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Paris: Portrait of a City by Jean-Claude Gautrand
130.00 AUD
Category: Photography
This is the vivid history of the capital of love and photography. After Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York, here comes the 4th volume in our "Portrait of a City" series: "L'air de Paris". A city built on two millennia of history, Paris is entering the third century of its love story with photography. It ...Show more
Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena
24.99 AUD
Category: Fashion & Textiles
A micro-encyclopedia for those who want to know the perfumer's work and learn about the perfume industry from the inside, but have no guide on where to start."
Pissing Figures by Jean Claude Lebensztejn
17.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Ekphrasis
Lebensztejn is one of France's best - kept secrets. A world - class art historian who has lectured and taught at major universities in the United States, his work has remained almost entirely in French, his American audience limited to a sma ll but dedicated group of cognoscenti. First introducing the M ...Show more
Robert Doisneau by Jean Claude Gautrand
125.00 AUD
Category: Photography
An empathetic lens: Robert Doisneau's eye for human experience As sensitive to human suffering as to the simple pleasures of life, Robert Doisneau is one of the most celebrated exponents of the humanist photography that swept through the 1950s. Cherished in particular for his soulful portraits of Paris, ...Show more
Solea - Marseilles Trilogy #3 by Jean-Claude Izzo
24.99 AUD
Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Marseilles Trilogy Ser.
The Marseilles trilogy, featuring ex-cop Fabio Montale, is a classic of European crime fiction. Its publication was the catalyst for the foundation of an entire literary movement, Mediterranean, and made its author into a celebrity overnight. Montale's heartfelt cry against the criminal forces devastati ...Show more
The Big Animal Activity Book by Jean Claude
22.99 AUD
Category: Activity | Series: Buster Activity
Paw-some challenges include guiding a panda through a bamboo forest, spotting a snow leopard on the mountain, matching up chameleon pairs and taking an elephant memory game. Along the way, readers can learn all kinds of wonderful facts about the animal kingdom, from how long a giant anteater's tongue is ...Show more
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur by Jean-Claude Ellena
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The French bestseller "The Diary of a Nose" is the story behind the creation of a perfume, from the head perfumer at Hermes. Perfume creation is an exclusive and secretive endeavour. What is day to day life like for a perfume-maker? How does the creation of a new scent begin? How do you capture the esse ...Show more
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A magnificent small book to read urgently' <i>Libération</i> Once upon a time in an enormous forest there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child. On a train crossing the fores ...Show more
The Most Precious of Cargoes by Jean-Claude Grumberg
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A magnificent small book to read urgently' Libération Once upon a time in an enormous forest, there lived a poor woodcutter and his wife. Around them a war wages, and hunger is a constant companion. Yet every night, the woodcutter's wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding tw ...Show more
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: First Complete Translation by Jean-Claude Van Itallie
24.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Penguin Black Classics
'You will be happy in this life and joyful in the next'The Tibetan Book of the Deadis overwhelmingly the most influential of all Tibetan Buddhist texts in the West and one of the greatest works created by any culture. Offering one of the most detailed and compelling portrayals of the after-death state i ...Show more
This Is Not the End of the Book - A Conversation Curated by Jean-Philippe De Tonnac by Umberto Eco; Jean-Claude Carrière
19.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: very good
"The book is like the spoon: once invented, it cannot be bettered". (Umberto Eco). These days it is impossible to get away from discussions of whether the book will survive the digital revolution. Blogs, tweets and newspaper articles on the subject appear daily, many of them repetitive, most of them adm ...Show more
Tibetan Book of the Dead by Francesca Fremantle; Chogyam Trungpa; Jean-Claude Van Itallie
19.99 AUD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Shambhala Pocket Library
In this classic scripture of Tibetan Buddhism--traditionally read aloud to the dying to help them attain liberation--death and rebirth are seen as a process that provides an opportunity to recognize the true nature of mind. This unabridged translation of The Tibetan Book of the Dead emphasizes the pract ...Show more