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Remembering Activism by Stefan Berger; Sean Scalmer; Christian Wicke
$73.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Remembering Social Movements offers a comparative historical examination of the relations between social movements and collective memory. A detailed historiographical and theoretical review of the field introduces the reader to five key concepts to help guide analysis: repertoires of contention, histor ...Show more
Return to My Native Land by Aimé Césaire; John Berger (Translator); Anna Bostock (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
'We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.' This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the negritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slave ...Show more
Selected Essays of John Berger by John Berger
$35.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The writing career of John Berger-poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist-has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger's seminal essays. Berger' ...Show more
Smoke by John Berger
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Sel�uk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, throu ...Show more
Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
$9.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks' In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes u ...Show more
The Foot of Clive by John Berger
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
From the 1972 Booker Prize-winning author comes an examination of masculinity, social covenants and murder that develops into a masterclass in humanity In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed, guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and likely to die befor ...Show more
The Lost City of Melbourne: This Is a Story of Marvellous Melbourne, Before Whelan the Wrecker Was Here by Gus Berger (Compiled by, Concept by, Based on a movie by)
$75.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
In the 1850s, Melbourne was the fastest growing city in the world. "They dreamt big, they built big. It was a city jumping out of its skin". It became an epicentre of film culture and its hotels, restaurants and cafes became world renowned. However, the attempted 'modernisation' of Melbourne in the ...Show more
The Red Tenda of Bologna (Mini Modern Classics) by John Berger
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Penguin Modern
It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order.
The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger
$36.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Vintage International
The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about Rembrandt, Paleolithic ca ...Show more
The Social Construction of Reality by BERGER PETER & LUCKMAN THOMAS
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is pr ...Show more
To the Wedding by John Berger
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from ...Show more