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By: Sarah Moss
ISBN: 9781861895240
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2009
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Redolent of everything sensual and hedonistic, chocolate is synonymous with our idea of indulgence. It is adored around the world and has been since the Spanish first encountered cocoa beans in South America in the sixteenth century. This title explores the origins and growth of this almost universal obsession.
(Paperback)
By: Jake Poller
ISBN: 9781836390091
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A holistic approach to the monumental modernist writer Christopher Isherwood.
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By: David Batchelor
ISBN: 9781861890740
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Argues that a chromophobic impulse - a fear of corruption or contamination through colour - lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This book analyses the motivations behind chromophobia and focuses on the work of writers and artists who have been prepared to look at colour as a positive value.
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By: Richard Hamblyn
ISBN: 9781780237237
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Clouds examines clouds in their cultural, historical and scientific contexts, exploring their notable presence in literature and the arts (including music and sculpture) while outlining their growing scientific significance in the context of climate change.
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By: Jeremy Harte
ISBN: 9781789148336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A colourful and engaging account of the Devils influence on the English landscape.
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By: Mary Ginsberg
ISBN: 9781789142068
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2020
UK Publication Date: 13th July 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Now available in paperback, this is the first truly global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art.
(Hardback)
By: Mary Ginsberg
ISBN: 9781780237244
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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This is the first truly global survey of the history and variety of communist poster art. The book features 295 illustrations, with 290 in colour, of communist posters from throughout the world.
(Paperback)
By: Adrian Forty
ISBN: 9781780236360
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Hardback)
By: Roberta J. M. Olson
ISBN: 9781789140545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Cosmos: The Art and Science of the Universe charts the human love affair with the heavens in art and astronomy, based on sound science and insightful art and cultural history.
(Hardback)
By: Geoff White
ISBN: 9781789142853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A thrilling, true account of computer hacking - past, present and future.
(Paperback)
By: Dan Wylie
ISBN: 9781780230870
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Dan Wylie's Crocodile tracks the 23 recognized crocodilian species across every continent bar Antarctica, and through myths, artworks and literatures around the world.
(Paperback, Enlarged ed.)
By: Boria Sax
ISBN: 9781780238425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A classic account of the crow, now available in B-format paperback. Boria Sax looks at the crow in myth, literature and life, from Noah's raven to films such as The Crow.
(Paperback)
By: David Ellis
ISBN: 9781836390138
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A concise yet comprehensive account of D. H. Lawrence's stormy life and writing career.
(Hardback)
By: Victor I. Stoichita
ISBN: 9781789140569
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Hardback)
By: Nina Edwards
ISBN: 9781780239828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th October 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Nina Edwards explores darkness as both physical feature and cultural image, through themes of sight, blindness, consciousness, dreams, fear of the dark, night blindness, and the in-between states of dusk or fog, twilight and dawn, the point or period of obscuration and clarification.
(Hardback)
By: Nawal Nasrallah
ISBN: 9781861897961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2011
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Dates is an informative and enjoyable account of the date and the date palm, following its journey from ancient Mesopotamia to the places where it is cultivated today. Dates is interwoven with stories, anecdotes and humour, and explores date etymology, history, culture, religion, myth and legend.
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By: Laura Mulvey
ISBN: 9781861892638
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The manipulation of the cinematic image by the viewer also makes visible cinema's material and aesthetic attributes. By exploring how new technologies can give new life to 'old' cinema, Death 24x A Second offers an original re-evaluation of film's history and also its historical usefulness.
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By: John Fletcher
ISBN: 9781780230887
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2013
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In this book John Fletcher describes the evolution, species, habitats, behaviour and diet of the deer, as well as its portrayal in art and influence on popular culture, myth and song.
(Hardback)
By: Steven Nadler
ISBN: 9781789146837
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Shows how Ren Descartes transformed philosophy.
(Hardback)
By: Jason Whittaker
ISBN: 9781789142877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Pauline Fairclough
ISBN: 9781789141276
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th August 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich.
(Hardback)
By: Sander L. Gilman
ISBN: 9781836390152
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An examination of the ever-shifting boundary between scientific medicine and quackery.
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By: Alan Rauch
ISBN: 9781780230894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2013
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In this book, Alan Rauch provides a comprehensive view of the dolphin, describing both its remarkable zoology and its social and cultural history.
(Hardback)
By: A. Victor Coonin
ISBN: 9781789141306
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 12th August 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A beautifully illustrated monograph on the innovative and at times controversial sculptor Donatello.
