July 2008 Cultural Studies
Renovation Nation
$34.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
Renovation Nation asks why we have become so wrapped up in our homes. It explores the ways we are distorting our lives in the pursuit of prestige and tax-free capital gains as we play the real estate game with mindless p... More »
Forgetting Aborigines
$39.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
"Forgetting Aborigines" explores a central paradox in Australian history: Aborigines are often remembered as absent in the face of a continuing and actual indigenous historical presence. Chris Healy argues that in the wa... More »
What's Happening To Our Girls?
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
Why are girls as young as five years old concerned about their looks and addicted to shopping? Why are they having sex and binge-drinking so young, responding to chat-room predators, and bullying their peers via email an... More »
Maps And Legends
$52.95 (Hardcover book / Mcsweeney )
Michael Chabon's sparkling first book of nonfiction is a love song in sixteen parts — a series of linked essays in praise of reading and writing, with subjects running from ghost stories to comic books, Sherlock Holmes t... More »
Sketch For A Self Analysis
$37.95 (Paperback book / Polity Press )
Pierre Bourdieu's commitment to a reflexive sociology led him ineluctably to take on the final challenge of a self socio-analysis in which he recounts and analyses, more fully and intimately than ever before, his underst... More »
Shock Doctrine The Rise Of Disaster Capitalism
$26.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Around the world in Britain, the United States, Asia and the Middle East, there are people with power who are cashing in on chaos; exploiting bloodshed and catastrophe to brutally remake our world in their image. They ar... More »
Teenage: the creation of youth 1875-1945
$39.95 (Paperback book / Pimlico )
In 1945, just as the war was ending,'the teenager' arrived. This is the story of how we got to that moment-the century and a half of ferment, folly, and angst that created a separate Teen Age in Europe and America. Jon S... More »
Radical Alterity
$32.95 (Paperback book / Mit Press )
"Alterity is in danger. It is a masterpiece in peril, an object lost or missing from our system, from the system of artificial intelligence and the system of communication in general." -- from Radical Alterity
Where is t... More »
Does Ethics Have A Chance In A World Of Consumers
$44.95 (Hardcover book / Harvard Univ Pr )
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most admired social thinkers of our time. Once a Marxist sociologist, he has surrendered the narrowness of both Marxism and sociology, and dares to write in language that ordinary people can ... More »
Work Of Art In The Age Of Its Technological Reproducibility And Other Writings On Media
$39.95 (Paperback book / Harvard Univ Pr )
Benjamin’s famous “Work of Art” essay sets out his boldest thoughts—on media and on culture in general—in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay... More »