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Polymath
A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022,
Yale University Press,
May 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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£20,00
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Pocket
A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900
ISBN: PB: 9780300253740,
Yale University Press,
April 2020
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
264 pp., 23.5x17.5 cm, 200 colour illus.
This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives – from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen – and to explore...
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£19,99
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Precarious Partners
Horses and Their Humans in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226686370,
ISBN: HB: 9780226686233,
University of Chicago Press,
March 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 28 halftones
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 28 halftones
From the recent spate of equine deaths on racetracks to protests demanding the removal of mounted Confederate soldier statues to the success and appeal of "War Horse", there is no question that horses still play a role in our lives – though fewer and...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Phantom Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780857427007,
ISBN: HB: 9780857423771,
Seagull Books,
March 2020
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles
720 pp., 22.8x19 cm, 37 halftones, 3 facsimiles
One of the towering classics of twentieth century French literature, "Phantom Africa" is a singular and ultimately unclassifiable work: a book composed of one man's compulsive and constantly mutating daily travel journal – by turns melodramatic, self...
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£35,00
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£45,00
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Participant
A Century of Participation in Four Stories
ISBN: PB: 9780226666761,
ISBN: HB: 9780226666624,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 11 line drawings
Participation is everywhere today. It has been formalized, measured, standardized, scaled up, network-enabled, and sent around the world. Platforms, algorithms, and software offer to make participation easier, but new technologies have had the opposi...
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£28,00
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£79,00
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Phantom Image
Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226648293,
University of Chicago Press,
January 2020
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
328 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 25 colour plates, 71 halftones
Drawing from a rich corpus of art works, including sarcophagi, tomb paintings, and floor mosaics, Patrick R. Crowley investigates how something as insubstantial as a ghost could be made visible through the material grit of stone and paint. In this fr...
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£45,00
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226684444,
ISBN: HB: 9780226298993,
University of Chicago Press,
October 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects...
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£15,00
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£22,50
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People and the Land through Time
Linking Ecology and History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300225808,
Yale University Press,
October 2019
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 black&white illus.
"People and the Land through Time", first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes. Widely praised for its emphasis on the integration of historical in...
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£30,00
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Psyche on the Skin
A History of Self-harm
ISBN: PB: 9781789141481,
ISBN: HB: 9781780237503,
Reaktion Books,
July 2019
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 55 illus.
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 55 illus.
Self-harm is thought by many to be a modern epidemic: a phenomenon of the late twentieth century, a symptom of extreme emotional turmoil in young people, particularly young women. Yet it was 150 years ago, within early asylum psychiatry, that self-mu...
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£9,99
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£20,00
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Prayers for the People
Homicide and Humanity in the Crescent City
ISBN: PB: 9780226635668,
ISBN: HB: 9780226635521,
University of Chicago Press,
July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
"Grieve well and you grow stronger". Anthropologist Rebecca Louise Carter heard this wisdom over and over while living in post-Katrina New Orleans, where everyday violence disproportionately affects Black communities. What does it mean to grieve well...
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£19,00
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£57,00
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