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Lagos A Cultural and Literary History

Whiteman Kaye

ISBN: PB: 9781908493057, Signal Books, October 2012
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Made up of a curious network of islands and lagoons, Lagos is one of the fastest growing cities in the world The unique melting pot culture of Lagos has produced literary and artistic achievements that are only just beginning t...

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General

How to be a Good Lover

ISBN: HB: 9781851242801, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.

How should men and women embark on a new relationship? Is it acceptable to flirt? Should one ever kiss in a canoe? What is the ideal age gap for marriage? What gifts are appropriate for a fiancee? How should one announce an engagement? Aimed at the r...

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Culture Studies

Europe

How to Live Like a Lord without Really Trying

Mead Shepherd

ISBN: HB: 9781851242795, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2012
208 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 36 black&white illus.

Shepherd Mead, bestselling author of "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying", came to live in England with his family in 1958. Six years later he published a satirical handbook for fellow Americans to guide them through the nuances of Brit...

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World

Culture Studies

Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal Postwar Urbanism from New York to Berlin

Klemek Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226005959, ISBN: HB: 9780226441740, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
328 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 77 halftones

"The Transatlantic Collapse of Urban Renewal" examines how postwar thinkers from both sides of the Atlantic considered urban landscapes radically changed by the political and physical realities of sprawl, urban decay, and urban renewal. With a sweep...

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Gender Studies

Culture Studies

Making of Romantic Love Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE

Reddy William M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226706276, ISBN: HB: 9780226706269, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
456 pp., 23x15 cm

In the twelfth century, the Catholic Church attempted a thoroughgoing reform of marriage and sexual behavior aimed at eradicating sexual desire from Christian lives. Seeking a refuge from the very serious condemnations of the Church and relying on a...

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Culture Studies

Victorian Bloomsbury

Ashton Rosemary

ISBN: HB: 9780300154474, Yale University Press, July 2012
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

While Bloomsbury is now associated with Virginia Woolf and her early-twentieth-century circle of writers and artists, the neighbourhood was originally the undisputed intellectual quarter of nineteenth-century London. Drawing on a wealth of untapped a...

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Culture Studies

Milk A Local and Global History

Valenze Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300188127, Yale University Press, July 2012
351 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.

How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the ritu...

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America

Culture Studies

Modernist America Art, Music, Movies, and the Globalization of American Culture

Pells Richard H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181739, ISBN: HB: 9780300115048, Yale University Press, July 2012
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

America's global cultural impact is largely seen as one-sided, with critics claiming that it has undermined other countries' languages and traditions. But contrary to popular belief, the cultural relationship between the United States and the world h...

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Culture Studies

Venice A Contested Bohemia in Los Angeles

Deener Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9780226140018, ISBN: HB: 9780226140001, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 3 tables, 18 halftones

Nestled between Santa Monica and Marina del Rey, Venice is a Los Angeles community filled with apparent contradictions. There, people of various races and classes live side by side, a population of astounding diversity bound together by geographic pr...

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Culture Studies

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...

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