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Marlena Kudlicka
ISBN: HB: 9783954761722, Bookport, Distanz Publishing, December 2016
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 40 colour illus., language: English
The roots of early modernism are palpable in the works of Marlena Kudlicka (b. Tomaszow Lubelski, 1973; lives and works in Berlin). She adopts the narrative register of the avant-garde to transpose it into a realm that lies beyond anonymous and stand...
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Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...
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Street Art Anthology From Graffiti to Contextual Art
ISBN: PB: 9788416504459, Hoaki, October 2016
239 pp., 23.1x17 cm, richly illustrated
What is behind the tidal wave of street art that is sweeping through the cultural scene today? What are its artistic features? What are its codes and its language? How has its production, which was originally almost exclusively centered in the urban...
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Experimental Self Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
ISBN: HB: 9780226351360, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth...
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Barbarossa Derailed: The Battle For Smolensk, 10 July - 10 September 1941 Volume 1: The German Advance, The Encirclement Battle And The First And Second Soviet Counteroffensives, 10 July-24 August 1941
ISBN: PB: 9781911096092, ISBN: HB: 9781906033729, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2016
656 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white photos, 107 maps
At dawn on 10 July 1941, massed tanks and motorised infantry of German Army Group Center's Second and Third Panzer Groups crossed the Dnepr and Western Dvina Rivers, beginning what Adolf Hitler, the Fuhrer of Germany's Third Reich, and most German of...
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