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Lost in Vietnam
Vietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective memory. It is still easy to forget that Vietnam...
Seven Days in the Art World
From London to China to New York, art sales are booming like never before, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and...
Twilight Of The West
It would have been inconceivable," wrote Henry Kissinger in his best-selling book Diplomacy, that the architects of NATO would have seen as the end result of victory in the Cold...
Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / The Warehouse Project /
The must-read memoir from the visionary figure behind Manchester's legendary music scene, from The Hacienda to The Warehouse Project. Tales From the Dance Floor is an electrifying journey into the...
Testament: The Life and Art of Frank Frazetta
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This final entry in Arnie and Cathy Fenner's Frazetta trilogy features 150 full-color paintings by the renowned artist and illustrator, ranging in subject matter from barbarian battles to erotica to...
Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Enter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme. From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics....
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd
The definitive guide to the band offering song-by-song analysis, full chronology and gig guide, full bootleg guide, and exclusive interviews with surviving members. Pink Floyd formed in London in 1965,...
Doctor Strange: A Decade of Dark Magic
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends Enter a world where reality bends, and magic reigns supreme. From psychedelic dimensions to counterculture cool, Doctor Strange was unlike anything else in comics....
The Mighty Avengers vs. the 1970s
Explore the Stories Behind the Legends The team that defined a generation-and reshaped a universe. The Avengers was the comic book of the 1970s. From Civil Rights to the Women's...
Eating with Emperors: 150 Years of Dining with Emperors, Kings,
The world jeered when the Emperor of Iran served roast peacock to celebrate the anniversary of his Empire; the White House chef threw a tantrum and resigned when asked to...
Art of The Jungle Book
Beautifully designed and packed with behind-the-scenes details, The Art of The Jungle Book provides an in-depth look at Disney's latest film. In this finely crafted book, dazzling concept art, behind-the-scenes...
Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930
These essays examine modernism in the human sciences and adjacent areas of philosophy and natural science. Among the contributors, David Hollinger expands his important work on the cognitive/aesthetic divide to...
A History of Sociological Research Methods in America, 1920-1960
This is the first book on the general history of US sociological research. It provides systematic archival, documentary, and interview data which question conventional views on research methods, developing our...
Seven Days In The Art World
From London to Beijing to New York, art sales are booming, and the art world receives the sort of breathless media attention once reserved for celebrities and royals. In Seven...
Couture to Chaos: Fashion from the 1960's to Now
The book titled Couture to Chaos: Fashion from the 1960's to Now by the author Robyn Healy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social...
The Forgotten Fifties: Aspects of Australian Society and Culture in
Some of Australia's leading historians present new perspectives on social and cultural life in the 1950s. The 1950s is usually treated in the popular media as a metaphor for an...
Modernism's History: A Study in Twentieth-Century Art and Ideas
The history of twentieth-century visual arts can no longer be written as a succession of avant-garde movements, contends eminent art historian Bernard Smith in this stimulating book. He argues that...
Disco: Music, Movies, and Mania under the Mirror Ball
This dazzling volume shines new light on the songs, styles, and enduring pop culture impact of the 1970s musical genre that emerged from Black and Latin queer culture to take...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die
The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today, it seems: slowing growth, crushing debts, aging populations, anti-social behaviour....
A Voyage Around the Queen
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for the SPECTATOR , MAIL ON SUNDAY , NEW STATESMAN...
Reimagining the American Pacific: From South Pacific to Bamboo Ridge
An exploration of the "Pacific Rim" in the American imagination and of how the concept has been variously adapted and resisted in Hawaii, the Pacific Islands, New Zealand and Australia....
Resource Wars
A much-needed assessment of a changed world, Resource Wars is a compelling look at warfare in an era of rampant globalisation and intense economic competition. The political divisions of the...
Clint: The Man and the Movies
From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, the definitive biography of Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood, the most prolific and versatile actor-director in the...
Everything Under the Sun: The Complete Guide to Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd are one of the most iconic and influential rock bands in the world: their sonic ambition, lyrical dexterity and structural ability are unparalleled in rock music. Since their...
Can't Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000
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"Can't Find My Way Home" is a history of illicit drug use in America in the second half of the twentieth century and a personal journey through the drug experience....
What Shall I Wear?: The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion,
First published in 1956, What Shall I Wear is revolutionary fashion designer Claire McCardell's collection of fashion wisdom and philosophy and a vivacious guide to looking effortlessly stylishClaire McCardell, the...
The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party
The book titled The Enemy within: Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party by the author Francis Beckett. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
A Russian Journal
Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer, Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune....
Vilna on the Seine: Jewish Intellectuals in France Since 1968
This book tells the story of two generations of Jewish intellectuals living in France. The older group, born at the turn of the 20th century, are Lithuanian immigrants who were...
Edwardian Ladies' Hat Fashions: Where Did You Get that Hat?
Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...
The Zero Hour: Glasnost and Soviet Cinema in Transition
Now faced with the "zero hour" created by a new freedom of expression and the dramatic breakup of the Soviet Union, Soviet cinema has recently become one of the most...
Panic Attack: Playing Politics with Science in the Fight Against
"Follow the science" is what they said. "Follow our politics" is what they meant. In Panic Attack , nationally bestselling author and physician Nicole Saphier uncovers the hypocrisy and hysteria...
Nehru: The Debates that Defined India
'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic...
LBJ's America: The Life and Legacies of Lyndon Baines Johnson
In innumerable ways, we still live in LBJ's America. More than half a century after his death, Lyndon Baines Johnson continues to exert profound influence on American life. This collection...
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social
How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and...
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall. 1935 ....
Je Suis Australienne: Remarkable Women in France, 1880 - 1945
Profiles extraordinary Australian women who travelled to France at different times through history and who formulated their impressions-in fiction, diaries, letters, autobiographies-between 1880 and 1945.The book explores how the women...
A-Z of Record Shop Bags: 1940s to 1990s
Chosen as one of the Best Architecture and Design books Summer 2022 by the Financial Times. Why British record store carrier bags are graphic design icons: While they've never carried...
Don't Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason
'Topical, engaging, personable, and above all, reassuring' Dr. Jordan B. Peterson From host of THE RUBIN REPORT , the most-watched talk show about free speech and big ideas on YouTube...
More Than A Shirt: How Football Shirts Explain Global Politics, Money
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS WRITING OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE 2026 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS A GUARDIAN...
The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth
As garment workers, longshoremen, autoworkers, sharecroppers and clerks took to the streets, striking and organizing unions in the midst of the Depression, artists, writers and filmmakers joined the insurgent social...
A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the
The rise of the Mafia and the story of its most vocal opponent, renowned Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia, expertly woven together by celebrated chronicler of European history Caroline Moorehead Corruption,...
The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds
The vastness of China and the antquity of its culture have both fascinated and troubled the West since their earliest contacts. This text explores Western attitudes as they developed over...
Glasnost in Context
This truly unique volume brings together theoretical discussions of liberalizations with studies focused on literature, theatre and the visual arts. To the analysis of developments in selected Eastern European regions...
Colonial Constructs: European Images of Maori 1840 - 1914
How did early European artists of Australia and New Zealand perceive the Maori? What sort of images of Maori society and culture did they create? What ethnic preconceptions lay behind...