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1984 and Philosophy by Ezio Di Nucci (Editor); Stefan Storrie (Editor)
38.90 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
Although the year 1984 is hurtling back into the distant past, Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four continues to have a huge readership and to help shape the world of 2084. Sales of Orwell's terrifying tale have recently spiked because of current worries about alternate facts, post-truth, and fake news. ...Show more
An Introduction to Political Philosophy - Ten Essays by Leo Strauss by Leo Strauss; Hilail Gildin (Introduction by)
89.99 AUD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Culture of Jewish Modernity Ser.
A reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists, its classical forms, and its modern version. It gives the reader Strauss' thoughts on what political phil ...Show more
Between Two Millstones, Book 2 - Exile in America, 1978-1994 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Clare Kitson (Translator); Melanie Moore (Translator); Daniel J. Mahoney (Foreword by)
79.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: The\Center for Ethics and Culture Solzhenitsyn Ser.
This compelling account concludes Nobel prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's literary memoirs of his years in the West after his forced exile from the USSR following the publication of The Gulag Archipelago. The book reflects both the pain of separation from his Russian homeland and the chasm of miscom ...Show more
China - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Kathy Flower
23.95 AUD
Category: Travel | 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 (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-fi & 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
Encyclopedia of Pasta by Oretta Zanini De Vita; Maureen Fant; Carol Field
54.99 AUD
Category: Cooking | Series: California Studies in Food and Culture Ser.
Spaghetti, gnocchi, tagliatellea, ravioli, vincisgrassi, strascinati--pasta in its myriad forms has been a staple of the Mediterranean diet longer than bread. This beautiful volume is the first book to provide a complete history of pasta in Italy, telling its long story via the extravagant variety of sh ...Show more
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
FashionQuake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Fashion by Caroline Young
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Category: Fashion | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
FashionQuake presents fashions most disruptive, rebellious and ground-breaking moments. This is what happens when fashion designers take tradition and rip it up. FashionQuake introduces 50 pivotal moments that shook the world and changed mainstream fashion forever, telling the fascinating stories behi ...Show more
India - Culture Smart! - The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture by Becky Stephen
23.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Culture Smart! Ser.
India's population of 1.2 billion is as varied and colorful as the spice markets of Old Delhi. Each region, caste, and community has its own culture, reflecting unique histories shaped by conquest, creativity, and religion, expressed in distinct languages, social customs, art forms, and expectations of ...Show more
Indonesia - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture by Graham Saunders
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Category: Travel | 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
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | 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