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Locating Australian Literary Memory by Brigid Magner
$347.17 AUD
Category: Australiana | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
'Locating Australian Literary Memory' explores the cultural meanings suffusing local literary commemorations. It is orientated around eleven authors - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Joseph Furphy, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Lawson, A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, Nan Chauncy, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Eleanor Dark ...Show more
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Material Culture and Authenticity: Fake Branded Fashion in Europe by Magdalena Craciun
$45.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Materializing Culture
The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are their real selves really reflected in this mirror? Th ...Show more
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means ...Show more
Mongolia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Alan Sanders
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart!
Mongolia is landlocked between its neighbors China and Russia in the heart of Asia. For centuries after the disintegration of Genghis Khan s empire it was ruled by one or the other, but in 1990 the Mongols embraced democracy. Now, after two centuries of Manchu stagnation and seventy years of Soviet comm ...Show more
Myanmar - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Ki Ki May
$16.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart!
Culture Smart ! Myanmar provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in the Myanmar, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what
Saudi Arabia by Peter North
$26.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Shock!
The CultureShock! series is a dynamic and indispensable range of guides for those travellers who are looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting. Each title explains the customs, traditions, social and business etiquette in a lively and informative style. CultureShock! authors, all of ...Show more
Singapore by Marion Bravo-Bhasin
$26.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Shock!
CultureShock! Singapore takes you inside the tiny island nation and pulls back the veneer on a country that is both Asian and Western at the same time. Insights into the people and their culture and traditions. Advise on adapting into the local environment. Essential information on th ...Show more
Street Dance: the People, the Music, the Moves by Liz Gogerly
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Radar ; Dance Culture
Radar delivers streetwise, hot-topic reads for kids aged 9+. With bold, fresh design and topics that have bags of kid-appeal, Radar will encourage children to read - and keep reading! Current topics are presented with a strong magazine-style flavour – perfect ‘down time’ reads or springboard for class d ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for ...Show more
THE PHENOMENON OF ANNE FRANK by DAVID BARNOUW JEANNETT K RIN
$23.99 AUD
Category: Children's Reference | Series: Jewish Literature and Culture Ser.
"Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer became an icon, is said within these pages." --Wolfgang Benz, author of A Concise History of the Third Reich While Anne Frank was in hiding during the German Occupation of the Net ...Show more
The Japanese House: Material Culture in the Modern Home by Inge Daniels
$49.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Materializing Culture
Highly illustrated and accessibly written, this book offers a fascinating exploration of material culture in the Japanese house and home.