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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
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army by Phyllis Birnbaum
$57.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture
Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This man r ...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
$20.00 AUD
Category: Sci Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture
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 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.
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward
$52.99 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeTooHeterosexuality is in crisis. Reports of sexual harassment, misconduct, and rape saturate the news in the era of #MeToo. Straight men and women spend thousands of dollars every day on relationship coaches, seduction boot camps, and couple's ...Show more
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist - Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
$66.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them bothThree interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together ...Show more