{"title":"New Arrivals","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"how-to-build-a-mind-igor-aleksander","title":"'How To Build A Mind' by Igor Aleksander","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA clear, non-sensational introduction to machine consciousness from one of the key figures in neural systems research.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAleksander explores how minds might be built rather than merely simulated, tracing perception, memory, imagination and self-awareness through engineering rather than mysticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeal for readers interested in AI, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, and the uneasy border between “thinking machine” and “useful illusion.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43400890810451,"sku":"MMSC-000001","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_10.svg?v=1767931589"},{"product_id":"sleepers-wake-technology-and-the-future-of-work-by-barry-jones","title":"'Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work' by Barry Jones","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA prophetic dispatch from before the algorithm ate the world.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Jones lays out how automation and information technology would transform labour, politics and daily life — and how badly we’d mishandle it. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"832\" data-end=\"849\"\u003eSleepers, Wake!\u003c\/em\u003e something to be read as a hand-drawn map of what Barry Jones supposed we knew and were choosing not to act upon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43400972697683,"sku":"PLTC-000001","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitled_design_8.svg?v=1767931715"},{"product_id":"the-house-of-spirits-by-isabel-allende","title":"'The House of Spirits' by Isabel Allende","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eIsabel Allende’s debut novel — a first edition of the book that launched her career and helped define contemporary Latin American literature.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"238\"\u003eThe House of the Spirits\u003c\/em\u003e traces the intertwined lives of the Trueba family across generations, moving between the political and the uncanny with absolute confidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMemory, dictatorship, love, hauntings, and the long aftershock of history: this is a novel where the domestic and the mythic bleed into each other. A cornerstone of modern fiction and a beautiful copy for collectors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst UK edition hardback, first impression, very good condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43401011003475,"sku":"FCAM-000001","price":65.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics_28.png?v=1771561038"},{"product_id":"the-origins-of-digital-computers-selected-papers-by-brian-randell","title":"'The Origins of Digital Computers - Selected Papers' by Brian Randell","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA landmark anthology tracing the birth of digital computing through the original papers.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTuring, von Neumann, Shannon and others in their own words, then spun through Randell’s framing to show how the theory became the machines. You see architectures emerging argument by argument, as questions about logic, memory, and programmability harden into hardware. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"431\" data-end=\"767\"\u003eThis isn’t pop-history; it’s primary source material from the foundational decades of computer science. It is widely cited in computing history and now increasingly scarce in hardcover.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"769\" data-end=\"911\"\u003eSecond edition, first printing. A key volume for anyone interested in how modern computing was invented on paper before it was built in metal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402501095507,"sku":"TCAC-000001","price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_11.svg?v=1767931977"},{"product_id":"the-last-mortal-generation-by-damien-broderick","title":"'the last mortal generation' by Damien Broderick","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"505\"\u003eA provocative exploration of the idea that people alive today may be the last generation to die in the traditional sense.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"505\"\u003eBroderick surveys cryonics, life-extension science, AI, nanotech, and speculative biomedical futures, asking what happens—ethically, socially, psychologically—if mortality becomes optional rather than inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"505\"\u003eNice to see an Australian author letting their freak out re: the cyberworld. Wish there was more of it! \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402567909459,"sku":"TCPH-000001","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_13.svg?v=1767932311"},{"product_id":"poemes-d-exil-by-isabelle-solari-french","title":"Poèmes d’exil by Isabelle Solari (French)","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA spare, meditative collection of poems on exile, distance, memory and belonging.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSolari writes with restraint and clarity, holding the emotional weather of displacement without melodrama. Includes a postface by Gérard Joulié. French text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote on condition: Light cover marks and small smudges; otherwise clean interior, tight binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402568990803,"sku":"POFR-000001","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c3be40b1-4d3e-439b-a802-a8f6ca183dea.jpg?v=1768290076"},{"product_id":"i-dont-care-about-football","title":"'i don't care about football' by Giulia Iacolutti (Italian)","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA participatory art project made with the players of Marangoni 105, a football team formed within a mental-health rehabilitation community in Udine.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book documents three years of workshops, travel, training sessions and collaborative image-making, using football as a metaphor for care, recovery and social inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough collage, performance and photography, the players rework images of themselves and the game, turning sport into a space for dialogue about difficulty, identity and the self. Everyone wears number 14, in homage to Johan Cruijff and total football.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHere's a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nicoladicroce.cargo.site\/i-dont-care\u0026amp;nbsp;\" title=\"sound piece\"\u003esound piece\u003c\/a\u003e that was included at the showing of the photos in her exhibition. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402573054035,"sku":"PHMH-000001","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-03T133831.473.png?v=1772505535"},{"product_id":"mourir-et-puis-sauter-son-cheval-by-davidbosc-french","title":"'Mourir et puis sauter son cheval' by David Bosc (French)","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA brief, intense novel in which David Bosc writes to and for death with precise, luminous prose.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt follows bodies pushed to their limits; the leap, the fall, the return, tracing the strange vitality that persists alongside mortality. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA book about limits, desire, and the unruly energy of being alive even at the edge. French text.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402604511315,"sku":"POPH-000001","price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-03T134514.159.png?v=1772505933"},{"product_id":"the-undying-by-anne-boyer","title":"'The Undying' by Anne Boyer","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"578\"\u003eNot an “inspirational cancer memoir,” and pointedly angry at the idea that it should be.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"195\" data-end=\"578\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"284\" data-end=\"297\"\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/em\u003e is Anne Boyer’s account of breast cancer written against the scripts that capitalism, medicine, and literature try to palm off the sick. It moves between hospital rooms, theory, history, care work, and the economics of pharmaceuticals, refusing to turn suffering into a tidy lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"580\" data-end=\"840\"\u003eBoyer writes with precision about pain, gender, clichés of bravery, and the cost of being ill inside systems designed for efficiency, not care. A major contemporary essay-memoir that treats illness as political, embodied, and literary all at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNB\u003c\/strong\u003e: This is one of our listings that includes a donation to charity in the sale price. A portion of this sale will be donated to So Brave.