The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
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James Lovelock's The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning is a prophetic message for mankind from...
The Art of Death in Byzantium: Funerary Art and Architecture, 1204-1453
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Imaging the Soul in Byzantine Art and Architecture 1204-1453 explores the rich and fascinating...
The New Book of Snobs: A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery
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'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove,...
Ruins and Fragments: Tales of Loss and Rediscovery
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For many of us, ruins are alluring, puzzling and endlessly fascinating: this elegant book seeks to...
Women and Things, 1750 1950: Gendered Material Strategies
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on...
Jet Black and the Ninja Wind: British Edition
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**Winner of the 2013-2014 Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature****2015 Sakura...
A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers
Katherine Ellison and Susan Kim
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The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in...
Coryat's Crudities: Selections
Thomas Coryate and Philip S. Palmer
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The early seventeenth-century traveler Thomas Coryate's five-month tour of Western Europe culminated...
Film Noir
Homer Pettey and R. Barton Palmer
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This book explores the development of film noir as a cultural and artistic phenomenon. This book...
Hide Fox, and All After: What is Concealed in Shakespeares Hamlet?
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Is there anything more to say on this most-discussed of plays? It has become a hive of furious...