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Nothing but the Night by John Williams
Category: Classics
Stoner author John Williams's first novelis a searing look ata man's relationship with his absent father, and how early trauma manifests throughout one's life John Williams's first novel is a brooding psychological noir. Arthur Maxley is a young man at the end of his emotional rope. Having dropped o ...Show more
On Angel Mountain by Brian John; Janine Cooper Marshall (Read by); Malk Williams (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: The\Angel Mountain Saga Ser.
In 1796, Martha becomes the mistress of the struggling Plas Ingli estate, at only 18 years old. She is pregnant and suicidal. Though she loves her husband David dearly, she is desperately lonely in a strange house and her quick wit and cutting humour make her as many enemies as friends. There are myster ...Show more
Primary and Middle Years Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally by John Van de Walle, Karen Karp, Jennifer M. Bay-Williams, Amy Brass, Brendan Bentley, Sue Ferguson, Wendy Goff, Sharyn Livy, Margaret Marshman, David Martin, Cath Pearn, Theodosia Prodromou, Duncan Symons, Karina Wilkie
Category: Non-Fiction
This text is targeted towards teaching primary and middle years mathematics units in the Bachelor of Education degree. Illustrates how children learn mathematics, and then shows pre-service teachers the most effective methods of teaching mathematics through hands-on, problem-based activities. Serves ...Show more
Rebecca and the Angels by Brian John; Janine Cooper Marshall (Read by); Malk Williams (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: The\Angel Mountain Saga Ser.
The fourth novel in the best-selling eight-volume Angel Mountain Saga, about the life and times of the incorrigible, passionate and very imperfect heroine Martha Morgan.Martha Morgan, the Mistress of Plas Ingli, has a premonition of grave danger to come. As the effects of poverty and starvation afflict ...Show more
Rugby Skills, Tactics & Rules: 5th Edition by Tony Williams & John McKittrick
Category: Sport
Clear, concise and authoritative. Learn how to play or coach rugby to get the most enjoyment out of the game and win! The complex laws of rugby are threaded throughout the book in a way that makes them simple to understand. Explanations of the basic skills for running, passing, catching, and tackling ar ...Show more
Stoner by WILLIAMS JOHN EDWARD
Category: Biography | Series: New York Review Books Classics
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, so different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the ...Show more
Stoner - 50th Anniversary Edition by John Williams; John McGahern (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
Discover an American masterpiece. This unassuming story about the life of a quiet English professor has earned the admiration of readers all over the globe. The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams's Stoner "is something much rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel," and in t ...Show more
Stoner: 50th Anniversary Edition by Professor of History of Art John Williams (RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK Australian Food Security Institute, Victoria Australian Food Security Institute, Victoria University of Cambridge RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK RUTGERS UNIV NEW BRUNSWICK)
Category: Classics
The critic Morris Dickstein has said that John Williams s "Stoner" is something much rarer than a great novel it is a perfect novel, and in the last decade this austere and deeply moving tale of a Midwestern college professor has been embraced by readers all over the world. Here, to commemorate the fift ...Show more
Stoner: A Novel by John Williams
Category: Classics
Colum McCann once called Stoner one of the great forgotten novels of the past century, but it seems it is forgotten no longer - in 2013 translations of Stoner began appearing on bestseller lists across Europe. Forty-eight years after its first, quiet publication in the US, Stoner is finally finding the ...Show more
Stoner (Vintage Classics) by John Williams
Category: Classics
A beautiful hardback edition of the greatest rediscovered classic of recent yearsWilliam Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner becomes a teacher. He marries th ...Show more
Sunburnt Country by A. B. Facey; Connie Ellement; Kenneth Gasmier; T. A. G. Hungerford; Gail Jones; Vasso Kalamaras; John Lane; Simone Lazaroo; Pat Malcolm; Bill Marks; John A. McKenzie; Elizabeth Jolley; Jack McPhee; Connie Miller; Kim Scott; Joyce Shiner; Imelda P. Smith; Justina Williams; Beverley Dunn (Read by); James Wright (Read by); Sally Morgan; Joan London; Elizabeth Backhouse; Michal Bosworth; Emma Ciccotosto; Ron Davidson; Faye Davis
Category: Audio
Sunburnt Country is an outstanding selection of autobiographical stories and short fiction about Australia and Australians. From childhood, through adolescence, work and marriage, to old age, these stories provide a lively, at times moving, sometimes funny, glimpse into many aspects of life in Australia ...Show more