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Robert Adamson
The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River'
In the old days I used to think art That was purely imagined could fly higher Than anything real…
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Poetry. Edited and introduced by Devin Johnston, REACHING LIGHT selects from five decades of work by one of Australia’s finest poets. Readers of Robert Adamson’s books will have understood that…
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Margot Robert-Winterhalter
A new deluxe miniature Tarot deck inspired by the famous Rider-Waite-Smith Tarot
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Robert Cwiklik
An impeccably researched, character-driven narrative history recounting the fascinating late-Reconstruction Era mission of General Philip Sheridan, a Union hero dispatched to the South 10 years after the Civil War to…
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Be warned, this book is a mind-bender. Imagine a future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.
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The Best Australian Poems 2010 vibrates with correspondences. The images in some poems are reflected in others a| until the individual poems begin to read like stanzas in some epic…
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BASE: The Edge of Reality
Imagine a future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.
Skyler Anderson…
The alien/human merging produced a life form of such hybrid vigor, intelligence, and independence that it puzzled the aliens. Follow the remarkable life of Earth's last hope from birth to…
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…
Brings together the best of Robert Adamson’s work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible…
The Goldfinches of Baghdad teems with cockatoos, kookaburras, lyrebirds, dollarbirds, and a host of waders from Adamson’s native region. At once real presences and sly emissaries of the poetic imagination…
Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia’s Hawkesbury River. His poems relate to nature, myth and his fishing background.
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: D. Douglas Subjects: History / General Philosophy / General Philosophy / History
William Robert Adamson
Approaching the works of Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) via his non-fictional writings, this study examines the relationship between pride and madness in Smollett’s novels. All of Smollett’s protagonists, it is suggested…
Teena McCarthy
‘The only Sundays I looked forward to were spent with my beloved Australian nanna Kathleen Mary McCarthy. I would sit with Nanna McC - listening to her stories unwind -…
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Robert M Adamson
The Christian doctrine of the Lord’s Supper (1905). This book, The Christian doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, by Robert M. Adamson, is a replication of a book originally published before…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
""The Development of Modern Philosophy"" by Robert Adamson is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of philosophical thought from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Adamson examines…
Adamson Robert
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…
William Adamson
Robert Milligan's Difficulties or Struggle and Triumph: A Scotch Life Story is a biographical work written by William Adamson and first published in 1891. The book tells the story of…
Adds a new dimension to Hopkins Studies through its exploration of the complex and sometimes confounding friendship between the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Hopkins and the editor of his…
Elmer H Groefsema,Lucian Y Ray,Additional Contributors
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading…
Robert Spencer
Most historians of the American presidency–walking in lockstep with today’s hard-Left academic establishment–favor presidents who were big-government statists and globalists. They dislike presidents who lowered taxes, protected American workers, and…
Robert Paarlberg
This authoritative primer lays out everything you need to know to understand today's global food landscape. The third edition of Food Politics has been updated to reflect the latest developments…
Adrienne Spinozzi
Adventures in abstract ceramics, from George E. Ohr and Ken Price to Kathy Butterly
A comprehensive overview of 20th-century non-representational ceramics from the earliest years of the modernist revolution to…
Robert J Lieber
A clear-eyed analysis of the role the United States should play in the world as it exists today
The United States remains the indispensable nation. In this book, the distinguished…
Offers traditional cultural information on Comanches. This work presents the Comanches’ earlier world - religious stories, historical accounts, autobiographical remembrances, cosmology, the practice of war, everyday games, birth rituals, funerals…
Robert Louis Stevenson
The classic adventure story of kidnap, shipwreck, murder and pursuit as young David Balfour tries to claim the inheritance he has been cheated out of.
Fourteen essays examine the unexpected relationships between government power and intimate life in the last 150 years of United States history.
The last few decades have seen a surge of…
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Steven M Teles,Robert P Saldin
As it became increasingly apparent that Donald Trump might actually become the Republican party’s 2016 presidential nominee, alarmed conservatives coalesced behind a simple, uncompromising slogan: Never Trump. Although the movement…
