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SuperVision An Introduction to the Surveillance Society

Gilliom John, Monahan Torin

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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Sign Language

Culture Studies

Signs and Voices Deaf Culture, Identity, Language, and Arts

Lindgren Kristin A., DeLuca Doreen, Jo Napoli Donna

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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America

Culture Studies

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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Travel

Culture Studies

Sicily A Cultural History

Farrell Joseph

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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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

Culture Studies

Sex and Terror

Quignard Pascal

ISBN: HB: 9781906497866, Seagull Books, February 2012
192 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 30 colour illus.

The fascinus, or phallus, was at the heart of classical Roman art and life. No god was more represented in ancient Rome than the phallic deity Priapus, and the fescennine verses, one of the earliest forms of Roman poetry, accompanied the celebrations...

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Travel

Culture Studies

Sahara A Cultural History

Gearon Eamonn

ISBN: PB: 9781904955825, Signal Books, June 2011
256 pp., 21.7x14.7 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and cam...

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Culture Studies

Switching Codes Thinking through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

Bartscherer Thomas, Coover Roderick

ISBN: PB: 9780226038315, ISBN: HB: 9780226038308, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
448 pp., 22.9x15 cm, 40 halftones, 4 line illus.

Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change...

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Europe

Culture Studies

Social Life of Coffee The Emergence of the British Coffeehouse

Cowan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300171228, ISBN: HB: 9780300106664, Yale University Press, March 2011
378 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 43 black&white illus.

What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan...

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Photography

Culture Studies

Seen Black Style UK

Cunningham Jake, Lazarides Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781861542175, Casemate, Booth-Clibborn Editions, January 2011
192 pp., 27x24 cm, full-colour illus.

"Seen: Black Style UK" is the first publication to explore the immeasurable impact of Black subculture on British streets, dance floors, wardrobes and beauty parlours over the past three decades. It gives unique visual expression to the energy and in...

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