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Hope and Fear: Modern Myths, Conspiracy Theories and Pseudo-History
Author: Ronald H. Fritze Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring...
Those They Called Idiots: The Idea of the Disabled Mind from 1700 to the Present Day
Author: Simon Jarrett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Traces the little-known lives of people with learning disabilities over 300 years The Idiot traces the little-known lives of people with...
True to the Land: A History of Food in Australia
Author: Paul van Reyk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Spanning 65,000 years, this book provides a history of food in Australia from its beginnings, with the arrival of the...
London: City of Cities
Author: Phil Baker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 City of cities, the modern world's first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a...
Designing Modern Japan
Author: Sarah Teasley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From cars to cameras, design from Japan is ubiquitous. So are perceptions of Japanese design, from calming, carefully crafted minimalism to...
Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Author: Randy Malamud Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 324 Virginia Woolf's novel famously begins - 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.' Of course she would: why would...
The Moon
Author: Bill Leatherbarrow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Our nearest celestial neighbour, the Moon, has always been the most conspicuous feature in our night sky. It has compelled observers...
The Eye of the Poet: Andre Breton and the Visual Arts
Author: Elza Adamowicz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 This is the first comprehensive study in English of surrealist leader Andre Breton's life-long commitment to the visual arts. As an...
Unworking: The Reinvention of the Modern Office
Author: Jeremy Myerson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 As we look toward a future of hybrid or virtual offices, a timely call to rethink the very nature and design...
The Wig: A Harebrained History
Author: Luigi Amara Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A witty, eloquent, and curious history of the wig Whether in a court room or a dressing room, wigs come in...
Facing China: Truth and Memory in Portraiture
Author: Richard Vinograd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Facing China is an exploration of the portrait arts in China from the dynastic to the modern and contemporary, in painting,...
Paths of Fire: The Gun and the World It Made
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 If you squeeze the trigger of a Kalashnikov a bullet is kicked up the barrel by an archaic chemical explosion that...
All the Tiny Moments Blazing: A Literary Guide to Suburban London
Author: Ged Pope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The London suburbs have, for more than two hundred and fifty years, fired the creative literary imagination: whether this is Samuel...
Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Author: Joanna Bourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 184 Renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of bestiality Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for...
Oishii: The History of Sushi
Author: Eric C. Rath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Sushi and sashimi are by now a global sensation and have become perhaps the best known of Japanese foods but...
Power on the Inside: A Global History of Prison Gangs
Author: Mitchel P. Roth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The first historical account of the development of prison gangs world-wide Power on the Inside is the first book to...
Opium's Orphans: The 200-Year History of the War on Drugs
Author: P. E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 440 Opium's Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the 'war on drugs'. A no-holds-barred but balanced account,...
Sardine
Author: Trevor Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The sardine is a paradoxical fish. Seemingly insignificant, its exploitation has made fortunes for some and, when stocks have collapsed, caused...
Storyworlds of Robin Hood: The Origins of a Medieval Outlaw
Author: Lesley Coote Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A fresh and exciting reappraisal of folklore outlaw Robin Hood. Robin Hood is one of the most enduring and well-known figures...
An Inky Business: A History of Newspapers from the English Civil Wars to the American Civil War
Author: Matthew J. Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 An Inky Business is a book about the making and printing of news. It is a history of ink, paper,...
History of Writing
Author: Steven Roger Fischer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing...
Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects
Author: Barbara Penner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Extinct gathers together the work of an exceptional range of artists, curators, architects, critics and academics, including Barry Bergdoll, Gillian Darley,...
Broken Dreams: An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis
Author: Mark Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The midlife crisis has become a cliche in modern society. Since the mid-twentieth century, the term has been used to explain...
Midlife Mind: Literature and the Art of Ageing
Author: Ben Hutchinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 The meaning of life is a common concern, but what is the meaning of midlife? With the help of illustrious writers...
Avian Illuminations: A Cultural History of Birds
Author: Boria Sax Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Avian Illuminations examines the many roles birds have played in human society, from food, messengers, deities and pets, to omens, muses,...
Miracles of Our Own Making: A History of Paganism
Author: Liz Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Now available in B-format paperback, Miracles of Our Own Making is a historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from...
Fighting without Fighting: Kung Fu Cinema's Journey to the West
Author: Luke White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the spring and summer of 1973, a wave of martial arts movies from Hong Kong - epitomized by Bruce Lee's...
Freedom from Violence and Lies: Anton Chekhov's Life and Writings
Author: Michael C. Finke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure as outstanding modern literary works, and his life was no less dramatic, rising from...
Cricketing Lives: A Characterful History from Pitch to Page
Author: Richard H. Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Cricket is defined by the characters who have played it, watched it, reported it, ruled upon it, ruined it and...
Taste: A Philosophy of Food
Author: Sarah E. Worth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When we eat, we eat the world: taking something from outside and making it part of us. But what does...
Tibet: A History Between Dream and Nation State
Author: Paul Christiaan Klieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 324 The history of Tibet has long intrigued the world, as well as the dilemma of its future - will it...
The Suit: Form, Function and Style
Author: Christopher Breward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The Suit unpicks the story of this most familiar garment, from its emergence in western Europe at the end of the...
Children of Mercury: The Lives of the Painters
Author: Spike Bucklow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Children of Mercury is a bold new account of the lives of pre-modern painters, viewed through the lens of The Seven...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Journeys to the Extreme
Author: Damian Catani Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Louis-Ferdinand Cline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France...
Poor Naked Wretches: Shakespeare's Working People
Author: Stephen Unwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Was Shakespeare a snob? Poor Naked Wretches challenges the idea that our greatest writer despised working people, and shows that he...
The Poet and the Publisher: The Case of Alexander Pope, Esq., of Twickenham versus Edmund Curll, Bookseller in Grub Street
Author: Pat Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The quarrel between the poet Alexander Pope and the publisher Edmund Curll has long been a notorious episode in the history...
Painting with Demons: The Art of Gerolamo Savoldo
Author: Michael Fried Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Michael Fried casts his acute gaze on the extraordinary Renaissance painter Gerolamo Savoldo The achievements of Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Gerolamo...
The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages
Author: Katherine Harvey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much or too little sex,...
Blood, Sweat and Earth: The Struggle for Control over the World's Diamonds Throughout History
Author: Tijl Vanneste Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Blood, Sweat and Earth is a hard-hitting historical expos of the diamond industry, focusing on the exploitation of workers and the...
Nightingale
Author: Bethan Roberts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any...
Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation
Author: Jason E. Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A trenchant expose of the effects of automation on worker's lives In recent decades digital devices have reshaped daily life,...
Coal: Nature and Culture
Author: Ralph Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 While concerns about climate change have focused negative attention on the coal industry in recent years, as descendants of the industrial...
Breathing: An Inspired History
Author: Edgar Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history, and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status to the...
A People's History of the Vampire Uprising
Author: Raymond A. Villareal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'In a landscape littered with works on the undead, A People's History of the Vampire Uprising is a welcome addition....
Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free
Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs. In...
Leaving Ocean Road
Author: Esther Campion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 God damn it, Gerry Clancy, couldn't you have left well enough alone and stayed in Cork? Twenty years ago, Ellen O'Shea...
Climb Your Mountain: Everyday lessons from an extraordinary life
Author: Sir Ranulph Fiennes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Life is too short to waste time on second-class ambitions. Go for the big ones.' Now in his late seventies,...
The Dark Lands
Author: Markus Heitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The great pulp writer Robert E. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian, also introduced Solomon Kane to the world: a sombre...