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  • Audiobook

    Vegas

    A Memoir of a Dark Season

    Narrated by Griffin Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 30 min

    "In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory Dunne's neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and fiction, confession and reportage.Panicked by his own mortality, despondent over his many failings as a writer and a man, Dunne leaves his wife and their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vegas

    A Memoir of a Dark Season

    “The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne’s] grotesqueries aren’t drug-induced, they’re very real. His is the genuine Vegas.” (Esquire)“In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada.” So begins John Gregory Dunne’s neglected classic of first-person writing, a mordant, deadpan, grotesque tale that blurs the line between autobiography and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • How i became a cardboard gangster

    by John Dunn ...
    Mariannridge, a small, tight-knit coloured community nestled in the heart of Durban, was a place where dreams were either born or buried. The flats and semi-detached houses stood like silent witnesses to the lives of those who called this place home. For 16-year-old Junaid "JJ" Jacobs, Mariannridge was both a playground and a prison ... Read more

    $5.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Locke

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Dunn ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    John Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowledge is founded in experience and reaches us principally through our senses; but its message has been curiously misunderstood. In this book John Dunn shows how Locke arrived at his theory of knowledge ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Setting the People Free

    The Story of Democracy

    by John Dunn ...
    Why does democracy—as a word and as an idea—loom so large in the political imagination, though it has so often been misused and misunderstood? Setting the People Free starts by tracing the roots of democracy from an improvised remedy for a local Greek difficulty 2,500 years ago, through its near extinction, to its rebirth amid the struggles of the French Revolution. Celebrated political theorist ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Russian Grammar

    A Practical Guide

    Series series Modern Grammars
    Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Russian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume.The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is carefully organized around language functions covering all major communication situations.With a ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Russian

    A Comprehensive Grammar

    Series series Routledge Comprehensive Grammars
    Russian: A Comprehensive Grammar gives a practically complete description of the grammatical system of the contemporary Russian language, including phonetics, morphology, word formation, and syntax.It illuminates grammatical categories by focusing on forms and semantics, using as a basis the comparative analysis of language categories in Russian and English and accompanying accessible but not ... Read more

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  • Memoirs Of A Captivity Among The Indians Of North America, From Childhood To The Age Of Nineteen

    Imagine being taken from everything you know before you are old enough to remember it, raised among people whose language, customs, and rituals become the only world you have ever understood, and then one day finding yourself cast between two civilizations, belonging fully to neither. This is not fiction. This is the true and extraordinary account of John Dunn Hunter, who spent the formative years ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Loopers

    A Caddie's Twenty-Year Golf Odyssey

    by John Dunn ...
    John Dunn never expected that his summer job as a caddie at the local course in Connecticut might turn into something more. The lifers who plied the loops were an ensemble of misfits and degenerates who made the caddie yard look more like a gambling hall than a country club. But Dunn came of age in those yards and on those courses, and the magnetism of the game and the lifestyle proved ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Monster

    Living Off the Big Screen

    Monster is John Gregory Dunne's mordant account of the eight years it took to get the 1996 Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeiffer film Up Close & Personal made. A bestselling novelist, Dunne has a cold eye, perfect pitch for the absurdities of Hollywood, and sharp elbows for the film industry's savage infighting. 192 pp. Author tour & national ads. 25,000 print. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cunning Of Unreason

    by John Dunn ...
    All human action lies under the shadow of prospective regret, but there are few areas of contemporary life over which that shadow falls so darkly as it does over politics. We hear constantly that Americans are less likely than ever to vote and are increasingly cynical about the ability of politicians to effect change. Why is politics so consistently disappointing? Starting from the premise that ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Feeling Universe

    Discover the true nature of your emotions and intuition.

    by John Dunn ...
    We live in a world of illusions. Mass media blurs what is real and what isn’t, and old belief structures cloud what is right: our inner truth. We require no other source of knowledge outside ourselves. The Feeling Universe guides you through your awakening. Learn to utilize the powers of mindfulness, to trust your own emotions and to truly feel again; our feelings are our direct connection to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD