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Beliefs That Changed the World
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: John Bowker Format: Paperback...
The Meanings of Death
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...
Beliefs that Changed the World: The History and Ideas of the Great Religions
Author: John Bowker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Religious beliefs have shaped the history of the world. Their effect can be seen in culture, philosophy and politics, and they...
What Muslims Believe
The interviewees in this bestselling book provide thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues, from the interpretation of the Qur'an and the nature of Islamic law to the role...
The Message and the Book: Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
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Most people alive today (more than three-quarters of the world's population) belong to one of the great religions. These faiths are built on the foundation-stones of key texts, to which...
Malcolm Lowry Remembered
The book titled Malcolm Lowry Remembered by the author Gordon Bowker. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Fatal Deception: How Big Business is Still Killing Us with Asbestos
Reveals an ongoing prevalence of toxic asbestos throughout America, tracing the poisoning rates in the vermiculite mining town of Libby, Montana, and exposing how corporations are successfully covering up their...
The Bush Soldiers
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the brutal and unforgiving landscape of wartime Australia, The Bush Soldiers by John Hooker is a gripping historical novel that...
The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the
According to Bowker, there are over 150,000 books published in the U.S. every year. Less than 1 percent of the books published make the bestseller list. People are fascinated by...
The Life And Times Of George Iii
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew monarchs in British history have been as misunderstood, mythologised, and ultimately as tragic as George III — a king who ruled for sixty...
Wild Geese: the LAMBDA and GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE winner
'Soula Emmanuel's prose is breathtaking: searingly sharp, deliciously funny, profound. Wild Geese is a beautiful and devastating read. An extraordinary debut. I loved this deeply intelligent and emotionally powerful novel'...
Wild Geese: the LAMBDA and GORDON BOWKER VOLCANO PRIZE winner
Author: Soula Emmanuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Soula is the most exciting new voice in Irish writing' Barry Pierce, i-D 'One of my favourite books so far this...
Butterfield 8
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the glittering yet morally ambiguous world of 1930s New York, BUtterfield 8 chronicles the turbulent life of...
Mutiny !! Aboard H.M. Armed Transport 'Bounty' In 1789
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Author: B.M. DinsdaleBinding: HardbackPublished: Bowker & Bertram., 1978Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical account chronicles the dramatic events of the infamous 1789 uprising aboard a British...
The Eye Of The Beholder: Albert Tucker's Photographs
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind every great painter lies a second, quieter eye — and in The Eye of the Beholder: Albert...
Hedgerow
Hedgerows, moors, meadows and woods - these hold a veritable feast for the forager. In this hugely informative and witty handbook, John Wright reveals how to spot the free and...
The Ebony Tower
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the verdant seclusion of a Breton forest, a young English art critic arrives to interview Henry Breasley,...
The Death Of A President: November, 1963
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the four days that shook the world — November 20–25, 1963 — America witnessed the assassination of...
Conquering the North: China, Russia, Mongolia: 2,000 Years of Conflict
The Great Wall of China - stretching from the arid rises of Gansu province to the cold waters of the Bohai Sea - remains an enduring symbol of Chinese might....
Samuel Johnson
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in English literary history loom as large or as vividly as Samuel Johnson — and John Wain's acclaimed biography captures the full measure...
The Imperial Achievement: The Rise And Transformation Of The British Empire
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Author: John BowleBinding: HardbackPublished: SECKER & WARBURG, 1974Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThe Imperial Achievement by John Bowle presents a comprehensive historical...
Voltaire
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingFew figures in Western intellectual history burned as brilliantly — or as dangerously — as François-Marie Arouet, the man the world came...
John Soane
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in the history of British architecture cast as long a shadow as Sir John Soane, and this volume from the celebrated Architectural...
Rowlandson: Watercolours And Drawings
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew artists captured the raucous, unruly spirit of Georgian England with the raw vitality and comic genius of...
From Sydney Cove To Paddington Hill: The Story Of Victoria Barracks
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the earliest days of colonial settlement to the storied heights of Paddington Hill, From Sydney Cove to...
South Of The Zambesi: Poems From South Africa
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the sun-scorched veld to the thundering waters of the Zambesi, Guy Butler's South of the Zambesi: Poems from South Africa presents a powerful...
The Human Face
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does a human face truly reveal — and why are we so compelled to read it? The Human Face by John Liggett presents...
E.J. Bellocq: Storyville Portraits: Photographs From The New Orleans Red-Light District, Circa 1912
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. worn edges - creased corners; internally sound.At the dawn of the twentieth century, in the shadowy quarters...
Gough Whitlam: A Tribute 1916–2014
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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in Australian political history command the enduring reverence of Edward Gough Whitlam, and this handsome tribute volume stands as a testament to...
Antoine Watteau
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew artists captured the ineffable beauty of leisure and longing quite like Jean-Antoine Watteau, the French Rococo master whose shimmering canvases defined an era...
Gary Lineker: A Portrait of a Football Icon: 'AN ESSENTIAL READ'
'Full of pace and style, just like its subject ... a vivid, nostalgic reminder of Lineker's greatness as a player' - Leo McKinstry 'Chris Evans has done the hard yards...
Gippsland: People, A Place And Their Past
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageCarved from the rugged southeastern corner of Victoria, Gippsland has long been one of Australia's most storied yet...
The Affluent Society
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1958, John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society stands as one of the most provocative and...
The First World War: 1914-1918
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhen the guns of August 1914 shattered the long peace of Europe, the world was drawn into a conflict of unprecedented scale and brutality —...
Joyful, Anyway: Finding Delight in Impossible Times
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting...
Blind Ambition: The Real Story Behind Washington's Closed Doors
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew political memoirs have shaken Washington to its foundations quite like Blind Ambition, the searing firsthand account by...
Truthteller: An Investigative Reporter's Journey Through the World of
There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...
It Happened Like This: My Testimony
A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women's power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky's Foster's own traumatic background. How do you get close to...
In The Psychiatrist's Chair
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat drives a person to greatness — and what haunts them in the quiet moments? In the Psychiatrist's...
The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan
Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? Most political commentators point to heads of state, such as the Presidency, and other formal institutions of the state....
Roy Lichtenstein
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodOne of the most provocative figures of the twentieth century, Roy Lichtenstein transformed the disposable imagery of comic strips and...
Just Earth: How a Fairer World Will Save the Planet
'Everyone should read this book' - George Monbiot 'A compelling read for anyone who cares about all lives on our planet' - Tanya Steele CBE, CEO of WWF UK In...