Improvisation and Social Aesthetics
Georgina Born, Eric Lewis and Will Straw
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Addressing a wide range of improvised art and music forms-from jazz and cinema to dance and...
Seaforth World Naval Review: 2015
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Now in its seventh year, this annual has established an international reputation as an authoritative...
Touch
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Sloane Jacobsen is the most powerful trend forecaster in the world (she was the foreseer of the...
Observations on Modern Gardening, by Thomas What - An Eighteenth-Century Study of the English Landscape Garden
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Thomas Whately's Observations on Modern Gardening (1770) is the first and most comprehensive study...
1940
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January 1940 saw the escalation of the sea war between Britain and Germany. U-boats would claim...
Forbidden Erotica
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From Bloomers to Bikinis A treasure trove of vintage erotic photos Sportive gentlemen, lascivious...
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
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A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year...
Understanding a Photograph
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John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This...
The Culture Map: Decoding How People Think, Lead, and Get Things Done Across Cultures
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Whether you work in a home office or abroad, business success in our ever more globalized and...
Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best Wines
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The wine merchants of Bordeaux and the rising entrepreneurs of China would seem to have little in...