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A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature and Culture by Laura Marcus
$185.95 AUD
Category: Psychology | Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
This concise companion explores the history of psychoanalytic theory and its impact on contemporary literary criticism by tracing its movement across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. * Contains original essays by leading scholars, using a wide range of cultural and historical approaches * Discusses ...Show more
Activism and Digital Culture in Australia by Jane Mummery; Debbie Rodan
$65.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Media, Culture and Communication in Asia-Pacific Societies Ser.
Activists use digital as well as mainstream media tools to attract supporters, advertise their campaigns, and raise awareness of issues in the broader community. Activism and Digital Culture in Australia examines the use of digital tools and culture by Australian and international activist organisations ...Show more
Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe by Robert Bartlett
$48.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: The\James Lydon Lectures in Medieval History and Culture Ser.
Throughout medieval Europe, for hundreds of years, monarchy was the way that politics worked in most countries. This meant power was in the hands of a family - a dynasty; that politics was family politics; and political life was shaped by the births, marriages and deaths of the ruling family. How did th ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
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
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Consider Phlebas - a space opera of stunning power and awesome imagination from Iain M. Banks, one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the ...Show more
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
$59.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines - from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present - in this superbly-researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplic ...Show more
Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History by Rachel Laudan
$53.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world's great cuisines from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita
$60.00 AUD
Category: Food | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati - pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of s ...Show more
Evolution of Desire - A Life of René Girard by Cynthia L. Haven
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Ser.
Ren Girard (1923-2015) was one of the leading thinkers of our era--a provocative sage who bypassed prevailing orthodoxies to offer a bold, sweeping vision of human nature, human history, and human destiny. His oeuvre, offering a "mimetic theory" of cultural origins and human behavior, inspired such writ ...Show more
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave by Simon Goldhill
$31.95 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victor ...Show more
Godwired: Religion. Ritual, and Virtual Reality by Rachel Wagner
$57.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: Media, Religion and Culture
Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or "cosmos construction" that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive activity is, ...Show more
History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000 by Pat Kirkham
$110.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.
Spanning six centuries of global design, this far-reaching survey is the first to offer an account of the vast history of decorative arts and design produced in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Indian subcontinent, and the Islamic world, from 1400 to the present. Meticulously documented and lavis ...Show more