2013
Avelum: A Survey of the Current Press and a Few Love Affairs
99,00 ₾Otar Chiladze’s fifth, greatest, most political and personal novel, translated from the Georgian about the collapse of the Soviet Evil Empire and of the hero’s own private empire of love, an insight into the predicament of a Soviet intellectual and a newly emergent Georgia. Because of high postage costs, available only to UK buyers: if you live outside the UK, please contact me, and I may list the item for 24 hours at a higher price to cover the additional postage costs.
Rolling Stones
28,00 ₾In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter. Add the mercurial Brian Jones (who’d been effectively run out of Cheltenham for theft, multiple impregnations and playing blues guitar) and the wryly opinionated Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, and the potential was obvious. During the 1960s and 70s the Rolling Stones were the polarising figures in Britain, admired in some quarters for their flamboyance, creativity and salacious lifestyles, and reviled elsewhere for the same reasons. Confidently expected never to reach 30 they are now approaching their seventies and, in 2012, will have been together for 50 years. In The Rolling Stones, Christopher Sandford tells thehuman drama at the centre of the Rolling Stones story. Sandford has carried out interviews with those close to the Stones, family members (including Mick’s parents), the group’s fans and contemporaries – even examined their previously unreleased FBI files. Like no other book before The Rolling Stoneswill make sense of the rich brew of clever invention and opportunism, of talent, good fortune, insecurity, self-destructiveness, and of drugs, sex and other excess, that made the Stones who they are.
Philosophy: The Basics
72,00 ₾‘Philosophy: The Basics deservedly remains the most recommended introduction to philosophy on the market. Warburton is patient. accurate and. above all. clear. There is no better short introduction to philosophy.’ – Stephen Law. author of The Philosophy Gym
Philosophy: The Basics gently eases the reader into the world of philosophy. Each chapter considers a key area of philosophy. explaining and exploring the basic ideas and themes including:
Can you prove God exists?
How do we know right from wrong?
What are the limits of free speech?
Do you know how science works?
Is your mind different from your body?
Can you define art?
How should we treat non-human animals?
For the fifth edition of this best-selling book. Nigel Warburton has added an entirely new chapter on animals. revised others and brought the further reading sections up to date. If you’ve ever asked ‘what is philosophy?’. or wondered whether the world is really the way you think it is. this is the book for you.
Wolf of Wall Street
32,00 ₾By day he made thousands of dollars a minute By night he spent it as fast as he could. on drugs. sex. and international globe-trotting From the binge that sunk a 170-foot motor yacht. crashed a Gulfstream jet. and ran up a 700.000 hotel tab. to the wife and kids who waited for him for at home. and the fast-talking. hard-partying young stockbrokers who called him king and did his bidding
A Room Of One’s Own & Three Guineas
27,00 ₾This volume combines two books which were among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. Together they form a brilliant attack on sexual inequality. A Room of One’s Own, first published in 1929, is a witty, urbane and persuasive argument against the intellectual subjection of women, particularly women writers. The sequel, Three Guineas, is a passionate polemic which draws a startling comparison between the tyrannous hypocrisy of the Victorian patriarchal system and the evils of fascism.
Gods Themselves
30,00 ₾In the year 2100, the invention of the Electron Pump – an apparently inexhaustible supply of free energy – has enabled humanity to devote its time and energies to more than the struggle for survival, finally breaking free of the Earth. But the Electron Pump works by exchanging materials with a parallel universe, and such unbalancing of the cosmos has consequences. Humans and aliens alike must race to prevent a vast nuclear explosion in the heart of the Sun – and the vaporisation of the Earth exactly eight minutes later
Armageddon Rag
26,00 ₾Magic, music, drugs and rock’n’roll in an early novel from George R. R. Martin, author of A GAME OF THRONES
One-time underground journalist Sandy Blair has traveled far from his radical roots in the ’60s – until the bizarre and brutal murder of a millionaire rock promoter draws him back. As Sandy sets out to investigate the crime, he finds himself on a magical mystery tour of the pent-up passions of his generation. For a new messiah has resurrected the once legendary rock band Nazgûl – but with an apocalyptic new beat that is a requiem of demonism, mind control, and death only Sandy may be able to change in time …
N-W
28,00 ₾zadie Smith’s brilliant tragi-comic NW follows four Londoners – Leah, Natalie, Felix and Nathan – after they’ve left their childhood council estate, grown up and moved on to different lives. From private houses to public parks, at work and at play, their city is brutal, beautiful and complicated. Yet after a chance encounter they each find that the choices they’ve made, the people they once were and are now, can suddenly, rapidly unravel. A portrait of modern urban life, NW is funny, sad and urgent – as brimming with vitality as the city itself.
Farewell to Arms
25,00 ₾In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway’s unforgettable book recreates the fear, the courage and the comradeship of warfare with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war, it is also a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.
This special edition lifts the lid on Hemingway’s creative process. Included here are his early drafts, all 47 alternative endings and the author’s 1948 introduction, providing a fascinating glimpse into the construction of this great masterpiece.
Van Gogh: Success
38,00 ₾Helen Mirren narrates the story of Vincent’s struggle for recognition, and his existential doubts about the value of success. Vincent’s quest to live an authentic, artistic, life is an endeavor that speaks to our shared human uncertainties and strengths. Here, for the first time, the artist’s marketing acumen, his protracted struggle for recognition, and his ultimate refusal of that same recognition are put center-stage. The booklets allow you to reflect on Van Gogh’s work while listening, and illustrate in lavish detail how his oeuvre was catapulted to ever greater fame after his tragically early death. Taken together, the audio-biography & art book lets you follow Van Gogh’s challenging ascent from a late and unpromising start to the heights of his current reputation.
Step by Step: Vegetarian
48,00 ₾Vegetarian cooking today is exciting, colorful and tasty a million miles from dull nut roasts! This fantastic collection includes 60 recipes that will appeal to carnivores and vegetarians alike. It includes warming soups, salads and light meals, everyday dishes for the whole family, plus some special occasion treats. Every recipe includes helpful step-by-step photography to guarantee success every time. So whether you are already a vegetarian looking for new inspiration, or just wanting to increase the vegetarian element in a mixed diet, the Vegetarian Step-by-Step Cookbook offers a wealth of delicious new dishes.
Japanese Folk Art Colouring Book
26,00 ₾Relax and unwind by coloring lovely illustrations of Japanese craftsmanship in Japanese Folk Art Coloring Book.
Japanese folk art, also known as “mingei,” is an art movement created by Soetsu Yanagi and two of his friends. Yanagi created the mingei art movement to feature ordinary crafts by unknown artisans. He founded the first mingei museum in Korea and continued the movement in Japan.
Folk art is known for its traditional simplicity and functionality. It includes crafts and objects such as paintings, ceramics, textiles, and more! No artistic experience is necessary to enjoy these crafts and appreciate the beauty of the ordinary.
Staircase- the Architecture of Ascent
96,00 ₾A wonderfully photographed survey of a fabulous invention that combines form and function beautifully
Times: Aviators
50,00 ₾Decades before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, many pioneers had claimed partial successes with flying machines and this illustrated history begins with some fascinating photographs of these 19th-century aviators and their creations. Led by the historic images, the book takes the story on through the feats of record breakers such as Blériot and Lindbergh and the aces of two world wars, to the first commercial flights and the modern era of fast jets and giant passenger airliners.
