Product Description: Oh to live life like Ronald Wright! Spiritualist writer, gay magazine illustrator, celebrity portrait artist, artist's model and psychic medium, Ronald Wright's life has been filled with strange encounters and extraordinary experiences...read more

Product Description: Book by Wright, Ronald

Product Description: In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we've traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow...read more

Offers an analysis of why civilizations fail and explains how modern predicaments reflect patterns that have been repeated numerous times throughout history.

Writing with great wit and insight, the award-winning author of A Scientific Romance interrogates the notion of progress in the twentieth century, exploring the price paid for all of the wonders of modern technology and concluding that a new Dark Age may be on the horizon. Original.

Product Description: Palaeolithic hunters who learnt how to kill two mammoths instead of one had made progress. Those who learnt how to kill 200 by driving a whole herd over a cliff had made too much. Many of the great ruins that grace the deserts and jungles of the earth are monuments to progress traps, the headstones of civilisations which fell victim to their own success...read more

Imprisoned in a Tahitian jail while searching for her long-lost pilot father, Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, attempts to reconstruct her own troubled past and reflects upon the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to Tahiti with Queen Victoria's grandsons, in a novel that spans one hundred years. Reprint.

Imprisoned in a Tahitian jail while searching for her long-lost pilot father, Liv, a Canadian filmmaker, attemptsto reconstruct her own troubled past and reflects upon the secret journal of her ancestor Frank Henderson, who came to Tahiti with Queen Victoria's grandsons, in a novel that spans one hundred years. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico speak Mayan languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

In 1999, London museum curator David Lambert, distraught by the breakup of a romance, takes the time machine of H. G. Wells, which has been rediscovered and removed to the museum, for a trip into the next millennium. A first novel. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. NYT.

Presents Native American accounts of the plunder and persecution wrought by white settlers and explorers on the one hundred million people already living in the Americas in 1492

Presents native accounts--some translated for the first time from native American languages--of the plunder and persecution wrought by white settlers and explorers on the one hundred million people already living in the Americas in 1492. 15,000 first printing.

Product Description: Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisher Trekking in the Andes will give your legs a workout, and this phrasebook will work your conversational skills at the same time. Word up on the Native American language of South America: you don't want to be tongue-tied on a mountain and have to charade 'I have a cramp', do you? Two-way dictionary Guide to pronunciation and phrase-building Understand when someone tells you the time by the sun Practicalities - how to catch a bus or find a doctor Lonely Planet gets you to the heart of a place...read more

Traces the colonization of the Fiji Islands, explains how the Fijians have managed to keep their language and culture intact, and describes modern Fiji society