Hammershoi and Europe
$80.00 AUD
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This generously illustrated volume examines Hammershoi's work as a whole and in relation to the artists of his generation. Hammershoi's enigmatic paintings, with their rich and muted palettes, have always enjoyed enormous popularity in Scandinavia, and recently his work has received renewed attention ac ...Show more
The Passion According to G. H. by Clarice Lispector
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The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector's mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid's room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door --crushing the cockroach --and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at ...Show more
A BREATH OF LIFE by LISPECTOR CLARICE
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Description: A mystical dialogue between a male author (a thinly disguised Clarice Lispector) and his/her creation, a woman named Angela, this posthumous work has never before been translated. Lispector did not even live to see it published. At her death, a mountain of fragments remained to be "structur ...Show more
Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector
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A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clar ...Show more
The Snow Ghost and Other Tales by Various
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A spine-tinglingly beautiful hardback collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to ven ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space: Volume Five - A Publication of Transcripts That Speak Directly to the City and the Way We Read It by Office AU
$72.00 AUD
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The Politics of Public Space began in 2018 as a public lecture series curated by OFFICE. These discussions took place outside the conventional spaces of the university, held on Melbourne's street corners, laneways, parks, shopping strips and plazas. Meeting in different locations around the city allowed ...Show more
Venice: City of Pictures by Martin Gayford
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Enchanting, captivating, precious--Venice is one of the most cherished cities in the world. For centuries it was the heart of a global maritime power and a crossroads for diverse cultures. Today the city attracts millions of visitors each year, enticed by its irresistible beauty. Art lovers are drawn h ...Show more
A Beginner's Guide to the End - Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by B. J. Miller; Shoshana Berger
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The first and only all-encompassing action plan for the end of life, When it comes to death, we are all beginners. What we could use is a clear-eyed, bighearted guide to walk us through not just the practical decisions we'll have to make in the coming hours, months, and years, but also how to face our f ...Show more
Paris in Turmoil - A City Between Past and Future by Eric Hazan
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A kaleidoscopic look at Paris's ever-changing forms and people Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization. Take for example a small outlying district populated by Arabs, blacks an ...Show more
The Forward Book of Poetry 2023 by VARIOUS POETS
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A selection of the best contemporary poetry published in the UK over 2022.
The Gastronomical Me by M.F.K Fisher
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A classic of gastronomic writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger.
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso
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An immersive and entertaining tale based on the Mesopotamian myth of the Great Flood, from the renowned publisher and writer Roberto Calasso'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made was ever more ...Show more