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HEAD CASE by CASS DENNIS
$29.99 AUD
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: P. S. Ser.
Infiltrating the world of neuroscience, Dennis Cass offers up his own brain to "research," subjecting his mind and body to electric shocks, mind-numbing attention experiments, cigarettes, stress tests of his own devising, and the comedy of Bill Maher. Like a slightly off-kilter George Plimpton, Cass, in ...Show more
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving by Deborah E. Lipstadt
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Category: Politics | Series: P.S.
This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that culminated in a sensational trial in 2000. In her acclaime ...Show more
I'll Fly Away : Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison by Wally Lamb
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Category: Poetry and Nursery Rhymes | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In 2003 Wally Lamb--the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, "She's Come Undone" and "I Know This Much Is True"--published "Couldn't Keep It to Myself," a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's on ...Show more
Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas by John Baxter
$21.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A witty cultural and culinary education, "Immoveable Feast" is the charming, funny, and improbable tale of how a man who was raised on white bread--and didn't speak a word of French--unexpectedly ended up with the sacred duty of preparing the annual Christmas dinner for a venerable Parisian family. Ern ...Show more
Infinite Reality: Revealing the Mysteries of the Virtual Mind by Jim Blascovich
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Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications mean for the future of human life and society. This title examines the philosophical questions of the self and reality that arise through the digital experience. It shows the many practical applications of virtual reality, from ...Show more
LOST HEART OF ASIA by Thubron, Colin
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition--never more so than since the collapse of the Sovie ...Show more
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
"Joyce Maynard is in top-notch form with Labor Day. Simply a novel you cannot miss." -Jodi Picoult, New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Keeping Faith "Maynard has created an ensemble of characters that will sneak into your heart, and warm it while it breaks." -St. Petersburg Time ...Show more
Leaving Everything Most Loved: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline Winspear
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Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal's body is discovered in the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full investigation. Usha had been staying at a ...Show more
MODERN MANNERS AN ETIQUETTE GUIDE TO MODERN MANNERS by P. J. O'Rourke
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Category: Languages and Reference | Series: O'Rourke, P. J. Ser.
An "extremely funny" take on the decline of civility, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of How the Hell Did This Happen? (The Plain Dealer). In Modern Manners, cultural guru P. J. O'Rourke provides the essential accessory for the truly contemporary man or woman--a rulebook for living in a ...Show more
Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich
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Category: Animals | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Heinrich involves us in his quest to get inside the mind of the raven. But as animals can only be spied on by getting quite close, Heinrich adopts ravens, thereby becoming a "raven father," as well as observing them in their natural habitat. He studies their daily routines, and in the process, paints a ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
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Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
People's History Of The United States 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn
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Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants “[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times B ...Show more