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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)
$40.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | 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
Culture Wise India by Noel Gama
$34.99 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Wise
A new and unique guide to India for visitors, business people and immigrants, which provides essential information about culture, customs and business etiquette. Printed in colour.
Cyber-Proletariat: Global Labour in the Digital Vortex by Nick Dyer-Witheford
$58.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Digital Barricades: Interventions in Digital Culture and Politics
Coltan mines in the Congo; electronics factories in China; devastated neighbourhoods in Detroit. Cyber-Proletariat shows us the dark-side of the information revolution; an unsparing analysis of class power and computerisation. Nick Dyer-Witheford reveals how technology facilitates growing polarisation b ...Show more
Dub by Michael E. Veal
$71.95 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Music Culture S.
When Jamaican recording engineers Osbourne "King Tubby" Ruddock, Errol Thompson, and Lee "Scratch" Perry began crafting "dub" music in the early 1970s, they were initiating a musical revolution that continues to have worldwide influence. Dub is a sub-genre of Jamaican reggae that flourished during regga ...Show more
Engaging with Irigaray - Feminist Philosophy and Modern European Thought by Carolyn Burke (Editor); Naomi Schor (Editor); Margaret Whitford (Editor)
$72.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy, Spirituality & Religion | Series: Gender and Culture Ser.
Engaging with Irigaray is the first collection of essays that attempts to go beyond the question of essentialism in order to provide a full critical assessment of Irigaray's contribution to a number of fields, notably philosophy. By reconsidering Irigaray's writings in the field of European thought and ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
Family Guy and Philosophy by J.Jeremy Wisnewski
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Stewie: What the deuce? The fat man and philosophy? Philosophy and the fat man? You simply can't be serious. And I thought the French resistance was laughable! Peter: I'm gonna be in a book? That's freakin' sweet! Brian: Well, it's about time. I mean, whose leg do I have to hump to get some humanism aro ...Show more
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
$25.00 NZD
$27.99 (10% off)
Category: Fashion | 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
Food Politics by Marion Nestle
$47.19 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
An accessible and balanced account, Food Politics laid the groundwork for today's food revolution and changed the way we respond to food industry marketing practices. Now, a new introduction and concluding chapter bring us up to date on the key events in that movement. This pathbreaking, prize-winni ...Show more
Game of Thrones and Philosophy: Logic Cuts Deeper Than Swords by William Irwin
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
An in-depth look at the philosophical issues behind HBO's Game of Thrones television series and the books that inspired it George R.R. Martin's New York Times bestselling epic fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, and the HBO television show adapted from it, have earned critical acclaim and inspi ...Show more
Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott (Contribution by)
$68.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Gender and Culture Ser.
This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Exploring topics ranging from language and class to the politics of work and family, Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of th ...Show more
Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics by Hillary L. Chute
$54.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Gender and Culture Series | Reading Level: very good
Some of the most acclaimed books of the twenty-first century are autobiographical comics by women. Aline Kominsky-Crumb is a pioneer of the autobiographical form, showing women's everyday lives, especially through the lens of the body. Phoebe Gloeckner places teenage sexuality at the center of her work, ...Show more