The Architecture of Phantasmagoria: Specters of the City
Libero Andreotti and Nadir Lahiji
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In a time of mass-mediated modernity, the city becomes, almost by definition, a constitutively...
Aesthetic Revolutions and Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Movements
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This collection examines key aesthetic avant-garde art movements of the twentieth century and their...
Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage
David Mabberley, Mel Gooding and Joseph Studholme
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Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A...
Keep Your Eye on the Wall: Palestinian Landscapes
Olivia Snaije and Mitchell Albert
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In art and literature, walls are frequently used as powerful symbols of division. For the people of...
Louisa Waterford and John Ruskin: 'For You Have Not Falsely Praised'
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Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with...
Poolside with Slim Aarons
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Like its predecessors, "Once Upon a Time" and "A Place in the Sun", "Poolside with Slim Aarons"...
The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Countryhouse Museum
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This lavishly produced volume presents a survey and analysis of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities...
Vintage Home: 20th-Century Design for Contemporary Living
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Vintage Home is both a practical collector's guide - what to look out for - and a celebration of the...
A King in Hiding: How a Child Refugee Became a World Chess Champion
Fahim Xavier Parmentier, Sophie Callennec and Barbara Mellor
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015 Forced to flee his native Bangladesh,...
Social Types in Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Journalism: The (Un)Making of National Identity in France
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Focusing on social types during the July Monarchy, Pauline de Tholozany argues that they played a...