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Anthropology And Myth: Lectures 1951-1982
$70.00 AUD
Author: Claude Lévi-StraussBinding: HardbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1987Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic collection presents the foundational theories of structural anthropology through a series of illuminating lectures. It...
Tristes Tropiques
$10.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imagePart memoir, part philosophical meditation, and part ethnographic masterpiece, Tristes Tropiques chronicles Claude Lévi-Strauss's formative expeditions...
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Levi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
$250.00 AUD
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Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: (And Other Things I Learned From
$12.00 AUD
Join Neil Strauss as he: - Makes Lady Gaga cry - Tries to keep Moetley Crue out of jail - Gets kidnapped by Courtney Love - Goes to church with...
Outrageous Horizon
Author: Adrien Bosc Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the...
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
Combining wit and journalistic detail, "Emergency" follows Strauss' search for an escape plan from the seemingly ever-more unstable United States and world, eventually obtaining a second citizenship in a small...
Nausea: Popular Penguins
Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern...
The Strassmanns: Science, Politics and Migration in Turbulent Times
Across six generations and two hundred years, this book tells the story of a German- Jewish family who emigrated from Rawicz, Poland, first to Prussian Berlin, and finally to America....
Of The Social Contract and Other Political Writings
Since its first publication in 1762, Of the Social Contract has shaped political thinking. Viewed by some as a revolutionary statement of democratic freedoms and by others as a precursor...
Praise of Folly
A satirical, witty text from the greatest humanist of the Renaissance Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...
Children And Other Strangers
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA celebrated collection of Australian poetry, Children and Other Strangers presents Jennifer Strauss's deeply...
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
The Oxford Book of Australian Love Poems
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Freudian Slips: All the Psychology You Need to Know
'Freudian Slips' presents the essential facts and findings of the fascinating subject of psychology in an accessible and enjoyable way, leaving no slip or phallic symbol unexamined. From psychoanalysis to...
Left in Dark Times
In this unprecedented critique, Bernard-Henri Levy, one of the world's leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and...
On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain
$15.00 AUD
In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the...
Milena and Margarete: A Love Story in Ravensbruck: The Nazi's
From the moment they met in 1940 in Ravensbruck concentration camp, Milena Jesenska and Margarete Buber-Neumann were inseparable. Czech Milena was Kafka's first translator and epistolary lover, and a journalist...
The Drowned And The Saved
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Half a Life: A Memoir
$10.00 AUD
In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school,...
The Estrangement Of Western Man
$25.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, with some chipping and wear to edges and corners. No major tears but yellowing and age-related fading visible on the dust jacket; price clipped....
Christ Stopped at Eboli
'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition to Mussolini, Carlo Levi entered a world cut...
Structuralist Poetics: Structuralism Linguistics And The Study Of Literature
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of linguistics, philosophy, and literary criticism stands Structuralist Poetics, a landmark work that forever changed...
Strauss
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew composers embodied the twilight of the Romantic era with the blazing intensity of Richard Strauss, and Michael...
The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters With The New French Thought
$12.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of philosophy, linguistics, and cultural criticism, The Structural Allegory: Reconstructive Encounters with the New French...
Words are Stones: Impressions of Sicily
$40.00 AUD
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Der Rosenkavalier. Comedy for Music in Three Acts
$30.00 AUD
Author: Richard Strauss; Story Adaptation by Anthony BurgessBinding: HardbackPublished: London : Michael Joseph, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Cloth in good condition. Clean and bright text....
Primo Levi
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Richard Strauss
$20.00 AUD
Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling biography chronicles the extraordinary life and artistic achievements of the renowned composer Richard Strauss. It presents a detailed...
The Complete Operas Of Richard Strauss
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive musicological work presents a detailed analysis of every opera composed by Richard Strauss. Charles Osborne, a...
The Correspondence Between Richard Strauss and Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
$30.00 AUD
Author: Edward Sackville-WestBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, 1961Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: DamagedPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis book presents a collection of letters exchanged between composer Richard Strauss and playwright Hugo Von Hofmannsthal....
Leviathan
$15.00 AUD
Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Wear and tear. Chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact. Few works in the history of Western...
Leviathan
One of the great masterpieces of 17th century English prose, with a major new introduction Thomas Hobbes lived through the Thirty Years War and Britain's civil wars, and the trauma...
In Search of Us: Adventures in Anthropology
Author: Lucy Moore (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the late nineteenth century when non-European societies were seen merely as 'living fossils' offering an insight into how civilisation...
Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
Author: Barry Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Bestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers "an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire...much of Ten Caesars reads like a script...
Engaging Erik Olin Wright: Between Class Analysis and Real Utopias
Erik Olin Wright was one of the most brilliant and world renowned social scientists of our era. He left us in 2019 with an unfinished project - the articulation of...
Tristes Tropiques
First Modern Classics publication of this landmark work of social anthropology Tristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Levi-Strauss travelled from...
The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933-1945
'This accessible history will keep the subject alive for a new generation [..] It is about providing an accessible, sober and vivid resource that keeps the subject alive. In this...
Listening In: How Audio Surveillance Became Artificial Intelligence
In 1945, W. Averell Harriman, US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was presented with a carved wooden plaque of the Great Seal of the United States as a 'gesture of...
AI for the Rest of Us: An Illustrated Introduction
AI is reshaping our world. This book is your practical guide to understanding it - so you can stay relevant, work smarter, and prepare for what's next- no technical background...