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRead more about them here.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402657005651,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_12.svg?v=1767932165"},{"product_id":"things-could-be-worse-by-lily-brett","title":"'Things Could Be Worse' by Lily Brett","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"677\"\u003eLily Brett’s \u003cem data-start=\"231\" data-end=\"254\"\u003eThings Could Be Worse\u003c\/em\u003e is an autobiography, one that explores her own background as the daughter of Holocaust survivors.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"218\" data-end=\"677\"\u003eBrett writes a series of linked stories about a post-war Melbourne household trying to live an ordinary suburban life under the weight of the unspoken. The book has a lilt that trauma often speaks, that misaligned, a bit sideways prose that's full of absurdities and terrors. But funny, always a bit funny. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"679\" data-end=\"1012\"\u003eDavid Rankin’s illustrations run alongside the text; beautifully. Together, they sketch the fragments of migration, memory, and survival without sentimentality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"679\" data-end=\"1012\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e1990 Meanjin \/ Melbourne University Press — hardcover first edition, dust jacket intact, original illustrations by David Rankin, in great condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402700849235,"sku":"MMCU-000001","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-28T150357.002.png?v=1772251456"},{"product_id":"notes-on-grief-by-chimamanda-ngozi-adichie","title":"'Notes on Grief' by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"312\"\u003eA spare, unsentimental meditation on loss by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of \u003cem data-start=\"272\" data-end=\"284\"\u003eAmericanah\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"289\" data-end=\"311\"\u003eHalf of a Yellow Sun\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"314\" data-end=\"640\"\u003eWritten after the sudden death of her father in June 2020, \u003cem data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"389\"\u003eNotes on Grief\u003c\/em\u003e traces the strange education that mourning forces on you — the anger, the flatness, the clichés people reach for when language fails. Adichie examines how grief distorts time, how it remakes the body, and how love doesn’t end so much as change state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"642\" data-end=\"861\"\u003eExpanded from her original \u003cem data-start=\"669\" data-end=\"681\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e essay, this is both a tribute to a deeply loved father and a precise anatomy of grief itself. It is intimate, unsparing, and unwilling to tidy anything up for the comfort of the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"863\" data-end=\"894\"\u003eHardcover. Excellent condition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402728243283,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_3.svg?v=1767928814"},{"product_id":"the-sacred-magician-a-ceremonial-diary-by-georges-chevalier","title":"'The Sacred Magician - A Ceremonial Diary' by Georges Chevalier","description":"\u003ch4\u003eOkay, brace yourselves.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1649\" data-start=\"1229\"\u003eThe Sacred Magician: A Ceremonial Diary is a firsthand account of a six-month Abramelin operation. This was the demanding ritual intended to contact the Holy Guardian Angel and subdue the demonic forces of the self. Written under the pseudonym Georges Chevalier, this diary documents the discipline, monotony, hallucination, failure and breakthrough of actually attempting the working rather than merely theorising about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2022\" data-start=\"1651\"\u003eOriginally issued by Paladin in 1976, this first paperback edition sits in the lineage of Crowley’s \u003cem data-end=\"1791\" data-start=\"1751\"\u003eThe Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage\u003c\/em\u003e, but swaps grandstanding for boredom, obsession, hunger, and the strange bureaucracy of the occult. It’s as much psychological record as magical text, and one of the few sustained diaries of the ritual ever published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"2022\" data-start=\"1651\"\u003eWeird! Love it. Reminds me of Joe Mellen's 'Bore Hole'. Priced because first edition Paladin occult paperback, v. desirable. (Still a bargain)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402766909523,"sku":null,"price":42.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/2325df1e-3564-4e71-8db4-7ea946f37585.jpg?v=1768960038"},{"product_id":"ever-since-i-did-not-die-by-ramy-al-asheq","title":"'Ever Since I Did Not Die' by Ramy Al-Asheq","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"531\" data-start=\"272\"\u003eA fierce, unsparing meditation on identity, trauma, and survival from Palestinian poet Ramy Al-Asheq.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"531\" data-start=\"272\"\u003eExpanded from the essay \u003cem data-end=\"408\" data-start=\"398\"\u003eNot Dead\u003c\/em\u003e first published in \u003cem data-end=\"444\" data-start=\"428\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, this work confronts the legacies of violence and displacement with lyrical precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"879\" data-start=\"533\"\u003ePoetry is the only form for this type of soul-letting, where language itself fractures and asks for a witness, pulling the reader into the tension between embodiment and erasure, selfhood and collective memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1015\" data-start=\"881\"\u003eFor readers of confessional nonfiction, contemporary poetry-in-essay, and courageous writing about conflict, the body, and resilience.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402769203283,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/36ddb700-2aa7-425b-ba56-bdc2dbf4c87b.jpg?v=1769386010"},{"product_id":"without-a-glimmer-of-remorse-by-pino-cacucci","title":"'Without a glimmer of remorse' by Pino Cacucci","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1233\"\u003eA cult biography of the infamous anarchist outlaw Jules Bonnot — illegalist, bank thief, folk hero, and occasional driver for Arthur Conan Doyle.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"896\" data-end=\"1233\"\u003ePino Cacucci tracks Bonnot’s meteoric career through Belle Époque Paris and beyond: robberies, conspiracies, police shoot-outs, and the birth of the getaway car as a political instrument.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1235\" data-end=\"1513\"\u003eTranslated by Paul Sharkey, this edition brings into English one of the strangest intersections of crime history, radical politics, and literary celebrity. Noir-toned, sympathetic but nonchalant, it’s a portrait of a man who refused remorse and paid the price for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1635\"\u003ePerfect for readers of true crime, anarchist history, French social movements, outlaw biography, and political noir. As new, first edition paperback. Hard to find in Aus. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402774085715,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/a03c29d6-7b15-4fe7-ba3f-3636e120599f.jpg?v=1769649409"},{"product_id":"ancient-images-by-ramsey-campbell","title":"'Ancient Images' by Ramsey Campbell","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"810\" data-end=\"893\"\u003eA lost film, a buried scandal, and the old \"dread\" version of horror.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"1252\"\u003eWhen film researcher Sandy Allan tracks down a vanished 1930s horror movie—suppressed after its first screening—she discovers the film didn’t just disappear. Everyone connected to it did as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"1252\"\u003eAhhhhh!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"1252\"\u003eAs she begins to untangle the story behind the production, she’s drawn into a world of folk ritual, occult power, and the uncanny power of images themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"1254\" data-end=\"1270\"\u003eAncient Images\u003c\/em\u003e is one of Ramsey Campbell’s most acclaimed novels, fusing film history, British paganism, and creeping psychological dread. Less gore, more atmosphere: a slow, tightening dread that never quite lets go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1479\" data-end=\"1522\"\u003eFirst hardback edition, dust jacket intact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43402774511699,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/5f199c81-eda9-4d44-ae52-07ca213c4034.jpg?v=1769385773"},{"product_id":"gaia","title":"'The Vanishing of Gaia' by James Lovelock","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"727\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eCool-headed, scientifically literate, and spiked with Lovelock’s heretical clarity.