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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
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
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
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
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$10.00 AUD
Category: 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
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leopold Damrosch
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-century Culture & History
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a nat ...Show more
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$14.99 AUD
Category: 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
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
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
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