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Ahab's Rolling Sea - A Natural History of Moby-Dick by Richard J. King
$73.99 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
Although Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing--or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the "best book ever written about nature," an ...Show more
Blaze by Richard Bachman (Foreword by Stephen King)
$35.00 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
At 6'7and just under 300 lbs, Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers were just small-time until he met George Rackley. George introduced him to a hundred cons and one big idea: kidnapping the child of rich parents.The Gerards are filthy rich, and the last twig on the family tree could be worth ...Show more
Here be Monsters: Is Technology Reducing Our Humanity? by Richard King
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Technology is developing fast — so fast that it threatens to overwhelm the very species whose genius lies in its technological cunning: us. From the metaverse to genetic engineering and mood-altering pharmaceuticals, to cybersex and cyberwar and the widespread automation of work, new technologies are re ...Show more
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks Who Made Independent Music, 1975-2005 by Richard King
$39.99 AUD
Category: Music
"If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it". (Daniel Miller, Mute Records). Richard King's "How Soon Is Now?" is a landmark survey of the record labels that make up the b ...Show more
How Soon is Now?: The Madmen and Mavericks who made Independent Music 1975-2005 by Richard King
$24.99 AUD
Category: Music
'If you look at all the people involved - Ivo, Tony Wilson, McGee, Geoff Travis, myself - nobody had a clue about running a record company, and that was the best thing about it.' Daniel Miller, Mute Records One of the most tangible aftershocks of punk was its prompt to individuals: do it yourself. A ge ...Show more
Loops by Richard King
$29.99 AUD
Category: Music
"Loops" will offer a landscape, both in print form and online, for today's exceptional writers to engage with subjects, individuals and issues that color all corners of the pop music world. Free from the shackles of release schedules, "Loops" will provide a space for artists to publish tour diaries, non ...Show more
On Offence - The Politics of Indignation by Richard King
$27.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Most of us know what it is to be offended. In a society bound by complicated behavioural codes, the potential for offence is ever-present, the varieties of emotional trespass legion. A person who claimed never to have taken offence would either be lying or uniquely tolerant, while someone who claimed ne ...Show more
Original Rockers by Richard King
$35.00 AUD
Category: Music
A Times, Rough Trade and Uncut Book of the Year, shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2015. Original Rockers is a clear-eyed yet romantic account of the several years that Richard King spent working behind the counter at Bristol's Revolver Records -- a business run from the heart rather than the head. ...Show more
Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
$55.00 AUD
Category: Natural History and Environment
What compels a person to set out to sea? A solo sailor explores the exhilarating and frightening world of the wide ocean Sailing on a boat by yourself out at sea and out of sight of land can be exhilarating or terrifying, compelling or tedious - sometimes it can be all of these things just in one morn ...Show more
The Lark Ascending - People, Music and Landscape in Twentieth Century Britain by Richard King
$22.99 AUD
Category: Music
A Book of the Year, ROUGH TRADEA Book of the Year, MOJO The Lark Ascending is a lyrical exploration of how Britain's history and identity has been shaped by the mysterious relationship between its people, its music and the landscape. Taking Ralph Vaughan Williams’s most celebrated and popular compositi ...Show more
The Lark Ascending: The Music of the British Landscape by Richard King
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The Lark Ascending, Ralph Vaughan Williams' 'pastoral romance for orchestra' was premiered on 14 June, 1921. Over the course of the twentieth century this piece of music, perhaps more than any other, worked its way into the collective consciousness to seemingly define a mythical concept of the English c ...Show more
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