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Punk 45! is introduced (and co-edited) by Jon Savage, author of the acclaimed definitive history of punk, England's Dreaming. Contributors include Peter Saville, Richard Hell, Richard H Kirk, Seymour Stein,...

Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its...

In this collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten stories of myths and hoaxes concerning the animal kingdom. Throughout, he recounts - and in some cases solves - mysteries of...

The vastness of China and the antquity of its culture have both fascinated and troubled the West since their earliest contacts. This text explores Western attitudes as they developed over...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status...

In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of...

This book is a sustained leftist critque of communication conglomeration, and the ways in which corporate think limits public expression and public understanding. As a critic of corporate imperialism, Schiller...

In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World , John Judis wrote: ""Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of...

This is a book about "Virginia Woolf": the face that sells more postcards than any other at Britain's National Portrait Gallery, the name that Edward Albee's play linked with fear,...

This wide-ranging study of sexual dissidence returns to the early modern period in order to focus, question, and develop issues of postmodernity, in the process brilliantly linking writers as diverse...

When Emmeline Pankhurst gathered a small group of women in Manchester 10 October 1903, the mood was defiant. For the Suffragette movement, founded that day, sprang not merely from a...

Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at...

This is an introductory guide to the main theories of popular culture. It examines the main areas of contemporary popular cultural studies, such as the theories of Adorno and the...

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognise this fact, the great botanist Nikolay...

This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...

The continuing predominance of Oxford and Cambridge graduates in all walks of British life has a major impact on British society and its ability to function in an international world,...

A unique examination of media and communication within some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups - the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Thai communities. Going beyond the conventional cross-cultural studies of...

A look at the Haute Monde of Australian fashion in the early twentieth century.

In recent times, archaeologists have unearthed a vast wealth of knowledge about Australia - from tens of thousands of years ago to the very recent past. But the last three...

T.H. Huxley (1825-1895) - "Darwin's bulldog" - led a far more fascinating and outgoing life than the reclusive Darwin. He did battle with God and Gladstone, sat on royal commissions...

Responding to the decline of the monarchy and the church in post-revolutionary France, theorists representing a wide spectrum of leftist ideologies proposed comprehensive blueprints for society that assigned a crucial...

The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic...

A study addressing the cultural issues related to doing business in Indonesia, one of the most rapidly developing economies in the Asia Pacific region. It provides insights into the complexities...

The world has fallen in love with Timothee Chalamet, thanks largely to his skillful performances in films like Lady Bird, Call Me By Your Name, Beautiful Boy and Little Women....

This is a re-assessment of Australian cultural life. The collection features essays by many of Australia's leading cultural commentators on the pursuits and concerns that give meaning and significance to...

This study of the human race's weaknesses highlights some of the more unusual frailties - from witch-burning to inflating the price of tulips.

A critical biography of the poet explores the Spanish Civil War, the rise and fall of Marxism and Nazism, World War II, Vietnam, the sexual revolution, and modern figures such...

This compelling book is an exploration of the imaginary of perceptual control technologies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. William Bogard constructs a 'social science fiction' of how the...

In this classic best-seller, Liza Dalby, the only non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese...

Documentary productions encompass remarkable representations of surprising realities. How do documentaries achieve their ends? What types of documentaries are there? What factors are implicated in their production? Such questions animate...

The book titled Petrol, Bait, Ammo & Ice by the author H.G. Nelson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Voltaire's Coconuts is a wonderfully engaging and witty combination of history and biography which looks at how Europeans have been fascinated by all that it means to be English. Dutch...

Few people know that nearly one hundred native languages once spoken in what is now California are near extinction, or that most of Australia's 250 aboriginal languages have vanished. In...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. on the politics of multiculturalism. These essays touch upon the political, social and cultural dimensions of the "canon issue", and illustrate how its ramifications extend far...

A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slavery Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his...

Definitive proof that Africa is *not* a country. A lively, entertaining and informative portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive, personal story....

Womansword is an insightful look at Japanese words concerning women and what they reveal about the status of women in modern Japan. In a collection of short, lively essays, author...

Madonna is everywhere, almost everyone has an opinion about her. She is themost visible sexual icon in the West. Controversy envelops her from all sides:from the reactionary to the radical....

Currently, science fiction in all its forms is enjoying enormous popular interest. There can be no doubt that science fiction books and films have great influence on the public view...

How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...

The world has changed faster during the 20th century than ever before. All our previous assumptions about God, our social, economic and political structures, science and technology, and - by...

Drawing upon a range of traditions from ancient forms of animal worship and myth-making to the living beliefs of tribal and nomadic peoples, this book explores the innumerable ways in...

The world and its politics are becoming ever more polarised, leaving no room for the light and the shade. In The Half of It , Emma and Nicole explore race...

In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its...

The world of arts and literature has not escaped the problem of AIDS. Not only has the disease made itself felt in the lives (and deaths) of artists and their...

The often-misleading ways in which radio, newspapers and television report poverty, homelessness, education, health and disability are of crucial and growing concern to those studying social policy and media studies....