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  • The Floating Egg

    Episodes in the Making of Geology

    by Roger Osborne ...
    The Floating Egg begins with the search for an alchemist's secret, and ends with the re-imagination of a past world. Each chapter is connected to a particular corner of north-east England, and each explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge.Different episodes show how the fall of Constantinople converted the common rock of the Yorkshire ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Iron, Steam & Money

    The Making of the Industrial Revolution

    by Roger Osborne ...
    In late eighteenth-century Britain a handful of men brought about the greatest transformation in human history. Inventors, industrialists and entrepreneurs ushered in the age of powered machinery and the factory, and thereby changed the whole of human society, bringing into being new methods of social and economic organisation, new social classes, and new political forces. The Industrial ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Civilization

    A New History of the Western World

    by Roger Osborne ...
    Ever since the attacks of 11th September, western leaders have described a world engaged in 'a fight for civilization'. But what do we mean by civilization? We believe in a western tradition of openness and freedom that has produced a good life for many millions of people and a culture of enormous depth and creative power.But the history of our civilisation is also filled with unspeakable ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Life of Such is Life

    A Cultural History of an Australian Classic

    by Roger Osborne ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Since its publication in 1903, Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life has become established as an Australian classic. But which version of the novel is the authoritative text, and what does its history reveal about Australian cultural life?From Furphy’s handwritten manuscript through numerous editions, a controversial abridgement for the British market (condemned by A.D. Hope as a 'mutilation'), and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Of The People, By The People

    A New History of Democracy

    by Roger Osborne ...
    'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.'Churchill had more reason than most to rue the power of democracy, having been thrown out of office after leading Britain to victory in 1945. Democracy, when viewed from above, has always been a fickle master; from below it is a powerful but fragile friend.Most books on democracy ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Dreamer Of Calle San Salvador

    by Roger Osborne ...
    Spell-binding, horrific, poetic, apocalyptic, heart-rending, disturbing, prophetic, seditious, compelling and utterly fascinating - the dreams of Lucrecia de Leon have lain virtually undisturbed in the archives of the Spanish Inquisition for more than four hundred years. Lucrecia was a nineteen-year-old Madrilena when, in 1587, her dreams began to be recorded and published by a disaffected group ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Deprat Affair

    by Roger Osborne ...
    Detective story, social history, human drama, The Deprat Affair recreates the hothouse atmosphere of colonial Indochina in the early twentieth century. Among its cliques, its bitter rivalries, its nepotism and favours, how are we to disentangle the scientific, the moral and the legal 'truths' of the affair? Most of all, the story centres on one compelling individual - Jacques Deprat. En route to a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Australian Books and Authors in the American Marketplace 1840s-1940s

    by Professor David Carter, Roger Osborne ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    Combining literary criticism with book history, Carter and Osborne explore how Australian authors and their books fared in the US market from the 1840s through to the 1940s, most notably in the 1880s and 1890s and then between the two World Wars.'...a genuinely important book … a major and enduring contribution [to the field of book history]' — Paul Egger ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A Companion to the Works of Kim Scott

    by Belinda Wheeler, Natalie Quinlivan, Nathanael Pree, Per Henningsgaard, Roger Osborne, Rosalie Thackrah, Sandra Thompson, Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Arindam Das, Brenda Machosky0, Christine Choo1, Gillian Whitlock2, Jeanine Leane3, Lisa Slater4, Lydia Saleh Rofail5 ...
    Since the mid-1980s there has been a sharp rise in the number of literary publications by Indigenous Australians and in the readership and impact of those works. One contemporary Aboriginal Australian author who continues to makea contribution to both the Australian and the global canon is Kim Scott (1957-). Scott has won many awards, including Australia's highest, the prestigious Miles Franklin ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Under Western Eyes

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Series series The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Joseph Conrad
    Set in the tumultuous political world of Tsarist repression and revolutionary intrigue in St Petersburg and Geneva, Under Western Eyes (1911) renders with searing intensity the psychological torment of its Russian protagonist, a university student who, in betraying another, has betrayed himself. Based upon a comparison of the existing manuscript and other materials, this scholarly and first ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower“A dazzling history of Western ideas.”—The Economist“Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal“[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe**Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Great Stink of London

    Sir Joseph Bazalgette and the Cleansing of the Victorian Metropolis

    by Stephen Halliday ...
    'An extraordinary history' - Peter Ackroyd, The Times'A lively account of (Bazalgette's) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated' - Hermione Hobhouse'Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated' - Ruth Rendell... ... Read more

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