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The Mirror of Nature and Culture Social Studies
Mary J Henninger-Voss (Edited by)
Rochester University Press 2002 486 pages
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Hardback 1580461212
Published Price £45.00 Our Price £23.00
'A historical enquiry into human interaction with the animals we eat, pamper, experiment on, and imagine, as they have been variously domesticated, slaughtered, loved, studied, and made into icons of human invention', this book contains 13 essays in five parts: food systems, the hunt, the zoo, the domestic sphere and the laboratory. Specific topics include an American High Plains slaughter house; Hagenbeck, the 19th century German exotic animal business; 'Monkey Hill' at London zoo, 1903-35; and the social construction of the laboratory animal in psychology.
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The Inscription of Values in Wood and Image Social Studies
Julia Thomas
Ohio University Press 2004 206 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0821415913
Published Price £43.50 Sale Price £7.99
Focusing on two of the most popular Victorian genres - illustration and narrative painting - both of which blur the line between the visual and the textual, Julia Thomas reassesses mid 19th century values in the light of this interplay. She surveys materials ranging from Punch cartoons about the crinoline to William Holman Hunt's The Awakening Conscience, and demonstrates how the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and challenged.
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A Cultural History Social Studies
Mike Sinclair
Oxford University Press 2007 255 pages
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Hardback 0195314921
Published Price $30.00 Sale Price £3.99
The backdrop for Magna Carta, Handel's Water Music and the Profumo affair, the Thamses is England's most famous river. This guidebook with a difference pauses frequently on the journey from its source to the Barrier to explore the human activity - art, literature, sport, education, industry, government - which has grown up around the river.
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Social Studies
Laura Lunger Knoppers; Joan B Landes (Edited by)
Cornell University Press 2004 304 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0801489016
Published Price £17.95 Sale Price £3.99
In eight essays this book explores how, in the early modern era, texts and images were used to convey monstrosity and how, in this period of transitions, monstrous bodies carried the weight of political, social, sexual or religious aberration or transgression. Among specific topics are headless monsters in the English Revolution, monstrous births and the German Reformation, anatomical science in the French Revolution and monstrosity and myth in Shelley's Frankenstein.
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Music Censorship Today Social Studies
Marie Korpe (Edited by)
Zed 2004 228 pages
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HB + CD 1842775049
Published Price £50.00 Sale Price £2.99
With contributions from academics, journalists and musicians themselves, this survey of music censorship covers a surprisingly wide range of countries, from Afghanistan and Iran to France and post-9/11 America. It explores the methods and logic of governments, commercial corporations and religious groups in suppressing the freedom of performers, including two instances where censors themselves explain what they are doing. The book comes with a CD which presents ten tracks by the artists discussed.
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Prejudice versus Reality Social Studies
A G Noorani
Zed 2002 166 pages
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Hardback 1842772708
Published Price £32.99 Sale Price £3.99
Published in the Global Issues series, this short, accessible work aims to correct misperceptions and misrepresentations of Islam among both westerners and Muslims themselves. Noorani, a Mumbai Muslim, regards the 'so-called Islamic fundamentalist' as an imposter and attempts to explain the true political vision of Islam, tracing the historical roots of modern radicalized Islam and elucidating concepts such as Jihad and Fatwa, democracy and Islam and Ijtihad (reason). No jacket.
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Lives, Culture and Conquest in the East, 1750-1850 Social Studies
Maya Jasanoff
Knopf 2005 406 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1400041678
Published Price $27.95 Sale Price £5.99
The Mughal emperor's letters in an archive in the French Alps, the names of Italian adventurers scratched on the walls of Egyptian temples, Tipu's Tiger... In this imaginative study, Maya Jasanoff delves into the stories behind 'scattered testaments' such as these to uncover the lives of the collectors - people who lived in India and Egypt, on the frontiers of the British empire during a pivotal century in its formation. American-cut pages.
