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Unfinished Journey
The story of Unfinished Journey centres around the letters of Morris B Redmann Jr, written home to his parents and family from October 20, 1943, through January 11, 1945. He was killed in action on January 14, 1945, during the Battle of the Bulge - the largest land battle ever fought by American troops in the history of the United States Army. These letters, meticulously preserved in old shoe boxes and stowed away in the attic of his parents' home for decades, are the backbone of Morris Redmann's journey in the military. They survived when the soldier did not. Through these letters, follow the ups and downs of this young soldier's life. From the rigors of basic training, to his being buried alive by a tank in his foxhole, to the experience of an enjoyable evening - dining on steak and cognac - shared with a large French family near the German border, before having to return to the snow-covered fields of Europe's harshest winter in fifty years. The reader becomes acutely familiar with Morris's life and philosophies, as expressed by the unusually mature young man with great strength of character.
He is buried in the Luxembourg American Military Cemetery at Hamm, Plot H,Row 1, Grave 20.
Author:
Kerry Redmann
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
ISBN: 9781592287611
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $47.95
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Tonio Kroger, Death in Venice and Other Writings
Thomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. Death in Venice, later filmed by Lucion Visconti starring Dirk Bogarde, was published in 1911. It is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio. The other stories are: Tonio Kroger the collection entitled Tristan The Blood of the Walsungs Mario the Magician and The Tables of the Law. A number of essays are also included.
Author:
Frederick A. Lubich
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing
ISBN: 9780826409713
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $66.95
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Foreigners
Francis Barber, 'given' to the great eighteenth-century writer Samuel Johnson, afforded an unusual depth of freedom, which, after Johnson's death, would help hasten his wretched demise...Randolph Turpin, Britain's first black world champion boxer, who made history in 1951 by defeating Sugar Ray Robinson, and who ended his life in debt and despair...David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949, the events of whose life called into question the reality of English justice, and whose death at the hands of police in 1969 served as a wake-up call for the entire nation.Each of these men's stories is told in a different, perfectly realized voice. Each illuminates the complexity and drama that lie behind the simple notions of haplessness that have been used to explain the tragedy of their lives. And each explores, in entirely new ways, the themes - at once timeless and urgent - that have been at the heart of all of Caryl Phillips' work: belonging, identity, and race. Foreigners is among his most powerful, empathic, and profoundly affecting books.
Author:
Caryl Phillips
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9780436205972
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $55.00
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Translating Lives
Although Australia prides itself on being multicultural, many Australians have little awareness of what it means to live in two cultures at once, and of how much there is to learn about other cultural perspectives.
Author:
Mary Besemeres & Anna Wierzbicka
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
ISBN: 9780702236037
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $32.95
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Rameau's Nephew: AND d'Alembert's Dream
One of the key figures of the French Enlightenment, Denis Diderot was a passionate critic of conventional morality, society and religion. Among his greatest and most well-known works, these two dialogues are dazzling examples of his radical scientific and philosophical beliefs. In Rameau's Nephew, the eccentric and foolish nephew of the great composer Jean-Philippe Rameau meets Diderot by chance, and the two embark on a hilarious consideration of society, music, literature, politics, morality and philosophy. Its companion-piece, D'Alembert's Dream, outlines a material, atheistic view of the universe, expressed through the fevered dreams of Diderot's friend D'Alembert. Unpublished during his lifetime, both of these powerfully controversial works show Diderot to be one of the most advanced thinkers of his age, and serve as fascinating testament to the philosopher's wayward genius.
Author:
Denis Diderot,
Leonard Tancock
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9780140441734
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $17.95
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Alzheimer's from the Inside Out
Richard Taylor has lived for five years with a diagnosis of dementia probably of the Alzheimer's type. A former psychologist, he is now a champion for individuals with early-stage and early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Richard served on the board of the Houston and Southeast Texas Alzheimer's Association and is now a member of a special committee of the National Alzheimer's Association looking at how to evaluate and provide effective support to individuals in the early stages of the disease. He has started over 50 chat rooms worldwide for people with Alzheimer's disease and their loved ones and he is also the editor of a quarterly newsletter for people with early-onset, early-stage Alzheimer's disease and their caregivers. Originally, Richard started writing essays to better understand for himself what was going on inside of him. He now writes to share his experiences with other individuals with the disease and their caregivers. His insights into himself and the disease are always honest, direct, poignant, and sometimes even witty. His essays have been published in "Alzheimer's Care Quarterly".
