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Adam's Navel by Michael Sims
39.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
From earlobe to erogenous zone, every part of the body has its own incredible story to tell. Adam's Navel takes us on a unique, offbeat and endlessly eye-opening tour of the human form from the tops of our heads to the ends of our toes, exploring the ways in which we have used, abused, perceived, adorne ...Show more
Adam's Navel by Michael Sims
28.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Adam's Navel is a unique scientific, cultural and literary tour of the human body. Starting with the head and ending with the feet, Sims gives us an entertaining and illuminating account of the outside of the human body and our responses to it. From the ancient prejudice against left-handedness, to the ...Show more
Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form by Michael Sims
25.00 NZD
Category: History
In this amusing and brilliantly conceived book, Michael Sims introduces you to your body. Moving from head to toe, Sims blends cultural history with evolutionary theory to produce a wonderfully original narrative in which he analyzes the visible parts of the body. In this fascinating brew of science and ...Show more
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories by Michael Sims
27.99 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sim ...Show more
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories by Michael Sims
34.99 NZD
39.99 (12% off)
Category: Crime Fiction
The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary ...Show more
The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories by Michael Sims
28.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
The greatest ever anthology of Victorian detective stories, The Dead Witness gathers the finest police and private detective adventure stories from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including a wide range of overlooked gems. 'The Dead Witness', the 1866 title story by Australian writer Mary ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes by Michael Sims
25.00 NZD
26.00 (3% off)
Category: Classic Books
Collected here for the first time is the best crime fiction from the gaslight era. All the legendary thieves are present - Arsene Lupin and A.J. Raffles, Colonel Clay and Simon Carne, Romney Pringle, Get Rich Quick Wallingford, and the Infallible Godahl - burgling London and Paris, conning New York and ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries by Michael Sims
47.99 NZD
Category: Mystery
For classic murder mystery readers, a scintillating anthology of lost treasures to read alongside Edgar Allan Poe and Sherlock Holmes A Penguin Classic For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
39.99 NZD
Category: Language
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
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