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History of Art

Culture Studies

En Guerre French Illustrators and World War I

Harris Neil, Edelstein Teri J.

ISBN: PB: 9780943056425, University of Chicago Press, August 2014
144 pp., 27.9x20.3 cm, 140 colour plates

With 2014 marking the one-hundredth anniversary of the commencement of World War I, En Guerre offers a fresh, thought-provoking exploration of the impact of the Great War as viewed through the lens of French graphic illustration of the period. Publis...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Canary Islands A Cultural History

Stone Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781908493996, Signal Books, July 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The seven volcanic Canary Islands that bask in the Atlantic off shore from the north-west African coast have long had legendary connotations. To the Greeks they were the Gardens of the Hesperides, blessed with a perennial sprin...

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Contemporary Art

Culture Studies

Czech Action Art Happenings, Actions, Events, Land Art, Body Art and Performance Art Behind the Iron Curtain

Morganova Pavlina

ISBN: PB: 9788024623177, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, June 2014
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 200 halftones

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Czech action art – a medium similar to performance art that does not require an audience – emerged out of the political and social turmoil of the 1960s. This movement has received little c...

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Political Science

Culture Studies

Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil

Fontes Paulo, de Hollanda Bernardo Buarque

ISBN: PB: 9781849044172, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book present...

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Music

Culture Studies

Paris Blues African American Music and French Popular Culture, 1920-1960

Fry Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226138817, ISBN: HB: 9780226138787, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 17 line drawings

The Jazz Age. The phrase conjures images of Louis Armstrong holding court at the Sunset Cafe in Chicago, Duke Ellington dazzling crowds at the Cotton Club in Harlem, and star singers like Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. But the Jazz Age was every bit as...

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Music

Philosophy

Music between Us Is Music a Universal Language?

Higgins Kathleen Marie

ISBN: PB: 9780226142852, ISBN: HB: 9780226333281, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
296 pp., 23x15 cm

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. In "The Music between Us", philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role,...

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Culture Studies

Art of Good Manners

ISBN: HB: 9781851243983, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2014
80 pp., 17x11 cm

In taking soup do not gurgle or make throat noises. Speak well of others or not at all is a good rule. "The Art of Good Manners" covers such topics as table manners, pronunciation, introductions, conversation, courtship and children's behaviour. It g...

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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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Ancient World

Culture Studies

Appian Way Ghost Road, Queen of Roads

Kaster Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226142999, ISBN: HB: 9780226425719, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
144 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 24 halftones, 3 line illus.

The Roman poet Statius called the via Appia "the Queen of Roads", and for nearly a thousand years that description held true, as countless travelers trod its path from the center of Rome to the heel of Italy. Today, the road is all but gone, destroye...

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Jewish Studies

Gender Studies

You Feel So Mortal Essays on the Body

Shinner Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226105277, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Feet, bras, autopsies, hair – Peggy Shinner takes an honest, unflinching look at all of them in "You Feel So Mortal", a collection of searing and witty essays about the body: her own body, female and Jewish; those of her parents, the bodies she came...

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