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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2010, Issue 25
ISBN: PB: 9781846380693, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
130 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 100 colour plates
"Afterall" is a journal of art, context, and inquiry that offers in-depth consideration of the work of contemporary artists from around the world, along with essays that set the work in a broader context. Articles on art history and critical theory a...
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£7,50
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Unlikely Progeny
ISBN: HB: 9781906497668, Seagull Books, December 2010
132 pp., 25x15 cm, 10 colour illus.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger has mastered poetry, novels, and the intricate balance between history and fiction, but he's never done anything quite like this before. For the writing of "Unlikely Progeny", Enzensberger developed a persona – Linda Quilt -c...
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£16,50
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Immaterial
ISBN: HB: 9781906497613, Seagull Books, December 2010
212 pp., 21.3x13.7 cm
In "The Immaterial", French social philosopher Andre Gorz (1923-2007) argues, in his finely-tuned and polemical style, that the economic boom that accelerated in the 1990s and crashed so spectacularly in 2008 was based largely on an immaterial consum...
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Letters to Madeleine Tender as Memory
ISBN: PB: 9780857425829, Seagull Books, December 2010
624 pp., 21.6x19.1 cm, 22 halftones
"Letters to Madeleine" collects for the first time in English the remarkable letters and poems sent by French poet Guillaume Apollinaire to his fiancee Madeleine Pages during World War I. Stationed in the trenches of Champagne, this man of letters wh...
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£18,99
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Limits of Art Two Essays
ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm
Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...
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£11,50
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Cumbria Buildings of England
ISBN: HB: 9780300126631, Yale University Press, October 2010
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
This fully revised volume brings together the historic counties of Cumberland and Westmorland with the old Furness division of Lancashire, in a comprehensive architectural guide to one of England's most varied and rewarding regions. At its heart is t...
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£60,00
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Among the Gentiles Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity
ISBN: PB: 9780300168105, Yale University Press, October 2010
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The question of Christianity's relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity's historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity's even mor...
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£20,00
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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300168143, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...
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£26,00
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Hull City Guides
ISBN: PB: 9780300141726, Yale University Press, September 2010
254 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 172 colour illus.
Hull is one of the great historic trading centres of northeast England. Severely hit by industrial decline, it has recently begun to see substantial regeneration. Exciting new architectural projects reflect the fierce pride of the community and relat...
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States of Violence An Essay on the End of War
ISBN: HB: 9781906497187, Seagull Books, September 2010
321 pp., 20.1x16.3 cm
According to political philosopher Frederic Gros, traditional notions of war and peace are currently being replaced by ideas of intervention and security. But while we may be able to speak of an end to war, this does not imply an end to violence. On...
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