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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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App Generation How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination in a Digital World

Gardner Howard, Davis Katie

ISBN: PB: 9780300209341, Yale University Press, October 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply – some would say totally – involved with digital media. Professors Howard Gardner and Katie Davis name today's young people The App Generation, and in this spellbinding book t...

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Book Lovers' Anthology A Compendium of Writing about Books, Readers and Libraries

ISBN: PB: 9781851242481, ISBN: HB: 9781851244188, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

"A blessed companion is a book – a book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend", wrote Douglas William Jerrold, over a hundred years ago. Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, somet...

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History of Art

Culture Studies

Support Networks

Satinsky Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9780982879856, University of Chicago Press, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2014
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

When artists break boundaries of traditional forms and work outside of institutionalized systems, they often must create new infrastructures to sustain their practices".Support Networks" looks to Chicago's deeply layered history of artists, scholars,...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Scottish Highlands A Cultural History

Beattie Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781909930001, Signal Books, October 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Scottish Highlands" form the highest mountains in the British Isles, a broad arc of rocky peaks and deep glens stretching from the outskirts of Glasgow, Perth and Aberdeen to the remote and storm-lashed Cape Wrath in Scotl...

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Culture Studies

Buddha in the Machine Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West

Williams R. John

ISBN: HB: 9780300194470, Yale University Press, September 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 121 colour images, 147 black&white illus.

The famous 1893 Chicago World's Fair celebrated the dawn of corporate capitalism and a new Machine Age with an exhibit of the world's largest engine. Yet the noise was so great, visitors ran out of the Machinery Hall to retreat to the peace and quiet...

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Known Unknowns

Saatchi Charles

ISBN: HB: 9781861543608, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, September 2014
480 pp., 23x18 cm, 198 colour illus.

An insightful, enlightening and frequently challenging critique of contemporary culture delivered through 100 individual essays and 198 astonishing, disconcerting and truly unforgettable images. Written from the perspective of one of the most signifi...

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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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Anthropology

Culture Studies

Performing the Nation Genocide, Justice, Reconciliation

Breed Ananda

ISBN: PB: 9780857421081, Seagull Books, September 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

A dance begins beneath the outstretched branches of the giant umunyinya tree in Rwanda. First there is drumming and clapping, then the lead dancers step into the center of the gathering. The dancing subsides and the gacaca court, the community hearin...

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Travel

Death Tourism Disaster Sites as Recreational Landscape

Sion Brigitte

ISBN: PB: 9780857421074, Seagull Books, September 2014
356 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Auschwitz. Hiroshima. Cambodia's killing fields. The World Trade Center. The mass graves of Rwanda. These places of violent death have become part of the recreational landscape of tourism, an industry that is otherwise dedicated to pleasure and escap...

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