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A Feast of Weeds: A Literary History of Foraging by BALLERINI LUIGI
$0.00 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine | 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
Amy Schumer and Philosophy by Charlene Elsby (Editor); Rob Luzecky (Editor)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
Why read a book about Amy Schumer and philosophy? After all, Amy Schumer is primarily known as a comedian, though she is also an actor, writer, and producer. One reason is that it will be enlightening. Amy Schumer is one of a handful of contemporary comedians filling the role of public philosopher. To b ...Show more
Around the World in 500 Festivals by Steve Davey
$49.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Smart!
Around the World in 500 Festivals is a rare book that will fascinate and inspire. A large-format, beautifully illustrated coffee-table volume, it is a photographic exploration of the richness and variety of the world's most colourful, moving, joyful, and spectacular celebrations. Thousands of festivals, ...Show more
Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$28.00 NZD
Category: Art & Design | 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
Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies - Sex, Performance and Safe Femininity by Gemma Commane
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Library of Gender and Popular Culture Ser.
What makes a woman 'bad' is commonly linked to certain 'qualities' or behaviours seen as morally or socially corrosive, dirty and disgusting. In Bad Girls, Dirty Bodies, Gemma Commane critically explores the social, sexual and political significance of women who are labelled 'bad', sluts or dirty. Throu ...Show more
Batman and Philosophy - The Dark Knight of the Soul by Mark D. White
$30.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture S.
Why doesn't Batman just kill the Joker and end everyone's misery? Can we hold the Joker morally responsible for his actions? Is Batman better than Superman? If everyone followed Batman's example, would Gotham be a better place? What is the Tao of the Bat? Batman is one of the most complex characters eve ...Show more
Better Call Saul and Philosophy by Heter Joshua
$44.99 NZD
Category: Add Remove in Bulk test | Series: Pop Culture and Philosophy Ser.
Better Call Saul and Philosophy: I Think Therefore I Scam is a collection of twenty-three essays exploring the philosophical themes in the hit television show Better Call Saul, a prequel to the TV show Breaking Bad. The sixth and final season of Better Call Saul, with thirteen episodes, began airing in ...Show more
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero by Prof Kate Clifford Larson
$34.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Many Cultures, One World
Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history--a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines during the Civil War. And yet in the nine decades since her death, next to nothing has been written about this extraordinary woman asid ...Show more
CRUISING UTOPIA: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by José Esteban Muñoz
$41.95 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Sexual Cultures Ser.
The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on th ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | 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
$28.00 NZD
$34.00 (17% off)
Category: No Category | 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
Cooking by Herve This
$73.12 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
From its intriguing opening question - "How can we reasonably judge a meal?" - to its rewarding conclusion, this beautiful book picks up where Brillat-Savarin left off almost two centuries ago. Herve This, a cofounder (with the late physicist Nicholas Kurti) of the new approach to studying the scientifi ...Show more