Search Results: Titles starting with K from DASHbooks

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing to pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In this volume are set side by side the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana and the Phaedrus of Plato, two of the earliest classical texts from East and West on the subject of love, which have powerfully influenced the course of thought on the place of sex in the two civilisations.They are introduced by Kenneth Walker, who has unique qualifications for discussing these works against their background and their cultures and what they represent in terms of different viewpoints in the approach to sexual experience and knowledge. Mr. Walker has combined his profession of surgeon - he is Emeritus Surgeon, Royal Northern Hospital and was a Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons - with a life long study of Eastern thought and religion. His active concern with social problems is reflected in the subjects of his books, which, apart from technical publications include The… Read More

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe altered at checkout.For ambitious, troubled architect Ray Jackson, the nightmare beings one sultry California night when his wife disappears. No phone call, no ransom note, no body. reveals whether Leigh is dead or alive.Then, suddenly, a woman shows up on Ray's doorstep demanding answers: Kathleen, an old friend of Leigh's. Ray wants answers, too, but his questions seem strange and shady to Kat. Suspected by his wife's friend and by the police, Ray launches a desperate and alarming search of his own. Using a collection of keys he has held on to since he was a boy - keys to homes he and his mother once lived in - Ray quietly yet boldly enters each house, one by one, hoping to unlock the secrets of his own past. As past and present collide, as a chilling mystery begins to unravel, Ray is suddenly confronted with the most agonizing decision of his life - to face his own violence-laden past, acting… Read More

Large book - in good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Once again the fighting men of Australia have momentarily put aside the trappings of war to present themselves in prose, verse and picture to their people at home. This book is the successor to "Active Service" and "Soldering On", and carries on, worthily we believe, the tradition of 1915 when Gallipoli gave Australia "The Anzac Book"."Khaki and Green" is a representative but necessarily small part of the great number of contributions received. Its text has been wholly written by serving members of the Australian Army scattered over the Commonwealth and in all those places where Australians are called upon to serve. The jungle's damp imprint was to be seen in the stained pages of stories, penned on odd scraps of paper. Considerable ingenuity was displayed in the improvisations adopted by front-line troops to ensure that sketches and drawings should travel without… Read More

In good condition - ex library - markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Khrushchev: A Political Life traces the fortunes of one of this century's most colourful and controversial statesmen, from his peasant origins through his rise to supreme power and subsequent fall. Drawing on newly available material, this biography provides the most detailed account to date of Khrushchev's early life and career. Thompson also concentrates on the many contradictions of Khrushchev's years in power, such as his desire for consumer welfare and detente and determination not to sacrifice the more traditional goals of the Soviet regime.

In good condition - has slight yellowing to back cover - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout."He had to circle the foot of the bed where Bernice was standing, and he circled behind her, toward Alice. But he did not go that far. He stopped as he was passing Bernice. He reached up and closed both hands around her throat. She uttered a gasping cry, then she started struggling, and it was not easy to hold her. She was wiry strong, and she almost got away. But she didn't. Eventually she grew silent . . ."Here is another collection of spine-tingling tales from the master story-teller's favourite writers, leading us into the realms of cunning, violence and perverse poetic justice . . .

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.In the spring of 1943 - following a string of successful counter-attacks by the Partisans led by General Tito and spearheaded by his English lieutenant, Tony Davis, and Tony's beautiful French mistress, Sandrine - the Nazis determine to exterminate them for good.Appointed to the overall command is Tony's old enemy, SS General Fritz Wassermann determined to avenge past defeats and the wound that has left him a cripple. Wasserman's offensive drives the Partisans into headlong retreat, and the pregnant Sandrine is captured.But the tide of war turns, and rearmed and reinforced, the Partisans stage a comeback in conjunction with the Russian advance into the Balkans. The question now is, can Tony reach Belgrade in time to save Sandrine from the gallows?

