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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture by A. D. Jameson
$27.99 NZD
Category: Nerd/Geek/Super Cool | Series: Geek's Look at Pop Culture
"Funny, incisive, and timely..." --Lawrence Kasdan, co-screenwriter of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars StoryA.D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the scien ...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
Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan by Masafumi Monden
$49.99 NZD
Category: Architecture and Design | Series: Dress, Body, Culture
From Rococo to Edwardian fashions, Japanese street style has reinvented many western dress styles, reinterpreting and altering their meanings and messages in a different cultural and historical context. This wide ranging and original study reveals the complex exchange of styles and what they represent i ...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
Look to Windward (#7 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Culture | Reading Level: good
It was one of the less glorious incidents of the Idiran wars that led to the destruction of two suns and the billions of lives they supported. Now, 800 years later, the light from the first of those deaths has reached the Culture's Masaq' Orbital. A Chelgrian emissary is dispatched to the Culture.
Manchu Princess, Japanese Spy: The Story of Kawashima Yoshiko, the Cross-Dressing Spy Who Commanded Her Own Army by Phyllis Birnbaum
$52.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Asia Perspectives: History, Society and Culture
Aisin Gioro Xianyu (1907-1948) was the fourteenth daughter of a Manchu prince and a legendary figure in China's bloody struggle with Japan. After the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1912, Xianyu's father gave his daughter to a Japanese friend who was sympathetic to his efforts to reclaim power. This man r ...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
Morocco: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette by Orin Hargraves
$30.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Shock!
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette in Morocco