On Politics and Stuff

Mark Humphries

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• This book is quite possibly the most comprehensive book on Australian politics ever written. That's right, it covers BOTH houses of parliament. We'll ... Lees meer

Bert Sugar on Boxing

Bert Randolph Sugar

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• "Entertaining, insightful, and eminently colorful-the next best thing to being at the fights."-- New York Sportscene ". . . anyone taking a trip throu... Lees meer

On Reckoning

Amy Remeikis

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• What happens when the usual political tactics of deflect and dodge are no longer enough? A reckoning. The Guardian 's political reporter Amy Remeikis ... Lees meer

Jack London on Adventure

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• A collection of some of the best-loved stories by one of America's premier adventure writers. Lees meer

On Money

Rick Morton

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• Money makes the world go round, but does it make us happy? Money is one of the most fraught subjects; it raises powerful emotions in all of us. Too mu... Lees meer

On Reading

Marcel Proust, John Ruskin

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• "To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some effort, a genuine de... Lees meer

On Fiction

Virginia Woolf

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• The only available edition of a collection of essays celebrating the ever-popular pastime of reading and storytelling, from one of the 20th century's ... Lees meer

On the Orient

Rudyard Kipling

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• Travel with Kipling through India, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton (now Guangzhou), Japan, and Burma Rudyard Kipling spent many years abroad and his rela... Lees meer

On Charlatans

Chris Bowen

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• Why do we continue to vote for politicians who say 'I don't hold a hose, mate' or who advocate that we drink bleach to fight COVID-19? Chris Bowen, wh... Lees meer

Mark Twain on Travel

Terry Mort

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• Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known to most as Mark Twain, was a quintessential American writer who spent much of his life traveling the world. He encount... Lees meer

Zane Grey on Fishing

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• Though he made his name and his fortune as an author of Western novels, Zane Grey's best writing has to do with fishing. There he was free from the co... Lees meer

On the Elgin Marbles

William Hazlitt

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• The Elgin Marbles, brought to England from Athens in 1806, are the subject of three of Hazlitt's most famous and enduring essays: "On the Elgin Marble... Lees meer

Charles Dickens on Poverty

Charles Dickens

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• A collection of Dickens's valuable writings on the most vulnerable segments of society Dickens is famous for his moralizing and the entreaties within ... Lees meer

Theodore Roosevelt on Hunting, Revised and Expanded

Lamar Underwood

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• "Besides being one of our greatest presidents, Roosevelt stands alone as a conservationist, a visionary when it came to the protection and preservatio... Lees meer

On Provence

Henry James

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• Meander through Provence in the company of Henry James with this vivid collection of travel writing taken from his little-known book A Little Tour in ... Lees meer

On the Wild West

Mark Twain

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• The latest in Hesperus's On series comes from master travel writer Mark Twain and concentrates on his journey through the Wild West From 1861 to 1867,... Lees meer

Theodore Roosevelt on Hunting

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• Tales from one of the greatest hunters of them all. Lees meer

On Death

John Donne

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• Dean of St. Paul's, John Donne was feted in his day not just as a poet but also as an inspired and inspiring preacher, and these four extended meditat... Lees meer

On Tremendous Trifles

G K Chesterton

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• In a popular series of articles first published in 1909, G. K. Chesterton sought to celebrate the everyday objects and activities that are frequently ... Lees meer

On Deception

Harry Houdini

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• Throughout his life, the world's most famous escapologist strove to expose the methods and tricks of illusionists and sham spiritualists. Studying ent... Lees meer