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Phobic and the Erotic The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India
ISBN: PB: 9781905422142, Seagull Books, November 2005
518 pp., 23.1x15.7 cm, 20 halftones
A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us – the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the "alternative", the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic from t...
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£24,00
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Burning Women A Global History of Widow-Sacrifice from Ancient Times to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781905422029, Seagull Books, November 2005
621 pp., 21.2x14 cm, 30 halftones
"Following into death" is an ancient and widespread custom which entails one or more people – voluntarily or involuntarily – following a dead man or woman into death. The event is ritualized as a public act. The decisive feature is not the manner of...
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£79,00
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Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944
ISBN: HB: 9781851243358, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2005
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this war-ravaged society (widespread malnourishment, rampant tube...
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£5,99
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Dublin A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669991, Signal Books, July 2005
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Europe's most westerly capital city was established by invaders and was for most of its history the locus of colonial administration, the engine room of foreign power and a major site of indigenous resistance. From The Act of U...
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£12,00
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Seville, Cordoba and Granada A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781902669960, Signal Books, July 2005
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Spain's southern city of Seville basks in romantic myths and legends, evoking the scent of jasmine and orange blossom. But there is an ascetic core to its sybaritic spirit. For all their fame as passionate performers, the poet...
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£12,00
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Spendour of Iran Three-Volume Set (slipcase)
ISBN: HB: 9781861540119, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, June 2005
1519 pp., 32.4x24.7 cm, full-colour illus.
"The Splendour of Iran" provides an unprecedented insight into the traditions and contemporary life of one of the world's most enduring civilisations. As the first comprehensive study on Persian culture since the 1930s, it is the result of a unique 5...
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£350,00
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