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A Reader on Reading by Alberto Manguel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
In this major collection of his essays, Alberto Manguel, whom George Steiner has called 'the Casanova of reading', argues that the activity of reading, in its broadest sense, defines our species. 'We come into the world intent on finding narrative in everything', writes Manguel, 'landscape, the skies, t ...Show more
Curiosity by Alberto Manguel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinkerCuriosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden wa ...Show more
Fabulous Monsters: Dracula, Alice, Sup.. by Alberto Manguel
$39.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Charmingly written in his signature engaging erudite style, Alberto Manguel examines how literary characters can have changing identities, and can suddenly shift from behind their conventional stories to teach us about the complexities of love, loss, and life.In this personal reckoning with his favorite ...Show more
Homer's The Illiad and The Odyssey: A biography (Books That Shook The World series) by Alberto Manguel
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Books that Shook the World Ser.
The stories of the Trojan war, of Helen of Troy - the face that launched a thousand ships, Achilles' heel, Jason and the Argonauts and Odysseus' quest are embedded stories in our culture, yet we often fail to recognise that they all spring from two sources: The Iliadand The Odyssey, and one blind poet: ...Show more
Packing My Library - An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography
A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. In June 2015 Alberto Manguel prepared to leave his centuries-old village home in France's Loire Valley and reestablish himself in a one-bedroom apartment on Manhatta ...Show more
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions by Alberto Manguel
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
A bestselling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries.
The City of Words by Alberto Manguel
$27.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
The end of ethnic nationalism -- building societies that promote civic nationalism with universally accepted value systems -- seems eminently sensible. But something is going wrong. In these 2007 Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel takes a fresh look at the problems that come with creating new societies. R ...Show more
The Library At Night by Alberto Manguel
$26.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
Offers a captivating meditation on the meaning of libraries. This title conducts a library tour that extends from the author's childhood bookshelves to the 'complete' libraries of the Internet, from Ancient Egypt and Greece to the Arab world, from China and Rome to Google.
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