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Bad Rabbi - And Other Strange but True Stories from the Yiddish Press by Eddy Portnoy
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture Ser.
Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the success stories. It's a paean to the bunglers, the blockheads, and the just plain weird-Jews who were f ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random. The Idirans fought for their Faith; the Culture for its moral right to exist. Principles were at stake. There could be no ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (Culture #1) by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy | 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
The Good Place and Philosophy by William Irwin (Series edited by); Kimberly S. Engels (Editor)
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Ser.
Dive into the moral philosophy at the heart of all four seasons of NBC's The Good Place, guided by academic experts including the show's philosophical consultants Pamela Hieronymi and Todd May, and featuring a foreword from creator and showrunner Michael Schur Explicitly dedicated to the philosophical ...Show more
The Player Of Games (#2 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$19.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The second Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of 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 Player of Games. Master of every board, compute ...Show more
The Player Of Games - Culture #2 by Iain M. Banks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and 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 Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles by William Irwin
$31.95 AUD
Category: Childrens Fiction | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A philosophical exploration of the entire seven-book Harry Potter series Harry Potter has been heralded as one of the most popular book series of all time and the philosophical nature of Harry, Hermione, and Ron's quest to rid the world of its ultimate evil is one of the many things that make this serie ...Show more
Use of Weapons (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
$22.99 AUD
Category: Sci Fi and Fantasy | Series: Culture Ser.
The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but des ...Show more
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