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    Travellers through Time
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    Travellers through Time

    Romany Gypsies have been variously portrayed as exotic strangers or as crude, violent delinquents; this book is the first real history of the Romany people, from the inside. Jeremy Harte vividly portrays the hardships of the travelling life, the skills...
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    The Ruling Families of Rus
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    The Ruling Families of Rus

    This is a new history of the region known as Kyivan Rus', a state in eastern and northern Europe from the late ninth to the mid-sixteenth century that encompassed a variety of polities and peoples, including Lithuanian, Polish, Ottoman and...
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    Simulating the Cosmos
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    Simulating the Cosmos

    Simulating the Cosmos is a behind-the-scenes look into one of the hottest and fastest-moving areas of astrophysics today: simulations of cosmology and galaxy formation, which illustrate how everything we see in the universe arose out of the primordial...
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    Shells
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    Shells

    Shells have captivated humans from the dawn of time: the earliest known artwork was made on a shell. As well as containers for food, shells have been used as tools, jewellery and decorations for dwellings, and to bring good luck or to ward off spirits...
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    Rowan
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    Rowan

    Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this...
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    Photography and Korea
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    Photography and Korea

    Photography and Korea is the first history of Korean photography for a Western readership. Beginning in the late nineteenth century, when Korean travellers brought photographic technology home from China, Photography and Korea presents multiple visions...
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    The Monkees
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    The Monkees

    The Monkees represent a vital problem for rock and pop, and perhaps the major question: is it the music that matters or the personality and image of the performers? This book explores the system behind the Monkees, the controversial made-for-tv band that...
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    Lamestains
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    Lamestains

    This book is a critical history of Sub Pop, the Seattle independent rock label that launched the careers of countless influential 'grunge' bands in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It focuses in particular on the languages and personas...
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    Astray
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    Astray

    This book explores how, far from being limited to deviation from known pathways or desirable plans of action, wandering is an abundant source of meaning - a force as intimately involved in the history of our universe as it will be in the future of our...
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    Navigations
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    Navigations

    Navigations re-examines the Portuguese voyages of discovery by placing them in their medieval and Renaissance settings. It shows how these voyages grew out of a crusading ethos, as well as long-distance trade with Asia and Africa and developments in...
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    Ford Madox Ford
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    Ford Madox Ford

    Ford Madox Ford (18731939) lived among several of the most important artists and writers of his time. Raised by Pre-Raphaelites and friends with Henry James, H. G. Wells, and Joseph Conrad, Ford was a leading figure of the avant-garde in pre-WWI London,...
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    The English Actor
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    The English Actor

    The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the...
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    Duchamp's Telegram
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    Duchamp's Telegram

    In 1917, Marcel Duchamp sent out a 'telegram' in the guise of a urinal signed R. Mutt. When it arrived at its destination a good forty years later it was both celebrated and vilified as proclaiming that anything could be art; from that...
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    Double Nation
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    Double Nation

    In this major new account Ian McLean traces the history of Australian art, from colonial art practice to the search for a national art in the twentieth century. Two key themes structure the narrative: the transformation of a British art practice into an...
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    'Race Is Everything'
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    'Race Is Everything'

    'Race Is Everything' explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but...
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    Breakfast Cereal
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    Breakfast Cereal

    Simple, healthy and comforting, breakfast cereals are a perennially popular way to start the day around the world. They have a long, distinguished and surprising history - around 10,000 years ago, with the advent of agriculture, people began breaking...
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    The Art Public
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    The Art Public

    Although the idea of a collective audience for art - an 'art public' - is highly significant in the art world, this is the first book to enquire into the actual history of the art public. The book explores both written and pictorial...
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    Arc of Feeling
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    Arc of Feeling

    In Arc of Feeling Javier Moscoso investigates the pleasure of oscillation and explores the surprising history of the swing through its meanings and metaphors, noting echoes and coincidences in remote times and places, from the witch's broom to...
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    Animal Architecture
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    Animal Architecture

    A provocative call for architects to remember and embrace the nonhuman lives that share our spaces.A spider spinning its web in a dark corner. Wasps building a nest under a roof. There's hardly any part of the built environment that can't be inhabited by...
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    About England
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    About England

    'England' and 'Englishness' have received much attention in the twenty-first century, not least in debates over Brexit. About England explores how these concepts have been imagined since the 1960s, covering themes...
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    Water Beings
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    Water Beings

    Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of our broken relationship with all things aquatic - and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities:...
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing
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    Thomas Nashe and Late Elizabethan Writing

    A critical biography of one of the most celebrated prose stylists in early modern English.This book provides an overview of the life and work of the scandalous Renaissance writer Thomas Nashe (1567c.1600), whose writings led to the closure of theaters...
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    Pet Revolution
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    Pet Revolution

    A history of pets and their companions in Britain from the Victorians to today.Pet Revolution tracks the British love affair with pets over the last two centuries, showing how the kinds of pets we keep, as well as how we relate to and care for them, has...
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    Pazazz
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    Pazazz

    From bridal gowns and White Parties to shrouds, an illuminating look at the power of our palest apparel. Pazazz examines the complex meanings of white clothing throughout history. Delicate and impractical, white cloth in the past was difficult to...
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    The Hittites
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    The Hittites

