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Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$24.99 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causi ...Show more
City of Dreadful Delight - Narratives of Sexual Danger in Late-Victorian London by Judith R. Walkowitz; Catherine R. Stimpson (Foreword by)
$54.95 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Women in Culture and Society Series WCS (CHUP) Ser.
From tabloid exposes of child prostitution to the grisly tales of Jack the Ripper, narratives of sexual danger pulsated through Victorian London. Expertly blending social history and cultural criticism, Judith Walkowitz shows how these narratives reveal the complex dramas of power, politics, and sexuali ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/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
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
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Category: Performing Arts & Music | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
Inversions - Culture Bk #6 by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Inversions - 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. In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then ...Show more
Ireland - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by John Scotney
$19.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet towns and lively cities, the poetic and literary genius of so many of its citizens, its music and folklore, and its colorful and bloody history. What is also true is that the Irish people have in many ways c ...Show more
Look To Windward by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Look to Windward - 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. It was one of the less glorious incidents of a long-ago war. It led to the destruction of tw ...Show more
Matter -Culture Bk #8 by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Matter - 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. In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate ...Show more
Russian Literature and Its Demons by Pamela Davidson (Editor)
$59.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Slavic Literature, Culture and Society Ser.
Merezhkovsky's bold claim that "all Russian literature is, to a certain degree, a struggle with the temptation of demonism" is undoubtedly justified. And yet, despite its evident centrality to Russian culture, the unique and fascinating phenomenon of Russian literary demonism has so far received little ...Show more
Surface Detail - Culture Bk #9 by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of Surface Detail - 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. It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagl ...Show more
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Science Fiction/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
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Category: Science Fiction/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