Beijing Time by Michael R. Dutton
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Among the soaring skyscrapers, choking exhaust fumes, nonstop traffic jams, and towering monuments, one discovers old Beijing - newly styled, perhaps, but no less present and powerful than in its ancient incarnation. This work conducts us into this mysterious world, at once familiar and yet alien to the ...Show more
Setting the People Free by Dunn, John
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger in the political imagination today? Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in ancient Greece to its triumph in the years since 1945. 'Setting the People Free' is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution.
WHERE FATE BECKONS : THE LIFE OF JEAN-FRANCOIS DE LA PEROUSE by JOHN DUNMORE
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Category: New Hardbacks
Devil's Game - How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam by Robert Dreyfuss
$47.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: American Empire Project Ser.
Backed by extensive archival research and interviews with dozens of policy makers and CIA, Pentagon and foreign service officials, Dreyfuss argues that the largely hidden financing of radical political Islam by the US is greatly to blame for the global explosion of terrorism. He follows the trail of Ame ...Show more
Quiet Please - Dispatches From a by DOUGLAS Scott
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Category: New Hardbacks
For most of us, librarians are the quiet people behind the desk, who, apart from the occasional shush, vanish into the background. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeneys contributor Scott Douglas puts the quirky caretakers of our literature front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd and a Kesey-esque ...Show more
The Origin of the World: Science and Fiction of the Vagina by Jelto Drenth
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Category: New Hardbacks
"The Origin of the World "is a revealing, intimate, and ultimately liberating study of female sexuality at its heart: the vagina. Working from the assumption that sex is pleasurable and fulfilling insofar as its participants fully understand how it works, sexologist Jelto Drenth gives readers a guided t ...Show more