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Excession (#3 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
24.99 AUD
Category: SCI-FI | 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
Freud's Couch, Scott's Buttocks, Bronte's Grave by Simon Goldhill
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34.99 (71% off)
Category: BARGAIN BIN | Series: Culture Trails: Adventures in Travel
The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Sir Walter Scott became celebrities, and readers trekked far and wide for a glimpse of the places where their heroes wrote and thought, walked and talked. Even Shakespeare was roped in, as Victor ...Show more
Harry Potter and History by Nancy R. Reagin
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Category: MUSIC,CINEMA & TV | Series: Wiley Pop Culture and History
A guide to the history behind the world of Harry Potter--just in time for the last Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part II) Harry Potter lives in a world that is both magical and historical. Hogwarts pupils ride an old-fashioned steam train to school, notes are taken on parc ...Show more
Inversions (#6 Culture) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: SCI-FI | Series: Culture Ser.
In the winter palace, the King's new physician has more enemies than she at first realises. But then she also has more remedies to hand than those who wish her ill can know about. In another palace across the mountains, in the service of the regicidal Protector General, the chief bodyguard too has his e ...Show more
Surface Detail (Culture #9) by Iain M. Banks
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Category: BABIES & TODDLERS | 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
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks
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Category: SCI-FI | Series: Culture | Reading Level: very good
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilisation. An ancient people, organised on military principles and yet almost perversely peaceful, the Gzilt helped set up the Culture ten thousand years earlier and were very nearly one of its founding societies, deciding n ...Show more
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
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Category: SCI-FI | Series: Culture Ser.
A collection of short fiction by the author of "The Wasp Factory" and "Against a Dark Background". The title story is a novella continuing the "Culture" sequence but set on Earth in 1977. The other stories range from science fiction to horror, and dark-coated fantasy to morality tale.
The Ultimate Harry Potter and Philosophy: Hogwarts for Muggles by William Irwin
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Category: MUSIC,CINEMA & TV | 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
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Category: SCI-FI | Series: Culture Ser. | Reading Level: good
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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