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Orchid A Cultural History
ISBN: HB: 9780226376325, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
288 pp., 23x15.5 cm, 15 colour plates, 45 halftones
At once delicate, exotic, and elegant, orchids are beloved for their singular, instantly recognizable beauty. Found in nearly every climate, the many species of orchid have carried symbolic weight in countless cultures over time.  The ancient Greeks...
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£22,50
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Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack
ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures
Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...
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£24,00
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Science of Myths and Vice Versa
ISBN: PB: 9780996635509, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, August 2016
62 pp., 17.7x11.4 cm
We often assume that science and myth stand in opposition – with science providing empirically supported truths that replace the false ideas found in traditional mythologies. But the rhetoric of contemporary popular science and related genres tells a...
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£9,00
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Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present
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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£25,00
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New York's New Edge Contemporary Art, the High Line, and Urban Megaprojects on the Far West Side
ISBN: PB: 9780226379067, ISBN: HB: 9780226032405, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 63 halftones, 6 figures, 1 table
The story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. Instead it's a story of urban transformation, cultural shifts, and an expanding contemporary art scene. The Chelsea Gallery District has become New York's most dominant neighb...
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£36,00
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Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima
ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...
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£40,00
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On the Animation of the Inorganic Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226380193, ISBN: HB: 9780226645681, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
440 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 164 halftones, 10 colour illus.
Throughout human history, people have imagined inanimate objects to have intelligence, language, and even souls. In our secular societies today, we still willingly believe that nonliving objects have lives of their own as we find ourselves interactin...
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£43,50
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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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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche
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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£14,99
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Epitaphs A Dying Art
ISBN: HB: 9781851244515, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
144 pp., 0x0 cm,
Epitaphs are a unique artform. In previous centuries they were regarded as an opportunity to celebrate, mourn, reflect on, philosophize, lament, or affirm the individual and the mystery of life and death, often giving rise to carefully crafted verse....
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