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A Feast of Weeds: A Literary History of Foraging by BALLERINI LUIGI
49.95 AUD
Category: Food | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
The primal experience of gathering is inscribed in every human's DNA, and this book invites us to look beyond the refrigerator and cupboard to the abundance of wild edible plants that can be found and harvested everywhere. Part reference guide, part cookbook, "A Feast of Weeds" encourages readers to for ...Show more
Argentina - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Robert Andrew Hamwee
16.99 AUD
Category: Guidebooks | Series: Culture Smart!
The second-largest country in South America, Argentina has been through great changes in recent years. Its journey from dictatorship to democracy has left many scars, but these are largely eclipsed by the pride and resilience of the Argentinian people, who have developed a style, a language, and a "joie ...Show more
Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
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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
Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures - The Ethics of Becoming-Pig by João Florêncio
77.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Masculinity, Sex and Popular Culture Ser.
This book analyses contemporary gay pig masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings. T ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | 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
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel #1 by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | 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
Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition - The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz; Joshua Chambers-Letson (Foreword by); Tavia Nyong'o (Foreword by); Ann Pellegrini (Foreword by)
60.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work--an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars Cruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the ...Show more
Ecuador - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Russell Maddicks
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Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart!
Culture Smart ! Ecuador provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in the Ecuador, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. This concise guide will tell you what
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
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Category: Fashion & Textiles | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
FashionQuake presents fashions most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up. FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion forever, telling the fascinating stories behi ...Show more
Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
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Category: Film & 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
France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History by Michael Burns
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Category: Judaica | Series: The Bedford Series in History and Culture
This work provides a brief documentary history of the Dreyfus affair, the infamous episode in which a French Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus, was unjustly convicted of treason in 1894 and 1899 and then acquitted and exonerated in 1906. The narrative is interspersed with approximately 65 brief docume ...Show more
Georges Rouault and Material Imagining by Jennifer Johnson
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Category: Art | Series: Material Culture of Art and Design Ser.
This book considers questions of materiality and painting, focalized through the notoriously obscure work of Georges Rouault, and offers an innovative critical approach to the various questions raised by this challenging modernist. Described as a difficult and dark painter, Rouault's oeuvre is deeply ex ...Show more