Richard lives in Cypress, Texas with his spouse Linda and his Bouvier des Flandres dog, Annie. His son and family live across the street from him. He spends his days playing with his two grandchildren, gardening, and writing.
Author:
Richard Taylor
Publisher: Health Professions Press,U.S.
ISBN: 9781932529234
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $38.95
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Articles of Faith
When Graham Greene died in 1991, at the age of 86, his reputation as a great Catholic writer was assured. His books reflected an awareness of sin and confronted discomfiting themes with a sombre eye. The British Catholic journal The Tablet provided Greene with a forum for both his works-in-progress and his sometimes unorthodox religious views. Greene was always drawn to tales of martyrdom, and in 1930s Mexico he found the most pitiless clamp-down on Roman Catholicism anywhere since the Reformation. Greene's Mexico reportage was first published in The Tablet. The controlled understatement and scrupulous, unsparing lucidity of Greene's journalism is still impressive, as it unforgettably portrays the aftermath of the anti-religious revolution begun by President Calles. Included here are four Mexico despatches, Mexican Sunday, A Catholic Adventurer and his Mexican Journal, In Search of a Miracle and The Dark Virgin. Articles of Faith also includes a long essay on the Assumption, Our Lady and Her Assumption: The Only Figure of Perfect Love, written for The Tablet in 1951. Also included are 26 book reviews which the novelist wrote for The Tablet's Fiction Chronicle column.
Always broad-minded, Greene praised the work of the anti-Fascist Italian novelist Ignazio Silone and a science fiction by the Czech author Karel Capek: I have no room to do more than warmly recommend Mr Capek's fantasy of a world conquered by newts. Among the other authors whom Greene reviewed are Thomas Mann, John Dos Passos, Djuna Barns, Stevie Smith, William Gerhardi, Erich Kastner and Somerset Maugham. For the first time, Graham Greene's Tablet contributions are collected in one volume. Much of the journalism has not been seen for fifty years. The book includes an essay, Two Friends, documenting the story of Greene's friendship with a Catholic diplomat and fellow devotee of Henry James, Peter Leslie. The Greene-Leslie correspondence has not been seen before.
Author:
Graham Greene,
Ian Thomson
Publisher: Signal Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781904955160
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $39.95
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At Large and at Small
In At Large and At Small, Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favourite genres, the familiar essay - a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With her wonderful combination of wit and erudition, Fadiman draws us into twelve of her personal obsessions: from her slightly sinister childhood enthusiasm for catching butterflies to her monumental crush on Charles Lamb, from her wistfulness for the days of letter-writing to the challenges and rewards of moving from the city to the country.Many of these essays were composed 'under the influence' of the subject at hand. Fadiman divulges her passion for Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Chocolate Chip and her brother's homemade Liquid Nitrogen Kahlua Coffee (recipe included) she sustains a terrific caffeine buzz while recounting Balzac's coffee addiction and she stays up till dawn to write about being a night owl, examining the rhythms of our circadian clocks and sharing such insomnia cures as her father's nocturnal word games and Lewis Carroll's mathematical puzzles. This is a perfect book for life's passionate obsessives.
Author:
Anne Fadiman
Publisher: Penguin Books
ISBN: 9781846140433
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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Authors Take Sides
This book is about two wars, separated by twelve years but united by the figures of Saddam Hussein and George Bush father and son. Based on writers' responses to a questionnaire, it is an attempt to record contemporary opinions and reactions to two of the most contentious issues of our times, the Gulf War of 1991 and the Iraq invasion of 2003. One of the many interests of this book lies in the immense diversity of opinion it evokes on both conflicts, ranging from outrage, through neutrality, to wholehearted support for the Coalition's handling of the issues. The fourth in a series of Authors Take Sides, its intention, like its predecessors, is to be informative and thought-provoking. While the editors had their own personal views on the issues raised - in fact, starting out on different sides in both wars - their aim in canvassing the opinions of authors was, so far as possible, to present an objective record of a cross-section of the intellectual community. More than 170 distinguished authors from Australia, Britain and the United States - novelists, playwrights, journalists, biographers, poets and historians - have contributed to this book.
