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City: A Guidebook for the Urban Age: A Guidebook for the Urban Age by P D Smith
$35.00 AUD
Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Reading Level: very good
For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population - 3.3 billion people - are now living in cities. Two hundred years ago only 3 per cent of the world's population were urbanites, a figure that had remained fairly stable (give or take the occasional plague) for about 1000 yea ...Show more
Doomsday Men by P.D. Smith
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
It was the weapon to end all weapons: the doomsday device. A huge nuclear bomb so powerful that it could envelop the entire planet in a cloud of radioactive dust, and bring about instant extinction. This is the untold story of the Cold War's most insane plan, the men behind it and how it nearly happened ...Show more
O the Brave Music by D. Smith
$29.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: British Library Women Writers Ser.
'Sometimes I think that was the happiest day of my life, those hours of heat and silence and colour, along with David high up on the moor. But then I remember that I have said that of many other days, so I cannot be sure.' A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set befor ...Show more
The 40s - The Story of a Decade - The New Yorker by New Yorker Magazine Editors; David Remnick (Introduction by); J. D. Salinger (Contribution by); Zadie Smith (Contribution by); E. B. White (Contribution by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor)
$41.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The Mahabharata by J.D. Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion
A new selection from the national epic of India Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata-with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse-is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a conflict between two branches of a royal family wh ...Show more
World of Whisky by David Wishart; Neil Ridley; Gavin D. Smith
$59.99 AUD
Category: Wine & Drinks
This authoritative book gives simple advice on how to enjoy the immense diversity of whisky, and how to become more adventurous with your choice of flavors and styles.Whisky is the world's favorite spirit and is enjoying booming sales, yet too often it is shrouded in mystery, myth and complex-sounding t ...Show more
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