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		Rising Star
		Dandyism, Gender and Performance in the Fin de Siecle		Social Studies
		Rhonda K Garelick
		Princeton University Press 1999 232 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 069104869X
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	Celebrity personalities owe their fame not to specific deeds but to the ability to project a distinct personal image. Focusing on this particular form of celebrity, Garelick locates a prototype of the star personality in 19th century dandies and aesthete literary figures including Beau Brummell, Baudelaire, Mallarme and Oscar Wilde. Recent dandy-like figures, such as the artist formerly known as Prince, Jackie Onassis and Jacques Derrida, all share a legacy provided by the encounter between high and 'low' culture.
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		58249The Pursuit of Happiness
		A History from the Greeks to the Present		Social Studies
		Darrin M McMahon
		Allen Lane 2006 544 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0713994827
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	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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		Voltaire's Coconuts
		or Anglomania in Europe		Social Studies
		Ian Buruma
		Phoenix 2000 326 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0753809540
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	In his 'gallery of Anglophiles', Ian Buruma explores European ideas about Englishness and what Europeans have admired or loathed about Britain. Combining memories of his own Anglo-Dutch-German-Jewish family with biographical stories of figures including Voltaire, Goethe, the 'parkomane' Prince Hermann von Puckler-Muskau, Nikolaus Pevsner and failed 1848 revolutionaries such as Kossuth and Mazzini, Buruma has found a wholly original way of describing the relationship between Britain and Europe.
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		Welcome to Everytown
		A Journey into the English Mind		Social Studies
		Julian Baggini
		Granta 2007 274 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1862079218
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	What do the English really think? To find out, philosopher Julian Baggini spent six months living in a semi in S66 (Rotherham, South Yorkshire), the most typical postcode in the country. Making friends in the local, reading the Sun and the Daily Mail, he begins to understand people's beliefs, hopes and fears. The result is an eye-opening and entertaining look at what it means to be English and, for Baggini, an unexpected personal journey of rediscovery.
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		Images of Eden
		An Enquiry into the Psychology of Aesthetics		Social Studies
		Arthur Edwards
		Skylark 2003 349 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0953611604
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	Aesthetics is traditionally regarded as an aspect of philosophy: Edwards's approach is different. He argues that any work of art is devised in the mind of the artist and interpreted in the mind of the beholder and must therefore constitute a device of communication between those two minds. He explores the implications of this idea in a wide-ranging, cross-cultural quest that extends from Freud's model of the psyche to the trigonometry of the Great Pyramid and from communication theory to the Ying Yang symbol.
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		Histories: French Constructions of the Past
		Postwar French Thought. Volume 1		Social Studies
		Jacques Revel; Lynn Hunt (Edited by)
		New Press 1995 654 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1565844351
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	The first of four volumes that trace the intellectual transformations of postwar France through anthologies of seminal writings, Histories focuses on the historians associated with the journal Annales, setting their work in the wider context of postwar French historiography, structuralism, quantitative methods and interdisciplinary studies. The selections include foundational texts by Braudel, Labrousse, Duby, Chartier and Wachtel, as well as works by Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Bourdieu, many of them in their first English translation.
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		Our Own Devices
		The Past and Future of Body Technology		Social Studies
		Edward Tenner
		Knopf 2003 314 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0375407227
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	Edward Tenner has been dubbed 'the philosopher of everyday technology' by an American radio station, and everyday objects that affect how we use our bodies - how we sit, stand, walk and communicate - are the subject of his intriguing study. Tenner examines the structures, devices and systems we use and our skills in using them - 'technology and technique' - and discusses topics including bottle-feeding, footwear, posture chairs and reclining chairs, musical and text keyboards, eyeglasses and helmets. American-cut pages.
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		Better a Shrew than a Sheep
		Women, Drama and the Culture of Jest in Early Modern England		Social Studies
		Pamela Allen Brown
		Cornell University Press 2003 263 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0801488362
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	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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		The Asian Mystique
		Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls and Our Fantasies of the Exotic Orient		Social Studies
		Sheridan Prasso
		PublicAffairs 2005 439 pages		Qty
		Hardback 1586482149
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	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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		Counter Culture Through the Ages
		From Abraham to Acid House		Social Studies
		Ken Goffman; Dan Joy
		Villard 2004 404 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0375507582
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	Sometimes countercultures are hidden well beneath the surface, but at other times they burst forth and challenge the status quo, playing a dynamic role in cultural evolution. Demonstrating the recurrent nature of counterculturalism right across history, the co-founder of Mondo 2000 magazine begins with the 'Hacker God' Prometheus and 'primal revolutionist' Abraham, then ranges from Provencal troubadours to Taoism and Sufism, before ending by describing in detail the various countercultures of the later 20th century.
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		Trade Secrets
		Young British Talents Talk Business		Social Studies
		Cynthia Rose
		Thames & Hudson 1999 240 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0500280835 275x210mm
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	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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		Heaven
		A Traveller's Guide to the Undiscovered Country		Social Studies
		Peter Stanford
		HarperCollins 2003 374 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0006531571
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	Prompted by his own experience of bereavement, Peter Stanford has written a history of various conceptions of heaven: is it the ultimate promise, or merely a way of alleviating our fear of death? At a time when the Church has grown nervous about discussing the subject, Stanford draws on religious and secular ideas from Dante and Swedenborg to Jean Cocteau, Philip Pullman and Eric Clapton.
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		Listening to Reason
		Culture, Subjectivity and Nineteenth-Century Music		Social Studies
		Michael P Steinberg
		Princeton University Press 2004 246 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0691116857
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	Discussing composers from Mozart to Mahler, Steinberg reveals the pivotal role of musical works and musical culture in the debates that forged European modernity during the 'long' 19th century.
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		Eating Out in Europe
		Picnics, Gourmet Dining and Snacks since the Late Eighteenth Century		Social Studies
		Marc Jacobs; Peter Scholliers (Edited by)
		Berg 2003 420 pages		Qty
		Hardback 185973653X
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	Examining changes in eating patterns throughout Europe, this volume covers every kind of 'eating out', from luxury eating in the 19th century French novel to modern industrial canteens in Germany. No jacket.
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		A Cultural History of Madrid
		Modernism and the Urban Spectacle		Social Studies
		Deborah L Parsons
		Berg 2003 130 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1859736513
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	A history of Madrid between 1900 and 1930 when the population doubled to almost a million, exploring relations between elite, mass and popular culture in the city, and emphasizing the role of art in the creation of the city's personality.
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