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Chronicle of a Downfall
Germany 1929-1939
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
'An in valuable contribution to the enlightenment of those that care to be enlightened.' - Winston Churchill
Few figures of interwar Germany were as influential as Leopold Schwarzschild, the brilliant editor of the liberal magazine Das Tage-Buch. In the uncertain years of the Weimar Republic,...
TARDISbound
Navigating the Universes of Doctor Who
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2011
Doctor Who has always thrived on multiplicity and transformation. In the last two decades, it has grown dramatically in scope and complexity, migrating from television to other media universes. By 2009, Doctor Who was being produced in three different media, with six actors simultaneously playing...
The Shah's Iran - Rise and Fall
Conversations with an Insider
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
A chance encounter diverted Abdolreza Ansari from completing his doctorate in the US, and set him on a professional journey which mirrored the prolific rise and the precipitous fall of the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran. Appointed a cabinet minister at the age of just 34, Ansari consistently...
Street Photography
From Brassai to Cartier-Bresson
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Street photography is perhaps the best-loved and most widely known of all photographic genres, with names like Cartier-Bresson, Brassai and Doisneau familiar even to those with a fleeting knowledge of the medium. Yet what exactly is street photography? From what viewpoint does it present its subjects,...
by Frances Partridge
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
The Bloomsbury Group was as well known for its love affairs as for the work that was produced by its members. Of all the romantic entanglements, the love quadrangle between Frances Partridge, her husband Ralph Partridge, his first wife, Dora and Lytton Strachey was one of the most tortured (Frances...
Adolf Loos
The Art of Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a star in his own time. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth....
Art and the Politics of Visibility
Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In an era of unprecedented global mobility, artists face unique challenges. How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in character, and how will their visibility be impacted by either label? Art and the Politics of Visibility questions...
by Christopher Star
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the Younger, c 4 BCE-65 CE). At one time an advisor at court to Nero, Seneca and his political career came to ruin when he was implicated in a later plot to kill the capricious and matricidal...
Thinking Through Fashion
A Guide to Key Theorists
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts.
This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp...
Daoism
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
The way that can be told is not the eternal Way; the name that can be named is not the eternal Name.' So begins the first verse of the mysterious Dao De Jing, foundation text of the ancient Chinese religion of Daoism. Often attributed to semi-mythical sage Laozi, the origins of this enigmatic document...
by Mr Anthony Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
He was six feet tall, huge-chested, handsome, ebullient, a warrior, a hunter, a fisherman, a drinker.'
Ernest Hemingway was 'a man who lived it up to write it down' and his life became the root from which his novels grew. At the age of 18 he was awarded a medal for bravery in the First World...
Junk
Art and the Politics of Trash
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Trash, garbage, rubbish, dross, detritus - in this radical exploration of Junk, Gillian Whiteley rethinks art's historical and present appropriation of junk within our eco-conscious and globalised culture. She does this through an illustrated exploration of particular materials, key moments and locations...
On the Button
The Significance of an Ordinary Item
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
What do you use every day that is small and large, worthless and beyond price? It's easily found in the gutter, yet you may never be able to replace it. You are always losing it but it faithfully protects you; sexy and uptight, it is knitted in to your affections or it may give you nightmares. It...
Dante
The Poet, the Thinker, the Man
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental...