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Erotic Doll A Modern Fetish
ISBN: HB: 9780300152029, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 colour images, 110 black&white illus.
Since the 19th century, dolls have served as commodities but also as objects of possession and obsession, love and lust. That century witnessed the emergence of the term "heterosexual" as well as distinctly modern conceptions of fetishism, perversity...
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£40,00
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Havana Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781861543295, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, December 2013
160 pp., 32.5x25.4 cm, fully Illustrated
This lavishly illustrated book includes photographs, postcards, flyers, tickets and brochures, which conjure up the atmosphere of Cuba's past times and places and some of those associated with it. Divided into two parts; the first, a visual Archive,...
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£25,00
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Melancholia's Dog Reflections on Our Animal Kinship
ISBN: PB: 9780226102702, ISBN: HB: 9780226465784, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
Bred to provide human companionship, dogs eclipse all other species when it comes to reading the body language of people. Dog owners hunger for a complete rapport with their pets; in the dog the fantasy of empathetic resonance finds its ideal. But cr...
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£16,00
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£34,00
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We are the Roma! One Thousand Years of Discrimination
ISBN: PB: 9780857420381, Seagull Books, December 2013
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm
The Roma or Romani people, commonly called gypsies, comprise one of the largest ethnic minorities in the European Union, with significant populations in the Balkan Peninsula as well as Spain, France, Russia, and the Ukraine. Persecution of the Roma d...
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£7,00
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Comedy Carpet Blackpool The Making of a World Class Monument to Comedy
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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£25,00
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Van Gogh on Demand China and the Readymade
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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£31,00
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Traveling in Place A History of Armchair Travel
ISBN: HB: 9780226774671, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
264 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 83 halftones
Armchair travel may seem like an oxymoron. Doesn't travel require us to leave the house? And yet, anyone who has lost herself for hours in the descriptive pages of a novel or the absorbing images of a film knows the very real feeling of having explor...
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£19,00
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Politics of Dialogic Imagination Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan
ISBN: PB: 9780226060569, ISBN: HB: 9780226060422, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
In "The Politics of Dialogic Imagination", Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-d...
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£24,00
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£60,00
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Poetry and Its Others News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
ISBN: PB: 9780226083568, ISBN: HB: 9780226083735, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system – "suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse", in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in "Poetry and Its Others", Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemp...
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£22,00
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£65,00
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How to Dine in Style The Art of Entertaining, 1920
ISBN: HB: 9781851240869, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2013
184 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 30 black&white illus.
First published in 1920, "How to Dine in Style" opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dining, where the basic function of ingesting nourishment was elevated to a high social art, attended by intricate details and elaborate ritual. Starched li...
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£10,00
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