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Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
$25.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
$32.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more
Green Girl: A Novel by Kate Zambreno
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between ...Show more
High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know about Drugs and Society by Carl Hart
$10.75 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
High Price is the harrowing and inspiring memoir of neuroscientist Carl Hart, a leading researcher in the field of drug addiction, who grew up in one of Miami's toughest neighborhoods and, determined to make a difference as an adult, tirelessly applies his scientific training to help save real lives. WI ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
$18.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: good
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates; John Ranard (Photographer)
$26.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
A reissue of bestselling, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates' classic collection of essays on boxing.
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | 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
$42.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | 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
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
$21.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you ...Show more
The Adrian Mole Diaries by Sue Townsend
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
"The trouble with trying to read passages from the Adrian Mole Diaries aloud is that you find yourself laughing so hard you can't go on. It's that kind of book." --Kansas City Star "As sad and devastating as it is laugh-out-loud funny. A delight!" --New York Times The agonizingly funny, captivatingly ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 Abridged: An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator); Harry Willets (Translator); Edward E. Ericson Jr. (Abridged by); Anne Applebaum (Foreword by)
$48.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --Time "It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century." --David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner's towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of f ...Show more