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Art Quake - The Most Disruptive Works in Modern Art by Susie Hodge
$28.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Culture Quake Ser.
Discover art that dared to be different, risked reputations and put careers in jeopardy. This is what happens when artists take tradition and rip it up. ArtQuake tells the stories of 50 pivotal works that shook the world, telling the fascinating stories behind their creation, reception and legacy. Causi ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
$28.00 NZD
Category: Science fiction | 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
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one man it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means ...Show more
Music Quake: The Most Disruptive Moments in Music by Robert Dimery
$27.99 NZD
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)
$33.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | 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
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Player Of Games - Culture #2 by Iain M. Banks
$27.99 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Series: Culture Ser.
A stunning new reissue edition of the second Culture novel from Iain M. Banks - one of the most important and influential writers in modern science fiction.The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest is Gurgeh. Jernau Morat Gurgeh. The ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
$31.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen a ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
$77.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Politics and Culture Ser.
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th century - fascism, communism, and liberalism - only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state o ...Show more
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