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Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises
Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta ...
Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
'One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt' In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declara...
Why Weren't We Told?
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i...
Aspects of the Novel
E.M. Forster, Oliver Stallybrass
Sponsored by Trinity College of the University of Cambridge, The Clark Lectures have a long and distinguished history and have featured remarks by some of England's most important literary minds: Leslie Stephen, T. S. Eliot, F. R. Leavis, William Epsom, and I. A. Richards. All have given celebrated and ...
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Throughout history, maps have been fundamental in shaping our view of the world, and our place in it. But far from being purely scientific objects, maps of the world are unavoidably ideological and subjective, intimately bound up with the systems of power and authority of particular times and places. Ma...
Cress (The Lunar Chronicles Book 3)
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorCinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow, and they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her n...
A First Place
A collection of personal essays and writing from David Malouf to celebrate his 80th birthday. Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offering...
The Shed (The Ladybird Book of)
THE PERFECT GIFT for those Dads who spend a little too much time in the shed. Using your shed as an office is called shedworking. Bunny works from his shed. He is a freelance cow-whisperer. At least, that's what he tells his wife. Bunny is unemployed. 'Michael and Gwen are looking for the placemats Gw...
5,000 Awesome Facts 3 (About Everything!)
More fun than a barrel of monkeys and more interesting than reality TV-- thisbrain candy-filled book is an explosion of information about sensational topicskids love: royalty, gravity, bioluminescence, sloths, wildfires, bubblegum, cars, breakfast, aliens, you name it It's a fantastic, fact-filled editi...
Babies: Vintage Minis
Babies- our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the intensity, bewilderment and extravagant happiness of her experience of having babies, from the exhaustion of early pregnancy to first smiles and becoming acquainted with the l...
I Am Captain Kirk (Star Trek) LGB
Frank Berrios; Ethen Beavers (Illustrator)
Boldly go where no one has gone before with this first-ever Star Trek(TM) Little Golden Book--featuring Captain James T. Kirk Whether making strange new discoveries at the farthest reaches of the galaxy or facing off against Klingons and other alien races, find out what makes Captain James T. Kirk ...
Grimsdon (#1 Grimsdon)
Grimsdon is in ruins. Three years ago a massive wave broke its barriers and the sea flooded this grand city. Most were saved, some were lost - and some were left behind.Isabella Charm and her best friend, Griffin, live with three other children in the top of an opulent mansion. They've survived with the...
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity: The International Bestseller
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe five laws that confirm our worst fears- stupid people can and do rule the world.Since time immemorial, a powerful dark force has hindered the growth of human welfare and happiness. It is more powerful than the Mafia or the military. It has global catastrophic effects and ...
Who Owns History? Elgin's Loot and the Case for Returning Plundered Treasure
Hard on the heels of his best-selling autobiography Rather His Own Man, one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals turns his mind to one of the most important contemporary questions that divides the world of art and culture- the restitution of heritage treasures removed in earlier times from subju...
Why We Swim
A fascinating exploration into the human relationship to swimming and our innate connection to water.'A jewel of a book, a paean to the wonders of water and our place within it' James Nestor, bestselling of author of Breath 'Glorious' The New York Times Take a dive into the deep and discover what it is ...
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An electrifying collection of stories from the febrile imagination of a young writer who traverses culture, genre and form. A man grows tired of his open-plan office and builds a fort made of stationery. A woman's euphoria at finally achieving Desktop Zero is quickly replaced with despair. A group of c...
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