Author:
Jean Moorcroft Wilson & Cecil Woolf
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
ISBN: 9780522851366
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $29.95
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The Art of Dreaming
Carlos Castaneda was one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the 20th century. In this stunning new jacket edition of his bestselling book, he takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer don Juan and reveals that there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams. The Art of Dreaming is an extraordinary and exciting adventure of the psyche unlike any other, which takes the reader on an amazing journey of the soul via the teachings of the great sorcerer, don Juan. Carlos Castaneda reveals that, like the layers of an onion, there are worlds existing within our own that can be visited through dreams. Using powerful ancient techniques to alter his state of consciousness, Castaneda travels into new worlds and encounters remarkable but dangerous beings he conjoins energy bodies with another dreamer in order to dream and explore together, and thus acquires new knowledge and understanding. Castaneda's compelling writing enables the reader to participate fully in his eye-opening and thrilling discoveries and explorations.
Author:
Carlos Castaneda
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9781855384279
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $22.95
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The Bardo of Waking Life
An avant-garde set of improvisational essays, Richard Grossinger's The Bardo of Waking Life is a meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist bardo realm which, in popular culture, is viewed as the bridge between lives, the state people enter after death and before rebirth. This book examines waking life and its history and language as if it were a bardo state rather than ultimate reality, and thus seeks a context for life (and dreams), even as it addresses more 'mundane issues' including genetic theory, the war in Iraq and George W. Bush's presidency, North Korea, advertising, global warming, Prison Industrial Culture, childhood trauma, even country western music.Written with playfulness and precision, Bardo takes a new, probing approach to all the important questions of creation, destruction, and existence. In these intellectual field notes, Grossinger proves thematically fearless as he crosses quantum mechanics with totemic hexes and draws transcendental insight from the ephemeral space-time we call daily life. If, as Tibetan cosmology holds true, all conditional realms are bardos, then the state we all share is nothing less than the bardo of waking life.
Author:
Richard Grossinger
Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
ISBN: 9781556437007
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $25.95
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Conversations with the Heart-mind
This title presents an inspirational collection of quotations. Conversations With the Heart-Mind is a book of beautiful quotations covering all aspects of our lives. Written by a well-known Adelaide doctor, these quotations have the wisdom and sensitivity of many years of listening to patients from all walks of life. David Mitchell's patients are an inspiration to him and have made him aware that 'we have become too mindful of words, too rational and that we increasingly live in our heads disconnecting our minds from the rest of our body.' David Mitchell is, above all, a listener and lover of words. He loves their sounds, their pictures, their meanings and their feelings. His father taught him about the structure of words and sentences and his mother conveyed the magic of words to him. This book is, in the author's own words, 'a coming together, an acceptance of the oneness within each of us and from this harmony must come a better person, a better life and a better world.' With his gentle words, David Mitchell brings calm to the mind and heart and gives us the courage to see life as a magical thing.
Author:
David Mitchell
Publisher: Hill of Content Publishing Co Pty Ltd
ISBN: 9780855723620
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $19.95
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The Compulsive Spike Milligan
This second collected work of one of Britain's best-loved comedians, a companion to the original, "The Essential Spike Milligan", spans his 50-year career and incorporates a rich and varied range of material.
Author:
Spike Milligan,
Norma Farnes
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780007195428
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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Disavowals
Claude Cahun (1894-1954, born Lucie Schwob) was a poet, essayist, literary critic, translator, actress, Surrealist, revolutionary artist and photographer. Although primarily a writer, the range of Cahun's activities as an artist was rediscovered during the wave of interest in women artists, and more specifically Surrealism, during the 1980s. She is now known in the English speaking world as a photographer and, to a lesser extent, as a maker of surrealist objects. Despite the fact that Cahun was a self-confessed Anglophile and spoke fluent English, her texts were never translated into English during her lifetime. Now for the first time, an English translation of Cahun's most important book, Aveux non avenus, first published in 1930, is being made available by Tate Publishing. With only five hundred copies of the original French version printed, the book is exceedingly rare but can be said to summarise Cahun's distinctive ideas. Accompanying the translation will be an extensive introduction, setting the text in the context of her life.
