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Under the Red White and Blue Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of the Great Gatsby
ISBN: HB: 9780300228908, Yale University Press, July 2020
176 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 4 black&white illus.
Renowned critic Greil Marcus takes on the fascinating legacy of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby". An enthralling parable (or a cheap metaphor) of the American Dream as a beckoning finger toward a con game, a kind of virus infecting artists of...
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£18,00
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Art of Return The Sixties and Contemporary Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780226521558, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
302 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 94 colour plates, 38 halftones
More than any other decade, the sixties capture our collective cultural imagination. And while many Americans can immediately imagine the sound of Martin Luther King Jr. declaring "I have a dream!" or envision hippies placing flowers in gun barrels,...
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£36,00
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Fabulous The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric
ISBN: HB: 9780300204704, Yale University Press, June 2018
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 21 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.
Prince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfies – looking good and feeling gorgeous? Or can acts of fabulousness be political gestures, too?...
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£18,99
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Feeding the Spirit Food, Culture and Community
ISBN: PB: 9781933253879, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2017
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates
From Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign to the health section of the New York Times, the United States is reexamining its relationship to food on a public and national level. Tied into concerns over the American diet are issues of sustainability,...
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£21,00
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Marking Modern Times A History of Clocks, Watches, and Other Timekeepers in American Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226379685, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 66 halftones
The public spaces and buildings of the United States are home to many thousands of timepieces – bells, time balls, and clock faces – that tower over urban streets, peek out from lobbies, and gleam in store windows. And in the streets and squares bene...
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£20,50
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Tokyo A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955511, Signal Books, April 2016
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! From its obscure origins as a fishing village along a marshy estuary, Tokyo grew into one of the world's largest and most culturally vibrant metropolises. For all its modernity and craving for the new, it is a city impregnated...
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£12,00
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Stigma and Culture Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
ISBN: PB: 9780226297736, ISBN: HB: 9780226297569, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 1 line drawing
In "Stigma and Culture", J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States – and around the globe – is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek s...
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£22,50
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£72,00
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History of Rock 'n' Roll in Ten Songs
ISBN: PB: 9780300216929, Yale University Press, October 2015
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Unlike all previous versions of rock 'n' roll history, this book omits almost every iconic performer and ignores the storied events and turning points that everyone knows. Instead, in a daring stroke, Greil Marcus selects ten songs recorded between 1...
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£12,99
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How to Be a Good Parent
ISBN: HB: 9781851244386, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
"To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done". "The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten". "If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied". Man...
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£4,99
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Democratic Art The New Deal's Influence on American Culture
ISBN: HB: 9780226247182, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 table
Throughout the Great Recession American artists and public art endowments have had to fight for government support to keep themselves afloat. It wasn't always this way. At its height in 1935, the New Deal devoted $27 million – roughly $469 million to...
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£36,00
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