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A Feast of Weeds: A Literary History of Foraging by BALLERINI LUIGI
$55.95 AUD
Category: Gardening | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
The primal experience of gathering is inscribed in every human's DNA, and this book invites us to look beyond the refrigerator and cupboard to the abundance of wild edible plants that can be found and harvested everywhere. Part reference guide, part cookbook, "A Feast of Weeds" encourages readers to for ...Show more
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
Around the World in 500 Festivals by Steve Davey
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Culture Smart!
Around the World in 500 Festivals is a rare book that will fascinate and inspire. A large-format, beautifully illustrated coffee-table volume, it is a photographic exploration of the richness and variety of the world's most colourful, moving, joyful, and spectacular celebrations. Thousands of festivals, ...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
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy by Nicolas Michaud
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows us the better way to fight crime? In Batman, Superman, and Philosophy, 26 philosophers evaluate Superman vs. Batman in order to decide which of them "wins" b ...Show more
Body Art by Deborah Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fashion Design | Series: Popular Culture | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
A bride's nose piercing on her wedding day, soldiers comparing their flash tattoos in the 1940s, face painting at a sporting match, a Yamatji woman's tattoo of the spirit of all Aboriginal women ...the meanings behind body art are as varied as the individuals who wear them. Body adornments and modificat ...Show more
Brazil - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Rob Williams
$16.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Culture Smart!
Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rappo ...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
Kazakhstan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Dina Zhansagimova
$16.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides | Series: Culture Smart!
Kazakhstan, one of the largest countries on earth, was long hidden from the rest of the world behind the Iron Curtain, and continued to remain unnoticed among the "stans" of Central Asia that gained independence from the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. Now, twenty years later, it has emerged as a moder ...Show more