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Age of Earthquakes - A Guide to the Extreme Present by Douglas Coupland; Hans Ulrich Obrist; Shumon Basar
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. 50 years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture in The Medium is the Massage, Basar, Coupland and Obrist extend the analysis ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
'My name is Liz Dunn. The Liz Dunns of this world take classes in croissant baking, and would rather chew on soccer balls than deny their children muesli. They own one sex toy, plus one cowboy fantasy that accompanies its use
Generation A by Douglas Coupland
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
GENERATION A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until one autumn five unconnected people around the world ÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ ...Show more
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Abacus 40th edition by Douglas Coupland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of b ...Show more
JPod by Douglas Coupland
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Very evil ... Very funny. A lethal joyride into today's new breed of technogeeks, Coupland's forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five co-workers whose surnames end in 'J' are bureaucratically marooned in JPod. JPod is a no-escape architectural limbo on the ...Show more
JPod by Douglas Coupland
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Ethan and his five co-workers are marooned in JPod, a no-escape architectural limbo on the fringes of a massive game-design company. There they wage battle against the demands of boneheaded marketing staff who torture them with idiotic changes to already idiotic games. Meanwhile, Ethan's personal life i ...Show more
Player One by Douglas Coupland
$39.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the bestselling author of Jpod and Generation X. International bestselling author Douglas Coupland delivers a real-time, five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, th ...Show more
Player One by Douglas Coupland
$28.00 NZD
Category: No Category
This is a real-time five-hour story set in an airport cocktail lounge during a global disaster. Five disparate people are trapped inside: Karen, a single mother waiting for her online date; Rick, the down-on-his-luck airport lounge bartender; Luke, a pastor on the run; Rachel, a cool Hitchcock blonde in ...Show more
The Age of Earthquakes by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland & Hans Ulrich Obrist
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Planet Earth needs a self-help book, and this is it the future is happening to us far faster than we thought it would and this book explains why fifty years after Marshall McLuhan's ground breaking book on the influence of technology on culture. The Medium is the Massage, Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland ...Show more
The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Meet Roger, a divorced, middle-aged 'aisles associate' at a Staples outlet, condemned to restocking reams of paper for the rest of his life, and his co-worker, Bethany, who's at the end of her Goth phase and realising she's facing fifty more years of shelving Post-it notes and replenishing the Crayola b ...Show more
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