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Culture Studies

Levy Bernard-Henri

ISBN: PB: 9780300257373, Yale University Press, July 2020
128 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

With medical mysteries, rising death tolls, and conspiracy theories beamed minute by minute through the vast web universe, the coronavirus pandemic has irrevocably altered societies around the world. In this sharp essay, world-renowned philosopher Be...

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Culture Studies

True History of Merlin the Magician

Lawrence-Mathers Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780300253085, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since the idea was first invented in the twelfth century in the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain". But although the Merlin of literature and Arthur...

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Culture Studies

Streets of Europe The Sights, Sounds, and Smells That Shaped Its Great Cities

Ladd Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780226677941, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones, 4 maps

Merchants' shouts, jostling strangers, aromas of fresh fish and flowers, plodding horses, and friendly chatter long filled the narrow, crowded streets of the European city. As they developed over many centuries, these spaces of commerce, communion, a...

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Culture Studies

Pirates A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders

Lehr Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300180749, Yale University Press, June 2019
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 colour illus., 6 black&white illus., 6 maps

In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise as well as the dramatic rise of modern-day piracy around Somalia and th...

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Health & Wellbeing

Culture Studies

Weed Everything You Want to Know But Are Always Too Stoned to Ask

Lhooq Michelle

ISBN: HB: 9783791384894, Prestel Publishing, March 2019
160 pp., 24x17 cm, 130 colour illus.

Not too long ago, it might have seemed impossible that cannabis would step out of the shadows into the mainstream. But now, as legalization sweeps the globe, a new weed culture is evolving with its own set of rules – and thousands of new devotees eag...

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Culture Studies

Randomistas How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World

Leigh Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300236125, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Experiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employ...

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Culture Studies

Anthropology

Return to Casablanca Jews, Muslims, and an Israeli Anthropologist

Levy Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780226292557, ISBN: HB: 9780226292410, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, Israeli anthropologist Andre Levy returns to his birthplace in Casablanca to provide a deeply nuanced and compelling study of the relationships between Moroccan Jews and Muslims there. Ranging over a century of history – from the Jewish...

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Culture Studies

Urban Appetites Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

Lobel Cindy R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226322674, ISBN: HB: 9780226128757, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international no...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Art & Energy How Culture Changes

Lord Barry

ISBN: PB: 9781933253916, ISBN: HB: 9781933253930, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, April 2014
320 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 75 colour plates

In "Art & Energy", Barry Lord argues that human creativity is deeply linked to the resources available on earth for our survival. From our ancient mastery of fire through our exploitation of coal, oil, and gas, to the development of today's renewable...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant

Levin Gabriel

ISBN: HB: 9780226923673, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
216 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 5 halftones, 9 line illus.

"How to speak of the imaginative reach of a land habitually seen as a seedbed of faiths and heresies, confluences and ruptures... trouble spot and findspot, ruin and renewal, fault line and ragged clime, with a medley of people and languages once kno...

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