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SUBSTANCE AND PROCEDURE IN PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW by Richard Garnett
$269.95 AUD
Category: Legal | Series: Oxford Private International Law Ser.
When the law of a foreign country is selected or pleaded by a claimant or defendant, a question arises as to whether the issue pertains to substance, in which case it may be resolved by foreign law, or procedure, in which case it will be governed by the law of forum. This book examines the distinction b ...Show more
Selected Poetry by Rainer Maria Rilke; Stephen Mitchell (Translator, Editor); Robert Hass (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: International Ser.
The supreme problem of every age is that of finding its consummate artistic expression. Before this problem every other remains of secondary importance. History defines and directs its physical course, science cooperates in the achievement of its material aims, but Art alone gives to the age its spiritu ...Show more
TEMPLE OF DAWN by Mishima, Y
$34.00 AUD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn is the third novel in his masterful tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility. Here, Shigekuni Honda continues his pursuit of the successive reincarnations of Kiyoaki Matsugae, his childhood friend. Travelling in Thailand in the early 1940s, Shigekuni Honda, now a brilliant law ...Show more
THE SOCCER WAR by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD
$24.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteris ...Show more
The Grass Harp by Truman Capote
$25.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Vintage International Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits-an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies-who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures ...Show more
Thinking Through Philosophy - An Introduction by Chris Horner; Emrys Westacott
$45.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Cambridge International Examinations Ser.
No previous knowledge is assumed, and in lively and provocative chapters the authors invite the reader to explore questions about the nature of science, religion, ethics, politics, art, the mind, the self, knowledge and truth. Each chapter includes inset boxes providing links to classic philosophy texts ...Show more
WHOS IN CHARGE by Laura H. Kahn
$84.95 AUD
Category: Business | Series: Praeger Security International Ser.
An imminent threat to the public health, such as the swine flu outbreak, is no time for a muddled chain of command and contradictory decision making. Who's In Charge? Leadership during Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises explores the crucial relationships between political leade ...Show more