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The Shape of the Turtle by Sarah Allan
$72.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
The Social Life of Books - Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home by Abigail Williams
$54.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | 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 State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Culture Ser.
A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy by Paul Shankman
$67.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Studies in American Thought and Culture
In 1928 Margaret Mead published "Coming of Age in Samoa", a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead's Samoan research, badly damaging her reputation. Resonating ...Show more
The Trouble with History: Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution by Adam Michnik
$29.95 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Politics and Culture Series
Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six years by the communist regime in Poland for his dissident activities. He was an outspoken voice for democracy in the world divided by the Iron Curtain and has remained so to the present day. In this thoughtful and provocative wor ...Show more
'The industrialized designer': Gender, identity and professionalization in Britain and the United States, 1930-80 by Leah Armstrong
$225.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture Ser.
Drawing on original archival research, this book makes a critical, historical examination of the professionalisation of industrial design in Britain and the United States, 1930-80, a 'new profession', invented in the early twentieth century. What does it mean to be called an industrial designer? This bo ...Show more
Thinking Through Fashion - A Guide to the Key Theorists by Agnès Rocamora (Editor); Anneke Smelik (Editor)
$52.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Dress Cultures Ser.
Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the ...Show more
Understanding Judith Butler by Anita Brady
$54.00 NZD
Category: Feminism | Series: Understanding Contemporary Culture Series
Understanding Judith Butler is not an easy task, but this perfectly judged exploration of all Butler's works succeeds where many competing texts fail.
Use Of Weapons: A Culture Novel #3 by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of the third Culture novel from Iain M. Banks - one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture throu ...Show more
Use of Weapons (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but des ...Show more
Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics by Marion Nestle
$0.00 NZD
Category: Health & Wellbeing | Series: California Studies in Food & Culture
Calories - too few or too many - are the source of health problems affecting billions of people in today's globalized world. Although calories are essential to human health and survival, they cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. They are also hard to understand. In "Why Calories Count", Marion Nestle and ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
$55.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state o ...Show more