The introduction draws attention to particular themes within the text, including self-interrogation, narcissism, metamorphosis, love, gender-switching, humour and fear and explore how these relate to the series of important photomontages made by Cahun with her lifelong partner, the illustrator Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe). The photomontages are reproduced from the original glass-plate negatives. The volume also features the original preface from author Pierre Mac Orlan. By making this lost masterpiece of Surrealist literature available to an English-speaking readership, this publication will bring further recognition to a seminal and previously underrated figure in twentieth-century art.
Author:
Claude Cahun,
Jennifer Mundy
Publisher: TATE PUBLISHING
ISBN: 9781854376275
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $45.00
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Dream Stuff
From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI escort, yet still hoping for the return of his father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with dazzling intensity the memories and events that make a man. Through the unreliable layers of family archaeology, they uncover earlier, vulnerable selves, moments of innocence or shame, and unfinished business, illuminated by shocking flashes of unpredictable violence and pain, or glints of sly humour. In the brilliant cornerstone story, the stuff of dreams is both real and imagined -rumoured fields of cannabis picked in secret by migrant workers, or a nightmare encounter on a dark Brisbane street. In 'Night Training' a military recruit is scarred by his own complicity in a bizarre nightly ritual and in 'Sally's Story', a 'comfort' girl looks for comfort of her own. Here are men and women in search of connection, or equally wary of it - whether with each other or with past selves.
Author:
David Malouf
Publisher: Random House Publishers
ISBN: 9780099289906
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $24.95
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Great with Child
From serious to sisterly, these letters are from a toddler's mother to a pregnant friend about the transforming experience of motherhood.
Author:
Beth Ann Fennelly
Publisher: WW Norton & Co
ISBN: 9780393329780
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $22.95
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The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden
This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include prize-winning poets, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from new and established Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.
Author:
Cambridge Companions to Literature,
Stan Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521536479
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $74.95
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A Cultural History of Latin America
A Cultural History of Latin America brings together chapters from Volumes III, IV, and X of The Cambridge History of Latin America. The essays place Latin American literature, music and visual arts in historical context, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century.
Author:
Cambridge History of Latin America,
Leslie Bethell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521626262
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $100.95
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John Keats
This authoritative edition was originally published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Keats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by a generous selection of Keats's letters - to give the essence of his work and thinking. In his tragically short life Keats wrote an astonishing number of superb poems his stature as one of the foremost poets of the Romantic movement remains unassailable. This volume contains all the poetry published during his lifetime, including Endymion in its entirety, the Odes, 'Lamia', and both versions of 'Hyperion'. The poetry is presented in chronological sequence, illustrating the staggering speed with which Keats's work matured. Further insight into his creative process is given by reproducing, in their original form, a number of poems that were published posthumously. Keats's letters are admired almost as much as his poetry and were described by T. S. Eliot as 'certainly the most notable and most important ever written by any English poet'. They provide the best biographical detail available and shed invaluable light on Keats's poems.
Author:
Oxford World's Classics,
John Keats
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192840639
Format: Paperback Book
Online Price: $26.95
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Author and Audience in Latin Literature
The relationship between the author and his audience has received much critical attention from scholars in non-classical disciplines yet the nature of much ancient literature and of its 'publication' meant that audiences in ancient times were more immediate to their authors than in the modern world. This book contains essays by distinguished scholars on the various means by which Latin authors communicated effectively with their audiences. The authors and works covered are Cicero, Catullus, Lucretius, Propertius, Horace's Odes, Virgil's Aeneid, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Senecan tragedy, Persius, Pliny's letters, Tacitus' Annals and medieval love lyric. Contributors have provided detailed analyses of particular passages in order to throw light on the many different ways in which authors catered for their audiences by fulfilling, manipulating and thwarting their expectations; and in an epilogue the editors have drawn together the issues raised by these contributions and have attempted to place them in an appropriate critical context.
Author:
A.J. Woodman & J.G.F. Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521383073
Format: Hardback Book
Online Price: $266.95
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