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Political Science

Culture Studies

Take the City Voices of Radical Municipalism

Toney Jason

ISBN: PB: 9781551647272, ISBN: HB: 9781551647296, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, January 2021
180 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is attempting to challenge bureaucratic administ...

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Culture Studies

Just the Job How Trades got their Names

Tulloch Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9781851245505, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2020
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.

What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets? The story behind these (and many more) job titles is rarely predictable and...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

London's New Scene Art and Culture in the 1960s

Tickner Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9781913107109, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companie...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Past as Present Forging Contemporary Identities Through History

Thapar Romila

ISBN: HB: 9780857426444, Seagull Books, September 2019
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

"Nations need identities. These are created from perceptions of how societies have evolved. In this, history plays a central role. Insisting on reliable history is therefore crucial to more than just a pedagogic cause. Delicate relationships between...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Thompson Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208528, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark hi...

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Europe

Culture Studies

European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Turner Frank M., Lofthouse Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219487, Yale University Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures – lucid, accessi...

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General

Culture Studies

Culture Crash The Mugging of the Creative Class

Timberg Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300216936, Yale University Press, December 2015
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. All of us must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to transformation and innovation. But for many thousands of creative artists, a torrent of recent changes has made it all but impossible t...

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General

Culture Studies

Sex Museums The Politics and Performance of Display

Tyburczy Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226315249, ISBN: HB: 9780226315102, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

All museums are sex museums. In "Sex Museums", Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality – particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed – and asks what role museums have played in using disp...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Corn Wolf

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226310855, ISBN: HB: 9780226310718, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones, 16 line drawings

Collecting a decade of work from iconic anthropologist and writer Michael Taussig, "The Corn Wolf" pinpoints a moment of intellectual development for the master stylist, exemplifying the "nervous system" approach to writing and truth that has charact...

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Culture Studies

Media Studies

Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness

Tkacz Nathaniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226192307, University of Chicago Press, December 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 4 line drawings

Few virtues are as celebrated in contemporary culture as openness. Rooted in software culture and carrying more than a whiff of Silicon Valley technical utopianism, openness – of decision-making, data, and organizational structure – is seen as the cu...

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