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What is more ordinary than a pair of shoes? In a world where shoes have become objects of mass consumption, these accessories are now rid of any significance. The industry...

This book provides the first comprehensive account of the social and cultural aspects of modernity over the past two centuries.

From Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley-Ann Jones Scandalous affairs and public divorce. Addiction and fiery passion. And of course, the iconic song writing... Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect -...

The visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth...

The visual history of how we deal with death - the grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols and ceremonies - is fascinatingly rich. Focusing on the nineteenth and early twentieth...

From Sunday Times bestselling author Lesley-Ann Jones Scandalous affairs and public divorce. Addiction and fiery passion. And of course, the iconic song writing... Christine McVie - born Christine Perfect -...

When she was suddenly given the opportunity of a new life in rural Jutland, journalist and archetypal Londoner Helen Russell discovered a startling statistic: the happiest place on earth isn't...

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...

`Enriches the concpetual arsenal for interdisciplinary analysis of political, social and cultural change... stimulates more nuanced thinking about the cultural and political legacy of the Reformation era... manages both to...

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...

This book was written with a view to sorting our some of the muddles and misreadings - especially misreadings of Kant - that have charaterized recent postmodernist and post-structuralist thought....

'An absorbing and eye-opening account of what the Plantagenets did for us.' - HELEN CASTOR 'Burt and Partington show precisely and engagingly why the Middle Ages matter.' - DAN JONES...

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...

Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science and liberal politics. Professor Ross...

Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical...

An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms encountered in cultural theory today. Each entry provides clear and succinct explanations for students throughout a wide range...

The masterpiece of Britain's leading Renaissance scholar, winner of the Time-Life Silver Pen Award and The Royal Society of Literature Award, beautifully reissued in Harper Perennial. The Civilisation of Europe...

AN INDEPENDENT 'BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025' We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like,...

The book titled Understanding China: Introduction to China's History, Society and by the author Jin Bo. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An NPR Best Book of the Year "A thorough and damning exploration of the incestuous relationship between Trump and his favorite channel." -- The New...

From cave art to penis sheaths, from the personal tragedies of death in childbirth to the grand symbols of Stonehenge, this is a collection and analysis of a wide range...

'Rigorous, rationally optimistic and ultimately empowering' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A deeply-considered - and funny - treatise on complacency' ALEX McDOWELL 'Essential ' DAVID EAGLEMAN 'A rare and wondrous thing' STEPHEN FRY...

AN INDEPENDENT 'BEST BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2025' We're told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they're listening to, what their worlds sound like,...

'Tom Bower is the Inspector Morse of investigative biographers, a fluent, phlegmatic story-teller and a master of intricacies.' Sunday Times The British Crown is in crisis, with constitutional threats at...

The book titled How Did it Begin by the author Rabbi Rudi Brasch. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Today, the arts are characterised by an unprecedented openness to new possibilities, a shifting of established genres, a melding of unlikely forms, and far greater inclusiveness. How then, without an...

The book titled Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the by the author Edward W. Said. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us...

An in-depth portrayal of the artistic development of modern art from its impressionistic beginnings in the 19th century to the pluralistic art scene of the present, showing this movement as...

Even for a country built on immigration, the continuing high rates of population growth are testing the consensus of national identity and demand a visionary approach to imagine a very...

Offering a study of travellers in Egypt, the contributions to this book encompass early travellers, those with a serious scientific or archaeological interest, those whose primary interest was artistic and...

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...

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...

The symptoms of the crisis of the U.S. media are well-known--a decline in hard news, the growth of info-tainment and advertorials, staff cuts and concentration of ownership, increasing conformity of...

Immerse yourself in the music, the fashion, and the hype of one of the biggest music festivals in the world. Coachella is considered one of the most profitable and widely...

Choose from 15 amigurumi patterns to create adorable, crocheted versions of famous actors, music stars, and athletes to stitch, collect, and gift. Crochet Your Celebrity Crush is your guide to...

The book titled On Human Finery by the author Quentin Bell. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been an ancient focal point of the Silk...

A vital and urgent exploration of identity, memory and survival - for fans of Safia Elhillo, Hasib Hourani and Ocean Vuong. after war is an unwavering exploration of brutality and...

The Sunday Times bestseller now with extraordinary new material on the horsemeat scandal In 2004 Felicity Lawrence published her ground-breaking book, Not on the Label, where, in a series of...

In the twelfth century Joachim of Fiore (c.1132-1202) developed a powerful and original theology of history. In the twentieth century, particularly after the Second World War, much interest was focused...

An indispensable guide to the post-modern era in the humanities The golden age of cultural theory (the product of a decade and a half, from 1965 to 1980) is long...

This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches. The representations of the...

The west's Orientalism - its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other' - has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic...

From founding Creation Records to discovering Oasis, a no-holds-barred rampage through gigs, clubs, boardrooms, drugs and booze that shows the wild spirit of the UK indie music scene. 'A true...

One of the finest essayists of all time with an essential collection of essays looking at our times. Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift...

To truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them. This is a story of how food connects us all - not only at the table...