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A Cultural History of Jewish Dress by Eric Silverman
$45.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
A Cultural History of Jewish Dress is the first comprehensive account of how Jews have been distinguished by their appearance from Ancient Israel to today. For centuries Jews have dressed in distinctive ways to communicate their devotion to God, their religious identity, and the proper earthly roles of ...Show more
Afghanistan - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Nazes Afroz
$16.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Culture Smart!
Culture Smart! Afghanistan explains how to avoid cultural gaffes when out and about in the country. Giving the historical, political and cultural background, the guide reveals how to read body language and be aware of potential pitfalls in communication,
Albania - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Farah Ramadan
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
Body Art by Deborah Hill
$19.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$14.99 AUD
$19.99 (25% off)
Category: 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
DIY Style: Fashion, Music and Global Digital Cultures by Brent Luvaas
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Armed with cheap digital technologies and a fiercely independent spirit, millions of young people from around the world have taken cultural production into their own hands, crafting their own clothing lines, launching their own record labels, and forging a vast, collaborative network of impassioned amat ...Show more
Dispossession, Memory and the Making of Jedda (1955) in Ngunnawal Country by Catherine Kevin
$89.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
In 1955 'Jedda' was released in Australian cinemas and the international film world, starring Indigenous actors Rosalie Kunoth and Robert Tudawali. That year Eric Bell watched the film in the Liberty Cinema in Yass. Twelve years later he was dismayed to read a newly erected plaque in the main street of ...Show more
Dress, Fashion and Technology: From Prehistory to the Present by Phyllis G. Tortora
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
Technology has been an essential factor in the production of dress and the cultures of fashion throughout human history. Structured chronologically from prehistory to the present day, this is the first broad study of the complex relationship between dress and technology. Over the course of human history ...Show more
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food During Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents by Matt McAllester
$5.00 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
These sometimes harrowing, frequently funny, and always riveting stories about food and eating under extreme conditions feature the diverse voices of journalists who have reported from dangerous conflict zones around the world during the past twenty years. A profile of the former chef to Kim Jong Il of ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$10.00 AUD
Category: 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
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
$39.95 AUD
Category: Health | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
We all witness, in advertising and on supermarket shelves, the fierce competition for our food dollars. In this engrossing expos , Marion Nestle goes behind the scenes to reveal how the competition really works and how it affects our health. The abundance of food in the United States--enough calories to ...Show more
Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture by Isabelle de Solier
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Materializing Culture
We often hear that selves are no longer formed through producing material things at work, but consuming them in leisure, leading to 'meaningless' modern lives. This important book reveals the cultural shift to be more complex, demonstrating how people strive to form meaningful selves through both the co ...Show more