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Five Quarts : A Personal And Natural History Of Blood by Bill Hayes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Health
"This beguiling brew of fascinating scientific facts and illuminating, poignant anecdotes makes Five Quarts something like blood itself: vital and pulsing with energy."-Entertainment Weekly From ancient Rome, where gladiators drank the blood of vanquished foes to gain strength and courage, to modern-day ...Show more
How New York Breaks Your Heart by Bill Hayes
$33.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. Hayes's "frank, beautiful, bewitching" street photographs ...Show more
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
$25.00 AUD
Category: General
Winner of the New York City Book Award From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. When the Covid-19 pandemic hit the United States in March 2020 and New York went into total lockdown, writer and photographer Bill Hayes ...Show more
How We Live Now - Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
$33.00 AUD
Category: General
From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in stories and images to a city amidst a pandemic. A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighborhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink--on either end of a bar--with the owner. ...Show more
Insomniac City by Bill Hayes
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
'A beautiful memoir in which Oliver Sacks comes wonderfully to life ... Exquisitely wrought, heartrending and joyous' Joyce Carol OatesBill Hayes came to New York in 2009 with a one-way ticket and only the vaguest idea of how he would get by. But, at forty-eight years old, having spent decades in San Fr ...Show more
Sleep Demons: An Insomniac's Memoir by Bill Hayes
$38.99 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Bill Hayes explores the role sleep, or the lack of sleep, has played in his life and describes various sleeping disorders and their causes and treatments.
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A New Yorker Best Book of the yearAn Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, "who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did" (SF Chronicle)-a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise, now in paperback. Exercis ...Show more
Sweat: A History of Exercise by Bill Hayes
$30.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
From Insomniac City author Bill Hayes, who can tackle just about any subject in book form, and make you glad he did (SF Chronicle)--a cultural, scientific, literary, and personal history of exercise. Exercise is our modern obsession, and we have the fancy workout gear and fads from HIIT to spin class ...Show more
The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray's Anatomy by Bill Hayes
$33.00 AUD
Category: Science
"Hayes's history of the illustrated medical text "Gray's Anatomy" coincides with the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of its first publication. Fascinated by the fact that little was known about the famous book's genesis, Hayes combed through nineteenth-century letters and medical-school records, learni ...Show more
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