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  • Purely Academic

    A Satire

    Gurney Sleep wants three things in life: ‘recognition, promotion and sex but not necessarily in that order’. When his highly successful boss and mentor, Professor Nigel Williams suggests he takes charge of the Department of Contrastive Linguistics’ end-of-year Centenary Celebrations Gurney diffidently and reluctantly agrees.Set in one of England’s new universities – the 17th most applied to in ... Read more

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  • The Abandoned

    Victims of Jack the Ripper

    In the autumn of 1888, terror gripped the streets of Whitechapel. The brutal murders of five women-attributed to the elusive figure known as Jack the Ripper-became one of history's most infamous unsolved crimes. But behind the headlines and the myth of the killer were real women, abandoned by society, trapped in poverty, and left to survive in the most desperate of circumstances.The Abandoned: ... Read more

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  • The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way

    On Writers and Writing

    “Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”—Charles BukowskiIn The Mathematics of the Breath and the Way, Charles Bukowski considers the art of writing, and the art of living as a writer. Bringing together a variety of previously uncollected stories, columns, reviews, introductions, and interviews, this book finds him ... Read more

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  • What On Earth Is A Mainframe?

    An Introduction to IBM Z Mainframes and z/OS Operating System for Total Beginners

    Confused about IBM Z Mainframes? Need to understand the z/OS operating system - and in a hurry? Then you’ve just found the book you need. Avoiding technical jargon, this book gives you the basic facts in clear, light-hearted, entertaining English. You’ll quickly learn what Mainframes are, what they do, what runs on them, and terms and terminology you need to speak Mainframe-ese. But it’s not all ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Bell Tolls for No One

    Previously uncollected pulp fiction by the 20th century American master.From the self-illustrated, unpublished work written in 1947 to hardboiled contributions to 1980s adult magazines, The Bells Tolls for No One presents the entire range of Bukowski's talent as a short story writer, from straight-up genre stories to postmodern blurring of fact and fiction. An informative introduction by editor ... Read more

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  • The Paladin Principle

    Western Civilization is at war with fanatical terrorists. It is a new kind of war the West is unaccustomed to fighting. The enemy strikes randomly, often uses difficult to defend suicidal tactics and hides intermingled among the general population. Politically correct Rules of Engagement and international law make it difficult to pursue terrorists and dispense the justice they deserve. They are ... Read more

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  • More Notes of a Dirty Old Man

    The Uncollected Columns

    After toiling in obscurity for years, Charles Bukowski suddenly found fame in 1967 with his autobiographical newspaper column, "Notes of a Dirty Old Man," and a book of that name in 1969. He continued writing this column, in one form or another, through the mid-1980s. More Notes of a Dirty Old Man gathers many uncollected gems from the column's twenty-year run. Drawn from ephemeral underground ... Read more

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  • Beat Film, Beat Writers

    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    Beat Film, Beat Writers is the first monograph to analyze the films of Christopher Maclaine, Lawrence Jordan, ruth weiss, Ron Rice, Robert Frank, Barbara Rubin, Shirley Clarke, William S. Burroughs, and Joanne Kyger. The book is noteworthy for its emphasis on women filmmakers who have traditionally been excluded from close analysis by film scholars. Beat Film, Beat Writers also explores the ways ... Read more

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  • Conversations with Michael McClure

    Edited by David Stephen Calonne ...
    Series series Literary Conversations Series
    Conversations with Michael McClure features twenty interviews from 1969 to 2015 that chronicle the capacious scope of McClure’s creativity. McClure (1932–2020) is notable not only for his considerable achievements as a poet and prose writer of the Beat Generation, but also for the many collaborative connections he forged over seven decades. From the 1950s to his death, McClure worked with an ... Read more

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  • The Honest History Book

    Is Australia's obsession with Anzac blinding us to other aspects of our history? This collection of essays challenges the dominance of the Anzac legend and offers a more balanced perspective on Australian history. It questions the stories we tell ourselves about our past and encourages a reassessment of the historical evidence surrounding military myths.The Honest History Book explores other ... Read more

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  • ..."Of Our Times"

    “A book, open heartedly talking in world-views; sprinklings of humour, endearment and adventure infused for good measure”. ... Read more

    $5.39 USD