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Mammals

Culture Studies

Reynard the Fox

Avery Anne Louise

ISBN: HB: 9781851245550, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2020
464 pp., 20x14.5 cm

Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How...

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Technology & Engineering

Culture Studies

American Robot A Cultural History

Abnet Dustin A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226692715, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a space-age cyborg, a chess-playing automaton, or simply the smartphone in our pocket, robots have long been a symbol of the fraught an...

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Astronomy

Culture Studies

Star Stories Constellations and People

Aveni Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300241280, Yale University Press, November 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 34 black&white illus.

We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for gene...

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Anthropology

Culture Studies

No Fixed Abode Ethnofiction

Auge Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780857426345, Seagull Books, March 2019
80 pp., 25x15 cm

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima

Andrews William

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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History

Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Culture Studies

Dandyism in the Age of Revolution The Art of the Cut

Amann Elizabeth

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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Culture Studies

America and Britain Was There Ever a Special Relationship?

Arnold Guy

ISBN: HB: 9781849043281, Hurst Publishers, April 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Britain's political and military elite has for decades nurtured the idea that enduring ties bind the interests of London and Washington, in good times and bad. Irrespective of the end of the Cold War, the 9/11 attacks and the e...

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Culture Studies

College Graces of Oxford and Cambridge

Adams Reginald H.

ISBN: PB: 9781851240838, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
96 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm

At which Oxford college does a trumpeter summon you to dinner? What does the appearance of a rose bowl signify? How would you use a grace cup as distinct from a sconce cup? The custom of dining in formal hall at Oxford and Cambridge dates back to the...

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Culture Studies

Gusto for Things A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome

Ago Renata

ISBN: HB: 9780226010571, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
392 pp., 23x15 cm, 56 tables, 38 halftones

We live in a material world – our homes are filled with things, from electronics to curios and hand-me-downs, that disclose as much about us and our aspirations as they do about current trends. But we are not the first: the early modern period was a...

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