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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
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$32.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leopold Damrosch
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-century Culture & History
Jonathan Swift is best remembered today as the author of Gulliver's Travels, the satiric fantasy that quickly became a classic and has remained in print for nearly three centuries. Yet Swift also wrote many other influential works, was a major political and religious figure in his time, and became a nat ...Show more
L is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
$40.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: SUNY Series in Italian/American Culture
A 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.
Let's Ask Marion - What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health by Marion Nestle; Kerry Trueman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture (UPCCP) Ser.
"There is no one better to ask than Marion, who is the leading guide in intelligent, unbiased, independent advice on eating, and has been for decades."--Mark Bittman, author of How to Cook Everything Let's Ask Marion is a savvy and insightful question-and-answer collection that showcases the expertise ...Show more
Literature for a Changing Planet by Martin Puchner
$35.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: The\Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture Ser.
Why we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddling while Rome burns. Yet, at this turning point for the planet, scientists, policymakers, and activ ...Show more
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means ...Show more
Medieval literary voices: Embodiment, materiality and performance
$225.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Ser.
Medieval literary voices explores literary voice in relation to its authorial, scribal and socio-political settings. It reveals how literary voices evoke voices lurking beyond the text – the absent authorial voice, the traces of scribal voices and the aural soundscape of the uttered text – and how they ...Show more
Music Quake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music by Robert Dimery
$25.00 NZD
$27.99 (10% off)
Category: Music | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover music that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy - causing fascination and intrigue in some and rejection and scorn in others. This is what happens when people take tradition and rip it up. MusicQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal albumsand performances that s ...Show more
Mystical Poems of Rumi by Jalal al-Din Rumi; A. J. Arberry (Translator); Franklin D. Lewis (Foreword by); Ehsan Yarshater (Editor); Hasan Javadi (Notes by)
$42.95 NZD
Category: Spirituality | Series: Culture Trails Ser.
My verse resembles the bread of Egypt-night passes over it, and you cannot eat it any more. Devour it the moment it is fresh, before the dust settles upon it. Its place is the warm climate of the heart; in this world it dies of cold. Like a fish it quivered for an instant on dry land, another moment and ...Show more
Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late-Medieval England by Myra Seaman
$205.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture Ser.
This study investigates the affective agency of the book, through the emotional literacy training that a single codex provided a late-medieval English household.Objects of affection recovers the emotional attraction of the medieval book through an engagement with a fifteenth-century literary collection ...Show more
Play Time - Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism by Malcolm Turvey
$69.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Film and Culture Ser.
Jacques Tati is widely regarded as one of the greatest postwar European filmmakers. He made innovative and challenging comedies while achieving international box office success and attaining a devoted following. In Play Time, Malcolm Turvey examines Tati's unique comedic style and evaluates its signific ...Show more