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Anthropology

Culture Studies

In Honor of Fadime Murder and Shame

Wikan Unni

ISBN: PB: 9780226896878, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
314 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2002 young Fadime Sahindal was brutally murdered by her own father. She belonged to a family of Kurdish immigrants who had lived in Sweden for almost two decades. But Fadime's relationship with a man outside of their community had deeply dishonore...

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Literary Criticism

Culture Studies

Social Life of Books Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home

Williams Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780300240252, ISBN: HB: 9780300208290, Yale University Press, January 2019
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 57 black&white illus.

A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century. Two centuries before the advent of radio, television, and motion pictures, books were a cherished form of popular entertainme...

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Culture Studies

Contemporary Art

Agents of Faith Votive Objects in Time and Place

Weinryb Ittai

ISBN: HB: 9780300222968, Yale University Press, September 2018
384 pp., 30.5x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.

Votive objects or ex-votos are a broad category of material artifacts produced with the intention of being offered as acts of faith. Common across historical periods, religions, and cultures, they are presented as tokens of gratitude for prayers answ...

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Computer Science & Internet

Culture Studies

Android Dreams The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence

Walsh Toby

ISBN: HB: 9781849048712, Hurst Publishers, September 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The development of thinking machines is an adventure as bold and ambitious as any that humans have attempted. And the truth is that Artificial Intelligence is already an indispensable part of our daily lives. Without it, Google...

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Music

Culture Studies

Top 40 Democracy The Rival Mainstreams of American Music

Weisbard Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226896182, ISBN: HB: 9780226896168, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
312 pp., 25x15 cm, 30 halftones

If you drive into any American city with the car stereo blasting, you'll undoubtedly find radio stations representing R&B/hip-hop, country, Top 40, adult contemporary, rock, and Latin, each playing hit after hit within that musical format. American m...

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Culture Studies

Buddha in the Machine Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West

Williams R. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300194470, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 121 colour images, 147 black&white illus.

The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet...

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Culture Studies

Rum Maniacs Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

Warner Osborn Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780226099897, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 table

Edgar Allan Poe vividly recalls standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate and dismember the body of his mother. That memory, however graphic and horrifying, was not real. It was a hallucination, one of many suffered...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade

Won Yin Wong Winnie

ISBN: PB: 9780226024899, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 27 colour plates, 45 halftones

In a manufacturing metropolis in south China lies Dafen, an urban village that famously houses thousands of workers who paint van Goghs, Da Vincis, Warhols, and other Western masterpieces for the world market, producing an astonishing five million pa...

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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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Culture Studies

Nights Out Life in Cosmopolitan London

Walkowitz Judith R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300151947, Yale University Press, February 2012
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 8 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

London's Soho district underwent a spectacular transformation between the late Victorian era and the end of the Second World War: its fin-de-siecle buildings and dark streets infamous for sex, crime, political disloyalty, and ethnic diversity became...

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