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eLovelock, originator of the Gaia hypothesis, delivers his most unsettling book: a warning that climate change is not a distant scenario but an unfolding state change in the Earth system. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eHe argues that adaptation, not idealism, will define the coming century, and that human civilisation must learn to live with a planet that is actively correcting us. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eBut you can see this for yourself via this video here. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6eixcaTVd_c?si=pcmb-3JM6hxI9clL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \n\n\u003cp data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"727\"\u003eYou simply must read Novacene if you grab this and vibe it. Or, any of his \u0026gt;50 books. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43405064405075,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/03d394bc-c028-430f-b8b5-dff944670be5.jpg?v=1768285797"},{"product_id":"end-of-the-golden-weather-by-bruce-mason","title":"'End of the Golden Weather' by Bruce Mason","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"411\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA slim, durable text that does exactly what good plays do: it trusts the audience.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"131\" data-end=\"411\"\u003eA little treasure slice of \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAotearoa\/\u003c\/span\u003eNew Zealand theatre. \u003cem data-start=\"181\" data-end=\"208\"\u003eEnd of the Golden Weather\u003c\/em\u003e is Bruce Mason’s autobiographical solo play about growing up in Takapuna in the 1930s — a childhood shaped by beaches, mates, mothers, small-town rituals, and the slow, unavoidable arrival of adulthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"413\" data-end=\"780\"\u003eWritten with warmth and restraint, the play moves between humour and melancholy without sentimentality. It’s about memory; how places change, how people drift, and how a particular kind of freedom quietly ends. Still widely taught and performed, it remains a benchmark for intimate, character-driven theatre across the country.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43407902146643,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_1.svg?v=1767928364"},{"product_id":"little-big-top-by-fred-a-lord","title":"'Little Big Top' by Fred A. Lord","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eA book centred on Seymour’s Family Circus, one of Australia’s long-running travelling circuses.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"486\"\u003eRather than focussing purely on the spectacle, \u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"334\"\u003eLittle Big Top\u003c\/em\u003e shows the practical realities of circus life: family dynamics, work, money, movement, and the strain of keeping a small, mobile institution alive. It's a really interesting look into the history of performance. Also, if you're bored of reading the same old white Australia history, this at least shows a different perspective, a different life, a different landscape. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"758\"\u003eFred A. Lord writes from inside the everyday machinery of the circus — tents, towns, routines, compromises, giving a grounded portrait of a family business that is also a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"758\"\u003eSome of us are trapeze artists, in reality, or in spirit. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43408004874323,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_15.svg?v=1767933215"},{"product_id":"five-moral-pieces-by-umberto-eco","title":"'Five Moral Pieces' by Umberto Eco","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"472\"\u003eA compact collection of essays in which Umberto Eco turns his attention to ethics, responsibility, and public life in the late twentieth century. Ranging across war, media, fascism, migration, and intellectual duty, these pieces are written for a general audience but carry Eco’s characteristic precision and historical depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"474\" data-end=\"734\"\u003eOriginally delivered as lectures and public interventions, \u003cem data-start=\"533\" data-end=\"552\"\u003eFive Moral Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e shows Eco working as a civic thinker rather than a semiotician: clear, direct, and concerned with how ideas translate into action. Brief but sharp, and still uncomfortably relevant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"736\" data-end=\"760\"\u003eHardcover first edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43408007921747,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/234a9c2e-451c-49cb-af9b-387f38849f3d.jpg?v=1767934496"},{"product_id":"si-par-une-nuit-dhiver-un-voyager-by-italo-calvino","title":"'Si Par Une Nuit D'Hiver Un Voyager' by Italo Calvino","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eItalo Calvino when he's up to mischief.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"111\" data-end=\"583\"\u003eA French-language edition of Italo Calvino’s most playful and intellectually sharp novel. \u003cem data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"238\"\u003eSi par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a reader trying to read a book called \u003cem data-start=\"288\" data-end=\"325\"\u003eSi par une nuit d’hiver un voyageur\u003c\/em\u003e — and immediately collapses the boundary between author, reader, and text. What follows is a sequence of interrupted novels, false starts, and shifting genres that quietly interrogate how stories work, why we read, and what authority a book ever really has.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"585\" data-end=\"910\"\u003ePhilosophical without heaviness, funny without softness, the French translation preserves the novel’s formal elegance and makes a strong case for reading Calvino outside English, where his rhythms and wit sharpen even further. Great if you're learning French.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"912\" data-end=\"1030\"\u003eA cornerstone of postmodern literature, but still a pleasure to read — curious, restless, and deliberately unfinished.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410831376467,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c466fdaa-bf23-4939-970d-9a2670f82f5d.jpg?v=1768004758"},{"product_id":"the-little-pot-boiler-by-spike-milligan","title":"'The Little Pot Boiler' by Spike Milligan","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"951\" data-start=\"615\"\u003eIf you like humour that breaks form, ignores good taste, and still lands something true, this is one of the better places to find it.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"951\" data-start=\"615\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"638\" data-start=\"615\"\u003eThe Little Pot Boiler\u003c\/em\u003e is Spike Milligan is a loose limbed little book full of short pieces, sketches, observations, and jokes that feel improvised but are doing real work. Like the best nonsense. It’s humour that is all at once anarchic, anti-authoritarian, suspicious of seriousness while being very aware of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1238\" data-start=\"953\"\u003eThis is mid-century British comic writing before it calcified into panel shows. It's strange, fast, slightly irritated with the world, and allergic to polish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1238\" data-start=\"953\"\u003eIf you like humour that breaks form, ignores good taste, and still lands something true, this is one of the better places to find it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1238\" data-start=\"953\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eFirst published 1963. This copy is a Universal–Tandem paperback, later printing (mid-to-late 1960s \/ early 70s run). Not a true first, but still an early, culturally relevant edition. Solid spine, clean text block, bit of toning, no obvious structural damage. This is a reading + collecting copy, not a fragile relic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410838257747,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c1b19b92-9da8-4dec-952d-1f867545162b.jpg?v=1768005134"},{"product_id":"puckoon-by-spike-milligan","title":"'Puckoon' by Spike Milligan","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"513\" data-start=\"194\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-end=\"203\" data-start=\"194\"\u003ePuckoon\u003c\/em\u003e is Spike Milligan’s only full-length novel and is a total act of literary sabotage; yay!