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From the award-winning creator of the international bestseller ‘The Monkey’s Mask’ (‘Banjo’ winner and Age Book of the Year) comes an extraordinary work of the imagination. ‘Crete’ is a heady…
From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don Jose to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, award-winning…
A vivid and startling poetry collection from award-winning poet, Dorothy Porter, Other Worlds travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America…
As the new Superintendent of Callan Park Psychiatric Hospital, Dr Peter Cyren must perform medical alchemy turn diseased minds into healthy ones. But in the case of his own soul…
This book examines the problems of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain from the ancient world, through the medieval and early…
A rare and indispensable collection of writings with literary, social and historical importance. Included are documents from mutual aid and fraternal organization, arguments about emigration, and selected narratives, poems, and…
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Akhenaten was a fascinating, shadowy figure in Egyptian history - an attractive warped megalomaniac who attempted to construct an heretical religion around one Sun God, with himself at the centre…
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A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.
Roy Porter
Looking at urban history, this work balances statistics with the words of historians, diarists and novelists, poets and churchmen such as: Pepys, Boswell, Fielding, Walpole, Blake, Mayhew, Wells, Woolf, and…
For generations the traditional focus for those wishing to understand the roots of the modern world has been France on the eve of the Revolution. This work makes a case…
Ideas tumble out of Porter like wonders from some scholarly horn of plenty. -Sherwin B. Nuland, The New Republic
This book, now in a fully updated second edition, sympathetically explores the complexities of the Enlightenment. Synthesizing and evaluating the latest scholarship, it offers a new and comprehensive vision of…
Originally published in 1983, The Earth Sciences: An Annotated Bibliography is a compact and thematically organized guide that provides comprehensive access to themes and areas of study in the earth…
Explores the rise of popularized medical writings which gave simple advice for home treatments, charting the rise from the Victorian age and focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the…
Two stories telling of the author’s life and his journey into the Christian ministry
First published in 1992, this book explores how we come to hold our present attitudes towards health, sickness and the medical profession. Roy Porter argues that the outlook of the…
‘Nerves’ became a highly eligible illness in early Georgian London and Bath. What Freud was for Vienna at the end of the nineteenth-century, George Cheyne was for eighteenth-century fashionable ailments…
Porter’s [book] has been long in the making and has been worth waiting for. -Peter Gay, Times Literary Supplement
The culmination of a lifelong interest in the metaphysics of the body by the premier social historian of medicine. How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies…
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A heroic feat of scholarship. -New York Times Book Review
A magisterial account by Roy Porter of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
A lively and controversial exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the present. Highly esteemed contributors analyse differing models of personal identity…
An exploration of Englishness - the images, characters, myths and peculiarities that have contributed to the self-image of a nation over the last few hundred years. The book discusses the…
A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos…
Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize A panoramic and perfectly magnificent intellectual history of medicine…This is the book that delivers it all. -Sherwin Nuland, author of How We…
The essays in this volume provide an unusual historical perspective on the experience of illness: they try to reconstruct what being ill (from a minor ailment to fatal sickness) was…
The Cambridge History of Medicine surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this 2006…
Discusses about millennia of human ingenuity in the quest to cheat death. This book features various chapters that sum up one of these battlefields such as surgery, doctors, disease, hospitals…
This book presents a detailed account of how the discipline of geology developed between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth century.
This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century. It is designed to be read…
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Epic Peters, Pullman Porter covers well the black porter of the 1920s. Cohen’s work is the next-best-thing to having an oral history of a Pullman porter during the hey-day of…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Roy C Porter
Travelling home from Danegal early one evening, my wife, Anne, remarked how beautiful the plane’s vapour trails looked stretching across the azure blue sky.
