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Black Women Always: Conversations on life, culture and creativity
A defining manual on using creativity as a tool for empowerment and allowing your personal identity to live in and guide all parts of your life, Kevin Morosky shares stories...
The Art of the Celts: Origins, History, Culture
$15.00 AUD
With this book, Aiain Zaczek explains who the Celts were, where they lived, when they thrived, and presents their art and artefacts - metalwork, jewellery, stonework and carving - in...
True History of Chocolate
Cultivated by slaves, consumed by the elite, paid out as a tribute to conquerors, this tale of one of the world's favourite foods draws upon botany, archaeology, socio-economics and culinary...
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl
From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to her homeland of South Korea and back again this memoir is a journey through identity crises, mental health struggles, and the...
Dumb Ideas: A Behind-the-Scenes Expose on Making Pranks and Other
From the brilliantly demented minds behind The Eric Andre Show and Bad Trip , an insane illustrated compendium about the art of pranking. Eric Andre is a master of the...
Women Rising: The Forces That Hold Us Back. The Tools to Help Us Rise
It's time to create a future where feminine power and leadership is celebrated. It's time for a radical awakening and a revolution. It's time for women to rise . In...
The Night Before Christmas at Dunder Mifflin
The first official The Office holiday storybook - a new classic for fans of all ages! Spend "The Night Before Christmas" at Dunder Mifflin in this hilarious and timeless illustrated...
AfroCentric Style: A Celebration of Blackness & Identity in Pop
Illustrated with more than 100 color and black-and-white photos, a rich celebration linking the vibrancy of Black identity and expression with mainstream popular culture from the past to the present....
The Last Sweet Bite: When War Changes the Menu
War changes every part of human culture: art, education, music, politics. Why should food be any different? For nearly twenty years, Michael Shaikh's job was investigating human rights abuses in...
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
$20.00 AUD
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you...
WEEKEND IN MUNICH
$12.00 AUD
This is a collection of colour photographs of the Nazi hierarchy at the peak of its power, just before the outbreak of World War II. Many are images shot by...
Boobs: A tongue in cheek social history of our obsession with breasts
For most of her life, unconcernedly flat-chested author and academic Dr Lisa Portolan had never really thought about her breasts, or boobs in general. But then she met Amanda Goff...
K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry Into Why We Love Korean
From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You , Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling...
Twentieth Century Design
The most famous designs of the twentieth century are not those in museums, but in the marketplace. The Coca-Cola bottle and the McDonald's logo are known all over the world,...
The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of
In this highly provocative book scientist and psychologist Howard Bloom argues that despite our great intelligence, human behaviour is much closer to animal behaviour than we are comfortable to admit....
Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas
Think you know a good idea when you see one? Think again. 'Clever and entertaining.' Sunday Times 'Elegantly written and full of surprises.' Daily Telegraph 'Always entertaining and often eye-opening.'...
Netymology: From Apps to Zombies: A Linguistic Celebration of the
Composed of 100 bite-sized entries of 400 to 600 words each, Netymology weaves together stories, etymologies and analyses around digital culture's transformation, and creation, of words. Tom Chatfield presents a...
Lords and Larrikins: The actor's role in the making of Australia: The
This radical new account reveals the central importance of the male performer in Australian public life, showing how the aspiring middle classes turned to actors to teach them public behaviour...
Romantic Affinities: Portraits from an Age, 1780-1830
The winner of a 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, this is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by...
Sexing the Millennium
Sex is under seige - and it is fighting back. Tracing the earliest roots of sexual utopianism, from the 17th century, this book follows the anguished birth-pangs of sexual liberation,...
Women's Food Matters: Stirring the Pot
Women have always been inextricably linked to food, especially in its production and preparation. This link, which applies cross-culturally, has seldom been fully acknowledged or celebrated. The role of women...
Land Of The Golden Cities
The quarter-century since 1990 has witnessed an unprecedented economic performance by Australia. It stands as an extraordinary world achievement.A prospering economy in an era in which the rest of the...
Keep Coolidge and Carry On: The Wisdom of Jennifer Coolidge
Whether your boss has just fired you through a bathroom door or you need a reminder that hot people aren't that interesting, there's no better guide than Jennifer Coolidge. The...
Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances: Finding a Home in the
From the grandiose histories of grand state building projects to the minutiae of street signs and corner pubs, from the rebuilding of capital cities to the provision of the humble...
Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945
In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main...
British Theatre And The Red Peril: The Portrayal of Communism
This work explores how communism was portrayed in plays in the British theatre between 1917 and 1945, and how at a time when the capitalist system seemed on the verge...
The Shopping Experience
This shrewd and probing book seeks to theorize shopping as an autonomous realm. It avoids the reductionist characteristics of economics and marketing. At the same time it avoids the moralizing...
Parallels & Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
______________ 'A beautifully poised series of dialogues about literature, music and politics, and they're a testimony to the enormous gifts and courage of both men' - Tom Paulin, Guardian 'A...
Wagner Nights: An American History
$20.00 AUD
As never before or since, Richard Wagner's name dominated American music-making at the close of the nineteenth century. Europe, too, was obsessed with Wagner, but - as Joseph Horowitz shows...
The Plays of W.B. Yeats: Yeats and the Dancer
This is an investigation of Yeats's experiments with the media of language and dance in his plays. He was allied to other artists of the 1890s in his fascination with...
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture
'Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.'...
Memory and Migration: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Memory Studies
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the context of a stable, unchanging environment, this collection of essays...
The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America
St. Louis-based writer and expert in authoritarian states, Sarah Kendzior, has been called "a political heavyweight" and "a Cassandra in Trumpland." In 2015, she collected the essays she reported for...
The Mummy, The
The Mummy follows the history of mummification in Egypt from the dynastic age to the present day, including a consideration of the mummy in modern popular culture, films and literature,...
Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Cultural Diversity in
With many practical examples and case studies, this book brings new insights to the dilemma of reconciling corporate consistency with local conditions as business life rapidly internationalizes. In 1991 Fons...
Is It Just Me Or Has The Shit Hit The Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide
The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?...
This Is Vegan Propaganda: (And Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)
The first book from vegan activist, educator and influencer, Ed Winters, who has a strong, loyal following on Instagram Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform...
The Reckoning: America's trauma and finding a way to heal
America is suffering from PTSD. The Reckoning diagnoses its core causes and helps begin the healing process. For four years, Donald J Trump inflicted an onslaught of overlapping and interconnected...
Can't Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
An incendiary examination of burnout in millennials - the cultural shifts that got us here, the pressures that sustain it and the need for drastic change An incendiary examination of...
Judge This
Part of the TED series: Judge This! First impressions are everything. They dictate whether something stands out, how we engage with it, whether we buy it, and how strongly we...
Constructing Fatherhood: Discourses and Experiences
`It is a very impressive book. Its coverage of contemporary discourses of fatherhood is comprehensive. The theoretical stance is one that allows for complexity and fluidity. The authors write well,...
Red Lipstick: An Ode to a Beauty Icon
A unique, full-color compendium that celebrates and explores the enduring power and allure of the world's most iconic lip shade, jam-packed with entertaining stories, anecdotes, little-known facts, quotes, and more...
Why Can't We All Just Get Along: Shout Less. Listen More.
Why Can't We All Just Get Along is part-memoir, part-polemic about the state of public discourse in Britain and the world today. In an increasingly divided society, Iain examines why...