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Shows in lucid and compelling terms how breakdown looms when a society outgrows its capacity to sustain itself. Homer-Dixon argues we are equipped to avert disaster. Armed with hindsight, increasingly...

Three years ago McSweeney's published Stephen Dixon's acclaimed I., "a moving and oddly funny book" (The New Yorker). Now, the two-time National Book Award nominee revisits that book's intimate territory,...

Swift, brutal and utterly final: with knockouts, there are no grey areas; a KO is a KO. But what actually is a knockout, and why are we so fascinated by...

The ninth Discworld novel. 'Holy Wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the...

Author: G. C. DixonBinding: HardbackPublished: Geoffrey Bles, 1925Condition:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsFrom Melbourne To Moscow chronicles an extraordinary overland journey, detailing...

A witty, chaotic and brilliant novel from the incomparable Thomas Pynchon. By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best. Suffused with rich satire,...

A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book. Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. 'The greatest, wildest author of...

The seventeenth Discworld novel. 'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to...

The legendary author of V and Gravity's Rainbow is back with a taut, psychedelic yarn, about the sixties, featuring private eye Doc Sportello... Read the cult classic behind the major...

"[A] superb biography....Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times." --Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka Simon Dixon's Catherine the Great is a complete and...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A landmark work in American literary scholarship, this interpretive biography chronicles the...

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.

The 27th Discworld novel, now available in hardback as part of the Discworld Collector's Library. A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel. Commander Sam Vimes of the...

The nineteenth Discworld novel. 'The work of a prolific humorist at his best' Observer The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of...

The First Discworld novel. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the...

Author: Geoffrey StephensBinding: PaperbackPublished: Trustees of the Diocese., 1991Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageHistorian Shirley Stephens chronicles the comprehensive history of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. What does it mean to be a writer in an age of upheaval, war, and radical transformation? The Writer in the Modern World: 20th Century Prose...

The number one bestselling new Discworld novel sees the Disc's first train come steaming into town. 'I could tell which of my fellow tube passengers had downloaded it to their...

The twenty-fifth Discworld novel. 'An unmitigated delight . . . very, very funny' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsA sharp and satirical literary novel, Peeping Tom chronicles the misadventures of Barney Fugelman, a writer of comic fiction who...

Author: The Right Honourable Sir Owen Dixon; collected by Judge WoinarskiBinding: HardbackPublished: THE LAW BOOK COMPANY LTD, 1965Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsJesting Pilate and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn the smoldering years before and during the American Civil War, Thomas Dixon's The Man...