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Culture Studies

Blooming Flowers A Seasonal History of Plants and People

Boddy Kasia

ISBN: HB: 9780300243338, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 64 colour illus.

The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella – there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy looks at...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Budapest A Cultural and Literary History

Dent Bob

ISBN: PB: 9781904955269, Signal Books, October 2019
256 pp., 20.4x13.6 cm

For sale in CIS only! The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gellert Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series...

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Culture Studies

Bedroom An Intimate History

Perrot Michelle, Elkin Lauren

ISBN: HB: 9780300167092, Yale University Press, October 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives – the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the ev...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Bali A Cultural History

Cotterell Arthur

ISBN: PB: 9781909930179, Signal Books, August 2015
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm, black&white illus.

For sale in CIS only! Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a u...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Brittany A Cultural History

Mewes Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9781909930063, Signal Books, November 2014
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! Brittany's richly layered landscape has contributed depth and character to the region's traditional oral culture, from stories of the sea and shore to tales of misty moors, sacred hill-tops and secretive forests. Evangelizing D...

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Culture Studies

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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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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General

Culture Studies

Beauty and the Beast

Taussig Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226789866, ISBN: HB: 9780226789859, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 36 halftones

"Beauty and the Beast" begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their b...

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Culture Studies

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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Culture Studies

Before Porn Was Legal The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse

Heineman Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780226325217, University of Chicago Press, August 2011
240 pp., 23x16 cm, 23 halftones

Struggling to survive in postWorld War II Germany, Beate Uhse (1919-2001) – a former Luftwaffe pilot, war widow, and young mother – turned to selling goods on the black market. A self-penned guide to the rhythm method found eager buyers and started...

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