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Undead Science examines the story of cold fusion, one of the most publicized scientific controversies of the late twentieth century. In 1989 two Utah-based "discoverers" claimed to have developed an...

Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at...

The book titled The Bachelor of Arts by the author R. K. Narayan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Gods, Demons and Others by the author R. K. Narayan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

When Pico Iyer began his travels, he wanted to know how Rambo conquered Asia. Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all?...

With the publication of his first story collection, Thirst -- also a New York Times Notable Book of the Year -- Ken Kalfus made "a dazzling debut," emerging as "a...

The book titled Northanger Abbey by the author Jane Austen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

In the Robben Island prison register, Nelson Mandela was famously recorded as prisoner number 466/64. Number 468/64 was Ahmed Kathrada. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 in the infamous Rivonia...

The book titled Studying Poetry by the author Barry Spurr. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

From cave paintings to the 20th century, evidence exists for strange craft visiting the Earth. This scientifically-based survey of UFOs looks at the technology, physics and chemistry involved, from the...

The book titled Dennis Brain: A Biography by the author Stephen J. Pettitt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This is the inaugural volume in an annual series inaugurated by the University of Queensland's Law School. It is based on the famous Hamlyn Lecture Series in England. The McPherson...

The book titled The Overlander Song Book by the author Ron Edwards. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Captivated is a true story of genius and possession. The background is the turn of the century, when a late 19th century world of mesmerists, psychics, trancers and table-turners gave...

The book titled The Brothers' War: Civil War Letters to Their Loved Ones from the Blue by the author Annette Tapert. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for...

The book titled A History of the Mind by the author Nicholas Humphrey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Dresses of Red and Gold by the author Robin Klein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Theodora is fourteen when her father Elkanah has a mysterious vision. Soon after, he leaves his family and goes to live with his first wife Pearl. It is up to...

From convict days, through the era of bushrangers and drovers, to more recent and more urban times, Australians have expressed their experiences of life and work through ballads and folksongs....

The book titled The Businessman: A Tale of Terror by the author Thomas M. Disch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Painter is a leo - part man, part lion - the result of one of man's genetic experiments, a powerful, beautiful, enigmatic creature deemed a 'failure' to be be hunted...

An astonishing and unmissable debut from an exceptional talent. Set in a working class suburb of Seattle, Mathew McIntosh's devastatingly beautiful first novel, Well, charts the lives of a vast...

Full of the power and fantastic imagination of The Iron Man, this sequel from the former Poet Laureate is a passionate and brilliant cry against the relentless pollution of the...

Written in verse, The Golden Gate was Vikram Seth's first novel, before the epic A Suitable Boy. Set in the eighties in the affluence and sunshine of California's Silicon Valley,...

This book gives a comprehensive account of both experimental and theoretical aspects of electron microprobe analysis, and is an extensively updated version of the seminal first edition, published in 1975....

This extended study of the treatment of the physical, material nature of the human body in the works of Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe examines the role that literary invention...

Surveys the pottery, sculpture, masks, textiles, beadwork baskets, and paintings produced by North American Indians.

In Travelers to an Antique Land, Robert Eisner embarks on an engaging journey through centuries of fascination with Greece-a land alternately imagined, idealized, and rediscovered by visitors from across the...

The book titled The Arrow of Time: A Voyage Through Science to Solve Time's Greatest by the author Peter Coveney (Centre for Computational Science, University College London ). This is...

This coming-of-age classic from "one of the nation's foremost Chicano literary artists" follows a young boy as he questions his faith and beliefs after a curandera woman introduces herbs and...

A brilliant new collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, introduced by acclaimed author Virginia Euwer Wolff. I'M NOBODY, WHO ARE YOU? is a collection of Emily Dickinson's greatest poetry, from the...

Our narrator s life is slowly coming apart at the seams. The Pizza job looks shaky, the best friend Brainiac is getting depressed and the live-in girlfriend is increasingly restless....

For over a decade THE WELL TEMPERED SENTENCE has provided instruction and pleasure to the wariest student and the most punctilious scholar alike. Now Karen Elizabeth Gordon has revised and...

The practice of neurosurgery is one of the most demanding and difficult specializations in the field of medicine. It attracts doctors of great dexterity and daring. Shelton takes the reader...

The book titled V. N.: Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov by the author Andrew Field. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Short Stories of Margaret Sutherland Ppr NZ by the author Margaret Sutherland. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Language Arts and the Learner by the author John Murray. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Healing Brain: A Radical New Approach to Health Care by the author Robert E. Ornstein. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

* A European classic * Set in Rumania, Austria and Germany between the last century's world wars, this is the story of one man. Our hero tells of his childhood:...

`Even the hardest-headed urbanite has at some point been so moved by natural beauty as to yearn for a rural past. Evan Eisenberg, a gardener and gifted musician, explores people's...

Peter Porter, along with Les Murray, is the leading English language poet of the southern hemisphere. He's won the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, holds several honorary doctorates and is...

Pablo Escobar, king of the Medellin Cartel in Columbia, was the world's richest cocaine baron, with an estimated personal fortune of $5 billion. His forces of hit men became small...

West's narrative takes on all of Mexican history, from the conquest by Spain and the Mexican Revolution, to the muralist movement, and explores the inner lives of such figures as...