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Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late-Medieval England by Myra Seaman
$185.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Ser.
This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household.Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection ...Show more
Peking Opera by XU, CHENGBEI
$19.95 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: Introductions to Chinese Culture Ser.
Peking opera is one of the most distinctive traditions in Chinese culture - a tradition that can seem mysterious and complex to foreign eyes. In this illustrated introduction, Xu Chengbei explains the colorful make up, intricate costumes, characters, staging, stories and music associated with Peking ope ...Show more
Photography and Culture: Volume 5 Issue 2 by Kathy Kubicki, Thy Phu & Val Williams
$39.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Photography and Culture
Photography and Culture is at the forefront of new critical, reflective and analytical writing on photography. It is pluralistic in its approach and inter-disciplinary, embracing the historic and the contemporary and independent of any one prevailing theoretical critical model. It mirrors and debates ne ...Show more
Prototype Nation - China and the Contested Promise of Innovation by Silvia M. Lindtner
$44.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Princeton Studies in Culture and Technology Ser.
A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "copycat" production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets? Prototype Nation offers a rich ...Show more
Saudi Arabia by Peter North
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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: Fiction | 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 (RADAR: Dance Culture) by Liz Gogerly
$22.99 AUD
Category: Younger Fiction | Series: RADAR: Dance Culture
Find out all about the buzz on the streets! Learn some cool house steps with Radar's photographic how-to's, read the star story of a famous US dance crew, and a 5-minute interview with a hip, young street dance teacher and choreographer. Learn some cool street dance lingo and read an account of a street ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$14.99 AUD
Category: 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: No Category | 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 Big Bang Theory and Philosophy: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Aristotle, Locke by Dean Kowalski & William Irwin
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
This is a lighthearted meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show "The Big Bang Theory". Ever wonder what Aristotle might say about the life Sheldon Cooper leads? Why Thomas Hobbes would applaud the roommate agreement? Who Immanuel Kant would treat with "haughty derision" for ...Show more
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Culture | Reading Level: very good
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding n ...Show more
The Little Book of Tattoos by Orange Hippo!
$17.99 AUD
Category: Art & Music | Series: The\Little Books of Lifestyle, Reference and Pop Culture Ser.
A celebration of all things ink, packed with fascinating facts, history, quotes and designs.