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Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics by Michael Ignatieff
$48.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left his life as a writer and professor at Harvard University to enter the combative world of politics back home in Canada. By 2008, he was leader of the country's Liberal Party and poised--should the governing Conservatives falter--to become Canada's next Prime Minister. It ne ...Show more
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation: and Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
$120.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
"I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty", one of Oscar Wilde's characters says. Another remarks, "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train". Before Wilde himself was ...Show more
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
$28.95 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Josef Albers's Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers's singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yale University Press in 1963 as ...Show more
Odyssey: ANew Translation by Homer; Peter Green
$27.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The Odyssey is vividly captured and beautifully paced in this swift and lucid new translation by acclaimed scholar and translator Peter Green. Accompanied by an illuminating introduction, maps, chapter summaries, a glossary, and explanatory notes, this is the ideal translation for both general readers a ...Show more
Proust among the Stars by Malcolm Bowie
$52.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
A matchless close reading of Remembrance of Things Past and a lesson in how to read the great books profitably and pleasurably. Bowie asserts that Proust's novel is one of the great exercises in speculative imagining in the world's literature and that its originality lies first in the quality of Proust' ...Show more
Spurs - Nietzsche's Styles/Eperons: les Styles de Nietzsche by Jacques. Derrida; Barbara Harlow (Translator)
$62.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Nietzsche has recently enjoyed much scrutiny from the nouveaux critiques. Jacques Derrida, the leader of that movement, here combines in his strikingly original and incisive fashion questions of sexuality, politics, writing, judgment, procreation, death, and even the weather into a far-reaching analysis ...Show more
The Complete Eightball 1-18 by Daniel Clowes
$99.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The beloved comic book series Eightball made Daniel Clowes' name even before he gained fame as a bestselling graphic novelist (Ghost World, Patience, David Boring, Ice Haven) and screenwriter. From 1989 to 1997, he produced 18 issues of what is still widely considered one of the greatest and most influe ...Show more
The Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus
$36.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman society, rubbing shoulders with various cultural and political luminaries, including Caesar, Cicero, and Pompey. Catullus' poetry is by ...Show more
They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer; Richard J. Evans (Afterword by)
$33.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were ...Show more
Why Art? by Davis, Eleanor
$24.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
What is "Art"? It's widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how ...Show more
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