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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...

'What happens when Black artists depict Black figures? What art does this produce, and what worlds of possibility does this reveal?' - Ekow Eshun Reframing the Black Figure showcases more...

What would equality look like when it comes to gender and work? An updated edition of Annabel Crabb's acclaimed Quarterly Essay. When New Zealand's prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, announced her...

Glamour's "Beauty Sleuth" reveals tricks of the trade to help you look fabulously high-end-in any economy. Andrea Pomerantz Lustig has spent twenty years as a beauty editor, and her contact...

According to the conventional wisdom, factors like taste, dietary beliefs and cultural traditions drive our decisions to buy animal foods. But the reality is that price plays a huge role...

'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...

Meet 20 beautiful, creative French women who live with passion; work every day; and love to take care ot their homes and families. Visit them in their grand chateaux or...

THE ULTIMATE INSIDER'S LOOK AT THE FINE ART OF INTERVIEWING "I had a fantasy the other night that this interview is so great that they no longer want me to...

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 author left France with her husband to settle in Tasmania in 1991. Settling into a small cottage along a deserted track she was intiated into locaL society and began...

When should you mention a person's family name in a greeting? Should you pay immediately when you are served in a cafe? This guide combines an appreciation of France's rich...

Joyce Carol Oates is also author of the novel "Marya: A Life", "A Garden of Earthly Delights" and "Them", winner of the 1970 National Book Award.

For a long time, France and its culture have been one and the same. The greatness of the former added to the influence of the latter, and vice versa. French...

Spinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza's Religion , she sets out a bold...

Did you know that: * Deserts provide food for fish? * 70% of all birds on the planet are chickens? * Climate change was the reason why humans began to...

Travel back in time with this era-defining book. Start with the exuberance of graffiti, breakdancing and boom boxes on the subway, the beeps and bloops of new electronic game consoles,...

Vocabulary alone isn't enough. To survive in the most sophisticated - and the most scathing - nation on Earth you will need to understand the many peculiarities of the (very...

Described by Boy George as 'art on legs' and painted multiple times by Lucien Freud, Bowery embraced performance, club culture and fashion design to create some of the most iconic...

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...

'This Is the Door is a work of piercing grace, philosophical wisdom and rare emotional power. By tracing the history of her own body and spirit, as well as studying...

Dr Elizabeth Vartkessian's clients are guilty of the most heinous crimes. But as Dr Vartkessian tells it, everyone has someone who loves them. Even people who have committed murder. As...

Before marrying Igor Stravinsky in 1922 in Paris, the arts patroness Vera Arturovna Sudeikin-Stravinsky (1888-1982) was already known as the "Muse of the Muses" in what had been the bohemian,...

Key Moments in Art describes fifty pivotal moments - some famous, others unfamiliar - from the Renaissance to the present day. Vivid, colourful vignettes capture the excitement of their times:...

Why did Paul Poiret design a dress that resembled a lampshade? Did Rudi Gernreich really think that both men and women would wear his topless monokini? And what prompted Jeremy...

For more than sixty years, Partisan Review has been the most influential literary and cultural journal in America, home to some of this century's finest writers. A Partisan Century now...

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,...

From the author of the multi-million-copy bestseller The Obesity Code comes The Hunger Code. For generations, we've accepted the story that weight loss never lasts - that as soon as...

Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention over the years. For philosophers, critical theorists and others it opens...

They are still one of the biggest rock bands of the last three decades. With four consecutive triple-platinum albums and 54 million records sold, their tours continue to sell out...

Behind some of the most popular works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror there are forgotten stories of female creators. It's no secret that genres like science fiction, fantasy, horror,...

The Kenaissance is here. Learn all about how to be more Ken with this officially licensed cheeky guide. Who wouldn't want to be as Ken-tastic as Ken? He's learned a...

A new exploration of our conception of reality, by one of the world's most influential philosophers How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives...

Two hundred years after his birth, Alexander Pushkin still issues a dynamic, liberating challenge to Russia's cultural identity. His story has promised national coherence and meant artistic integrity in its...

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...

The book titled New World and Pacific Civilisations: Culture of America, Asia and the by the author Weldon Owen. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

In October 1991, one of the most controversial cases in recent years unfolded in the US Supreme Court - the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings, a disturbing series of hearings which...

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of 'models and bottles' to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status...

This book is a sustained leftist critque of communication conglomeration, and the ways in which corporate think limits public expression and public understanding. As a critic of corporate imperialism, Schiller...

The book titled The History of Sexuality,Vol.1: An Introduction by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Fragments of Infinity: Essays in Religion and Philosophy by the author Arvind Sharma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Feasts, banquets and grand dinners have always played a vital role in our lives. They oil the wheels of diplomacy, smooth the paths of the ambitious and spread joy at...

The future of our food depends on tiny seeds in orchards and fields the world over. In 1943, one of the first to recognise this fact, the great botanist Nikolay...

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...

Irving Lewis Allen provides a history of the rise of New York as a metropolis and the accompanying slang that surrounded it. This book is both a lexicon of slang...

The continuing predominance of Oxford and Cambridge graduates in all walks of British life has a major impact on British society and its ability to function in an international world,...

A unique examination of media and communication within some of Australia's main Asian diasporic groups - the Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese and Thai communities. Going beyond the conventional cross-cultural studies of...

A look at the Haute Monde of Australian fashion in the early twentieth century.