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Film Quake - The Most Disruptive Films in Cinema by Ian Haydn Smith
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover films that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when filmmakers take tradition and rip it up. In FilmQuake, Ian Haydn Smith selects the 50 movies that shook the cinematic world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, recepti ...Show more
Imperial Bodies in London - Empire, Mobility, and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 by Kristin Hussey
$155.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Sci and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Ser.
Since the eighteenth century, European administrators and officers, military men, soldiers, missionaries, doctors, wives, and servants moved back and forth between Britain and its growing imperial territories. The introduction of steam-powered vessels, and deep-docks to accommodate them at London ports, ...Show more
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
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 tell you what to expect, how to behave, and how to establish a rappo ...Show more
Japan Beyond the Kimono - Innovation and Tradition in the Kyoto Textile Industry by Jenny Hall; Joanne B. Eicher (Series edited by)
$54.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. Japan Beyond the Kimono explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion indu ...Show more
Japan - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Paul Norbury
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
Culture Smart! Japan will guide you through modern Japan's shifting social and cultural maze. It provides invaluable insights into people's attitudes and behavior, and practical tips to help make your visit to this complex, rich, and dynamic society a mutually rewarding experience. Today Japan is at a c ...Show more
Kiss and Philosophy by Courtland Lewis (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
KISS is the most outrageous and yet the most enduring of rock bands, with an unparalleled, almost religious level of devotion from millions of die-hard fans. In KISS and Philosophy, professional thinkers of diverse outlooks provide much-needed insights into the motivating ideas and metaphysical foundati ...Show more
Libertine Fashion - Sexual Freedom, Rebellion, and Style by Adam Geczy; Joanne B. Eicher
$49.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Dress, Body, Culture Ser.
Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki ...Show more
Neoliberalism on the Ground - Architecture and Transformation from the 1960s to the Present by Kenny Cupers (Editor); Catharina Gabrielsson (Editor); Helena Mattsson (Editor)
$225.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Politics and the Built Environment Ser.
Architecture and urbanism have contributed to one of the most sweeping transformations of our times. Over the past four decades, neoliberalism has been not only a dominant paradigm in politics but a process of bricks and mortar in everyday life. Rather than to ask what a neoliberal architecture looks li ...Show more
New Zealand - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird
$22.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
Culture Smart! New Zealand offers insights into a country that is reflecting on its identity, having shed its colonial past and now moving from a bicultural society (Maori and European) toward a new multiculturalism. Despite the challenges ahead a declining agricultural sector and the consequences for a ...Show more
Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late-Medieval England by Myra Seaman
$185.00 AUD
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
Persuasive Acts - Women's Rhetorics in the Twenty-First Century by Charlotte Hogg (Editor); Shari Stenberg (Editor)
$85.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture Ser.
In June 2015, Bree Newsome scaled the flagpole in front of South Carolina's state capitol and removed the Confederate flag. The following month, the Confederate flag was permanently removed from the state capitol. Newsome is a compelling example of a twenty-first-century woman rhetor, along with blogger ...Show more
Poetry and the Modernist Revolution - Discoveries in Aesthetics, 1985-2018 by Paul Oppenheimer
$160.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Anthem Studies in South Asian Literature, Aesthetics and Culture Ser.
This book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the aesthetics of poetic freedom. The range is broad, from antiquity to the present and from Europe and the Middle East into the poetry of the English-speaking world. Silent reading is shown as developing for the first time since the fall of the Roman Em ...Show more