Volcanic
Vesuvius in the Age of Revolutions
ISBN: HB: 9780300272666,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
544 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 colour illus.
544 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 35 colour illus.
A vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism.
Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii rev...
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30.00 GBP
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Force
What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
ISBN: PB: 9780300274134,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 47 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 47 black&white illus.
An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force.
Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. This book for...
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12.99 GBP
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Pirates
A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders
ISBN: PB: 9780300273335,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 26 black&white illus., 6 maps
288 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 26 black&white illus., 6 maps
A global account of pirates and their modus operandi, from the Middle Ages to the present day.
In the twenty-first century piracy has regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to a surprising combination of Johnny Depp and the "Pirates of...
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11.99 GBP
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Changing Clothes in China (New Edition)
Fashion, History, Nation
ISBN: PB: 9781787387225,
ISBN: HB: 9781850658603,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2023
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
360 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century repre...
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16.99 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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Libraries and Books in Medieval England
The Role of Libraries in a Changing Book Economy
ISBN: HB: 9781851246014,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2023
192 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
192 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Medieval England was full of books, many times the number that have survived. The great moment of loss was when the country's religious houses were suppressed by King Henry VIII and their libraries scattered and destroyed. Twentieth-century scholarsh...
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80.00 GBP
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Week
A History of the Unnatural Rhythms That Made Us Who We Are
ISBN: PB: 9780300271157,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
288 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
We take the seven-day week for granted, rarely asking what anchors it or what it does to us. Yet weeks are not dictated by the natural order. They are, in fact, an artificial construction of the modern world.
With meticulous archival research that...
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14.99 GBP
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Temporary Pleasure
Nightclub Architecture, Design and Culture from the 1960s to Today
ISBN: HB: 9783791387987,
Prestel Publishing,
April 2023
240 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
240 pp., 27,9x24,1 cm, 150 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
This unique, visually exciting look at the evolution of nightclubs across America and Europe since the 1960s reveals an unwavering truth about club culture – the one constant is change.
Opening with the psychedelic haunts of the 1960s New York pop a...
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39.99 GBP
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Inventing Ruritania
The Imperialism of the Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9781849042529,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2023
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
An examination of Balkan identity in cultural media.
First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a k...
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25.00 GBP
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Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300270617,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
192 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
192 pp., 20,9x13,9 cm
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture's value.
Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, howe...
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10.99 GBP
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Transparency
The Material History of an Idea
ISBN: HB: 9780300237245,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
512 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 105 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
512 pp., 22,9x17,8 cm, 105 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
A wide-ranging illustrated history of transparency as told through the evolution of the glass window.
Transparency is a mantra of our day. It is key to the Western understanding of a liberal society. We expect transparency from, for instance, politi...
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30.00 GBP
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