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So Much for Life - Selected Poems by Mark Hyatt; Sam Ladkin (Editor); Luke Roberts (Editor)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A long awaited collection of poems by Mark Hyatt, one of the great lost writers of mid-century British poetry. Scarcely published in his lifetime, Hyatt's work -survives thanks to the intervention of poets and friends who saved his manuscripts and kept his poems in circulation. Queer in the decades befo ...Show more
Solenoid by Mircea Cartarescu
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.Based on Cărtărescu's own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist's life and quickly spirals into a philosophical ac ...Show more
Somebody Loves You by Mona Arshi
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A teacher asked me a question, and I opened my mouth as a sort of formality but closed it softly, knowing with perfect certainty that nothing would ever come out again. Ruby gives up talking at a young age. Her mother isn't always there to notice; she comes and goes and goes and comes, until, one day, ...Show more
Spells: 21st Century Occult Poetry by Sarah Shin (Editor); Rebecca Tamás (Editor)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Spells brings together thirty-six contemporary voices exploring the territory where justice, selfhood and the imagination meet the transformative power of the occult. These poems unmake the world around them, so that it might be remade anew. Kaveh Akbar, Rachael Allen, Nuar Alsadir, Khairani Barokka, Em ...Show more
Spinoza Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze
$22.99 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A concise and illuminating book about the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, one of the early thinkers of the Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism. Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: His Science in a Nutshell by Florian Freistetter; Brian Taylor
$34.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A science writer explains the significance of Stephen Hawking's work--in terms all of us can understand. Stephen Hawking was one of the most important astrophysicists of the last fifty years. After the publication of A Brief History of Time, he became an international celebrity. Though the book sold in ...Show more
Stories from the Center of the World - New Middle East Fiction by Jordan Elgrably (Editor); Hanif. Kureishi (Contribution by); Omar El Akkad (Contribution by)
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
One of The Millions Most Anticipated Books for Spring! Short stories from 25 emerging and established writers of Middle Eastern and North African origins, a unique collection of voices and viewpoints that illuminate life in the global Arab/Muslim world. "Provocative and subtle, nuanced and surprising, ...Show more
Stormy Seas: Stories of Young Boat Refugees by Mary Beth Leatherdale
$19.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A treacherous voyage across the open seas is the last hope for safety and freedom for five young people from around the world. The phenomenon of desperate refugees risking their lives to reach safety is not new. For hundreds of years, people have left behind family, friends, and all they know in hope of ...Show more
Strange Beasts of China by Yan Ge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
‘All we have are stories.’ In the city of Yong’an, an amateur cryptozoologist is commissioned to uncover the stories of its fabled beasts. These creatures — with their greenish stomachs or gills or strange birthmarks — live alongside humans in near-inconspicuousness, some with ancient forbears, othe ...Show more
Supposing... by Alastair Reid
$29.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Age range 4 to 8Follow unexpected possibilities on fanciful and humorous journeys, powered by the limitlessness of the imagination and the openness of the human spirit.SUPPOSING I looked in the mirror one day and saw someone who wasn’t me at all… SUPPOSING I sailed around the world and when I was a mile ...Show more
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters: Why Charlie Watts Matters by Mike Edison
$28.99 AUD
Category: Music | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush--capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived--and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the World needed the world's greatest rock 'n' roll drummer. Across five ...Show more
Telling Stories Wrong by Gianni Rodari
$27.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Everyone knows how "Little Red Riding Hood" goes. But Grandpa keeps getting the story all wrong, with hilarious results! "Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Little Yellow Riding Hood--" "Not yellow! It's Red Riding Hood!" So begins the story of a grandpa playfully recounting the well-kno ...Show more