A Spanner in the Works: The Extraordinary Story of Alice Anderson and Australia's All-Girl Garage by Loretta Smith
$34.99 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
This is Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls meets Amelia Earhart. It's the real-life story of a daring Australian woman who did something extraordinary - then met an early, mysterious end. From the end of the Great War and into the 1920s, Alice Anderson was considered nothing less than a national treasur ...Show more
A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius XII by Dan Kurzman
$27.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
In September, 1943, Adolf Hitler, furious at the ouster of Mussolini, sent German troops into Rome with plans to deport Rome's Jews to Auschwitz. Hitler also ordered SS General Karl Wolff, who had been Heinrich Himmler's chief aide, to occupy the Vatican and kidnap Pope Pius XII. But Wolff began playing ...Show more
A Star Is Born - Judy Garland and the Film That Got Away by Lorna Luft; Jeffrey Vance
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Culture | Series: Turner Classic Movies Ser.
New York Times bestselling author and daughter of Judy Garland tells the story of A Star Is Born -- at once the crowning achievement and greatest disappointment in her mother's legendary career. This is a vivid account of a film classic's production, loss, and reclamation.A Star Is Born -- the classic H ...Show more
A Star is Born: The Moment an Actress Becomes an Icon by George Tiffin
$39.99 AUD
Category: Popular Culture
Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve...Feted, adored and desired, successful movie actresses are icons of modern culture. But what was it that made them true stars? Was it looks, talent, drive, personality - or just plain luck? What was the first captivating image or unforgettable line th ...Show more
A Sturdy Yes of a People - Selected Writing by Joan Nestle by Joan Nestle
$30.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
For over fifty years, Joan Nestle has been chronicling lesbian and queer life boldly with guts, heart, and moral suasion. A Sturdy Yes of a People gathers Nestle’s most influential writing into a single volume presenting her persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing ...Show more
A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity and Cosmopolitan Desire by Hiram Pérez
$51.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Pérez traces the development of gay modernity and its continued romanticization of the brown body. Focusing in particular on three figures with ...Show more
A View From the Antipodes: Quora Writings Vol. 2. 2019
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
A View from the Bottom - Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation by Tan Hoang Nguyen
$55.00 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Perverse Modernities: a Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe Ser.
A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental documentary, Nguyen Tan Hoang explores the cultural meani ...Show more
ABBA at 50 by CARL MAGNUS PALM
$75.00 AUD
Category: Popular Culture
An illustrated celebration of ABBA, from childhood through the Voyage album. Emerging victorious from Eurovision in 1974 with winning tune "Waterloo," ABBA catapulted to fame and captured hearts across the world with their melodic and ever-so catchy pop songs. Formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fält ...Show more
Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead by Hayley Singer
$29.99 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...Show more
Abba - Thank You for the Music by Charles Ginger (Editor)
$47.99 AUD
Category: Popular Culture
They say the winner takes it all, and when it came to fame, fortune and writing their name into the annals of pop music, ABBA certainly did. But just how did four young Scandinavian singers join forces to become the biggest- selling pop band in history? From their early days as budding artists to winn ...Show more
Abnormal - Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975 by Michel Foucault; Graham Burchell (Translator)
$52.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Series: Michel Foucault Lectures at the College de France Ser.
From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes. The lectures comprising Abnormal begin by examining ...Show more