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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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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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Travel

Culture Studies

Bali A Cultural History

Cotterell Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9781909930179, Signal Books, August 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm, black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a u...

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Nature

Culture Studies

Ginkgo The Tree That Time Forgot

Crane Peter, Raven Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300213829, Yale University Press, May 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when pe...

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Culture Studies

Long March of Pop Art, Music, and Design, 1930-1995

Crow Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300203974, Yale University Press, October 2014
448 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 160 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

Thomas Crow's paradigm-changing book challenges existing narratives about the rise of Pop Art by situating it within larger cultural tides. While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of...

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Culture Studies

Packaged Pleasures How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire

Cross Gary S., Proctor Robert N.

ISBN: HB: 9780226121277, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 5 line drawings, 1 table

From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other cons...

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Culture Studies

On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

Carlyle Thomas, Kinser Brent E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300148602, Yale University Press, June 2013
448 pp., 21x14 cm

Based on a series of lectures delivered in 1840, Thomas Carlyle's "On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History" considers how heroes are created and conveys his ideas on the importance of heroic leadership. Carlyle explored a wide range of her...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Social Life of Coffee The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

Cowan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300171228, ISBN: HB: 9780300106664, Yale University Press, March 2011
378 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Seen Black Style UK

Cunningham Jake, Lazarides Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781861542175, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2011
192 pp., 27x24 cm, full-colour illus.

"Seen: Black Style UK" is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and in...

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