Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Ultimate Visual History
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Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Steven Spielberg's sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the...
A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain
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The Willett Collection is unique. It is the only collection formed to illustrate what 19th century...
The Object Reader
Raiford Guins and Fiona Candlin
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This unique collection frames the classic debates on objects and aims to generate new ones by...
Shopgirls: True Stories of Friendship, Hardship and Triumph from Behind the Counter
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"[Go] behind the glamorous shop fronts and the glitzy shop floors of Britain's department...
Singapore's Building Stock: Approaches to a Multi-Scale Documentation and Analysis Transformations
U. Hassler and I. Belle
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State-of-the-art Singapore is constantly transforming and rejuvenating her building stock. The book...
The Hurt(Ful) Body: Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800
Tomas Macsotay and Karel Vanhaesebrouck
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This book offers a cross-disciplinary approach to pain and suffering in the early modern period,...
Design and Violence
Paola Antonelli and Jamer Hunt
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Design has a history of violence. It can be an act of creative destruction and a double-edged sword,...
Arguments with Silence: Writing the History of Roman Women
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Women in ancient Rome challenge the historian. Widely represented in literature and art, they rarely...
Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else
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Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary...
Gainsborough: A Portrait
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Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) lived as if electricity shot through his sinews and crackled at his...