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  • The Idealist

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    NEW WORK BY CELEBRATED NOVELIST AND ESSAYIST NICHOLAS JOSE, SET AGAINST THE TURMOIL OF THE INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT IN EAST TIMORSet in Australia, East Timor and Washington in the lead up to the independence referendum in East Timor in 1999, The Idealist is a novel which explores the entanglement of private and public life. It is a political mystery, the portrait of a marriage, a reflection on ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Avenue of Eternal Peace

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    Beijing is a city of opportunity and danger when cancer specialist Wally Frith arrives there from Sydney. Chance encounters have life-changing consequences. As the doctor's journey spirals back into his own family story, memories and ghosts shadow the seductions of the present. "Avenue of Eternal Peace", a kaleidoscopic novel of healing and hope, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Rowena’s Field

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    Series Book 37 - Untapped
    Finishing school is an intoxicating feeling; life is about to begin. Who will you be? How will you know? What will it take to find out?It’s 1970 and Rowena Sonner is confronting these three questions. For her, the answer is to escape—first, from her upper middle class family’s expectations; then from conservative Adelaide and Australia itself—and to live. To love, lose, and learn from it all ... Read more

    $8.55 USD

  • Paper Nautilus

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    "They wanted a love they could take into eternity." In a small town on the Australian coast Penny grows up to marry the boy who has waited for her. Few know the truth about her birth. Her uncle Jack is one, for he shared with her father not only his childhood but also the horror of their wartime experience. Jack and Penny's special bond is as rare and precious as the beautiful nautilus shell they ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Original Face

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    Lewis Lin is a taxi driver, photographer and recent arrival from Beijing. He finds himself drawn into a deadly web of deceit, involving Sydney's Chinese underworld, after a body is found dumped in outer suburban Sydney, skinned and without a face. ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Rose Crossing

    A Novel

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    "A fable, set in the 17th century, filled with vivid evocations of another time [and] wonderfully peculiar characters." — Kirkus ReviewsTo escape Puritan England, naturalist Edward Popple signs on to be a ship's doctor on a journey across the Indian Ocean, and his daughter, Rosamund, stows away to accompany him. But a wreck leaves them stranded on an island off the coast of Africa.Amid the lush ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bapo

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    Nicholas Jose was Cultural Counsellor at the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 1987 to 1990, at a vital moment in China's history, and has played an important role in artistic relations between the two countries since then. The title of his new collection of stories refers to an unusual kind of Chinese painting, that tricks the eye into thinking it sees a collage of fragments. Bapo means 'eight ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Custodians

    by Nicholas Jose ...
    Eight young lives come together in Adelaide, beneath the solar eclipse of 1958. They remain entangled as their orbits extend across the planet and the upheavals of the next four decades.They are artists and politicians, philanthropists and hedonists, immigrants and expatriates and the original inhabitants of the continent, all bound—perhaps—by the ancient remains taken from an outback burial ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Social Work of Narrative

    Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

    by Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin0, Nicholas Jose1, Asha Varadharajan2, Gillian Whitlock3, Russell West-Pavlov4, Ned Curthoys5, Golnar Nabizadeh6, Helen Gilbert7, Ethan Blue8, Jane Lydon9, Sukhmani Khorana0, Michael R. Griffiths1 ...
    Series Book 4 - Studies in World Literature
    This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Haitian Creole Language

    History, Structure, Use, and Education

    by Elizabeth Barrows, Yves Dejean, Hugues St. Fort, Georges Fouron, Uli Locher, Serge Madhere, Marie-José Nzengou-Tayo, Mayra Cortes Piñeir, Jocelyne Trouillot-Lévy, Albert Valdman, Flore Zéphir, Nicholas Faraclas ...
    Series series Caribbean Studies
    The Haitian Creole Language is the first book that deals broadly with a language that has too long lived in the shadow of French. With chapters contributed by the leading scholars in the study of Creole, it provides information on this language's history; structure; and use in education, literature, and social interaction. Although spoken by virtually all Haitians, Creole was recognized as the co ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Aeronautical Air-Ground Data Link Communications

    by Mohamed Slim Ben Mahmoud, Christophe Guerber, Nicolas Larrieu, Alain Pirovano, José Radzik ...
    This book deals with air-ground aeronautical communications. The main goal is to give the reader a survey of the currently deployed, emerging and future communications systems dedicated to digital data communications between the aircraft and the ground, namely the data link. Those communication systems show specific properties relatively to those commonly used for terrestrial communications. In ... Read more

    $142.00 USD

  • Antipodean China

    Reflections on Literary Exchange

    Edited by Nicholas Jose, Benjamin Madden ...
    Antipodean China is a collection of essays drawn from a series of encounters between Australian and Chinese writers, which took place in China and Australia over a ten-year period from 2011. The encounters could be defensive, especially given the need to depend on translators, but as the writers spoke about the places important to them, their influences and their work, resemblances emerged, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD