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Rebels on the Backlot : Six maverick directors and how they conquered the Hollywood studio system by Sharon Waxman
$27.95 AUD
Category: Film & TV | Series: P. S. Ser.
The 1990s saw a shock wave of dynamic new directing talent that took the Hollywood studio system by storm. At the forefront of that movement were six innovative and daring directors whose films pushed the boundaries of moviemaking and announced to the world that something exciting was happening in Holly ...Show more
The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of 'Crash' and 'Empire of the Sun', reissued here with a new introduction from Martin Amis. Fluctuations in solar radiation have melted the ice caps, sending the planet into a n ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator); Harry Willets (Translator); Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Abridged by); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
$37.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of f ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956 - An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Harry Willets (Translator); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
$28.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."The greatest and most powerful single ...Show more
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and unforgettable novel about freedom and commitment that ignited the flames of environmental activism. Throughout the vast American West, nature is being vicitimized by a Big Government / Bi ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Food & Cooking | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Red Convertible - Selected and New Stories, 1978-2008 by Louise Erdrich
$27.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
"Erdrich is a true original... and] one of our major writers: She illuminates large swaths of U.S. history and culture, and The Red Covertible] is a good demonstration of her compelling stylistic innovations, not to mention her literary cunning." --Washington Post Book World From New York Times bestsell ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more