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A Short History of Atheism by Gavin Hyman
$45.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Library of Modern Religion
The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism. Books about atheism by writers like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have figured prominently in bestseller lists and have attracted widespread discussion in the media. The ubiquity of public debates abo ...Show more
A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
$19.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Modern Library
Introduction by Anne PerryIncludes newly commissioned endnotes In 1887, a young Arthur Conan Doyle published "A Study in Scarlet, "creating an international icon in the quick-witted sleuth Sherlock Holmes. In this very first Holmes mystery, the detective introduces himself to Dr. John H. Watson with th ...Show more
American Indian Stories by Zitkala-Sa; Layli Long Soldier (Introduction by)
$32.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Torchbearers Ser.
Bright and carefree, Zitkala-Sa grows up on the Yankton Sioux reservation in South Dakota with her mother until Quaker missionaries arrive, offering a free education to all Sioux children. The catch- the children must leave their parents behind and travel to Indiana. Curious about the world beyond the r ...Show more
Basic Writings of Existentialism by Gordon Daniel Marino
$39.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The perfect choice for those who wonder what existentialism is all about. Edited and with an Introduction by Gordon Marino Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because ...Show more
Book That Changed My Life by Diane Osen
$34.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Modern Library
In a collection of interviews, fifteen National Book Award winners and finalists--including James Carroll, Don DeLillo, E. L. Doctorow, David McCullough, Alice McDermott, and Cynthia Ozick--examine the profound relationship between reading and writing and describe the book that has had a profound in
Bulfinch's Mythology by Thomas Bulfinch
$0.00 NZD
Category: Languages & Reference | Series: Modern Library
This first volume of Bulfinch's Mythology, now available in a highly designed paperback with flaps, includes the classic stories of Greek and Roman mythology.
Darkness Visible by William Styron
$22.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron's true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the ful ...Show more
Essential Feminist Reader by FREEDMAN ESTELLE B.
$24.95 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Modern Library
Including: Susan B. Anthony Simone de Beauvoir W.E.B. Du Bois Helene Cixous Betty Friedan Charlotte Perkins Gilman Emma Goldman Guerrilla Girls Ding Ling - Audre Lorde John Stuart Mill Christine de Pizan Adrienne Rich Margaret Sanger Huda Shaarawi - Sojourner Truth Mary Wollstonecraft Virginia Woolf "Th ...Show more
Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism by Bernard McGinn
$33.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
This clear and comprehensive anthology, culled from the vast corpus of Christian mystical literature by the renowned theologian and historian Bernard McGinn, presents nearly one hundred selections, from the writings of Origen of Alexandria in the third century to the work of twentieth-century mystics su ...Show more
For Love Alone by Christina Stead
$29.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Miegunyah Modern Library Ser.
Set in Sydney and London in the 1930s, 'For Love Alone' is the story of Teresa Hawkins, an intelligent, ardent young woman, and her search for the ideal passion of love.
Frankenstein (modern library) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
$21.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein INCLUDES A CULTURAL HISTORY OF FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER BY JEANETTE WINTERSON Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself a story of ...Show more
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi
$36.99 NZD
Category: Gardening | Series: Modern Library
An original and elegnt blend of historical and literary gardening lore, personal opinion and extensive experience with all facets fo life in the garden.