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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
Little, Brown and Company 2013; US$ 12.99A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his... more...
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; Not AvailableA new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. more...
The Confessions
OUP Oxford 1998; US$ 6.99In this new translation the brilliant and impassioned descriptions of Augustine's colourful early life are conveyed to the English reader with accuracy and art. Augustine tells of his wrestlings to master his sexual drive, his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of high power at the imperial court of Milan, and... more...
Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls
Little, Brown Book Group 2013; US$ 27.17A new roundup of personal essays from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. more...
Walden
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 4.95One of the most famous non-fiction American books, Walden by Henry David Thoreau is the history of Thoreau's visit to Ralph Waldo Emerson's woodland retreat near Walden Pond. Thoreau, stirred by the philosophy of the transcendentalists, used the sojourn as an experiment in self reliance and minimalism… "so as to "live deliberately,... more...
What I Saw in America
The Floating Press 1922; US$ 4.99Like many writers and thinkers of his era, British author G.K. Chesterton toured the United States to get a clearer sense of the country's culture and zeitgeist. The collection What I Saw in America offers Chesterton's impressions of the U.S. in the early twentieth century. Part travelogue, part cultural critique, and part historical analysis,... more...
The Examined Life
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 20.01** As heard on Book of the Week, Radio 4 ** 'This book is about change.' We are all storytellers - we make stories to make sense of our lives. But it is not enough to tell tales. There must be someone to listen. In his work as a practising psychoanalyst, Stephen Grosz has spent the last twenty-five years uncovering... more...
Hold Everything Dear
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00From one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything... more...
Bill Bryson African Diary
Transworld 2010; US$ 13.34Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty around the world. Kenya, generally regarded as the cradle of mankind, is a land of contrasts, with famous game reserves, stunning landscapes, and a vibrant cultural tradition. It also provides plenty to worry... more...
The Impossible Will Take a Little While
Basic Books 2007; US$ 15.95In a difficult time, our most eloquent writers offer words of inspiration and hope more...









