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Vampire A New History
ISBN: PB: 9780300254839, ISBN: HB: 9780300232233, Yale University Press, September 2020
320 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 35 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori's publication of "The Vampyre", Nick Groom's detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century,...
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£9,99
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£16,99
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Naked Truth Viennese Modernism and the Body
ISBN: HB: 9780226669984, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones
Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-sieclefascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. "The Naked Truth", an interdisciplinary tour de f...
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£36,00
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Ethics of Space Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England
ISBN: PB: 9781912808281, University of Chicago Press, HAU, November 2019
290 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Across the Western world, full membership of society is established through entitlements to space and formalized in the institutions of property and citizenship. Those without such entitlements are deemed less than fully human as they struggle to fin...
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£28,00
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Ekstase – Ecstasy In Art, Music and Dance
ISBN: HB: 9783791358222, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
288 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 210 colour illus.
Accompanying an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart and Zentrum Paul Klee, this book illuminates the various spiritual, political, psychological, social, sexual, and aesthetic implications of euphoric and intoxicated states between asceticism and...
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£39,99
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Equestrian Cultures Horses, Human Society, and the Discourse of Modernity
ISBN: PB: 9780226589510, ISBN: HB: 9780226583044, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 1 table
As much as dogs, cats, or any domestic animal, horses exemplify the vast range of human-animal interactions. Horses have long been deployed to help with a variety of human activities – from racing and riding to police work, farming, warfare, and ther...
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£22,50
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£68,00
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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World
ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...
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£12,99
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Afghanistan in Ink Literature Between Diaspora and Nation
ISBN: HB: 9781849042048, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Afghanistan in Ink" uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans have reflected on their modern history, but also how the state has repeatedly sough...
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£35,00
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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...
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£19,50
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£61,00
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Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...
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£11,50
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£20,00
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Conversations Across Borders
ISBN: HB: 9781906497507, Seagull Books, September 2011
452 pp., 19.1x21.6 cm, 35 halftones
For the last fifteen years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from both North and South America. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artis...
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£30,00
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