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Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris - A Cultural History of Euripides' Black Sea Tragedy by Edith Hall
$120.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture Ser.
Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris one of the most influential of Greek tragedies. Yet, despite its influence and popularity i ...Show more
Between Two Millstones, Book 1 - Sketches of Exile, 1974-1986 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Peter Constantine (Translator); Daniel J. Mahoney (Foreword by)
$65.00 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: The\Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Ser.
Russian Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important figures--and perhaps the most important writer--of the last century. To celebrate the centenary of his birth, the first English translation of his memoir of the West, Between Two Millstones, ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel #1 by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
LEGO and Philosophy: Constructing Reality Brick By Brick by William Irwin
$25.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | Series: The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
How profound is a little plastic building block? It turns out the answer is “very”! 22 chapters explore philosophy through the world of LEGO which encompasses the iconic brick itself as well as the animated televisions shows, feature films, a vibrant adult fan base with over a dozen yearly conventions, ...Show more
March 1917 : The Red Wheel / Node III (8 March - 31 March) Book 1 by Marian (TRN) Aleksandr Isaevich; Schwartz Solzhenitsyn
$59.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Series
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize?winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn?s epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn?s magnum opus about the Russian Revolution. Solzhenit ...Show more
March 1917 - The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 2 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Marian Schwartz (Translator)
$70.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: The\Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Ser.
The Red Wheel is Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's multivolume epic work about the Russian Revolution. He spent decades writing about just four of the most important periods, or "nodes." This is the first time that the monumental March 1917--the third node--has been translated into English. It ...Show more
Mr. America : The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon by John D. Fair
$90.00 AUD
Category: Sport | Series: Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports
On Guilt: The Force Shaping Character, History, and Culture by John Carroll
$85.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Morality, Society and Culture Ser.
Guilt is the dark force behind haunting anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behaviour, life meaninglessness, and depression - a force to be kept in check. Yet guilt is equally our richest and most hidden resource, the essence of our humanness, and it drives us on to our highest achievements. Today, when indiv ...Show more
Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood : The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. to the First Crusade by Anthony Kaldellis
$62.95 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture