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  • Nothing Lost

    by John Gregory Dunne ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    A grisly racial murder in what news commentators insist on calling “the heartland.” A feeding frenzy of mass media and seamy politics. An illicit love affair with the potential to wreck lives. In his grandly inventive last novel, John Gregory Dunne orchestrated these elements into a symphony of American violence, chicanery, and sadness.In the aftermath of Edgar Parlance’s killing, the small ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • The Serial Universe

    by John William Dunne ...
    In this book I have tried to give the reader a bird's-eye view of the territory covered by the theory called 'Serialism'. Some of the chapters, greatly condensed, have been delivered in lecture form to the Royal College of Science (Mathematical Society and Physical Society). But the main outline of the subject is, I believe, clear enough to be appreciated by those who have no special technical ... Read more

    $4.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vegas

    A Memoir of a Dark Season

    by John Gregory Dunne ...
    “The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire)“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” So begins John Gregory Dunne’s neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • True Confessions

    A Novel

    by John Gregory Dunne ...
    In 1940s Los Angeles, an unidentified murder victim is found bisected in a shadowy lot. A catchy nickname is given her in jest—"The Virgin Tramp"—and suddenly a "nice little homicide that would have drifted off the front pages in a couple of days" becomes a storm center. Two brothers, Tom and Des Spellacy, are at the heart of this powerful novel of Irish-Catholic life in Southern California just ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Vol. 2

    The Mind

    Translated by John D. Dunne, Dechen Rochard ...
    by John D. Dunne, His Holiness the Dalai Lama ...
    Series series Science and Philosophy in the Indian Bud
    The second volume in a prominent new series on Buddhism and science, directed by the Dalai Lama and previously covered by the BBC.Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics compiles classical Buddhist explorations of the nature of our material world, the human mind, logic, and phenomenology and puts them into context for the modern reader.This ambitious four-volume series—a major ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • The Studio

    by John Gregory Dunne ...
    In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked every step of the creation of pictures like "Dr. Dolittle," "Planet of the Apes," and "The Boston Strangler." The result is a work of reportage that, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Ascendant: Modern Essays on Polytheism and Theology

    by Edward P. Butler, Patrick Dunn, John Michael Greer, Brandon Hensley, Wayne Keysor, Gwendolyn Reece ...
    Theology, the discipline that analyzes, examines, and seeks to explain religious ideas, is a vibrant area of inquiry. Scholars and philosophers have produced countless works of theology over the past several thousand years.In the West, however, virtually all theology concerns monotheistic faith systems. Polytheism escapes the notice of most scholars, and those who do address it rarely write books ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecology, Ethics, and Interdependence

    The Dalai Lama in Conversation with Leading Thinkers on Climate Change

    Edited by Dunne D. John, Daniel Goleman ...
    Powerful conversations between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and leading scientists on the most pressing issue of our time.Engage with leading scientists, academics, ethicists, and activists, as well as His Holiness the Dalai Lama and His Holiness the Karmapa, who gathered in Dharamsala, India, for the twenty-third Mind and Life conference to discuss arguably the most urgent questions facing ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Dharmakirti's Philosophy

    by John D. Dunne ...
    Series series Studies in Indian and Tibetan Buddhism
    Throughout the history of Buddhism, few philosophers have attained the stature of Dharmakirti, the "Lord of Reason" who has influenced virtually every systematic Buddhist thinker since his time.Dharmakirti's renowned works, written in India during the philosophically rich seventh century, argue that the true test of knowledge is its efficacy, and likewise that only the efficacious is knowable and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Monster

    Living Off the Big Screen

    by John Gregory Dunne ...
    Monster is John Gregory Dunne's mordant account of the eight years it took to get the 1996 Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeiffer film Up Close & Personal made. A bestselling novelist, Dunne has a cold eye, perfect pitch for the absurdities of Hollywood, and sharp elbows for the film industry's savage infighting. 192 pp. Author tour & national ads. 25,000 print. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Greatest Story Ever Retold

    Envisioning Jesus Narratives from Gospels to Film

    by John Dunne, Jeannine Brown ...
    From Scripture to Screen: Understanding How We All Direct Our Own Jesus StoryIn this innovative book, two respected New Testament scholars explore the ways the Jesus story has been told and retold from the earliest Gospel writings to contemporary film adaptations. John Anthony Dunne and Jeannine Brown highlight what later narratives can teach us about the hermeneutical process we employ, knowingly ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Theology, Religion, and Twin Peaks

    Edited by John Anthony Dunne, Kris Song ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    Like the series' trademark pie, John Anthony Dunne and Kris Song's exploration into David Lynch's Twin Peaks leaves you hungry for more.This volume investigates the religious, theological, spiritual, and supernatural elements across the series' two original seasons (ABC, 1990), the Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) film*,* and its third and final season, often referred to as The Return ... Read more

    $136.79 CAD