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Culture Studies

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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General

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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Architecture

Culture Studies

Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America

Doss Erika

ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...

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Culture Studies

Opium Reality's Dark Dream

Dormandy Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300175325, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating...

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America

Culture Studies

Passage to Cosmos Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America

Dassow Walls Laura

ISBN: PB: 9780226871837, ISBN: HB: 9780226871820, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones

Explorer, scientist, writer, and humanist, Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous intellectual of the age that began with Napoleon and ended with Darwin. With "Cosmos", the book that crowned his career, Humboldt offered to the world his vision of...

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Culture Studies

Things Modern Material Culture and Everyday Life in China

Dikotter Frank

ISBN: HB: 9781850658153, Hurst Publishers, November 2006
320 pp., 25.6x19.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! How do people relate to things? Much has been written about social movements in modern China, but next to nothing is known about the revolution which transformed the texture of everyday life. This is the first book to map the m...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Kyoto A Cultural and Literary History

Dougill John

ISBN: PB: 9781904955139, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! Kyoto, the ancient former capital of Japan, breathes history and mystery. Its temples, gardens and palaces are testimony to many centuries of aristocratic and religious grandeur. Under the veneer of modernity, the city remains...

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