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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226924441, ISBN: HB: 9780226924434, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones
We live in a surveillance society. Anyone who uses a credit card, cell phone, or even search engines to navigate the Web is being monitored and assessed – and often in ways that are imperceptible to us. The first general introduction to the growing f...
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£19,50
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£61,00
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Dune's Twisted Edge Journeys in the Levant
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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£18,00
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Signs and Voices Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts
ISBN: PB: 9781563685750, Gallaudet University Press, December 2012
268 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 2 figures, 2 photos
"Signs and Voices" addresses the effects of a range of modern scientific and social developments – such as cochlear implants, genetic engineering, and educational mainstreaming – on deaf culture. The book is split into three sections, the first focus...
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£60,00
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Stories of Our Collection Stories of Our Collection
ISBN: HB: 9780911028270, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
200 pp., 30x23 cm, colour throughout illus.
To mark its 125th anniversary, the Newberry has assembled one hundred and twenty-five of its most significant objects in one beautifully illustrated volume. Arranged in order to tell both the story of the library as an institution and its collecting...
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£34,00
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Sicily A Cultural History
ISBN: PB: 9781908493644, Signal Books, November 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm
For sale in CIS only! Long before it became an Italian offshore island, Sicily was the land in the centre of the Mediterranean where the great civilizations of Europe and Northern Africa met. In ancient times it was the scene of conflicts between Ca...
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£12,00
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Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period
ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.
Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...
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£40,00
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Cultural History of Wallonia
ISBN: HB: 9780300188660, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, October 2012
400 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 350 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Wallonia – the southern region of Belgium – boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural heritage. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of Walloon culture, exploring in particular the roles that literature, music, and art have played in est...
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£45,00
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Dominatrix Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon
ISBN: PB: 9780226482583, ISBN: HB: 9780226482569, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 1 line illus.
Our lives are full of small tensions, our closest relationships full of struggle: between woman and man, artist and customer, purist and commercialist, professional and client – and between the dominant and the submissive. In "Dominatrix", Daniell...
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£24,00
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£79,00
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Culture of Disaster
ISBN: HB: 9780226358215, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 22 halftones
From antiquity through the Enlightenment, disasters were attributed to the obscure power of the stars or the vengeance of angry gods. As philosophers sought to reassess the origins of natural disasters, they also made it clear that humans shared resp...
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£42,00
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Puppet An Essay on Uncanny Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226005508, ISBN: HB: 9780226309583, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
224 pp., 22x14 cm, 24 halftones, 4 colour illus.
The puppet creates delight and fear. It may evoke the innocent play of childhood, or become a tool of ritual magic, able to negotiate with ghosts and gods. Puppets can be creepy things, secretive, inanimate while also full of spirit, alive with gestu...
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£11,50
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£20,00
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