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The Player Of Games: A Culture Novel #2 by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | 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
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
The Varangians - In God's Holy Fire by Sverrir Jakobsson
$213.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Ser.
This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, ...Show more
The Varangians - In God's Holy Fire by Sverrir Jakobsson
$394.99 AUD
Category: Ancient History | Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture Ser.
This book is the history of the Eastern Vikings, the Rus and the Varangians, from their earliest mentions in the narrative sources to the late medieval period, when the Eastern Vikings had become stock figures in Old Norse Romances. A comparison is made between sources emanating from different cultures, ...Show more
The Wake of Crows - Living and Dying in Shared Worlds by Thom van Dooren
$57.95 AUD
Category: Religion | Series: Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law Ser.
The Wake of Crows is an exploration of the entangled lives of humans and crows. Focusing on five key sites, Thom van Dooren asks how we might live well with crows in a changing world.
The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist - Three Lives in an Age of Empire by Kate Fullagar
$66.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History Ser.
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them bothThree interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together ...Show more
Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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