\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"513\" data-start=\"194\"\u003eSet in a small Irish border town accidentally split in two, the book uses farce, absurdism, and deliberate disintegrating to take aim at nationalism, bureaucracy, religion, and the shittiness of officialdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"875\" data-start=\"515\"\u003eJokes interrupt themselves, footnotes revolt, typography misbehaves, and sentiment is immediately undercut. Underneath the nonsense, though, is a real anger at arbitrary borders and the people crushed by them. It’s funny, yes — but it’s also one of the sharper anti-state novels of the 20th century, hiding its teeth behind clown paint.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410839175251,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/598c29c0-54de-4052-9ec3-0e5d5d041148_1.jpg?v=1768005443"},{"product_id":"an-advertisement-for-toothpaste-by-ryszard-kapuscinski","title":"'An Advertisement for Toothpaste' by Ryszard Kapuściński","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"673\"\u003eThis short book (good for popping in the bathroom hehe) is Kapuściński at his most stripped-back and unsettling.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"673\"\u003eWritten as a reflection on propaganda, power, and the language of persuasion, \u003cem data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"326\"\u003eAn Advertisement for Toothpaste\u003c\/em\u003e looks at how states, media, and institutions sell ideas the same way they sell products, through repetition, simplification, and emotional pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"673\"\u003eA split from his reportage to more of an essay to show his ethics, it's sharp, ironic, and uncomfortable. It reads now like a warning label for contemporary politics and media culture. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410843205715,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c6d46e04-6c94-44f6-b708-e6f8621c44f7.jpg?v=1768005748"},{"product_id":"the-time-before-this-by-nicholas-monsarrat","title":"'the time before this' by Nicholas Monsarrat","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"407\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe Time Before This\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is an early novel by \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eNicholas Monsarrat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, published in 1962, written before he became permanently associated with naval war fiction.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"59\" data-end=\"407\"\u003eThis is a quieter, more inward book. A sequence of loosely linked pieces that move through memory, belief, boredom, faith, and ordinary moral navigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"409\" data-end=\"787\"\u003eIt’s restrained, dry, and very much of its moment, but in a way that’s aged well: mid-century uncertainty without theatrics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"789\" data-end=\"1010\"\u003eThis copy is a Book Club edition, published by Cassell, printed in Great Britain. Not a collectible first, but a solid, readable edition of a lesser-seen Monsarrat title that tends to disappear behind \u003cem data-start=\"994\" data-end=\"1009\"\u003eThe Cruel Sea\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410845663315,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/4e15ac57-4e87-4f15-9e51-e9efdc7d1a15.jpg?v=1768006259"},{"product_id":"yours-etc-letters-to-the-press-1945-to-1989-by-graham-greene","title":"'Yours etc. Letters to the Press 1945 to 1989' by Graham Greene","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eOld man yells at cloud but you can't help agreeing.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"141\" data-end=\"448\"\u003eA sharp, irritable, and often very funny collection of letters Graham Greene sent to newspapers over four decades. These aren’t polite clarifications or literary PR. They’re interventions on politics, war, religion, censorship, reviewers getting things wrong, and the general stupidity of public discourse. We love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"778\"\u003eRead together, the letters form a parallel autobiography—Greene in public, reacting in real time, refusing to smooth his edges. It’s an unusually direct record of a major writer thinking aloud, correcting the record, and occasionally picking fights he knows he won’t win.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"450\" data-end=\"778\"\u003eFirst edition, hardcover, minimal wear. A good dip in and out kind of book, and far more revealing than most memoirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410849071187,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/26c133ea-bb62-4099-93d4-e9cb7ed59660.jpg?v=1768961536"},{"product_id":"strange-bodies-by-tom-de-freston","title":"'Strange Bodies' by Tom de Freston","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"645\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOvid’s story of Orpheus and Eurydice becomes a recurring lens for thinking about longing, distance, and the pain of loving someone whose body is under constant threat.\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"645\"\u003eIn 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his wife, novelist \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eKiran Millwood Hargrave\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, discovered they were expecting twins. The pregnancy ended in miscarriage, followed by the loss of six more pregnancies over the following years. \u003cem data-start=\"501\" data-end=\"517\"\u003eStrange Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e is de Freston’s account of that period: a record of grief, endurance, intimacy, and the slow, uncertain path toward parenthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"259\" data-end=\"645\"\u003eWritten as a direct address to his wife, \u003cem data-start=\"1189\" data-end=\"1205\"\u003eStrange Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e is intimate about the physical and emotional realities of these intimacies. As he tries to understand what these losses mean — for himself, for Kiran, and for their relationship — de Freston turns to art and myth. Alongside this, he reflects on artists including Titian, Francis Bacon, Bracha Ettinger, and Gerhard Richter, using their work to think through vulnerability, desire, and the ethics of looking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410870566995,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/d83c01f4-4817-4055-a01e-7ef45c7eefc1.jpg?v=1768009598"},{"product_id":"wisdom-madness-folly-by-r-d-laing","title":"'Wisdom, Madness \u0026 Folly' by R. D. Laing.","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"402\"\u003eDrawing on philosophy, mysticism, psychiatry, and lived experience, Laing questions the modern tendency to pathologise states of mind that once carried spiritual, ethical, or social significance.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"402\"\u003eIn \u003cem data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"133\"\u003eWisdom, Madness \u0026amp; Folly\u003c\/em\u003e, R. D. Laing turns his attention away from diagnosis and toward meaning. Rather than treating madness as a defect to be corrected, Laing asks what it might reveal about the world that produces it. He probes the thin and unstable line between insight and breakdown, sanity and conformity, wisdom and social obedience—suggesting that what we call “mental illness” may, in some cases, be a rational response to an irrational society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"763\" data-end=\"972\"\u003eA compact but demanding book, this is Laing at his most reflective and least clinical: unsettling, lucid, and still sharply relevant in an era obsessed with optimisation, wellness, and behavioural normativity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410886525011,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/04452eb9-3c42-43e7-b9e2-90a1e1f7f0cc.jpg?v=1768010457"},{"product_id":"dark-academia-how-universities-die-by-peter-fleming","title":"'Dark Academia. How Universities Die' by Peter Fleming","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"393\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWhat was once a profession defined by autonomy, intellectual craft, and vocational commitment has been reshaped by metrics, managerial hierarchies, and market logic.