A Field Guide to Punk by Steve Wide
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: The\Field Guide Ser.
This book is your gateway to the safety-pinned, leather-clad, mohawk-toting, anti-establishment, and generally badass Punk movement. What makes punk... punk? We might all know the Sex Pistols from the opening bar of their songs. But how do we place the punk movement in the context of the wider zeitg ...Show more
Field Guide to Post-Punk & New Wave by Steve Wide
$35.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music | Series: The\Field Guide Ser.
This book is your gateway to the pop-rock-y, disco-esque, electronic and mod-tastic movement that was (and is) New Wave. What makes New Wave... New Wave? It's the catchall name of punk's poppy offshoot, born in the 70s, simultaneously born in the United States and United Kingdom. But how would you d ...Show more
Representing Trans by Meyeroff Miriam
$40.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
How we present ourselves to others and how our identities are represented in society is something that we have to negotiate every day. For members of the trans community - transgender, transsexual or some new gendered selfhood - representation has tremendous psychological and social weight. Trans men an ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Essays & memoir
In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known bands Straitjacket Fits and Dimmer. He traces an intimate history ...Show more
Not For You -Pearl Jam and the Present Tense by Ronen Givony
$41.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
There has never been a band like Pearl Jam. The Seattle quintet has recorded 11 studio albums; sold 85 million records; played a 1,000 shows, in 50 countries; and had five different albums reach number one. But Pearl Jam's story is about much more than music. Through passion, integrity, and sheer force ...Show more
The Book of Horror - The Anatomy of Fear in Film by Matt Glasby; Barney Bodoano (Illustrator)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The Book of Horror introduces the reader to the scariest movies ever made and examines the factors that make them so frightening. Horror movies have never been more critically or commercially successful, but there’s only one metric that matters: are they frightening? Back in the silent era, viewers thr ...Show more
David Bowie: Changes - A Life in Pictures 1947-2016 by Chris Welch
$45.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
David Bowie: Changes \b0 is a celebration of the international figure all starry-eyed hopefuls aspired to be when setting out on a path to fame and fortune in the music industry - whether they know it or not. Through more than 150 stellar photos, it tells the story of an artist the likes of which we'd n ...Show more
Breaking Bread with the Dead - A Literary Guide to Peace in the Present by Alan Jacobs
$28.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
The past isn't cancelled: it's not even past. How to cherish authors from Aristotle to Edith Wharton without succumbing to their most regrettable parts.
Dishonesty Is the Second-Best Policy: And Other Rules to Live By by David Mitchell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From UKIP surge to Brexit shambles, horsemeat lasagne to Trump in the White House: bestselling comedian David Mitchell brilliantly tackles the dumbfounding times we live in.
Bad News: Why We Fall for Fake News by Rob Brotherton
$33.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
From the bestselling author of Suspicious Minds There was a time when the news came once a day, in the morning newspaper. A time when the only way to see what was happening around the world was to catch the latest newsreel at the movies. Times have changed. Now we're inundated. The news is no longer con ...Show more
Faber and Faber - The Untold Story of a Great Publishing House by Toby Faber
$25.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
How does a book make its way into the world? Why do some get rejected while others become classics? This intimate history of Faber & Faber weaves together the most entertaining, moving and surprising letters, diaries and memos from the archive to reveal the untold stories behind some of the greatest ...Show more
Life Is a Game - What Game Design Says about the Human Condition by Edward Castronova
$50.00 NZD
Category: Culture, film & music
What if life is a game? Are you winning? Have you even decided what 'winning' is? Game design could be defined in many ways, but here the term is used to denote the practice of creating choices. Designing a game, in this sense, involves crafting limits, rewards, incentives, and risks in such a way that ...Show more