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Culture Studies

Book Lovers' Anthology A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries

ISBN: PB: 9781851242481, ISBN: HB: 9781851244188, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

"A blessed companion is a book – a book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend", wrote Douglas William Jerrold, over a hundred years ago. Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, somet...

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History of Art

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Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Scottish Highlands A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...

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Culture Studies

Buddha in the Machine Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West

Williams R. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300194470, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 121 colour images, 147 black&white illus.

The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet...

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Known Unknowns

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543608, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 2014
480 pp., 23x18 cm, 198 colour illus.

An insightful, enlightening and frequently challenging critique of contemporary culture delivered through 100 individual essays and 198 astonishing, disconcerting and truly unforgettable images. Written from the perspective of one of the most signifi...

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Culture Studies

Packaged Pleasures How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Cross Gary S., Proctor Robert N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226121277, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other cons...

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Anthropology

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Performing the Nation Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation

Breed Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780857421081, Seagull Books, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearin...

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Culture Studies

Travel

Death Tourism Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape

Sion Brigitte

ISBN: PB: 9780857421074, Seagull Books, September 2014
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escap...

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Culture Studies

Conspiracy of Ravens A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds

Oddie Bill, Bewick Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781851244096, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2014
144 pp., 17x11 cm, 110 black&white illus.

"A murder of crows", "a charm of goldfinches", "an ostentation of peacocks": collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in texts about hunting, but have since evolved into e...

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Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture

Rosenthal Caroline, Schafer Stefanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...

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