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The book titled The Trap by the author Dan Billany. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Reminiscent of Donna Tartt, a circle of friends at Cambridge form a private club that scales the university colleges by night, until one day they take their daredevil activities one...

The wartime love story between a young English widow and a refugee from Nazi occupied France. In 1940, as the shadows are lengthening over Europe, painter Louis Duval decides to...

"[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians' thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see...

This December, Meanjin turns seventy. As Australia s second oldest literary journal, it has helped our nation develop a cultural identity, critiqued that identity and, more recently, saw globalisation threaten...

Facing North: A Century of Australian Engagement with Asia is the first book to assess the whole history of Australia's relations with Asia since Federation. This first volume presents a...

"I have had the great good fortune to have been able to live an almost entirely private life with a small circle of friends and colleagues ..." With this modest...

The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 4, spanning April 1929 through 1931, featuring many previously unpublished letters, records the establishment of Ernest Hemingway as an author of international renown following...

Drawing on complex systems theory, this book investigates how human societies deal with change in linked social-ecological systems, and build capacity to adapt to change. The concept of resilience is...

This is a general account of the history and architecture of Crusader castles in the Kingdom of Jerusalem, County of Tripoli and Principality of Antioch between 1099 and 1291, the...

This volume of specially-commissioned essays provides accessible introductions to all aspects of George Eliot's writing by some of the most distinguished new and established scholars and critics of Victorian literature....

Vladimir Nabokov held the unique distinction of being one of the most important writers of the twentieth century in two separate languages, Russian and English. Known for his verbal mastery...

Images of Australian identity, and of Australian nationhood, are social and cultural constructs. There are several dominant themes and elements, one of the most pervasive being the Australian bushman confronting...

The book titled Calligram: Essays in New Art History from France by the author Norman Bryson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Conrad's great novel is a rich study not only of a typical South American country, but of the politics of any underdeveloped country, and for this reason it is permanently...

An understanding of statistics and experimental design is essential for life science studies, but many students lack a mathematical background and some even dread taking an introductory statistics course. Using...

This essential textbook is designed for students or researchers in biology who need to design experiments, sampling programs, or analyze resulting data. The text begins with a revision of estimation...

This book interprets the predicament faced by Australia's regional people from their own perspective and proposes a means by which they can act together to find a secure future under...

Ninety percent of the large fish in the world's oceans have disappeared in the past half century, causing the collapse of fisheries along with numerous fish species. In this hard-hitting,...

This book had its provenance in the late 1920s, when Erle Loran, then a young artist who wanted to fathom the mysteries of Cezanne's structural form, took up residence in...

Field guides often provide little ecological information, or context, for understanding the plants they identify. This book, with its engaging text and attractive illustrations, for the first time provides an...

Ten years of research and the discovery of long-forgotten letters and photos enabled Patricia Albers to bring new recognition to this talented, intelligent, and independent photographer whose life embodied the...

In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its...

In this generously illustrated book, Anne Hollander examines the representation of the body and clothing in Western art, from Greek sculpture and vase painting through medieval and renaissance portraits, to...

The book titled Message - Beth Derbyshire by the author Louise Ed Hayward. Please contact us for more information about this title.

First published in 1953, the year that saw thousands descend on London to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, London A to Z is a lexicon of the city's...

Have you ever wondered which typeface is used for airport signs? Or about the history behind the Times New Roman font? We are constantly engaging with type, yet many of...

Elena Jotow and Nicholas Ganz's candid guide to troubled but beautiful Burma offers a refreshing, often trenchant insight into its turbulent history and presents struggles as well as its most...

An art critic confronts the current art milieu, characterizing it as being without purpose or moral authority, and questions whether allegedly radical artists now reflect the culture of consumerism more...

Dramatic depictions of human forms - writhing painfully, dissolving, wrestling or engulfing one another, seated or in motion - are ubiquitous in the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992), one of...

More than 60,000 species of trees are found in an amazing variety of forms, sizes and habitats. Every tree has its own story and here are over 60, selected for...

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by...

Excellent examples of American fiction of the 19th and 20th centuries, these stories have been chosen for their timeless relevance and enduring popularity. Arranged in chronological order, they include Herman...

Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations...

The Inspiration Behind The Golden Globe --Winning Film "An engrossing and memorable tale."Jewish Book World "The sheer emotion of telling the tale is palpable. The whole is moving, and strange...

Geographic Information Analyses presents the spatial analytical foundation of geographic information systems which are instrumental to the emergent study of GIScience. This book covers spatial concepts such as points, lines,...

A selection of poems by William Cowper, edited by Michael Bruce

MY ANTONIA(1918) is the wistful tale of an immigrant girl from Bohemia,who has settled in Nebraska.Narrated by Antonia's childhood friend Jim Burden,the novel draws heavily upon Willa Cather's own formative...

The book titled Poltergeist by the author Colin Wilson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident - or murder...

Beginning in 1627, Princess Jahanara, first daughter of Shah Jahan of India's Mogul Dynasty, writes in her diary about political intrigues, weddings, battles, and other experiences of her life. Includes...

Southern China, A.D. 531. The Royal Diaries proudly presents two-time Newbery Honor author Laurence Yep, whose stunning diary of sixteen-year-old Lady of Ch'iao Kuo takes readers on a remarkable adventure...

In her first book for The Royal Diaries, Patricia Clark Smith introduces the teenage Weetamoo, who will succeed her father to become chief of the Pocassets in seventeenth-century New England....

The book titled The Gift of Stones by the author Jim Crace. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

FLASH! Illuminated by lightning, a lifeless human hand seems to reach from a barrel of asphalt beside the Charlotte racetrack. Even for forensic anthropologist Dr Tempe Brennan it is a...

An astonishing literary debut that will quickly establish Carol Goodman as a promising literary talent. The tense dramatic atmosphere sparkles with a cracking pace combined with startling imagination and writing...