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Culture Studies

Fabulous The Rise of the Beautiful Eccentric

Moore Madison

ISBN: HB: 9780300204704, Yale University Press, June 2018
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 21 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

Prince once told us not to hate him 'cause he's fabulous. But what does it mean to be fabulous? Is fabulous style only about labels, narcissism, and selfies – looking good and feeling gorgeous? Or can acts of fabulousness be political gestures, too?...

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Culture Studies

Feeding the Spirit Food, Culture and Community

Merritt Elizabeth E.

ISBN: PB: 9781933253879, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2017
190 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

From Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign to the health section of the New York Times, the United States is reexamining its relationship to food on a public and national level. Tied into concerns over the American diet are issues of sustainability,...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Flanders A Cultural History

de Vries Andre

ISBN: PB: 9781904955283, Signal Books, February 2017
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Famous for its cemeteries and monuments, Flanders has witnessed war and bloodshed on a colossal scale. Divided between Belgium, the Netherlands and France, this low-lying expanse of land has also known religious conflict and li...

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Culture Studies

Famous Last Words An Anthology

Cock-Starkey Claire

ISBN: HB: 9781851242511, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,

Who said "I should have drunk more champagne"? Did Nelson really utter "Kiss me Hardy" from his deathbed? Which statesman was, at the end, "bored with it all"? Which king begged, "Let not poor Nelly starve..." An extraordinary number of deathbed say...

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General

Culture Studies

Fast, Easy, and In Cash Artisan Hardship and Hope in the Global Economy

Colloredo-Mansfeld Rudi, Antrosio Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226302614, ISBN: HB: 9780226302584, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
200 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 30 halftones, 7 line drawings

"Artisan" has become a buzzword in the developed world, used for items like cheese, wine, and baskets, as corporations succeed at branding their cheap, mass-produced products with the popular appeal of small-batch, handmade goods. The unforgiving rea...

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Culture Studies

Enactments

Festive Devils of the Americas

Cozart Riggio Milla, Marino Angela, Vignolo Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780857421791, Seagull Books, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil – the devil that dances – turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first vol...

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History of Art

Music

Freedom Principle Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now

Beckwith Naomi, Roelstraete Dieter

ISBN: PB: 9780226319308, University of Chicago Press, July 2015
320 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 300 colour plates

On the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s, African American artists and musicians grappled with new language and forms inspired by the black nationalist turn in the Civil Rights movement. "The Freedom Principle", which accompanies an exhibition on t...

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Culture Studies

Fake Identity? The Impostor Narrative in North American Culture

Rosenthal Caroline, Schafer Stefanie

ISBN: PB: 9783593501017, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2014
230 pp., 22x13.9 cm, 25 colour plates

In North America, where the sociocultural history and national mythologies of the United States and Canada are especially fertile ground for the invention of identities both fake and "real" impostor narratives of all kinds abound. From ethnic imperso...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Trivellato Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...

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Culture Studies

Media Studies

Fandom Unbound Otaku Culture in a Connected Age

Ito Mizuko, Okabe Daisuke, Tsuji Izumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300158649, Yale University Press, February 2012
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 55 black&white illus.

In recent years, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan's major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. This timely volume investigates how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan's ident...

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