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This book is an in-depth look at horse-using cultures throughout the world. The horse, an integral part of nomadic cultures, bearer of ancestral traditions, and also a symbol of wealth,...

The book titled The Red Orchestra by the author G. Perroult. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Polish Jews: A Pictorial Record by the author Roman Vishniac. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The great master of farce turns to an exclusive island retreat for a comedy of mislaid identities, unruly passions, and demented, delicious disorder On the private Greek island of Skios,...

The book titled John Steinbeck by the author Jay Parini. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This book is about four writers Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and CZline whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their writing...

The book titled Last World by the author Ransmayr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first-and...

This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during...

The book titled Paris by the author Madelaine Mautford. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is a comprehensive new reference book on the life and works of the influential impressionist artist, Edgar Degas, acknowledged as one of the greatest masters of all time. It...

The Habsburg courtier Charles-Joseph Prince de Ligne seduced and symbolized eighteenth-century Europe. Speaking French, the international language of the day, he travelled between Paris and St Petersburg, charming everyone he...

The book titled Trozas by the author B. Traven. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Published for the exhibition RANJANI SHETTAR: DEWDROPS AND SUNSHINE NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, 04 November 2011 - 26 February 2012. Transforming the simple and the mundane into the...

Lycia has always been the least accessible and least visited region of Western Turkey. Locked in their mountainous region, its people still maintain the distinctive and independent spirit that can...

Mankind's battle to stay alive and healthy for as long as possible is our oldest, most universal and formidable struggle. This witty and often shocking book explores the ingenious ways...

The book titled The Good Ship Venus: Erotic Voyage of Maurice Girodias and the Olympia by the author John De St. Jorre. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated....

Computer code operates behind nearly everything we do - from small calculations in the home to complex executions that drive the global economy. It influences who we see, follow, and...

Ellen Terry was a natural actress who filled the theatre with a magical radiance. The Times called her the uncrowned queen of England but behind her public success lay a...

The book titled The Royal Beasts and Other Works by the author William Empson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Before marrying Igor Stravinsky in 1922 in Paris, the arts patroness Vera Arturovna Sudeikin-Stravinsky (1888-1982) was already known as the "Muse of the Muses" in what had been the bohemian,...

Originally a radical socialist, the current driving force behind the rise of the Hollywood right recounts how he moved from one set of political convictions to another over the course...

Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels , Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...

"On or about December 1910" human character changed, Virginia Woolf remarked, and well she might have. The company she kept, the Bloomsbury circle, took shape before the coming of World...

Has liberalism lost its way--or merely its voice? This book by one of the nation's most insightful, articulate, and powerful Democrats at last breaks the silence that has greeted the...

The author recounts a Jewish childhood in the last days of Czarist Russia, and his experiences during the German occupation.

The book titled The Wrath of Nations: Civilization and the Furies of Nationalism by the author William Pfaff. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

This investigation of the origins of comedy and the meaning of laughter draws on biology, anthropology, classical studies, behavioural science, philosophy and psychology - with a few authorial jokes along...

The book titled Far Journeys by the author Bruce Chatwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The initial print run sold out in weeks, this stock is from the publisher's reprint. The Drover - droving captured through the lens of a camera The red dust swirls...

In the summer of 2003 bushfires raged for nearly two months in the alps of north-east Victoria. Instead of being allowed back onto their leases the following summer, the cattlemen...

This book focuses on the interactions between people, sheep and nature in the run country of Tasmania. It addresses the relationship between production and conservation in natural landscapes grazed by...

This is an investigation of the state of French society. France, arguably the most influential member of the European Community, its economy booming and institutions stable, appears in short to...

The book titled The Revolutionist by the author Robert Littell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A delightful and uncommonly honest memoir of Michael Frayn's father and of his own childhood, written in the spirit of enquiry that so characterises one of our most distinguished and...

The man whom historians know as Leo Africanus, author of the first geography of Africa, is a celebrated but hitherto elusive figure. Al-Hasan al-Wazzan was born in Granada, and grew...

Presenting a collection of the writings of Mario Vargas Llosa, this book takes a journey through time, through books, and through different geographical locations, plotting the intellectual biography of one...

The book titled New Monteverdi Companion by the author Denis Arnold. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Dragonflies" is fully illustrated with colour photographs that reveal the beauty and hidden complexity of these intriguing insects.

Lichenologist, William Purvis here explores the unusual biology, amazing diversity and ecological importance of lichen. The text explains how understanding lichen biodiversity may lead to technological developments in medicine, metal...

The book titled Indignation by the author Philip Roth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Don Quixote de la Mancha is one of the classic texts of Western literature, yet Cervantes remains an enigmatic figure. This Companion is a comprehensive treatment of Cervantes' life and...

In The Meanings of Death, John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religions. Examining the themes...

Ansel Adams created dramatic and influential photographs renowned for their classic and awe-inspiring beauty. His evocative still lifes became icons of the environmental movement and introduced the general public to...

This unusual, distinctive book is a glowing, theatrical blend of history, travelogue, fictional sketch, art and literary criticism, and personal essay. Angelo Ripellino goes beyond the tourist cliche of Prague...

For more than four decades, Linda Nochlin has been at the forefront of the feminist critique of art history, playing a pivotal role in shaping the course of the discipline....