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Architecture

City Lost and Found Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

Bussard Katherine A., Fisher Alison, Foster-Rice Greg

ISBN: PB: 9780300207859, Yale University Press, November 2014
256 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.

American cities underwent seismic transformations in the 1960s and 70s, from shifting demographics and political protests to reshaping through highways and urban renewal. Amid this climate of upheaval, photographers, architects, activists, performanc...

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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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Travel

Culture Studies

Canary Islands A Cultural History

Stone Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781908493996, Signal Books, July 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial sprin...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil

Fontes Paulo, de Hollanda Bernardo Buarque

ISBN: PB: 9781849044172, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Comedy Carpet Blackpool The Making of a World Class Monument to Comedy

Young Gordon, McCann Graham

ISBN: HB: 9781861543394, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, November 2013
208 pp., 29x24 cm, full-colour illus.

Laid out in front of Blackpool Tower, the British home of variety for more than a hundred years, the Comedy Carpet is the largest work of public art in Europe. Thousands of jokes and quotations by more than 850 comedians and writers from the early da...

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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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Europe

Culture Studies

Cultural History of Wallonia

Demoulin Bruno

ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...

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Culture Studies

Philosophy

Culture of Disaster

Huet Marie-Helene

ISBN: HB: 9780226358215, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared resp...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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