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Culture Studies

London's New Scene Art and Culture in the 1960s

Tickner Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9781913107109, Yale University Press, June 2020
416 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 80 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

In the 1960s, London became a vibrant hub of artistic production. Postwar reconstruction, jet air travel, television arts programs, new color supplements, a generation of young artists, dealers, and curators, the influx of international film companie...

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Culture Studies

Land of the Rising Cat Japan's Feline Fascination

Okazaki Manami

ISBN: PB: 9783791384948, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
176 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

In a country with millions of cat owners, it's not unusual to find felines in coffee shops, hotel lobbies, and museums; being taken for stroller rides; or even serving as train stationmasters. But how did this cat mania start? Why does it continue to...

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Culture Studies

Political Science

Leaders People Who Shaped the Last Century

Cooper S. K.

ISBN: HB: 9781921024740, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
320 pp., 29x15 cm

The leaders that are remembered by history both define the world they live in and change that world forever. Whether their leadership is inspirational, innovative, decisive or ultimately destructive, we have a lot to learn from the lives and achievem...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Lima A Cultural and Literary History

Higgins James

ISBN: PB: 9781902669984, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Formerly the viceregal capital of Spain's vast South American empire, Lima is today a sprawling metropolis struggling to cope with a population of eight million. Located on the coast between the Andean foothills and the Pacific...

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Culture Studies

Life Breaks In A Mood Almanack

Cappello Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226356068, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 13 halftones, 1 map, 34 figures

Some books start at point A, take you by the hand, and carefully walk you to point B, and on and on. This is not one of those books. This book is about mood, and how it works in and with us as complicated, imperfectly self-knowing beings existing in...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Lived Practice

Jacob Mary Jane, Zeller Kate

ISBN: PB: 9780982879887, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, August 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

"A Lived Practice" examines the reciprocal relationship of art and life: Artist-practitioners are shaped by their experiences, and they in turn create and enhance the experience of others. Based on a symposium held at the School of the Art Institute...

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Culture Studies

Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995

Crow Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300203974, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 160 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of...

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Travel

Culture Studies

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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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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Photography

Culture Studies

Lost Album A Visual History of 1050's Britain

Hyman Basil

ISBN: HB: 9781861543202, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, May 2011
240 pp., 30.2x24.1 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.

"I had forgotten all about these photographs until recently when on my 70th birthday my wife presented me with an album she had treasured all through the years. This lost album of photographs contains the very essence of the 1950s for me" – Basil Hym...

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