    An accessible introduction to the Bronze Age culture in Asia Minor.Famed for their skill in battle, the Hittites flourished in central Anatolia from the seventeenth to the thirteenth century BC. They were much more than a military power, however - their...
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    Descartes
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    Descartes

    A critical biography of Ren Descartes, whose first principle ("I think therefore I am.") reshaped modern philosophy. Often called 'the father of modern philosophy', Ren Descartes' contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the...
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    Byron
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    Byron

    In this new book, David Ellis traces Byron's life from rented lodgings in Aberdeen to the crumbling splendours of Newstead Abbey and then on to his grand tour of the East. Describing his exile from England after a disastrous marriage, and subsequent...
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    The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe
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    The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe

    This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and depicted human anatomy. Taylor...
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    Merchants of Style
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    Merchants of Style

    Merchants of Style explores the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, looking at the interplay of artists and designers - and the role of institutions, both public and commercial - that has brought about this marriage of aesthetic industries...
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    John Ashbery
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    John Ashbery

    Mysterious, esoteric, and baffling, John Ashbery is notorious for the seeming difficulty of his work. But Ashbery is also entertaining, humorous, even charming, and ever responsive to his shifting social and political contexts. This biography charts...
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    The Natural Beauty of Brooklyn
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    The Natural Beauty of Brooklyn

    When you think of Brooklyn you probably think of it as the world capital of hip, with its bars, restaurants, stores and bridges. You think of the hustle and bustle of people, traffic and construction 24/7. Do you ever imagine that there's another side to...
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    Plug-Ins
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    Plug-Ins

    This book's central argument is that plug-ins, situated design outcomes that aim to enrich the complex system of the city and expand its potentialities, are a solid yet supple conceptual framework for rethinking how design can be a key agent in city...
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    Stealing Your Vote
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    Stealing Your Vote

    How Election Fraud Is Rampant, and How to Stop It before It Kills AmericaThe mainstream media has labeled it "The Big Lie," but the facts on the ground tell a very different story. While politicians on both sides of the aisle scramble to stifle all...
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    Performing Postracialism
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    Performing Postracialism

    Blackface instances in which non-Black persons temporarily darken their skin with make-up to impersonate Black people, usually for fun, and frequently in educational contexts constitutes a postracialist pedagogy that propagates antiblack logics.In...
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  • Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino
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    Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino

    This unabridged, annotated English translation of Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino brings this popular Italian Renaissance romance to English readers for the first time.Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino (1508) was a popular Renaissance prose romance in Italy, France,...
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    Japanese Gardens 16 Note Cards
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    Japanese Gardens 16 Note Cards

    Blank inside for your own message, these cards are perfect to convey a heartfelt message for any occasion. This note card set includes:16 folded blank note cards 9.5 x 11.5 cm 17 sealable envelopes 16 photographs of relaxing Japanese gardens Receiving a...
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    Cherry Blossom Art 16 Note Cards
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    Cherry Blossom Art 16 Note Cards

    Blank inside for your own message, these cards are perfect to convey a heartfelt message for any occasion.This note card set includes:16 folded blank note cards (9.5 x 11.5 cm) 17 sealable envelopes 16 watercolour paintings of Japanese Cherry...
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  • Simple Taoism
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    Simple Taoism

    Simple Taoism is designed to help the reader understand what Taoism is about and to help apply its best aspects to everyday living. Divided into three parts, the book outlines:A clear explanation of Taoism and how to apply its best aspects to your daily...
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  • What Was Neoliberalism?
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    What Was Neoliberalism?

    Eminent scholar-activist Neil Davidson's brilliance is on full display in this posthumous work, a timely and prescient introduction to the neoliberal era.While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the...
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    The Art Journey of Lord Gris
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    The Art Journey of Lord Gris

    Illustrator and character designer Lord Gris takes us on a guided tour of her world, where her anime-style characters exude emotion, attitude, mystery, and beauty that can be both bizarre and fragile.Her characters are already appreciated by over 750K...
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  • Origami Paper 100 Sheets Sunflower Patterns 6" (15 cm)
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    Origami Paper 100 Sheets Sunflower Patterns 6" (15 cm)

    This pack contains 100 high-quality origami sheets printed in colourful Sunflower Patterns with coordinating Yellow and Blues on the back - to inspire Peace Cranes for Ukraine.These paper patterns were developed to enhance the creative work of origami...
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  • Brownie
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    Brownie

    Brownie is a rhyming children's book about a curious guinea pig who escapes from his cage one night to explore around the house. One of the children hears him and goes on a hunt to try and find him and get him back in his cage before the parents wake up...
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  • Never Too Old to Save the World
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    Never Too Old to Save the World

    Once every generation there is a Chosen One, who will stand between humanity and darkness.But why is the Chosen One so often a teenager? Why do only children get swept through portals to save the fantastic world on the other side? Whose idea was it to...
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    Poor Charlie's Almanack
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    Poor Charlie's Almanack

    From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life."A timeless classic that will change how you approach life. There is a billion-dollar education inside this book...
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  • Play
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    Play

    In this anthology of microliterature over forty writers explore the theme of play - from carefree diversions to fateful games of chance. Here you will find talented writers playing seriously with words, revelling in irreverence and debunking received...
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  • Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood
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    Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood

    Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood is the definitive portrait of the condemned man of rock'n'roll, from the baptism of fire and tragedy that was the New York Dolls, through the junkie punk years of the Heartbreakers, to his sudden and mysterious death in...
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