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Amy Schumer and Philosophy by Charlene Elsby (Editor); Rob Luzecky (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
Why read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be enlightening. Amy Schumer is one of a handful of contemporary comedians filling the role of public philosopher. To b ...Show more
Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art History | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causi ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: film and television | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
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. | Reading Level: very good
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
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
$35.00 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 power ...Show more
The Good Place and Philosophy by William Irwin (Series edited by); Kimberly S. Engels (Editor)
$35.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical ...Show more
The Hobbit and Philosophy: for When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way by William Irwin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic--just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lor ...Show more
The Player Of Games (#2 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Science Fiction / Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, compute ...Show more