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Homesick by Jennifer Croft
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The coming of age story of an award-winning translator, Homesick is about learning to love language in its many forms, healing through words and the promises and perils of empathy and sisterhood. Sisters Amy and Zoe grow up in Oklahoma where they are homeschooled for an unexpected reason: Zoe suffers f ...Show more
Impressionism - Pathways to Modernity Hb - Impressionism: Pathways to Modernity by Stephane Guegan (ed.); Sylvie Patry ( ed.)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Italian Film in the Shadow of Auschwitz by Millicent Marcus
$14.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The last decade has witnessed an outpouring of Italian films that deal with Fascism, anti-Semitism and the Holocaust. This would appear to mark a distinct change from the postwar reluctance to represent such an infamous history. Roberto Benigni's popular Life is Beautiful (1997) is an obvious example, b ...Show more
Jonathan Livingston Seagull: A Story [Thorsons Classics edition] by RICHARD BACH
$6.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. 'Most gulls don't bother to learn mor ...Show more
Les A. Murray - Selected Poems by Les A. Murray
$10.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This selection comprises what Les Murray considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.
Long Day's Journey into War - Pearl Harbor and a World at War - December 7, 1941 by Stanley Weintraub
$20.00 NZD
Category: World War II | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Lulu in Hollywood by Louise Brooks
$12.00 NZD
Category: Film | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
(Limelight). "These terse, raffish, authoritative essays are among the best discussions of American film I have ever read...She is terrific on actors and acting because her language is free from critical cant or hyperbole...At 22, she made film history as Lulu. At 75, her Lulu in Hollywood is another po ...Show more
Mutiny! - The Real History of the H. M. S. Bounty by John Barrow; Edward E. Leslie (Introduction by)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Nautical | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
On April 28th, 1789, a handful of men led by Fletcher Christian mutinied aboard the HMS Bounty, setting her captain, William Bligh, and 18 other men adrift, then vanishing into the Pacific Ocean. This is the story of the mutiny that became a landmark case in naval history.
Norman Ackroyd - A Shetland Notebook by Norman Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Vivid watercolor landscapes from one of Britain's foremost printmakersOne of Britain's foremost printmakers, Norman Ackroyd has spent a lifetime recording the coastal landscapes of the British Isles. Gorgeously printed, A Shetland Notebook contains 39 of his vivid landscape sketches in watercolor. Made ...Show more
Psychotherapy - The Analytic Approach by Morton J. Aronson (Editor); Melvin A. Scharfman (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a clinical encyclopedia on psychoanalytically informed psychotherapy. The authors are all analysts with many years of experience. Together they aim to produce a definitive reference source on the principles and practice of dynamic psychotherapy.
Reading the Bible Again for the First Time by M.J. Borg
$10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. "Reading the Bible Again for the First Time" provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of ...Show more
Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists by Jeffrey K Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Just because the art is beautiful doesn't mean the artist was a saint . . . Scoundrels, Cads, and Other Great Artists examines the lives of nine great artists who were less than exemplary human beings in their lives outside of their art. It explores the question, "Why do we like magnificent art from art ...Show more