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Black Sabbath and Philosophy: Mastering Reality by William Irwin
24.99 NZD
Category: Music | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A philosophical look at heavy metal's dark masters of reality, Black Sabbath Black Sabbath is one of the world's most influential and enduring rock bands. Dubbed "the Beatles of heavy metal" by Rolling Stone , they helped to define a genre with classic songs like "Paranoid", "Iron Man", and "War Pigs", ...Show more
Captain America vs Iron Man: Freedom, Security, Psychology by Travis Langley
19.99 NZD
Category: Current Affairs & Politics | Series: Popular Culture Psychology Ser.
Freedom vs. security: that is the dilemma explored here - and two iconic superheroes come to completely opposite conclusions. This collection of 11 provocative essays examines the complex psychological and political choices made by Captain America and Iron Man in the wake of a civil war. Why do they see ...Show more
Consider Phlebas (#1 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
27.99 NZD
Category: Science Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
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
Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The fifth Culture book from the awesome imagination of Iain M. Banks, a modern master of science fiction. Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere, and it did nothin ...Show more
Game of Thrones Psychology by Travis Langley
29.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy | Series: Popular Culture Psychology Ser.
This thought-provoking anthology offers a close examination of the psychology behind the intricate narrative and compelling characters in the popular HBO TV series Game of Thrones, based upon author George R.R. Martin's bestselling work, A Song of Ice and Fire. In Martin's richly detailed world, dece ...Show more
Matter (#8 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
29.99 NZD
Category: unsorted ex new release | 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
Ned Kelly - Icon of Modern Culture by Lyn Innes
19.99 NZD
49.99 (60% off)
Category: No Category | Series: Icons of Modern Culture Ser.
Using the evidence of contemporary sources, as well as many subsequent extracts from letters, songs, books, plays, films and paintings which feature Ned Kelly, this work illustrates the fascination with a man whose short, defiant and violent life has been seen as inextricably linked to Australia's lands ...Show more
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry by Jonathan J. Sanford
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Untangle the complex web of philosophical dilemmas of Spidey and his world - in time for the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie. Since Stan Lee and Marvel introduced "Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy number 15" in 1962, everyone's favorite webslinger has had a long career in comics, graphic novels, ...Show more
Star Trek and History by Nancy R. Reagin
24.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Wiley Pop Culture and History Series
A guide to the history that informs the world of Star Trek --just in time for the next JJ Abrams Star Trek movie For a series set in our future, Star Trek revisits the past constantly. Kirk and Spock battle Nazis, Roman gladiators, and witness the Great Depression. When they're not doubling back ...Show more
Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do? by William Irwin
24.99 NZD
Category: New Releases | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Go beyond the cape and into the mind of the "Man of Steel", in time for release of Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel" movie and Superman's 75th anniversary. He has thrilled millions for 75 years, with a legacy that transcends national, cultural, and generational borders, but is there more to the "Man of Steel ...Show more
Surface Detail (#9 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
29.99 NZD
Category: unsorted ex new release | 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
39.99 NZD
Category: New Releases | 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