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A CHRISTMAS CAROL AND OTHER CHRISTMAS BO by DICKENS CHARLES
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparitions who will thaw Scrooge's frozen heart. A Christmas Carol has grippe ...Show more
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: The\Penguin John le Carré Hardback Collection
A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa.Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants t ...Show more
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks
This literary landmark about the male supremacy and female subordination at Oxford University shines a brave, searing light on the obstacles that must be overcome on the path toward a harmonious unity of the sexes.
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
AWW Cook: How to Cook Absolutely Everything by Australian Women's Weekly Staff; Pamela Clark (Introduction by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: Hardback Ser.
This fabulous book full of must-have recipes was first published in 2006. By popular demand, we're releasing it especially for those keen cooks who may have missed out the first time around. This quintessential guide not only contains hundreds of recipes, it's also jam-packed with information on cooking ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil: Pocket Hardbacks by Friedrich Nietzsche
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi ...Show more
Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket Hardbacks by Sigmund Freud
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Civilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of twentieth-century thought, Freud ...Show more
Crime and Punishment (Oxford World Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky; Nicolas Pasternak Slater (Translator); Sarah J. Young (Editor)
$44.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection
'One death, in exchange for thousands of lives - it's simple arithmetic!'A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conven ...Show more
Dune (SF Masterworks) by Frank Herbert
$26.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Hardback
The Duke of Atreides has been manoeuvred by his arch-enemy, Baron Harkonnen, into administering the desert planet of Dune. Although it is almost completely without water, Dune is a planet of fabulous wealth, for it is the only source of a drug prized throughout the Galactic Empire. The Duke and his son, ...Show more
Essays and Aphorisms: Pocket Hardbacks by Arthur Schopenhauer
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
Evolutionary Writings (Including the Autobiographies) by Charles Darwin & James A. Secord (ed.)
$39.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Oxford World's Classics Hardbacks Ser.
On topics ranging from intelligent design and climate change to the politics of gender and race, the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin occupy a pivotal position in contemporary public debate. This volume brings together the key chapters of his most important and accessible books, including the Jou ...Show more
Fear and Trembling by Søren Kierkegaard; Alastair Hannay (Introduction by)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.