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At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi

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For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

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Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...
New Power: Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and

New Power: Why outsiders are winning, institutions are failing, and

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'A vital book. New Power can light a flame bright enough to outshine the glinting fangs and tiki torches' - Russell Brand For most of human history the rules of...
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

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In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night...
Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the

Tense Conditions (Bilingual edition): A Presentation of the

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In its new presentation of the collection, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart establishes a dialogue between works from the private Scharpff-Striebich collection and works from its own stocks. Contemporary positions and works...
Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal

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How does Italy really work? The bestselling author on Italian culture sets out to answer this question -- and the results are often surprising There is no world for whistle-blower...
Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis

Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis

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Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined...
Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945

Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia Since 1945

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In order to understand the massive social and cultural changes that took place in Australia since the end of World War II, Michelle Arrow examines popular culture through three main...
Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

Queer Intentions: A (Personal) Journey Through LGBTQ+ Culture

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'Eloquent, empathetic and passionate, this book will not just resonate with a new generation of queer people, but with all those who seek to be their allies. A brilliant book.'...
Lifting the Lid: A memoir born of adoption

Lifting the Lid: A memoir born of adoption

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Lifting the Lid - a memoir born of adoption is a compelling story told by a distinctive voice with heart and humour about identity, belonging and a woman's search for...
Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter

Femxphotographers.org: Mind Over Matter

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Femxphotographers.org's second publication Mind Over Matter focuses inward. Women's bodies are frequently sexualized while their minds are vilified and their voices silenced. This is true throughout history and in different...
Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never

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Perfect for fans of Jia Tolentino and Chuck Klosterman, Y2K is a delightfully nostalgic and bitingly told exploration about how the early 2000s forever changed us and the world we...
The Times Lives Behind the Music: Era-defining obituaries of rock and

The Times Lives Behind the Music: Era-defining obituaries of rock and

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A must-read collection for all music fans. Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times . From the rock'n'roll pioneers of the...
The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of

The Assault on Reason: Our Information Ecosystem, from the Age of

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Now with a New Preface and Conclusion: 'Post-Truth: On Donald Trump and the 2016 Election' The United States of America is in the midst of a deepening crisis for their...
The Times Lives Behind the Music: Era-defining obituaries of rock and

The Times Lives Behind the Music: Era-defining obituaries of rock and

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A must-read collection for all music fans. Delve into the tumultuous world of music stardom with this collection of obituaries from The Times . From the rock'n'roll pioneers of the...
The Television Will Be Revolutionized

The Television Will Be Revolutionized

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 Go behind the TV screen to explore what is changing, why it is changing, and why the changes matters. After occupying a central space...
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies

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This Companion provides a guide to queer inquiry in literary and cultural studies. The essays represent new and emerging areas, including transgender studies, indigenous studies, disability studies, queer of color...
Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

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THE SUNDAY TIME S BESTELLER 'Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick's book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year In this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its...
Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

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From the author of the 'stone-cold classic' Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes a blockbuster follow-up- the inside story of television's epic transformation The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

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Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

Pandora's Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies That Broke Television

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From the author of the 'stone-cold classic' Easy Riders, Raging Bulls comes a blockbuster follow-up- the inside story of television's epic transformation The revolution has been televized. From The Sopranos...
Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLERIn this spectacular, newsmaking expose that has the entertainment industry abuzz and on its heels, Vanity Fair's Maureen Ryan blows the lid...
A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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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, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH,...
A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth...
Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon is Behind Us

Fazal Sheikh and Terry Tempest Williams: The Moon is Behind Us

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This book is an intimate personal correspondence between two leading political artists at a time of crisis. In the summer of 2020, their collaboration suddenly halted by Covid-19, photographer Fazal...