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Postwar French Thought: Volume III Social Studies
Nicole Loraux; Gregory Nagy; Laura Slatkin (Edited by)
New Press 2001 481 pages
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Hardback 1565843762
Published Price £24.99 Sale Price £4.99
Since 1945, a group of French scholars drawing on anthropology, religion, psychology, philology and the new history has dramatically advanced the study of ancient Greek and Roman cultures. This third volume in the Postwar French Thought series presents a selection of the major critical texts that have transformed the way classical antiquity is defined and studied, including seminal essays by, among others, Beneviste, Bollack, Detienne, Gernet, Irigoin, Loraux, Nicolet, Vernant, Veyne and Vidal-Naquet.
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Social Studies
Dr Shashibala
Roli 2007 144 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 8174363211 255x210mm
Published Price $19.95 Sale Price £6.99
With examples from many of the world's religious traditions, this book delves into the spiritual psychology of human beings as expressed in scriptures, votive objects and architecture, dance, music and drama. It begins by locating the origins of this art in the worship of nature and examines how manifestations of divine art have developed up to the present day when, in an age of consumerism, they can still 'portray a positive vision and offer spiritual delight'.
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Cradle of European Culture Social Studies
Michael Streeter
New Holland 2006 240 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 1845371925 296x230mm
Published Price £29.99 Sale Price £7.99
Illustrated on virtually every page with colour photographs of cultural artefacts, this book charts the history of the various peoples who have lived around the Mediterranean Sea and whose legacies live on today. Its five sections cover geographical features of the region; history and politics from the earliest times to the fall of the Ottoman Empire; Greek, Roman and Byzantine art and society; trade, seafaring and the development of science; and religion from the Egyptians and Phoenicians to the emergence of Christianity and Islam.
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The Role of Pattern in Culture Social Studies
Dorothy K Washburn; Donald W Crowe (Edited by)
Washington University Press 2004 354 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0295983663 255x176mm
Published Price $60.00 Sale Price £11.99
This is the companion volume to the ground-breaking Symmetries of Culture: Theory and Practice of Plane Pattern Analysis, the classic reference for symmetry analysis of pattern for anthropologists, archaeologists, art historians, mathematicians and designers. In these 10 studies, contributors from several disciplines apply the method of symmetry analysis in case studies including Zulu beadwork, Nasca embroideries, Amazonian shamanic therapy and Turkish-Yoruk weavers, and explore how cultural information is embedded in the symmetrical structure of pattern.
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A History from the Greeks to the Present Social Studies
Darrin M McMahon
Allen Lane 2006 544 pages
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Hardback Illustrated 0713994827
Published Price £25.00 Sale Price £3.99
Hegel observed that 'periods of happiness... are the blank pages of history': those pages are the subject of this study. Tracing changing conceptions of happiness from the Greek and Roman philosophers to its appearance as an ideal in the declarations of Independence and the Rights of Man, McMahon argues that our modern belief in a right to happiness is the result of a revolution in expectations since the 18th century.
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Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England Social Studies
Pamela Allen Brown
Cornell University Press 2003 263 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0801488362
Published Price £13.95 Sale Price £9.99
In this study, Pamela Allen Brown focuses on early modern jesting literature - a genre generally thought of as a discourse closed to women - and considers how the culture of jest shaped women's experience of both everyday life and stage dramas. Using many kinds of popular and documentary sources, Brown shows that ordinary women were not always, as commonly supposed, the butt of men's jokes, but often appear as bawdy storytellers, with a ready wit, and keen satirists, infused with a 'spirit of artful ridicule'.
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Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient Social Studies
Sheridan Prasso
PublicAffairs 2005 439 pages
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Hardback 1586482149
Published Price $27.95 Sale Price £6.99
Race, sex, fantasy and power - these are the issues explored in this highly provocative book. Challenging the cultural and political stereotypes that are still prevalent in the West, Sheridan Prasso offers anecdotes and insights drawn from her extensive experience of the Far East. She combines a sensitive understanding and a strong sense of history in this account of Asian women and Western fallacies about them. Scruffy jacket.
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Young British Talents Talk Business Social Studies
Cynthia Rose
Thames & Hudson 1999 240 pages
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Paperback Illustrated 0500280835 275x210mm
Published Price £18.95 Sale Price £2.99
A look at how and why in the 1990s British style and attitude influenced Parisian couture, global advertising and American pop radio, through illustrated essays by young talents such as DJ James Lavelle, photographer Corinne Day and filmmaker Isaac Julien.
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