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Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | 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
Australia As the Antipodal Utopia - European Imaginations from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century by Daniel Hempel
$160.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
Australia has a fascinating history of visions. As the antipode to Europe, the continent provided a radically different and uniquely fertile ground for envisioning places, spaces and societies. Australia as the Antipodal Utopia evaluates this complex intellectual history by mapping out how Western visio ...Show more
Australia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Barry Penney; Gina Teague
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
Australia -Culture Smart! appears on Oprah's Austalian Adventure! Culture Smart! provides essential information on attitudes, beliefs and behavior in different countries, ensuring that you arrive at your destination aware of basic manners, common courtesies, and sensitive issues. These concise guides te ...Show more
Black Panther Psychology - Hidden Kingdoms by Travis Langley (Editor); Alex Simmons (Editor); Don McGregor (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture Psychology Ser.
What is the power of trauma? What is the price of shame? What does it take to become truly heroic? This compendium of 19 chapters offers a fascinating look into the psychology behind Black Panther. Book jacket.
Blade Runner 2049 and Philosophy by Robin Bunce (Editor); Trip McCrossin (Editor)
$32.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
A team of philosophers representing diverse backgrounds and perspectives tackles the issues raised by the Blade Runner movies.
China - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Kathy Flower
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
Culture Smart! China puts the latest dramatic changes into a historical context, explains deep-seated cultural attitudes, and guides the visitor through a maze of unfamiliar social situations. It will enable you to discover for yourself the warmth, intelligence, humor, and humanity of this extraordinary ...Show more
Consider Phlebas: A Culture Novel #1 by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy | 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
Costuming Cosplay - Dressing the Imagination by Therèsa M. Winge; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
$47.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
Cosplay, short for "costume play", has grown from its origins at fan conventions into a billion-dollar global dress phenomenon. Costuming Cosplaytakes us from elaborately crafted DIY costumes to online fandoms, examining how the practice of portraying fictional characters from popular culture through dr ...Show more
Daredevil Psychology - The Devil You Know by Travis Langley (Editor); Stan Lee (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture Psychology Ser.
Why are we interested in characters like Daredevil? Do we have conscious will or not? With so many positive forces in the comic book world, why do people cheer for a mass murderer? This compendium of 18 chapters offers a fascinating look into the psychology behind the complicated superhero Daredevil. Bo ...Show more
Deco Dandy by Potvin, John
$79.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture Ser.
Deco dandy contests the supposedly exclusive feminine aspect of the style moderne (art deco) by exploring how alternative, parallel and overlapping experiences of decorative modernism, nationalism, gender and sexuality in the years surrounding World War I converge in the protean figure of the 'deco dand ...Show more
Dispossession, Memory and the Making of Jedda (1955) in Ngunnawal Country by Catherine Kevin
$89.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in Australian Literature and Culture Ser.
In 1955 'Jedda' was released in Australian cinemas and the international film world, starring Indigenous actors Rosalie Kunoth and Robert Tudawali. That year Eric Bell watched the film in the Liberty Cinema in Yass. Twelve years later he was dismayed to read a newly erected plaque in the main street of ...Show more
Fashion-Ology by Yuniya Kawamura; Joanne B. Eicher (Contribution by)
$43.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
This new edition of a classic work offers a concise introduction to the sociology of fashion, and demystifies the workings of the fashion system. From the origins of fashion studies and the difference between clothing and fashion, through to an examination of 21st century subcultures, and the impact of ...Show more