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.2003. Invalided out of the SAS Chet Freeman is on a temporary contract for an American corporation called the Grosvenor Group. He catches a young woman, eavesdropping, on a meeting the Group is holding with the British Prime Minister. What Chet and the young woman overhear seems to imply that it is bribing the Prime Minister to take his country into an illegal war.Could this possibly be True?Somebody believes that this is a secret that needs covering up, because Chet and the girl are attacked. Hunted down, they go into hiding, and a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.Nearly ten years later tension is reaching breaking point in Jerusalem. The now ex-Prime Minister is working as a Middle East peace envoy. Chet's best buddy, Luke, is part of a team tasked by the Regiment with protecting the ex-Prime Minister.At the height of battle Luke discovers a conspiracy for more devastating than any arms deal.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.Keep your friends close.Keep your enemies closer.A simple philosophy that John Bunting - the sadistic mastermind behind Australia's worst serial killings - used to fool everyone, from his lovers and friends to his victims and the police.Five years in the research, investigative journalist Debi Marshall takes you deep inside the sinister world of the killers and behind the veil of secrecy that shrouds Adelaide society. A stark account of the story that the world would come to know as the 'bodies-in-barrels' murders, Killing for Pleasure presents material never before seen - a harrowing interview with Bunting's last lover and her son, key eyewitness Jamie Vlassakis. Marhsall's conclusions will haunt you long after you turn the last page. In a subculture where abuse and revenge intertwine, John Bunting and his accomplices were indeed Killing for Pleasure.Twelve bodies, three killers, one… Read More

In good condition - has markings from use - has yellowing to end pages - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When Patrick Durack left Western Ireland for Australia in 1853, he was to found a pioneering dynasty and build a cattle empire across the great stretches of Australia. With a profound sense of family history, his grand-daughter, Mary Durack, has reconstructed the Durack saga - a story of intrepid men and ground-breaking adventure.

In good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.On a warm June evening, a red double-decker bus, full of passengers, speeds down a London street. A few blocks away, a man and a woman climb into a limousine, reveling in a magical evening of dancing and champagne. As their driver pulls into an intersection, the couple shares their first, searching kiss. For a moment, etched in time, all stands still - until, in a flash of metal and glass, their limousine is struck at full speed, crushed under the bus's tremendous weight. And a long journey begins - toward healing, toward hope, toward dreams of an infinite future...Isabelle Forrester is the exquisite wife of a prominent Parisian banker who has long since shut her out of his heart. For lonely years, Isabelle has lived a life of isolation, pouring her passions into caring for her desperately ill son, Teddy, and into making their Paris home as happy as possible for her teenage daughter,… Read More

Large print - in good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.To Robert Carr, Anna is a mystery and that's the way he'd like her to stay. Over the past thirteen years his last, parting image of Anna, kissing her goodbye before she turned to leave, has been the inspiration for a number of his paintings. Through his work, Anna's face has become famous, whilst the woman herself disappeared long ago. Now a TV documentary has launched a nationwide search for the elusive muse. When she is found, her discovery results in a creative block for Robert - but has far more deadly consequences for Anna herself.

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights on books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When her tryst with handsome billionaire Dominic Knight gets out of hand, Katherine Hart resolves to cut all contact for good. But Dominic won't let his object of fascination escape so easily: when they cross paths in a plush hotel in Singapore, the steamy affair is reignited.But can such exquisite pleasure last?Kate knows her lover is a man who lives entirely for the chase...is their reunion a rushing climax before an inevitable fall, or could Kate possess the keys to finally tame the untameable Dominic Knight?

Quality Book Club Edition - in very good condition - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.When George Langelaan escaped from France by way of Dunkirk plastic surgeons reshaped his face - so that he could be parachuted back as a secret agent.In this book he tells of what happened when, after thorough training, he took up his grim and exciting task. Combating the German occupation forces meant danger and hardship in plenty, for Langelaan suffered imprisonment and ill-treatment at the hands of the Vichy authorities, but his indomitable humour meant that the life had its lighter moments too. Even after his escape with a dozen companions across the Pyrenees, his adventures were not ended. He found plenty more during the invasion of Algeria and the final liberation of France.