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  • Health, Civilization and the State

    A History of Public Health from Ancient to Modern Times

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    This book examines the social, economic and political issues of public health provision in historical perspective. It outlines the development of public health in Britain, Continental Europe and the United States from the ancient world through to the modern state. It includes discussion of:* pestilence, public order and morality in pre-modern times* the Enlightenment and its effects* ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • The Greatest Adventure Books for Children

    A Timeless Anthology of Sea Quests, Magical Journeys, Frontier Trials, and Coming-of-Age Tales

    by Jules Verne, L. Frank Baum, Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Frances Hodgson Burnett, R. L. Stevenson, Johanna Spyri, Emerson Hough, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Maria Edgeworth Porter, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, E. Nesbit, Charles Dickens, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Howard Pyle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam ...
    The Greatest Adventure Books for Children gathers a capacious nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century tradition of juvenile storytelling, in which travel, danger, invention, wilderness, and moral testing become instruments of imaginative education. Its range extends from fantastic voyages and fairy-tale realms to historical romance, domestic escape, animal fable, and tales of exploration. Sea ... Read more

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  • What a Piece of Work

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    Series Book 75 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s third verse novel deepens her work on Akhenaten and the groundbreaking The Monkey’s Mask with a dark story of sex, death and psychology set in and around Sydney’s iconic asylum Callan Park.It’s 1968, and the sexual revolution, Freudian psychoanalysis and electroshock therapy are all still in full swing. Dr Peter Cyren has a secret as dark as any of his patients’ as he shuttles ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Crete

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    The follow-up to the international bestselling The Monkey’s Mask, Dorothy Porter’s Crete is an astonishing collection that traverses Greek myth and Russian poets, the memory of cigarettes and the wild abandon of love.Crete is a heady mix of dark humour, archaeology, breathtaking eroticism, risk-taking and effortless economy. It is a book by a writer at the peak of her highly original powers.This ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Other Worlds

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    Series Book 76 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s sixth poetry collection (1997–2001) travels the solar system for comets, distant moons and other heavenly bodies before returning to South America and the Northern Territory and finishing with a selection of commissioned works—including one for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and one for the collection Dick for a Day.This collection sees a number of emerging themes and images that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Greatest Children's Classics Of All Time

    A Golden Age Treasury of Fairy Tales, Talking Animals, Enchanted Adventures, and Timeless Fables

    by Beatrix Potter, E. Nesbit, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March Tappan, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome ...
    The Greatest Children's Classics Of All Time gathers a capacious international tradition of writing for young readers: fairy tale, fable, fantasy, animal story, domestic fiction, adventure, travel narrative, and moral allegory. Its range extends from ancient didactic tales and European wonder stories to Victorian and early twentieth-century imaginative fiction, allowing enchantment, satire, peril, ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Titles in One Book

    Novels, Stories, Fantasy Classics, Fables, Fairytales, Adventures & Legends

    by Beatrix Potter, E. Nesbit, Kenneth Grahame, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Louisa May Alcott, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, J. M. Barrie, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March Tappan, W. R. S. Ralston, Arthur Ransome ...
    The 'Greatest Children's Classics of All Time – Ultimate Collection' brings together a monumental array of over 1400 works, casting a wide net over the landscape of children's literature. This anthology encompasses a broad range of themes from whimsical fairy tales to profound moral lessons, delivered through a diverse array of literary styles including fantasy, realism, and fables. Embedded ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Passion

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    Series series On Series
    'I wonder if some of the most deeply passionate experiences of my life have happened between the covers of a book'A wonderful, ultimately joyous, insight into the creative life of one of our best loved poets.In On Passion celebrated Australian poet Dorothy Porter delves headfirst into the passions, both literary and earthly. We discover the young Dorothy Porter's 'drug of choice' was none other ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Driving Too Fast

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    Series Book 73 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter's fourth poetry collection is an exhilarating ride through passions found, imagined and richly lived.From a modern, petrol-headed Carmen and Don José to pairs of polar explorers and silent twins, an intersection of birds and asylums, reflections on vanished love and new desire, Driving Too Fast bursts with vitality, a horsepower rhythm and language that turns on a dime.Includes In ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Wild Surmise

    by Dorothy Porter ...
    Series Book 77 - Untapped
    Dorothy Porter’s fourth verse novel follows the orbits of an astronomer, an astrobiologist and a dying scholar as they move around each other in an unstable conjunction.Alex is searching for signs of life—in polar ice cores, in volcanic chimneys on the sea floor, on the moons of Jupiter, and within and outside her marriage. An affair with the celebrated astronomer Phoebe exerts an ongoing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Childhood in Scotland

    by Christian Miller ...
    Series series Canongate Classics
    This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • CHILDHOOD CLASSICS - Ultimate Collection: 1400+ Tales of Magic, Adventure, Fairytales & Legends

    A Treasury of 1,400+ Fairy Tales, Fables, Adventures & Magic

    by J. M. Barrie, Louisa May Alcott, Lewis Carroll, George MacDonald, E. Nesbit, Beatrix Potter, Thornton Burgess, Margery Williams, Ruth Stiles Gannett, Howard R. Garis, L. Frank Baum, Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Lofting, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Vishnu Sharma, Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Sharp, Maurice Maeterlinck, Georgette Leblanc, John Ruskin, Carl Sandburg, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Johnny Gruelle, Carlo Collodi, George Haven Putnam, Johanna Spyri, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emerson Hough, Eleanor H. Porter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Dorothy Canfield, Susan Coolidge, Kenneth Grahame, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Mark Twain, R. L. Stevenson, John Meade Falkner, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Jonathan Swift, Miguel Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anna Sewell, Jack London, E. Boyd Smith, Jennie Hall, Howard Pyle, Marion St. John Webb, Jules Verne, Eva March Tappan ...
    Childhood Classics—Ultimate Collection gathers a vast transnational inheritance of children's literature: fairy tale, animal fantasy, nursery fable, quest romance, school story, moral parable, and adventure narrative. Its more than 1,400 selections range from compact folkloric wonders and comic absurdities to expansive voyages, tales of enchanted transformation, and humane stories of courage and ... Read more

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