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  • Black Citizens and American Democracy

    Fighting for the Soul of a Nation

    Edited by Reginald K. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, Peter B. Levy ...
    How Black activism has helped achieve and maintain democracy for all AmericansIn 2020, Black Americans continued a centuries-long pursuit of racial equality and justice in the streets and at the polls. Arguing that this year was not a deviation from the historic Civil Rights Movement, the contributors to this collection examine the important work of Black men and women during the previous decades ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Horace

    A Life

    by Peter Levi ...
    'Horace tells us in his poetry almost everything we need to know about his life; it is curiously entangled with the Italian earth, with the history of his times, and an exact moment in that brief early summer of Latin poetry which had no autumn.'The work of the great Roman poet, Horatius Flaccus (65 BC to 8 BC), spanned all aspects of Roman life: politics, the arts, religion, and the authority of ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Light Garden of the Angel King

    by Peter Levi ...
    From time immemorial Afghanistan has both been a fortress of faith and a mountainous crossroads. Through its high valleys merchants traded Chinese porcelains, bundles of indigo cloth, sacks of lapis lazuli, golden jewellery, emeralds and fine carvings from both east and west. Ancient scrolls and beliefs entered the land in satchels of Buddhist pilgrims and in the baggage of military invaders- from ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hill of Kronos

    by Peter Levi ...
    Peter Levi paints a radiant portrait of the Greece he came to know through a lifetime of exploration. As a young scholar he sought out its ancient spirit, the keys to its mythology and civilisation, in its ruined cities and majestic mountains. Later, as a priest working as a diplomat and a friend of the oppressed, he lived in Athens through the dark days of the dictatorship. The sinews of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yevtushenko: Selected Poems

    by Yevgeny Yevtushenko ...
    Translated by Peter Levi, Robin Milner-Gulland ...
    This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Poets' Corner 2022

    by Peter Levy ...
    This year's regular anthology of poetry from The Bayside Writers' Group. As, in the past, each edition is widely read by the general public as well as having extensive coverage on national radio programmes. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Three Australian feature film scripts

    by Peter Levy ...
    "A way to live" is a black comedy about revenge when there's nothing more to lose**. "Where there's a Will"** is a film about a struggling country jazz band that receives a helping hand from long dead musicians. "The third player" tells the tale of an Australian country football team which discovers a novel way to improve their performance. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knowing Touch

    by Peter Levy ...
    Reuben is your archetypal nerd - life is nothing more than work and online computer chess games. He has no friends, least of all girlfriends. The daily grind for him involves analyzing body parts in the DA's office at the Chicago Cook County Morgue. When he unexpectedly discovers he has a most unusual psychic gift, his life takes a new, exciting and dangerous direction. The machinations of the DA ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Montaigne to Montaigne

    by Claude Lévi-Strauss ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Two previously unpublished lectures charting the renowned anthropologist’s intellectual engagement with the sixteenth-century French essayist Michel de MontaigneIn January 1937, between the two ethnographic trips he would describe in Tristes Tropiques, Claude Lévi-Strauss gave a talk to the Confédération générale du travail in Paris. Only recently discovered in the archives of the Bibliothèque ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Life and Times of William Shakespeare

    by Peter Levi ...
    Narrated by Wanda McCaddon ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 13 min

    This authoritative and extremely readable biography is the first since the Victorian Age to pay full attention to Shakespeare’s life and times and their numerous subtle connections to his works. Peter Levi emphasizes the background of Shakespeare’s life: the local and national events that shaped his experiences, his family and friends, and the Elizabethan people with whom he shared his life and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Anthology 2025

    Edited by Peter Levy ...
    Anthology 2025 is a selection of written works, fiction and non-fiction, poetry, prose, short-stories, as presented to Bayside Writers' Group over the course of 2025. This work is meant as a footprint for the various writers who participated and is a fair representation of all the members of this group. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Guide to Greece

    Southern Greece

    by Pausanias ...
    Translated by Peter Levi ...
    Written by a Greek traveller in the second century ad for a principally Roman audience, Pausanias' Guide to Greece is a comprehensive, extraordinarily literate and well-informed guidebook for tourists of the age. Concentrating on buildings, tombs and statues, it also describes in detail the myths, religious beliefs and historical background behind the monuments considered. In doing so, it ... Read more

    $16.99 USD