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Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita
$64.98 NZD
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The collected writings of Raimond Gaita 'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?' For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sen ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 16 by Raimond Gaita; Chris Feik (Editor)
$15.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2004, Raimond Gaita confronts essential questions about politics as it is practised today. What do politicians mean when they talk about 'trust'? Why is truthfulness important? Are we as politically and morally divided as the Americans? Does the war on terror authorise l ...Show more
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The award-winning and best-selling account of Raimond Gaita's father's life has been turned into a feature film, starring Eric Bana Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the ...Show more
Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita
$25.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about grow ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
$27.50 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
In this marvellous book Raimond Gaita tells stories about dogs and cats, about bees and butterflies. Many of these stories describe animals he has known: Jack the cockatoo, Gypsy the dog and Tosca the street-wise cat. In focussing on them and others, in the context of family life, Gaita asks questions a ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Routledge Classics
In this beautifully written book Raimond Gaita tells inspirational, poignant, sometimes funny but never sentimental stories of the dogs, cats and cockatoos that lived and died within his own family. He asks fascinating questions about animals: Is it wrong to attribute the concepts of love, devotion, loy ...Show more
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