Lincoln's Autocrat - The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Civil War America Ser.
Secondhand. Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of ...Show more
Blessington-d'Orsay: A Masquerade by Michael Sadleir
$47.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Biography of an Irish woman born Margaret Power who was very poorly treated by the men in her life even though she was the most famous Lady Blessington.
The Brownings by Joanna Richardson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Second printing. A Biography of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning compiled from contemporary sources.
Elizabeth I: The World of A Prince. A Life From Contemporary Documents by Maria Pery
$32.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. "Orator, wit, stylist and Queen Elizabeth Tudor was one of the most prolific writers of the golden age bearing her name. Few people realise that her first book was published when she was fourteen and a half years old by John Bale, a controversial heretic whose works had been banned in Engla ...Show more
Image and Insight by Ellen Handler Spitz
$32.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. First edition and signed by the author. Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to examine the emotional and intellectual responses to art.
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction by Colin McGinn
$21.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral reflection by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination, McGinn starts by setting out an uncompromisingly realist ethic ...Show more
Aesthetics of the Unavoidable: Aesthetic Variations in Human Appearance by Ossi Naukkarinen
$16.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. It provides tools for understanding and structuring the complex field of the aesthetics of normal, daily life. The book indicates what kinds of things we should pay attention to if we want to make sense of the aesthetics of the everyday world and compare different instances of it with each ...Show more
The Philosophy of Art - Readings Ancient and Modern by Alex Neill; Aaron Ridley
$23.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. This anthology is intended as a core text for courses in aesthetics or philosophy of art. It contains a wealth of readings from both classic and contemporary sources, and aims to present substantial selections from those texts rather than mere "snippets." Readings are organized historically ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain n ...Show more
Greek Myths: A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Children’s Edition) by HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
$35.00 NZD
Category: Mythology | Series: Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics
This book, from one of American literature s greatest authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, offers a selection of Greek myths, retold to make them more accessible for children. It includes the Gorgon s Head, the Three Golden Apples and the Paradise of Children, among others. This edition, leatherbound and featu ...Show more
When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim
$37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Non-Fiction
How to find tranquillity in your life, from the author of the million-copy internationally-bestselling The Things You Can See Only When You Slow DownEvery person's life is a journey toward themselves.The School for Broken Hearts, founded by bestselling mega-monk Haemin Sunim, provides a safe and caring ...Show more