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Revisiting the Sixties Interdisciplinary Perspectives on America's Longest Decade

Bieger Laura, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593399904, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
343 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 22 halftones

The Vietnam War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Summer of Love – the1960s were one of the most turbulent decades in US history. These years launched an unprecedented public debate over the meaning of "America", dividing...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History

Bardell Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781908493071, Signal Books, July 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...

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America

Culture Studies

Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Philosophy

Another Freedom The Alternative History of an Idea

Boym Svetlana

ISBN: PB: 9780226069746, ISBN: HB: 9780226069739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line illus.

The word "freedom" is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece through the present day, suggesting that...

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Political Science

Beyond the Wall Writing a Path through Palestine

Bidisha

ISBN: PB: 9780857420398, Seagull Books, May 2012
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm

Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand...

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Peak District A Cultural History

Bull John

ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...

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Music

Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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America

Hollywood Sign Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon

Braudy Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780300181456, Yale University Press, February 2012
224 pp., 20.7x14.1 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Hollywood's famous sign, constructed of massive white block letters set into a steep hillside, is an emblem of the movie capital it looms over and an international symbol of glamour and star power. To so many who see its image, the sign represents th...

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Gender Studies

Ecce Homo The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure

Brintnall Kent L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074702, ISBN: HB: 9780226074696, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 halftones

Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon's paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines – including religious studies,...

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Culture Studies

Too Much to Know Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age

Blair Ann M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300165395, Yale University Press, October 2011
416 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 31 black&white illus.

The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of 'information overload', yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of...

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