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Albania - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Farah Ramadan
$18.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
Albania, on the Balkan coast of the Adriatic Sea, is almost the land that time forgot. Waiting to be rediscovered, it is a country rich in natural resources, history, traditions, and culture. Romans, Byzantines, Slavs, Venetians, and Ottoman Turks all left their mark. In modern times, after briefly gain ...Show more
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel #1 by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the ...Show more
Costuming Cosplay - Dressing the Imagination by Therèsa M. Winge; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
$47.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplaytakes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dr ...Show more
Daredevil Psychology - The Devil You Know by Travis Langley (Editor); Stan Lee (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture Psychology Ser.
Why are we interested in characters like Daredevil? Do we have conscious will or not? With so many positive forces in the comic book world, why do people cheer for a mass murderer? This compendium of 18 chapters offers a fascinating look into the psychology behind the complicated superhero Daredevil. Bo ...Show more
David Bowie and Philosophy by Theodore G. Ammon (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his concerns, even at his lowest personal moments. We never ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
Fashion-Ology by Yuniya Kawamura; Joanne B. Eicher (Contribution by)
$43.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of ...Show more
Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback by Andrew Nette
$125.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
This is the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications, the largest and most dynamic Australian pulp publisher to emerge after World War II. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged, softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mains ...Show more
KinderGuides Early Learning Guide to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by Melissa Medina; Fredrik Colting
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: KinderGuides Early Learning Guide to Culture Classics Ser.
It's been called the greatest love story of all time, by the greatest writer of all time. In this classic of classics, Romeo and Juliet are forced to hide their love for each other from their quarreling families. This beautifully illustrated learning guide that takes you and your child back in time and ...Show more
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
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
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