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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
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
It's the Pictures That Got Small: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood's Golden Age by Anthony Slide (ed.)
$60.00 AUD
Category: Film | Series: Film and Culture Series
Golden Age Hollywood screenwriter Charles Brackett was an extremely observant and perceptive chronicler of the entertainment industry during its most exciting years. He is best remembered as the writing partner of director Billy Wilder, who once referred to the pair as "the happiest couple in Hollywood, ...Show more
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leopold Damrosch
$49.95 AUD
Category: Literary | 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
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 ...Show more
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of The Hydrogen Sonata - 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 Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ...Show more
The Player Of Games (#2 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The Player of Games. Master of every board, compute ...Show more
The Player Of Games - Culture #2 by Iain M. Banks
$25.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of the second Culture novel from Iain M. Banks - one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The ...Show more
The Social Life of Books - Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams
$45.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
Abigail Williams provides a fresh and fascinating history of the evolution of reading into a popular social activity and essential component of domestic life in the mid-eighteenth century. Book jacket.