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"155\" data-end=\"393\"\u003eOver the past two decades, universities have been quietly re-engineered. In \u003cem data-start=\"398\" data-end=\"420\"\u003eHow Universities Die\u003c\/em\u003e, Peter Fleming traces the consequences of this shift with clarity and bite. He examines the commercialisation of higher education, the rise of managerialism, the treatment of students as consumers, and the competitive individualism now baked into academic life. Fleming also confronts the psychological fallout of this transformation: burnout, anxiety, precarity, and rising levels of mental distress among staff and students alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"855\" data-end=\"1061\"\u003eWritten with sardonic anger and sharp insight, this is not a nostalgic defence of a lost golden age, but a diagnosis of a system in structural decline — and a warning that time is running out to reverse it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410953601107,"sku":null,"price":11.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-03T142852.061.png?v=1772508545"},{"product_id":"philosophy-of-the-sky-by-evan-isoline","title":"'Philosophy of the Sky' by Evan Isoline","description":"\u003ch4\u003eOne of Dennis Cooper's favourite contemporary books.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"616\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"297\"\u003ePhilosophy of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e gathers texts that use the sky as more than a backdrop — it treats the sky as a philosophical object, a site of experience, thought, and speculation. Across diverse voices and modes, the book explores how clouds, air, horizon, and atmosphere shape human perception, ethics, subjectivity, and our relation to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"618\" data-end=\"1033\"\u003eContributors examine topics such as embodiment in the open air, the sky’s role in art and literature, climate and political experience, and the visceral, often unsettling sense of being suspended between earth and abyss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1294\"\u003eFor readers interested in phenomenology, ecology, and philosophy beyond disciplinary boundaries, \u003cem data-start=\"1132\" data-end=\"1155\"\u003ePhilosophy of the Sky\u003c\/em\u003e offers a way of thinking with and through what surrounds us most of all — the vast, shifting atmosphere we inhabit but rarely interrogate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410954977363,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c0be41f5-6504-435d-a262-a90f2bf6ae8e.jpg?v=1770634059"},{"product_id":"voices-an-anthology-of-poetry-and-pictures-compiled-by-geoffrey-summerfield","title":"'Voices: An Anthology of Poetry and Pictures' compiled by Geoffrey Summerfield","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"602\" data-start=\"225\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-end=\"233\" data-start=\"225\"\u003eVoices\u003c\/em\u003e is an early and carefully assembled anthology that brings together poetry and illustration as equal partners.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"602\" data-start=\"225\"\u003eCompiled by Geoffrey Summerfield, the collection spans a wide range of poetic styles and moods, designed to engage readers through contrast rather than cohesion — lyric beside narrative, playful beside serious, familiar voices alongside less obvious choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"918\" data-start=\"604\"\u003eThe accompanying illustrations are not decorative extras but part of the reading experience, giving the book a visual rhythm that deepens its appeal. Clear, accessible, and thoughtfully paced, \u003cem data-end=\"805\" data-start=\"797\"\u003eVoices\u003c\/em\u003e is an anthology made for people who enjoy language for its texture and variety rather than for academic display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1014\" data-start=\"920\"\u003eA solid, timeless collection for readers who know poetry as something synonymous to life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410959302739,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-03T113436.391.png?v=1772498122"},{"product_id":"sixteen-words-for-water-by-billy-marshall-stoneking","title":"'Sixteen Words for Water' by Billy Marshall-Stoneking","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"786\"\u003eOnce hailed as the architect of modern poetry, Pound’s intellectual restlessness drew him toward cultures, histories, and languages with ferocious appetite — and also toward Fascism and antisemitism.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"405\" data-end=\"786\"\u003eAfter the Second World War, he was arrested for treason in connection with his pro-Axis broadcasts and confined to St Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, deemed unfit to stand trial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"788\" data-end=\"1150\"\u003eSet inside that institution, the play stages a brutal choice: remain officially “insane” and protected by the asylum, or face the courtroom and the possibility of execution. Marshall-Stoneking refuses apology or absolution. Instead, he examines the paradox of a man whose imagination was vast and generous, while his politics were mean, violent, and destructive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1152\" data-end=\"1346\"\u003eWhat emerges is a sharp meditation on guilt and responsibility, brilliance and blindness — a work that looks directly at Pound without flinching, and without letting admiration blur into excuse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410961825875,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-13T122358.492.png?v=1770945849"},{"product_id":"the-buried-harbour-by-giuseppe-ungaretti","title":"'The Buried Harbour' by Giuseppe Ungaretti","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"510\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"343\"\u003eThe Buried Harbour\u003c\/em\u003e gathers selected poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, one of the central figures of European modernism, whose work stripped poetry down to its barest, most resonant elements.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"512\" data-end=\"813\"\u003eUngaretti’s poems emerge from war, exile, and spiritual crisis, often no more than a handful of lines, yet charged with silence, grief, and sudden clarity. His language is condensed to the point where each word feels excavated rather than written — an aesthetic that reshaped twentieth-century poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"815\" data-end=\"1086\"\u003eThis English translation by Australian poet Kevin Hart is unusually sensitive to Ungaretti’s austerity. Hart preserves the poems’ restraint and precision without smoothing away their strangeness, allowing the work’s pauses, fractures, and reverberations to remain intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1088\" data-end=\"1307\"\u003ePublished by the small, literary Leros Press, this edition carries the feel of a deliberate object: thoughtful, spare, and serious — a book for readers drawn to modernist poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410977652819,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/c9116020-4258-4595-bc29-b2cbf2301231.jpg?v=1770419782"},{"product_id":"models-and-cognition-by-jonathan-a-waskan","title":"'Models and Cognition' by Jonathan A. Waskan","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"547\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"195\"\u003eModels and Cognition\u003c\/em\u003e is a rigorous philosophical examination of how scientific models function in cognitive science and what they actually explain.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"173\" data-end=\"547\"\u003eJonathan A. Waskan interrogates a foundational assumption in contemporary cognitive theory: that internal models genuinely \u003cem data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"467\"\u003edo explanatory work\u003c\/em\u003e rather than merely redescribing behaviour at a convenient level of abstraction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"549\" data-end=\"847\"\u003eEngaging with philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and cognitive psychology, Waskan asks what it means for a model to represent, predict, or explain mental processes. He challenges overly instrumental views of modelling while remaining sceptical of naive realism about mental representations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"849\" data-end=\"1092\"\u003eThe book is especially attentive to issues of mechanism, abstraction, and explanatory depth, positioning cognitive models not as metaphors or heuristics but as candidates for real scientific explanation — provided they meet demanding criteria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1094\" data-end=\"1271\"\u003eThis is a serious, technically precise work, best suited to readers interested in philosophy of cognition, representational theory, and the epistemology of scientific modelling.