Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
$16.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Looming Tower, " the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well ...Show more
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
$29.99 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
A new theory of identity that embraces a hybrid model of identification, radically different to traditional organising structures.
MAKING OF THE AMERICAN ESSAY by D'AGATA JOHN (UNIVERSITY OF I
$24.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs by Jane Jacobs (Yale - NUS College, Singapore)
$14.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
A career-spanning selection of previously uncollected writings and talks by the legendary author and activist No one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"started a global conver ...Show more
Messages from a Lost World: Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
Stefan Zweig was a leading talisman of a united Europe of unfettered movement, of pro-active cultural exchange, humane decency and tolerance, all polar opposites of the Nationalist regimes he loathed, and which came to power in the 1930s. In these poignant essays and addresses, forged in the last years ...Show more
Great Books of China by Frances Wood
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature. The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from s ...Show more
The David Foster Wallace Reader by David Foster Wallace
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
The David Foster Wallace Reader is a selection of David Foster Wallace's work, introducing readers to his humour, kindness, sweeping intellect and versatility as a writer. A compilation from the one of the most original writers of our age, featuring: the very best of his fiction and non-fiction; previou ...Show more
Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by Cordelia Fine
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
WINNER OF THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What the judges said: 'Every man and woman should read this book on gender bias ... an important, yet wickedly witty, book.' 'Fine's entertaining and thoughtful book is a valuable addition to the discussion about gender.' Ian Cr ...Show more
Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells: The Best of Early Vanity Fair by Vanity Fair
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Category: REM Cultural Studies
For the magazine’s centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair In honor of the 100th anniversary of Vanity Fair magazine, Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells celebrates the publication’s astonishing early catalogue of writers, with works by Dorothy Pa ...Show more
The New Urban Crisis: Gentrification, Housing Bubbles, Growing Inequality, and What We Can Do About It by Richard Florida
$15.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies
Richard Florida, one of the world's leading urbanists and author of The Rise of the Creative Class, confronts the dark side of the back-to-the-city movementIn recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. and yet all ...Show more
The Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
$12.95 AUD
Category: REM Cultural Studies | Reading Level: very good
The Monk of Mokha is the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war. Mokhtar Alkhanshali is twenty-four and working as a doorman when he discovers the astoni ...Show more