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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred. In A Fortunate Man, Berger's tex ...Show more
A Fortunate Man : The Story of a Country Doctor by John Berger & Jean Mohr
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: Canons
In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the line between his life and his work is happily blurred.In A Fortunate Man, Berger's text ...Show more
A Woman's Decision: Breast Care, Treatment & Reconstruction by Karen J. Berger and John Bostwick
$40.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Fully updated, with the most recent research and new diagnostic treatments, this acclaimed reference offers readers the latest information on breast cancer, treatment and reconstruction. A Woman's Decision covers every aspect of breast cancer--from selecting a physician, to treatment, to how breast ...Show more
About Looking by John Berger
$28.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Ways of Seeing was based on a BBC TV series and was a ground-breaking, seminal text that completely revitalised and revolutionised discussions about art. About Looking continues this original approach to art and photographyFor fans of the essays of Susan Sontag, especially On Photography, and Camera Luc ...Show more
And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger
$29.95 NZD
Category: Society & Culture
A beautiful collection of fragments about time and space 'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless In our brief mortal lives, we are grinde ...Show more
Cave of Bones A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins by Lee Berger, John Hawks
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South African caves to discover fossil remains that compel a monumental reframing of the human family tree. In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the ...Show more
From A to X by John Berger
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In a dusty, ramshackle town lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But the town is under threat, and as ...Show more
From A to X - Man Booker Longlist 2008 by John Berger
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, ...Show more
G: a Novel by John Berger
$44.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Born to an Italian father and his American mistress, G. becomes, in the years before the First World War, a modern Don Juan.
Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his passeur, the most important person in his life betwe ...Show more
Hold Everything Dear by John Berger
$32.00 NZD
Category: Current Affairs
"Hold Everything Dear" is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, it is a profound meditation on what political resistance means today, by one of the most c ...Show more
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
$20.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despa ...Show more