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410981421139,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics_2.png?v=1771286920"},{"product_id":"judith-butler-live-theory-by-vicki-kirby","title":"'Judith Butler: Live Theory' by Vicki Kirby","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"431\"\u003eVicki Kirby walks readers through Butler's central ideas with care: performance, sexuality, identity, language, power, and political agency.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"431\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"207\" data-end=\"235\"\u003eJudith Butler: Live Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is a clear, grounded introduction to the work of \u003cspan class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"whitespace-normal\"\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, one of the most influential contemporary thinkers in gender theory, philosophy, and cultural criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"433\" data-end=\"831\"\u003eThe book situates Butler within broader theoretical conversations while remaining attentive to how her thinking has reshaped debates across feminism, sociology, literary criticism, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"1170\"\u003eThe volume also includes an extended interview with Butler, offering direct insight into her intellectual trajectory, ongoing concerns, and future directions. Concise without being simplistic, \u003cem data-start=\"1026\" data-end=\"1039\"\u003eLive Theory\u003c\/em\u003e functions as both an entry point for new readers and a clarifying guide for those returning to Butler’s work with fresh questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1172\" data-end=\"1253\"\u003eA practical, serious companion text for anyone engaging with contemporary theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410985287763,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics_18.png?v=1771557176"},{"product_id":"witnesses-of-the-freedom-flotilla-by-zahide-tube-kor","title":"'Witnesses of the Freedom Flotilla' by Zahide Tübe Kör","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"507\" data-start=\"197\"\u003eFrom the River to the Sea.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"507\" data-start=\"197\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"232\" data-start=\"197\"\u003eWitnesses of the Freedom Flotilla\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of firsthand interviews with passengers who took part in the Freedom Flotilla missions to Gaza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"507\" data-start=\"197\"\u003eNever has it been more important to document, and re-read, the personal accounts of motivation, experience, fear, solidarity, and aftermath surrounding the Palestinian genocide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"872\" data-start=\"509\"\u003eThe interviews document the diversity of those involved — activists, journalists, aid workers, and civilians — and record how participants understood their actions before, during, and after the flotilla’s interception. The emphasis remains on lived experience rather than ideology, allowing contradictions, uncertainty, and emotional complexity to remain visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1109\" data-start=\"874\"\u003eAs an oral-history style document, the book functions both as a political record and a precious account of how individuals narrate responsibility, risk, and collective action under conditions of global attention and state violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1109\" data-start=\"874\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eI cannot in good faith take profit from this book. The sale amount will be donated to a Palestinian fund to be decided upon purchase of this book, either through recommendation of the buyer, or through appropriate source. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410990727251,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/8ba77075-fd5d-4683-b9cf-b6a52e525f85.jpg?v=1769389649"},{"product_id":"the-outsider-by-colin-wilson","title":"'The Outsider' by Colin Wilson.","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"488\" data-end=\"694\"\u003ePublished in 1956 when Wilson was twenty-four and briefly treated as Britain’s new existential oracle, \u003cem data-start=\"591\" data-end=\"605\"\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/em\u003e is an ambitious attempt to diagnose modern alienation through literature and philosophy.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"696\" data-end=\"1035\"\u003eWilson traces a type — the Outsider — through Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Van Gogh, T.E. Lawrence, Kafka, Camus, and others. The Outsider is the figure who feels cut off from ordinary life, hypersensitive to meaning, incapable of settling for routine consciousness. Not simply depressed, not simply rebellious, but metaphysically dissatisfied. Ah, time eternal caricature, history repeats itself doesn't it?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1037\" data-end=\"1306\"\u003eThe book is uneven, earnest, occasionally grandiose, but undeniably electric. He was 24 at the time, and it shows in its raw, feverish prose. It captures a moment when post-war Britain was searching for intensity, and a young autodidact from Leicester decided he could map the spiritual crisis of the twentieth century in one volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1308\" data-end=\"1373\"\u003eThis later Picador edition includes a new introduction by Wilson. Paperback, light wear, clean interior.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410993840211,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-01T103928.744.png?v=1772322203"},{"product_id":"the-hedgehog-by-zakaria-tamer","title":"'The Hedgehog' by Zakaria Tamer","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"191\" data-end=\"402\"\u003eFirst published in English by the American University in Cairo Press, \u003cem data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"275\"\u003eThe Hedgehog\u003c\/em\u003e is a short, unsettling novella by Syrian writer Zakaria Tamer, one of the most distinctive voices in modern Arabic literature.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"404\" data-end=\"782\"\u003eTold through the eyes of a five-year-old boy, the story unfolds in a domestic world that is quietly surreal and deeply menacing. Djinn slip into bedrooms, animals behave with unnerving indifference, and authority is both arbitrary and absolute. What begins as childhood observation becomes something darker: a portrait of fear, obedience, and violence embedded in everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"1156\"\u003eTamer’s prose is deceptively simple — clipped, direct, almost fable-like — but the effect is corrosive. Beneath the child’s voice sits a sharp political and psychological critique, shaped by repression, masculinity, and the inheritance of cruelty. The stories that accompany the novella extend these concerns, exposing systems of power with bleak humour and moral clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1158\" data-end=\"1243\"\u003eA key work of Arabic modernism, \u003cem data-start=\"1190\" data-end=\"1204\"\u003eThe Hedgehog\u003c\/em\u003e is small in size but brutal in impact.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43410995282003,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/d6c1d179-3150-433e-87be-96c844eac1dc.jpg?v=1768961860"},{"product_id":"the-first-bad-man-by-miranda-july","title":"'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"431\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA book about July's whole thing, how desire actually behaves.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"431\"\u003eCheryl Glickman lives a tightly controlled life built around routines, self-surveillance, and small private rituals that feel almost devotional. She is obsessed with bodily health, haunted by half-articulated sexual fantasies, and quietly braced against the world. Then Clee arrives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"453\" data-end=\"838\"\u003eBetween fantasy and flesh, submission and control, care and cruelty. July pushes intimacy into strange, uncomfortable shapes, writing about female desire, violence, masochism, and dependency without apology or reassurance. The body here is not symbolic — it is awkward, leaky, charged, and deeply sincere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"1110\"\u003eA cult novel for readers interested in embodiment, power, and the limits of psychological tidiness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411010814035,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-25T091601.465_bcb831a5-2831-4834-b322-3741d8359722.png?v=1774390638"},{"product_id":"contemporary-feminist-thought-by-hester-eisenstein","title":"'Contemporary Feminist Thought' by Hester Eisenstein","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"543\" data-start=\"162\"\u003eHester Eisenstein examines liberal, radical, socialist, and psychoanalytic feminisms, alongside questions of labour, reproduction, sexuality, race, and the state.