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Dialogical Imaginations Aisthesis as Social Perception and New Ideas of Humanism
ISBN: PB: 9783037349397, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, January 2021
736 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 85 halftones, 30 colour plates
We tend to think of imagination as private, originating from our innermost selves – and language as something that is created in communication. Turning this idea on its head, the contributors to "Dialogical Imaginations" start from the provocative pr...
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£49,00
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Diaspora of the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783037785447, Lars Muller Publishers, October 2020
320 pp., 23.5x17.1 cm, illus.
Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook m...
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£30,00
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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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Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret
ISBN: PB: 9780226326566, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The club itself is packed tonight and smoke has filled...
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£15,00
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DEAD A Celebration of Mortality
ISBN: HB: 9781861543592, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2015
250 pp., 24.5x18 cm
In his new book, "DEAD: A Celebration of Mortality", Charles Saatchi confronts the inescapable subject of death, decay and mortality in a series of perversely entertaining essays written in his characteristically dry, sardonic and amusing style . The...
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£16,00
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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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Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut
ISBN: HB: 9780226187259, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones
From the color of a politician's tie, to exorbitantly costly haircuts, to the size of an American flag pin adorning a lapel, it's no secret that style has political meaning. And there was no time in history when the politics of fashion was more fraug...
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£36,00
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Death Tourism Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape
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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£26,50
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Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant
ISBN: HB: 9780226923673, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones, 9 line illus.
"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...
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£18,00
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Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.
Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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