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Androids in the Enlightenment Mechanics, Artisans, and Cultures of the Self
ISBN: PB: 9780226034164, ISBN: HB: 9780226034027, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones, 4 line illus.
The eighteenth century saw the creation of a number of remarkable mechanical androids: at least ten prominent automata were built between 1735 and 1810 by clockmakers, court mechanics, and other artisans from France, Switzerland, Austria, and the Ger...
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£20,50
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£37,50
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Harlem The Unmaking of a Ghetto
ISBN: HB: 9780226853369, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
269 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 268 colour plates
For more than a century, Harlem has been the epicenter of black America, the celebrated heart of African American life and culture – but it has also been a byword for the problems that have long plagued inner-city neighborhoods: poverty, crime, viole...
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£41,50
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Milk A Local and Global History
ISBN: PB: 9780300188127, Yale University Press, July 2012
351 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 35 black&white illus.
How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the ritu...
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£14,99
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