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"543\" data-start=\"162\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"193\" data-start=\"162\"\u003eContemporary Feminist Thought\u003c\/em\u003e offers a clear, rigorous map of feminist theory as it developed in the late twentieth century, tracing the major debates, tensions, and intellectual lineages that shaped modern feminism. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"925\" data-start=\"545\"\u003eRather than presenting feminism as a unified movement, Eisenstein foregrounds disagreement and fracture—showing how feminist theory has been shaped by political struggle, institutional pressures, and competing visions of liberation. The result is a grounded, historically aware introduction that treats feminist thought as a living, contested field rather than a settled doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1075\" data-start=\"927\"\u003eA concise and still-useful text for readers interested in feminist theory, political history, and the conditions under which ideas become movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411023986771,"sku":null,"price":9.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/93f5bde8-6de4-4220-be5c-d76bf09d662d.jpg?v=1768281125"},{"product_id":"a-farewell-to-marx-by-david-conway","title":"'A Farewell to Marx' by David Conway","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"589\" data-start=\"134\"\u003eA critical overview of Karl Marx’s legacy, focusing on the limits and contradictions of Marx’s thought in the context of late twentieth-century politics and theory. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"589\" data-start=\"134\"\u003eConway explores how Marx’s diagnosis of capitalism influenced subsequent political movements, academic theory, and cultural criticism — and why, in his view, Marx’s framework struggles to account for contemporary economic and social life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1073\" data-start=\"591\"\u003eRather than attacking Marx as merely obsolete, Conway situates the critique within broader debates over labour, value, class, and ideology. He examines the historical roots of Marx’s thinking, its enduring insights, and its blind spots — especially in relation to subjectivity, culture, and the complexities of global capitalism. The result is a philosophy-meets-politics book that neither canonises nor dismisses Marx, but invites serious engagement with his problems and legacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1212\" data-start=\"1075\"\u003eA concise, accessible introduction for readers interested in Marxism, critical theory, and the ongoing debates about capitalism’s future. First edition Viking paperback from 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411025920083,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign_1.jpg?v=1768280967"},{"product_id":"aelita-by-alexei-tolstoi","title":"'Aelita' by Alexei Tolstoi","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"595\" data-start=\"170\"\u003eA foundational work of early Soviet science fiction, first published in Russia in 1923 and later adapted into the landmark silent film of the same name. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"595\" data-start=\"170\"\u003eA Soviet engineer and a Red Army soldier travel to Mars where they encounter an advanced but decaying civilisation, and immediately become entangled in its political upheavals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"595\" data-start=\"170\"\u003ePart revolutionary fantasy, part planetary romance, what makes \u003cem data-end=\"616\" data-start=\"608\"\u003eAelita\u003c\/em\u003e distinctive is this collision of genres and ideologies. There's speculative technology sits alongside utopian longing, class struggle, and romantic obsession. Sci-fi is a playground for these topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"960\" data-start=\"597\"\u003eTolstoi blends futurism with myth and propaganda with genuine imaginative ambition, producing a work that captures the ideological volatility of the early Soviet period as much as its optimism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1177\" data-start=\"962\"\u003eAs the first English hardcover translation, this edition marks an important moment in the transmission of Soviet science fiction into the Anglophone world, predating the later Cold War canonisation of the genre. An absolute cult object.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411065012307,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics_3.png?v=1771288876"},{"product_id":"a-painter-of-our-time-by-john-berger","title":"'A Painter of Our Time' by John Berger","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"556\" data-start=\"158\"\u003e*A Painter of Our Time* was John Berger’s first novel — and for a long time, his most controversial.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFramed as the recovered diary of a Hungarian painter living in postwar London, the book moves between art, exile, love, and political commitment. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn publication in 1958, the book was quietly withdrawn after accusations of communist sympathy, giving it an unusual afterlife in Berger’s career. What remains is a sharp, formally inventive work that already contains the concerns Berger would return to for decades: how artists live, how they see, and how politics enters the private act of making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Hungarian cover art on the first hardback editions reinforces the novel’s themes of displacement and cultural inheritance, making this a particularly strong copy for readers interested in art, European modernism, and Berger’s early thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411065405523,"sku":null,"price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/17414037-a339-4318-8fb2-152f128635c0.jpg?v=1768961760"},{"product_id":"a-very-easy-death-by-simone-de-beauvoir","title":"'A Very Easy Death' by Simone de Beauvoir","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"525\" data-start=\"120\"\u003eOne of de Beauvoir’s most personal works, and also considered one of her masterpieces.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"525\" data-start=\"120\"\u003e\u003cem data-end=\"151\" data-start=\"132\"\u003eA Very Easy Death\u003c\/em\u003e is Simone de Beauvoir’s stark and quite acerbic account of her mother’s final illness. Written with the clarity and restraint that defines her best work, the book confronts aging, medical power, dependency, and the emotional contradictions of care. It is not simple in it's close attention to what dying looks like inside institutions, families, and the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"749\" data-start=\"527\"\u003eThe book sits somewhere between memoir, philosophical reflection, and quiet indictment of how modern societies manage death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411065634899,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-03T104930.117.png?v=1772495388"},{"product_id":"a-man-and-two-women-by-doris-lessing","title":"'A Man and Two Women' by Doris Lessing","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"516\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe title piece, “A Man and Two Women,” is about two marriages and the desperation that underlies them rather than any conventional ménage à trois.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"516\"\u003eHot? Or not?\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"516\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"325\" data-end=\"346\"\u003eA Man and Two Women\u003c\/em\u003e collects nineteen stories that lay bare the emotional mechanics of relationships, desire, and social expectation. Many pieces examine familiar domestic and social situations — a cottage weekend with old friends, a mother’s withdrawal after childbirth, the collisions between ambition and intimacy — but Lessing’s focus is always psychological rather than plot-driven.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"516\"\u003eCharacters present themselves as ordinary, but beneath the surface simmer discontent, delusion, and unspoken tension. