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Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball tells the story of southern slavery through tracking the history of the Balls, prominent landowners, rice-planters, one or two of them slave traders, and big slave owners in...
Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre
"Long may he continue to divert us, " said "The New York Times" Book Review on its front page of Robertson Davies
Davies Robertson : Murther & Walking Spirits(Us)
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The book titled Davies Robertson : Murther & Walking Spirits(Us) by the author Robertson Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Laurie Loved ME Best
Two girls are head over heels in love with the same boy. Which girl does he love best. Only Laurie knows for sure.
The Sorrow of Belgium
The book titled The Sorrow of Belgium by the author Hugo Claus. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Petain: Hero or Traitor? the Untold Story
The book titled Petain: Hero or Traitor? the Untold Story by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Myths of Sexuality: Representations of Women in Victorian Britain
This work covers feminist art history. It tells how the depiction of women in art defined and confined their role in Victorian Britain. It offers an analysis of the regulation...
Andropov
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The book titled Andropov by the author Zhores A. Medvedev. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Oro
The book titled Oro by the author Cizia Zyke. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Langrishe, Go Down
The book titled Langrishe, Go Down by the author Aidan Higgins. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Watermelon Moon and Other Stories
Watermelon Moon and Other Stories will appeal to junior secondary students. Featuring main characters who are teenagers or younger, the stories come from a wide range of genres and countries....
A Preface to Shelley
This volume discusses the life and work of Percy Bysshe Shelley in the social and political context of the world and time in which he lived.
Virginia Woolf
This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches. Rachel Bowlby's anthology of aricles on Virginia...
Shapestone
Death is nasty and not a little inconvenient. Being dead even more so. Especially when you're tied to an amulet that has its own evil designs on the world. For...
Mine Boy: 'One of my all-time favourite novels' (Tsitsi Dangarembga)
'One of my all-time favourite novels.' Tsitsi Dangarembga 'The first African novel in English to draw international attention. ' New York Times 'The forerunner of an entire school of African...
Ulysses and Us: The Art of Everyday Living
Ulysses continues to be one of the central books of the twentieth century and this is an audacious new take on it. It was never meant to be an abstruse...
Touchstones: Essays on Literature, Art and Politics
One of Latin America's greatest novelists, Mario Vargas Llosa is also a most acute and wide ranging cultural critic and an acerbic political commentator. Touchstones includes his readings of major...
Faber Book of Utopias
John Carey is an acclaimed critic and editor of the bestselling The Faber Book of Science and The Faber Book of Reportage. In his spellbinding new anthology he charts the...
A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash
At the age of 21, a brilliant and highly eccentric graduate student made a major contribution to game theory: John Nash had discovered an influential theory of rational human behaviour....
Lorca's Granada: A Practical Guide
This book aims to provide the reader with a guide to Granada. Divided into ten routes, it takes the visitor, step-by-step, from the poet Federico Garcia Lorca's birthplace in the...
The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets
The book titled The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets by the author D. J. Enright. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Chinese Whispers
The book titled Chinese Whispers by the author Robert Sproat. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Place of the Skull
Avidiy Kallistratov is a religious idealist with a mission. In his quest to get rid of evil, he begins by investigating marijuana production and witnesses abuse, alcoholism and corruption first...
Randall Jarrell's Letters
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The book titled Randall Jarrell's Letters by the author Randall Jarrell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Fast, Fresh and Fabulous
"Fast, Fresh and Fabulous" is much more than a collection of recipes from Britain's most respected vegetarian author. With a wealth of interesting facts and inspiration, Rose shares the secrets...
The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 5 1929-1932: The Virginia Woolf
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Spanning the years in which Virginia Woolf penned her classic novel The Waves and worked on Flush , the nonfiction pieces in this fifth volume provide further insight into Woolf's...
From the Jaws of Defeat: Amazing Comebacks and Inspiring Capitulations
A collection of quotations from notable Australians who have suffered major public defeats or setbacks, yet in some manner, carried the day. From Ned Kelly's words at his sentencing, to...
The Diary Of A Vice-Chancellor
Raymond Priestley was the first salaried Vice-Chancellor of the University of Melbourne. It was a time of great upheaval, as Australian universities reshaped and reasserted themselves after the Great Depression....
Far From Where?
The book titled Far From Where? by the author Finnane Antonia. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Ecology And Empire
Reflects the growing awareness of the relationship between the expansion of empires and the environmental experience of the extra-European world. It provides a comparative historical approach to the impact of...
The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000
This book, first published in 2006, is a detailed and authoritative account of the last two centuries of the development of 'Western' medicine, a tradition now important everywhere in the...
The Last Years of Soviet Russian Literature: Prose Fiction 1975-1991
This is the only book, Russian or Western, that provides a comprehensive survey of developments in Russian prose over the last fifteen years of the Soviet regime.
D. H. Lawrence: Triumph to Exile 1912-1922: The Cambridge Biography of
This second volume of the acclaimed Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence covers the years 1912-22, the period in which Lawrence forged his reputation as one of the greatest and...
Inheriting Madness: Professionalization and Psychiatric Knowledge in
Historically, one of the recurring arguments in psychiatry has been that heredity is the root cause of mental illness. In Inheriting Madness , Ian Dowbiggin traces the rise in popularity...
Splat!: The Most Exciting Artists of All Time
Discover the real-life stories of some of the greatest artists of all time. Splat! traces art history through the artists who helped to make important artistic innovations, including Michelangelo and...
If I had a dragon
The fiery new title in the best-selling If I had a... series imagines life with a dragon as a pet. Imagine what it would be like to have a dragon...
The Girl and the Robot Heart
Glorious artwork combines with lyrical poetry in this Christmas-themed celebration of storytelling. Set in a sleepy town on Christmas Eve, the story begins with a conversation between a girl and...
Why do cats meow?: Curious Questions about Your Favourite Pet
Why Do Cats Meow? is the second book in the series of natural history books for children that answer curious questions about favourite and familiar pets. The book highlights the...
Why do dogs sniff bottoms?: Curious questions about your favourite pet
Why do dogs play dead? How do you speak dog? Why do dogs go about in handbags? This book will help children to understand what's so unique about a dog's...
Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography
An accessible, inspirational and engaging introductory survey of LGBTIQ+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest...
Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography
An accessible, inspirational and engaging introductory survey of LGBTIQ+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest...
The D-Day Atlas: Anatomy of the Normandy Campaign
A vivid re-creation of the D-Day invasion and its aftermath, told through detailed maps, authoritative text by a noted military historian and contemporary photographs. This powerful study chronicles the evolution...
Places: A Travel Companion for Music and Art Lovers
Art-loving armchair travellers, as well as the more devoted kind, will delight in this book as much for its intelligence and sensitivity as its detailed descriptions both of the travails...
Small Craft Advisories: Critical Articles, 1984-88
The book titled Small Craft Advisories: Critical Articles, 1984-88 by the author Robert Craft. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan: v. 1
Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Classic (1843) exploration of jungles of Yucatan, looking for evidences of Maya civilization. Extensive accounts of 44 Maya sites as well as of Yucatan folkways,...
Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint
A perfectly poured history of the world's greatest beer. "Joseph Conrad was wrong. The real journey into the Heart of Darkness is recounted within the pages of Bill Yenne's fine...
A Rebel in Defense of Tradition: Life and Politics of Dwight Macdonald
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This biography is a tale of an upper-middle-class white male who managed to jettison the prejudices and provincialism of his class, and become one of the most penetrating critics of...
Blood-and-thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak
The book titled Blood-and-thunder Adventure on Hurricane Peak by the author Margaret Mahy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.