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A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'WITTY, HUMANE, LEARNED' NEW YORK TIMESThe New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defence of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our timeNot since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy ...Show more
A Thousand Small Sanities - The Moral Adventure of Liberalism by Adam Gopnik
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The New York Times-bestselling author offers a stirring defense of liberalism against the dogmatisms of our time Not since the early twentieth century has liberalism, and liberals, been under such relentless attack, from both right and left. The crisis of democracy in our era has produced a crisis of fa ...Show more
Angels and Ages: A short book about Darwin, Lincoln & modern life by Adam Gopnik
$34.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
On February 12th, 1809, two men were born an ocean apart: Abraham Lincoln in a one-room Kentucky log cabin; Charles Darwin on an English country estate. Each would see his life's work transform mankind's understanding of itself. This book shows how these two giants, who never met, changed the way we thi ...Show more
At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increa ...Show more
At the Strangers' Gate by Adam Gopnik
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'A dazzling talent' Malcolm Gladwell When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consola ...Show more
Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for himself the spirit and romance that has so captivated American writers throughout the twentieth c ...Show more
Paris to the Moon - A family in France by Adam Gopnik
$24.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris. Charmed by the beauties of the city, Gopnik set out to experience for him self the spirit and romance that has so captivated American writers throughout the twentieth ...Show more
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Bestselling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik embarks on a wildly creative inquiry into perhaps the oldest question: how do we learn a new skill? For decades, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliantly perceptive critic of art, food, France, and more. But recently, he b ...Show more
The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science
"[W]ise, companionable, and often extremely funny." --Oliver Burkeman, The AtlanticBest-selling author and New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik investigates a foundational human question: How do we learn--and master--a new skill?For decades now, Adam Gopnik has been one of our most beloved writers, a brilliant ...Show more
The Spectacle of Skill: Selected Writings of Robert Hughes by Robert Hughes; Adam Gopnik (Introduction by)
$95.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"I am completely an elitist, in the cultural but emphatically not the social sense. I prefer the good to the bad, the articulate to the mumbling, the aesthetically developed to the merely primitive, and full to partial consciousness. I love the spectacle of skill, whether it's an expert gardener at work ...Show more
The Table Comes First by Adam Gopnik
$24.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking
The Table Comes First is at once a celebration of the rituals of eating - the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart, the core of our memories - and an exploration of the extraordinary transformations that our notion of what makes food 'good' has undergone. Taking the rea ...Show more
Through the Children's Gate by Adam Gopnik
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Adam Gopnik, a highly esteemed writer for The New Yorker, moved his family back to New York City in 2000. In Through the Children