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"130\" data-end=\"516\"\u003eAcross the collection, Lessing’s prose is precise on revealing how assumptions, resentment, and unexamined motives shape lives and desires. Don't expect to be consoled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411066880083,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-12T143144.252.png?v=1773286314"},{"product_id":"cats-of-any-color-by-gene-lees","title":"'Cats of Any Color' by Gene Lees","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"flex flex-col text-sm pb-25\"\u003e\n\u003carticle class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none [--shadow-height:45px] has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none has-data-writing-block:-mt-(--shadow-height) has-data-writing-block:pt-(--shadow-height) [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\" data-turn-id=\"request-WEB:e6de53bf-7630-4cec-93e9-aa0471c03a73-21\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-6\" data-scroll-anchor=\"true\" data-turn=\"assistant\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-10 [--thread-content-margin:--spacing(4)] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(6)] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:--spacing(16)] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\" tabindex=\"-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"cfc3df69-bee9-4808-9d89-acfebf1764a8\" dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" data-message-model-slug=\"gpt-5-2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden first:pt-[1px]\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown prose dark:prose-invert w-full break-words light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"538\"\u003eA really well written and grounded collection of essays on jazz and the people who actually make it.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"538\"\u003eGene Lees writes as a working critic with proper proximity to musicians, writing pieces that look at players, performances, race, money, and the everyday mechanics of the jazz world as it existed in the mid-20th century. Lees is opinionated, occasionally abrasive, and consistently looking up at the sky in tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"57\" data-end=\"538\"\u003eThis is jazz writing that treats the music as labour, culture, and argument. Important alongside the glitter.\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"mt-3 w-full empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-center\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411968229459,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/2e3ac652-2e8a-44e1-8d8a-b92079c4fa02.jpg?v=1768280396"},{"product_id":"cybertypes-race-ethnicity-and-identity-on-the-internet-by-lisa-nakamura","title":"'Cybertypes. Race, Ethnicity and Identity on the Internet.' by Lisa Nakamura","description":"\u003ch4 data-end=\"575\" data-start=\"73\"\u003eThe internet is a space that invites and excludes, much like other spaces we know.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"575\" data-start=\"73\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA foundational study of how race and ethnicity are produced, performed, and constrained online. Lisa Nakamura examines early internet spaces—chat rooms, role-playing environments, avatars, and user profiles—to show how digital “freedom” often reproduces familiar racial stereotypes and power structures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"575\" data-start=\"73\"\u003eRather than treating the internet as neutral or disembodied, the book tracks how identity is coded, visualised, and consumed, especially through white defaults and \"exoticised\" difference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"748\" data-start=\"577\"\u003eStill widely cited, \u003cem data-end=\"632\" data-start=\"620\"\u003eCybertypes\u003c\/em\u003e is useful for readers interested in digital culture, media studies, race theory, and the social history of the web.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411989495891,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/b2800b71-ea7f-46cd-b812-7985ee01f237.jpg?v=1768281580"},{"product_id":"close-quarters-by-william-golding","title":"'Close Quarters' by William Golding","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"537\"\u003eThe second novel in William Golding’s \u003cem data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"164\"\u003eTo the Ends of the Earth\u003c\/em\u003e trilogy, following \u003cem data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"202\"\u003eRites of Passage\u003c\/em\u003e. There's a lil paperback for sale here too, if you need to catch up! \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"537\"\u003eSet aboard a crowded sailing ship bound for Australia in the early 19th century, \u003cem data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"301\"\u003eClose Quarters\u003c\/em\u003e narrows its focus to life below deck. It kind of reminds me of Snowpiercer, in the way it traces class friction, illness, boredom, ritual, and quiet cruelty. It's quite intense what proximity does to people when hierarchy is fixed and escape is impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"539\" data-end=\"728\"\u003eFormally controlled, darkly observant, and deliberately uncomfortable, this is Golding working at a mature register, using the ship as a closed social system rather than a metaphor factory.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43411994181715,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/89af6599-0074-4db9-8e57-83ea693a1275_1.jpg?v=1768291431"},{"product_id":"the-young-and-the-evil-by-charles-henri-ford-and-parker-tyler","title":"'The Young and the Evil' by Charles Henri-Ford and Parker Tyler","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"502\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eStill disruptive. Still funny. Still not interested in your feelings.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"502\"\u003eA cult novel of queer life in 1930s New York, written in collaboration by Charles Henri-Ford and Parker Tyler. \u003cem data-start=\"216\" data-end=\"240\"\u003eThe Young and the Evil\u003c\/em\u003e follows a loose circle of artists, hustlers, writers, and drifters moving through bars, apartments, and late-night conversations. Plot is secondary to atmosphere: desire, ambition, cruelty, boredom, and self-invention collide in short scenes and sharp dialogue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"799\"\u003eFirst published in Paris after being deemed unpublishable in the United States, the book is frank, caustic, and deliberately unserious about respectability. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"504\" data-end=\"799\"\u003eDennis Cooper writes on it \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/denniscooperblog.com\/spotlight-on-charles-henri-ford-and-parker-tyler-the-young-and-evil-1933\/\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412201832531,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-02-11T152414.161.png?v=1770783862"},{"product_id":"desert-sorrow-asylum-seekers-at-woomera-by-tom-mann","title":"'desert sorrow. asylum seekers at woomera.' by Tom Mann","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA direct account of Australia’s immigration detention regime as it operated at the Woomera Detention Centre.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eJournalist Tom Mann documents the lived conditions of asylum seekers held in the South Australian desert. It is not a simple, nor easy read, it delves deep into the isolation, indefinite detention, mental health collapse, protest, and state control carried out at distance from public view. The book draws on reporting, interviews, and firsthand observation rather than policy debate or abstraction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book gives an extraordinary and important insight into the secret daily life behind the wire of detention centres.\u003c\/span\u003e It captures a period in Australian political history that continues to shape border policy, public language, and institutional cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412204617811,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-01T164137.598.png?v=1772343775"},{"product_id":"airless-spaces-by-shulamith-firestone","title":"'Airless Spaces' by Shulamith Firestone","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eA provocative collection of essays and reflections from Shulamith Firestone, one of the pivotal voices of second-wave feminism and author of \u003cem data-start=\"261\" data-end=\"283\"\u003eThe Dialectic of Sex\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"663\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"301\"\u003eAirless Spaces\u003c\/em\u003e brings together Firestone’s writing on culture, society, gender, art, and the conditions that shape experience. She looks fiercely towards power, expectation, and the structures that squeeze autonomy, and dares them to blink.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"108\" data-end=\"663\"\u003eThis edition from Semiotext(e) remains a key companion to Firestone’s more famous theoretical work; here she’s not just theorising but engaging directly with readers, writers, and the spaces between thought and action.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43412209041491,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/8a174e3c-42a7-471c-86d8-26ff8295a5f7.jpg?v=1768279905"}],"url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/collections\/under-20-reads.oembed?page=2","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}