The Wanting Monster by Martine Murray; Anna Read (Illustrator)
$29.95 AUD
Category: Children's Books
A gentle and humorous fable about a tiny monster who causes enormous trouble in one village. The story pits the small village, with its stream and forest and fields, against human greed, carefully stirred into the minds of the hapless villagers by the attention-seeking Wanting Monster. The villagers rea ...Show more
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'No one can write a man's life except himself.' In his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and philosopher in Paris, to his wanderings as an exile, persec ...Show more
Lark in the Morning - The Verses of the Troubadours by Ezra Pound (Translator); Robert Kehew (Editor, Translator); W. D. Snodgrass (Translator)
$61.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Although the troubadours flourished at the height of the Middle Ages in southern France, their songs of romantic love, with pleasing melodies and intricate stanzaic patterns, have inspired poets and song writers ever since, from Dante to Chaucer, from Renaissance sonneteers to the Romantics, and from Ve ...Show more
Pictures By J.R.R. Tolkien [Deluxe Edition] by J R R Tolkien
$49.99 AUD
Category: Art & Deluxe Editions
With Christopher Tolkien as your guide, take a tour through this colourful gallery of enchanting art produced by J.R.R. Tolkien and presented in an elegant new slipcased edition. This collection of pictures, with a text by Christopher Tolkien, now reissued after almost 30 years confirms J.R.R. Tolkien' ...Show more
Saint Young Men Omnibus 6 (Vol. 11-12) (HB) by Hikaru Nakamura
$43.95 AUD
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Saint Young Men Ser.
The divine live among us...in a flat in western Tokyo After centuries of hard work, Jesus and Buddha take a break from their heavenly duties to relax among the people of Japan, and their adventures in this lighthearted buddy comedy are sure to bring mirth and merriment to all Buddha the Enlightened ...Show more
Susan and the Mermaid by Pamela Colman Smith; Corrine Kenner (Notes by)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Lost for almost a century, "Susan and the Mermaid" is the rediscovered tale of a magic ring, an underwater kingdom, and a wise old woman who knew how to make her granddaughter's dreams come true. It's a tale that rivals "Alice in Wonderland" for imagination ... and it was written and illustrated by Pame ...Show more
Letters to a Young Poet: A New Translation and Commentary by Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
A fresh perspective on a beloved classic by acclaimed translators Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy. German poet Rainer Maria Rilke's (1875-1926) Letters to a Young Poet has been treasured by readers for nearly a century. Rilke's personal reflections on the vocation of writing and the experience of living ...Show more
Brilliant Moon - The Autobiography of Dilgo Khyentse by Dilgo Khyentse; Ani Jinba Palmo (Foreword by); Dalai Lama (Foreword by); Sogyal Rinpoche (Foreword by); Dzongsar Khyentse (Foreword by)
$55.00 AUD
Category: Tibetan Buddhism
Through lively anecdotes and stories this highly revered Buddhist meditation master and scholar tells about his life of study, retreat, and teaching. The formative events of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's life, and those insights and experiences that caused him to mature into the warm, brilliant, and highly ...Show more
Guru Nanak - First of the Sikhs by Demi
$33.99 AUD
Category: Children's Books
Guru Nanak (1469-1539), the founder of the Sikh religion, is the first in a line of ten enlightened gurus, or teachers, whose writings form the sacred scripture of Sikhism. Born into a humble Hindu family, Nanak was an extraordinary child who from a young age questioned the rituals of religion and the w ...Show more
The Woman Who Raised the Buddha - The Extraordinary Life of Mahaprajapati by Wendy Garling
$32.95 AUD
Category: Buddhism
The first full biography of Mahaprajapati Gautami, the woman who raised the Buddha--examining her life through stories and canonical records. Mahaprajapati was the only mother the Buddha ever knew. His birth mother, Maya, died shortly after childbirth, and her sister Mahaprajapati took the infant to ...Show more
The Song of Myself - A New Verse Translation of the Bhagavad Gita by David Lindley
$40.95 AUD
Category: Bhagavad Gita
The Song of Myself, whose title takes its cue from Walt Whitman's celebration of the self, Song of Myself, is a modern, free-flowing verse rendition of the classic Sanskrit text, The Bhagavad Gita. It provides a fresh reading of a much translated work that has become overlaid with both Eastern and Weste ...Show more
The Way It Is - The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu by Lao Tzu; David Lindley (translated by)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Tao Te Ching
The Way It Is provides a modern, readable and relevant English language version of the Chinese classic text on the nature of the unnameable Tao, how the individual can live in harmony with it and the state govern in accord with it. From the introduction: "Unlike the idea of God, who oversees the world ...Show more