Spycraft
Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration
ISBN: HB: 9780300267549,
Yale University Press,
June 2024
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
400 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 map
A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies – from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination.
Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspira...
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£20.00
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A History of Lesbian Fashion
ISBN: HB: 9781805260967,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 illus.
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 illus.
For sale in CIS only!
From Sappho and Suffragettes to t-shirts and TikTok, a fascinating journey through the history and politics of lesbian clothing.
The way we dress can show or hide who we are; make us fit in, make us stand out, or make our own...
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£25.00
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Shopping All the Way to the Woods
How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America
ISBN: HB: 9780300270082,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 26 black&white illus.
A fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the American outdoor experience: visiting nature first requires shopping.
No escape to nature is complete without a trip to an outdoor recreational store or a browse through online offerings. This...
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£25.00
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Ignorance
A Global History
ISBN: PB: 9780300276503,
ISBN: HB: 9780300265958,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
256 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day.
Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowledgeable than the last. Renaissance humanists viewed the Middle Ages as an era of darkne...
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£11.99
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£20.00
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D is for Death: Mortality Explored
Stories, Insights and Reflections
Explore the mysteries of mortality in "D is for Death" as Sophie Duffy takes you on an unforgettable alphabetical journey through life's ultimate enigma.
From accidents and bodies to contagion and ghosts, each letter unveils a new facet of our share...
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£20.99
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Potato Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851246236,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
March 2024
104 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 10 black&white illus.
104 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A charming guide to potatoes, covering everything from how to grow them to their origins and history.
"Everybody who possibly can ought to grow potatoes". First published towards the end of the First World War, this charming little book is a love le...
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£12.99
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Diaspora of the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: PB: 9783037785447,
Lars Muller Publishers,
March 2024
320 pp., 23,5x17,1 cm, 250 colour illus.
320 pp., 23,5x17,1 cm, 250 colour illus.
Through a series of essays, photographs, and archival content, this book highlights the diverse young and old diaspora communities of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) around the world. Drawing on topics from the ten-year archive of Brownbook m...
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£30.00
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Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780300276091,
ISBN: HB: 9780300257946,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
376 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 32 black&white illus.
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind.
Until the twentieth century, scientists investigating the effects of drugs on the mind did so by ex...
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£10.99
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£20.00
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
ISBN: HB: 9780300259803,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
512 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
An award-winning historian's examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance.
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era – tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft...
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£30.00
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Vienna
How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
ISBN: HB: 9780300266535,
Yale University Press,
October 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 18 black&white illus.
How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West's intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?
Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to...
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£25.00
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