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Frank: The True Story that Inspired the Movie by Jon Ronson
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the late 1980s Jon Ronson was the keyboard player in the Frank Sidebottom Oh Blimey Big Band. Frank wore a big fake head. Nobody outside his inner circle knew his true identity. This became the subject of feverish speculation during his zenith years. Together, they rode relatively high. Then it all w ...Show more
Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries by Jon Ronson
39.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
Jon Ronson is fascinated by madness, extraordinary behaviour and the human mind. He has spent his life investigating crazy events, following fascinating people and unearthing unusual stories. Collected here from various sources (including the "Guardian" and "GQ America") are the best of his adventures. ...Show more
So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
24.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Reading Level: very good
From the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a captivating and brilliant exploration of one of our world's most underappreciated forces: shame.'It's about the terror, isn't it?''The terror of what?' I said.'The terror of being found out.'For the past three years, Jon Ronson h ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
34.95 NZD
39.95 (12% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
At times incredible, at times worrying, at times hilarious, always gripping, Jon Ronson investigates American military paranoia. In the summer of 1983, Major General Albert Stubblebine III sat behind his desk in Arlington, Virginia, and prepared himself to walk into the next room. After summoning al ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
26.95 NZD
29.99 (10% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: 16
American military paranoia at its most extreme, insane, amusing -- and alarming Why are they blasting Iraqi prisoners-of-war with the theme tune to Barney the Purple Dinosaur? And why have 100 de-bleated goats been secretly placed inside the Special Forces command centre at Fort Bragg, North Carolina? ...Show more
The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In 1979 a secret unit was established by the US Army. Defying all known military practice -- and indeed the laws of physics -- they believed that a soldier could adopt a cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and, perhaps most chillingly, kill goats just by staring at them. They were the Fir ...Show more
The Psychopath Test - A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
27.99 NZD
Category: Psychology / Sociology: | Series: Picador Collection
The Sunday Times bestseller - now with a new introdution and part of the Picador Collection'The belly laughs come thick and fast' - The Observer_____What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the worl ...Show more
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