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Republic of Love Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music
ISBN: PB: 9780226775067, ISBN: HB: 9780226775050, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table, 7 halftones
At the heart of "The Republic of Love" are the voices of three musicians – queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu – who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Their...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Reading Matters Five Centuries of Discovering Books
ISBN: PB: 9780300164046, Yale University Press, April 2010
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 90 black&white illus.
It is easy to forget in our own day of cheap paperbacks and mega-bookstores that until very recently books were luxury items. Those who could not afford to buy had to borrow, share, obtain secondhand, inherit, or listen to others reading. This book e...
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£12,99
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
ISBN: HB: 9781906497293, Seagull Books, October 2009
356 pp., 21.8x14.5 cm
In "Rebels, Wives, Saints", acclaimed scholar Tanika Sarkar continues her revolutionary scholarship on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. The colonial universe Sarkar describes in "Rebels, Wives, Saints" centers around symbols of wom...
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£22,00
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Rome A Cultural and Literary History
ISBN: PB: 9781904955085, Signal Books, January 2006
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rome, the "Eternal City", has provided endless inspiration for religious thinkers, poets, artists and philosophers. As the first urban space to boast over a million inhabitants, its ancient glories endure, reflecting the Roman...
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£12,00
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