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  • Against the Water

    A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory

    by Owen Wright ...
    The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered the water at Pipeline, Hawaii, determined to become a world champion. But after being pounded by a set of monstrous waves, he ended up fighting for life and facing extensive brain trauma. In this inspirational memoir, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 150 Activities For Bored Dogs

    Surefire Ways to Keep Your Dog Active and Happy

    by Sue Owens Wright ...
    Is your least favorite part of the day leaving your best friend behind? Are you tired of coming home to chewed-up sofas and shoes and garbage in places it shouldn't be? Now you can turn your bored dog into an active dog with 150 Activities for Bored Dogs.With a great mix of activities for the home-alone dog, as well as activities that let you in on the fun, 150 Activities for Bored Dogs includes ... Read more

    Was $11.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Music Theory in Mamluk Cairo

    The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-’l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr

    by Owen Wright ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    The ġāyat al-maṭlūb fī ‘ilm al-adwār wa-'l-ḍurūb by Ibn Kurr is the only theoretical text of any substance that can be considered representative of musicological discourse in Cairo during the first half of the fourteenth century CE. Indeed, nothing comparable survives from the whole Mamluk period, which extends from 1260 until the Ottoman invasion and conquest of Egypt in 1516. But its value does ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Music Theory in the Safavid Era

    The taqsīm al-naġamāt

    by Owen Wright ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    The Safavid era (1501–1722) is one of the most important in the history of Persian culture, celebrated especially for its architecture and art, including miniature paintings that frequently represent singers and instrumentalists. Their presence reflects a sophisticated tradition of music making that was an integral part of court life, yet it is one that remains little known, for the musicological ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Touraj Kiaras and Persian Classical Music: An Analytical Perspective

    by Owen Wright ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    In this book Owen Wright analyses a single recording of classical Persian music made by Touraj Kiaras, a distinguished singer, accompanied by four noted instrumentalists. The format of the recording is typical of a public concert performance, and thus includes instrumental compositions as well as a central exploration of vocal repertoire and technique. The analysis identifies salient structural ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Demetrius Cantemir: The Collection of Notations

    Volume 2: Commentary

    by Owen Wright ...
    Series series SOAS Studies in Music
    The substantial collection of notations of seventeenth-century Ottoman instrumental music made by Demetrius Cantemir is both a record of compositions of considerable intrinsic interest and a historical document of vital importance, representing as it does one of the most comprehensive accounts of any Middle Eastern repertoire before the widespread adoption of Western notation in the twentieth ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Against the Water

    A surfing champion's inspirational journey to Olympic glory

    by Owen Wright ...
    Narrated by Barton Welch ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 20 min

    The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia’s finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal.On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright entered the water at Pipeline, Hawaii, determined to become a world champion. But after being pounded by a set of monstrous waves, he ended up fighting for life and facing extensive brain trauma. In this inspirational memoir, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    by Tom Carroll, Nick Carroll ...
    The long-awaited autobiography of one of Australia's surfing legends.On the surface he was Tom Carroll, dreamer, cheeky grommet, brilliant surfer, Australian sporting hero, fitness fanatic, businessman, family man, big wave charger. Inside turned the terrible wheel of drug addiction, part family curse, part legacy of the footloose surf culture he’d done so much to legitimise. Tom’s family and ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Surf For Your Life

    by Mick Fanning, Tim Baker ...
    An inspirational tale of overcoming the odds to become world champMick Fanning might only be 28 but he already knows how a lot of things feel that most of us never will. How does it feel to lose a brother? Win a world title? Rip your hamstring muscle clean off the bone? Weave through a zippering Superbank barrel for 20 or 30 seconds or paddle over the ledge at places like Pipeline and Teahupo? ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Bali: Heaven and Hell

    Heaven and Hell

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    Bali: Heaven and Hell is a lively cultural and social history of Australia’s favourite holiday island. Detailing the island’s tumultous and often violent past, its mythology, religion and politics, and the last 50 years of western colonization and modern development. It is a place that both appeals and repels. Together with substantial knowledge and research of the island’s early history, Phil ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Bomber: The Whole Story

    The Whole Story

    by Mark Thompson ...
    Mark Thompson has had more than his fair share of challenges and dramas in his career. He's been part of five premierships: three as a player at Essendon where he was coached by the best and two at Geelong where he coached that club's greatest team of all. He exited the game amid the Essendon supplements scandal with unfinished business. After 34 years 'at a thousand kilometres an hour', Thompson ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Surfing Mavericks: The Unofficial Biography of Jay Moriarity

    by Ryan August ...
    Jay Moriarity was a big wave surfer whose positive spirit, relentless dedication, and respect for his sport earned him the admiration of the entire surfing world. Although, he lost his life just one day before his 23rd birthday, he is still an inspiration to not just the surfing community, but to countless people that he met in his life. This book examines his life, but more importantly, it also ... Read more

    $2.99 USD