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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
Popes, Peasants, and Shepherds : Recipes and Lore from Rome and Lazio by Ernesto (FRW) Maureen B. (TRN); Di Renzo Oretta; Fant Zanini De Vita
$13.95 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture
The food of Rome and its region, Lazio, is redolent of herbs, olive oil, ricotta, lamb, and pork. It is the food of ordinary, frugal people, yet it is a very modern cuisine in that it gives pride of place to the essential flavors of its ingredients. In this only English-language book to encompass the en ...Show more
Postsecular Cities: Religious Space, Theory and Practice by Christopher Baker
$55.00 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Continuum Resources in Religion and Political Culture
This book reflects the wide-spread belief that the twenty-first century is evolving in a significantly different way to the twentieth, which witnessed the advance of human rationality and technological progress, including urbanisation, and called into question the public and cultural significance of rel ...Show more
Running with the Devil - Power, Gender, and Madness in Heavy Metal Music by Robert Walser; Harris M. Berger (Other)
$0.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Music / Culture Ser.
Dismissed by critics and academics, condemned by parents and politicians, and fervently embraced by legions of fans, heavy metal music continues to attract and embody cultural conflicts that are central to society. In Running with the Devil, Robert Walser explores how and why heavy metal works, both mus ...Show more
South Park and Philosophy : You know, I learned something today by Robert Arp
$32.99 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
If you think Saddam and Satan are a kinky couple, wait 'til you get a load of South Park and Philosophy. Like "Mr. Hanky at Christmas", this is a book whose time has come. On the cheesy poof-stained pages within, 22 philosophers address perennial questions such as, Is Dan Rather real? Should Big Gay Al ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$29.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for ...Show more
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
$39.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser.
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters. It begins with a murder. And it will not end until the Culture has gone to war with death itself. Lededje Y'breq is one of the Intagliated, her marked body bearing witness to a family shame, her life belonging to a man whose lust for power ...Show more
Symbolic Exchange and Death by Jean Baudrillard
$91.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Published in association with Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism.It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of Ma ...Show more
Symbolic Exchange and Death by Jean Baudrillard
$103.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society
Jean Baudrillard is one of the most celebrated and most controversial of contemporary social theorists. This major work occupies a central place in the rethinking of the humanities and social sciences around the idea of postmodernism. It leads the reader on an exhilarating tour encompassing the end of ...Show more