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Isle Of Wight, Portsmouth and Solent A Cultural History

Bardell Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781908493071, Signal Books, July 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Isle of Wight is England's largest island, but its diamond-shape is at most 23 miles long and 13 miles wide. Anchored close to the Hampshire coast, its location has created a sheltered waterway, the Solent, with its own loc...

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America

Culture Studies

Statue of Liberty A Transatlantic Story

Berenson Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300149500, Yale University Press, June 2012
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 38 black&white illus.

A universally recognized icon, the Statue of Liberty is perhaps the most beloved of all American symbols. Yet no one living in 1885, when the crated monument arrived in New York harbour, could have foreseen the central place the Statue of Liberty wou...

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Philosophy

Another Freedom The Alternative History of an Idea

Boym Svetlana

ISBN: PB: 9780226069746, ISBN: HB: 9780226069739, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
376 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones, 2 line illus.

The word "freedom" is in danger of becoming a distorted and tired cliche. In "Another Freedom", Svetlana Boym explores the rich cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, from its origins in ancient Greece through the present day, suggesting that...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Cruel Radiance Photography and Political Violence

Linfield Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780226482514, ISBN: HB: 9780226482507, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

In "The Cruel Radiance", Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images – and lea...

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Architecture

Culture Studies

Memorial Mania Public Feeling in America

Doss Erika

ISBN: PB: 9780226159416, ISBN: HB: 9780226159386, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
480 pp., 23x15 cm, 161 halftones

In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally...

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Political Science

Beyond the Wall Writing a Path through Palestine

Bidisha

ISBN: PB: 9780857420398, Seagull Books, May 2012
120 pp., 17.7x10.6 cm

Their voices come from Bethlehem and Hebron. You can hear them from Jerusalem to Nazareth, and witness their protests in Gaza and Ramallah. From the refugee camps in the West Bank, you can hear the voices of the Palestinian people call out to demand...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Peak District A Cultural History

Bull John

ISBN: PB: 9781908493064, Signal Books, May 2012
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Peak District" was Britain's first National Park and the "breathing space" for people in the great cities of the industrial north. Prehistoric man built stone circles at Stanton-in-the-Moor and Arbor Low and the Romans had...

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Music

Culture Studies

Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s

Berish Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226044958, ISBN: HB: 9780226044941, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 musical examples, 8 halftones, 11 line illus.

Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In "Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and '40s", Andrew Berish attempts to right this...

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Culture Studies

Opium Reality's Dark Dream

Dormandy Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300175325, Yale University Press, March 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's most effective means of alleviating...

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Culture Studies

Reproduction by Design Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

McLaren Angus

ISBN: HB: 9780226560694, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm

Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a...

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