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  • Alice's dreaming

    An astonishing work of history about a girl and the Indigenous world she encountered

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    'An unforgettable, multi-layered history, Alice's dreaming is at once biography, literary thriller and stunning evocation of Country and place.' —Mark McKennaEarly last century, Alice Duncan-Kemp grew up on a remote Queensland cattle station. Later she would write down her childhood memories of learning from Aboriginal women and men at home on their own Country. In her books, she evoked a rich ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Art of Time Travel

    Historians and Their Craft

    by Tom Griffiths ...
    No matter how practised we are at history, it always humbles us. No matter how often we visit the past, it always surprises us.Winner of the Ernest Scott Prize and Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-fiction'A rare feat of imagination and generosity' —Mark McKennaWith every sentence they write, historians must walk the tightrope between discipline and imagination, empathy and ... Read more

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  • The Holy Qur'an

    Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali ...
    by Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an (also known as The Koran) is the sacred book of Islam. It is the word of God whose truth was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad through the angel Gabriel over a period of 23 years. As it was revealed, so it was committed to memory by his companions, though written copies were also made by literate believers during the lifetime of the Prophet.The ... Read more

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  • Capital: Volumes One and Two

    by Karl Marx, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation.Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plato: 'The Republic'

    by Plato ...
    Translated by Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
    First published in 2000, this translation of one of the great works of Western political thought is based on the assumption that when Plato chose the dialogue form for his writing, he intended these dialogues to sound like conversations - although conversations of a philosophical sort. In addition to a vivid, dignified and accurate rendition of Plato's text, the student and general reader will ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Capital: Volumes One and Two

    by Karl Marx, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Few writers have had a more demonstrable impact on the development of the modern world than has Karl Marx (1818-1883). Born in Trier into a middle-class Jewish family in 1818, by the time of his death in London in 1883, Marx claimed a growing international reputation.Of central importance then and later was his book Das Kapital, or, as it is known to English readers, simply Capital. Volume One of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Essential Philosophical Works

    by David Hume, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    With an introduction by Charlotte R. Brown and William Edward Morris.David Hume (1711–1776) was the most important philosopher ever to write in English, as well as a master stylist. This volume contains his major philosophical works. A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), published while Hume was still in his twenties, consists of three books on the understanding, the passions, and morals. It ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Interpretation of Dreams

    by Sigmund Freud, Tom Griffith ...
    Translated by A.A. Brill ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Translated by A.A. Brill With an Introduction by Stephen Wilson.Sigmund Freud's audacious masterpiece, The Interpretation of Dreams, has never ceased to stimulate controversy since its publication in 1900.Freud is acknowledged as the founder of psychoanalysis, the key to unlocking the human mind, a task which has become essential to man's survival in the twentieth century, as science and ... Read more

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  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom

    by T.E. Lawrence, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    As Angus Calder states in his introduction to this edition, 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of the major statements about the fighting experience of the First World War'. Lawrence's younger brothers, Frank and Will, had been killed on the Western Front in 1915. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, written between 1919 and 1926, tells of the vastly different campaign against the Turks in the Middle East - one ... Read more

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  • The Prophet

    by Kahlil Gibran, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    The Prophet represents the acme of Kahlil Gibran's achievement. Writing in English, Gibran adopted the tone and cadence of King James I's Bible, fusing his personalised Christian philosophy with a spirit and oriental wisdom that derives from the richly mixed influences of his native Lebanon.His language has a breath-taking beauty. Before returning to his birthplace, Almustafa, the 'prophet', is ... Read more

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  • Scott's Last Expedition

    by Robert Falcon Scott, Beau Riffenburgh, Tom Griffith ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    The final letters and diary entries of Robert Falcon Scott – written in his last days, while hopelessly trapped in a tiny tent by a raging blizzard on the Great Ice Barrier – are among the most poignant and haunting passages ever penned. ‘Had we lived,’ he wrote, ‘I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every ... Read more

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  • The Castle

    by Franz Kafka, Tom Griffith ...
    Translated by John Williams ...
    Series series Classics of World Literature
    Kafka's final novel was written during 1922, when the tuberculosis that was to kill him was already at an advanced stage. Fragmentary and unfinished, it perhaps never could have been finished; perhaps the tensions between K., the Castle and the village, K.'s struggle for acceptance or recognition by the mysterious Castle authorities or by the people of the village, never will and never can be ... Read more

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