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(Hardback)
By: Professor Christopher Breward
ISBN: 9781780235233
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Beautifully illustrated and written with authority, Suit offers new perspectives on this most mundane, and at the same time poetic and beautiful, product of modern culture.
(Hardback)
By: Paul Collins
ISBN: 9781789144154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The loss, discovery and reinvention of the worlds earliest civilization, the Sumerians.
(Hardback)
By: Christopher Pinney
ISBN: 9781780239323
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The Waterless Sea is the first book devoted to the theories and history of mirages. Christopher Pinney navigates a sinuous pathway through a mysterious and evanescent terrain, showing how mirages have impacted politics, culture, science, and religion, and how we can continue to learn from their sublimity.
(Hardback)
By: Peter Stanfield
ISBN: 9781836390770
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Shows how British pop trailblazers The Yardbirds helped to shape rock music.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Staunton
ISBN: 9781836390701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The controversial, turbulent life and violent death of Thomas Becket.
(Paperback)
By: Simon Jarrett
ISBN: 9781836390718
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A humane, thoughtful and yet clear-eyed history of people with learning disabilities.
(Hardback)
By: Maria H. Loh
ISBN: 9781789140828
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th July 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Timon Screech
ISBN: 9781789149555
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A rich and original history of Edo, the shoguns city that became modern Tokyo.
(Hardback)
By: Timon Screech
ISBN: 9781789142334
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Tokyo today is one of the world's mega-cities and the center of a scintillating, hyper-modern culture - but not everyone is aware of its past
(Paperback)
By: Peter Young
ISBN: 9781861891914
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2004
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Covers tortoises worldwide in evolution, myth and reality, ranging across palaeontology, natural history, veterinary medicine, folklore, myth, art forms, literature, and trade regulations.
(Paperback)
By: Vilm Flusser
ISBN: 9781861890764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2001
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Media philosopher Vilm Flusser proposed a revolutionary new way of thinking about photography. An analysis of the medium in terms of aesthetics, science and politics provided him with new ways of understanding both the cultural crises of the past and the new social forms nascent within them.
(Paperback)
By: Katie Milestone
ISBN: 9781836390732
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 1st March 2025
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The emergence, evolution and global spread of nightclubs and electronic dance music.
(Hardback)
By: Charles Watkins
ISBN: 9781780239309
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Drawing on the author's deep knowledge of the history and ecology of trees, Trees in Art shows that we can learn much about ourselves from the art of trees.
(Paperback)
By: Lisa Morton
ISBN: 9781789141580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The first history of the misunderstood festival Halloween, and its current global popularity.
(Hardback)
By: Celia Fisher
ISBN: 9781780237596
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In Tulip, Celia Fisher traces the story of this important and highly popular plant, from its mountain beginnings to its cultivation in the gardens of Mughul, Persian and Ottoman potentates, and its migration from East to West along the silk trading routes.
(Hardback)
By: William Sheehan
ISBN: 9781789145854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2022
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the mysterious, inhospitable planet Venus.
(Hardback)
By: Julia Frey
ISBN: 9781789141603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Drawing on insights, images and unpublished diaries, Julia Frey explores Edouard Vuillard's private world.
(Hardback)
By: Patricia Herlihy
ISBN: 9781861899293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2012
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2012
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Vodka: A Global History describes vodka's complete history, from its emergence in Eastern Europe to its future as a global beverage. Attractively illustrated with photographs, paintings and graphic art, this title provides an engaging account of the rise of vodka.
(Paperback)
By: Thom van Dooren
ISBN: 9781861898067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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In Vulture, Thom van Dooren counters the common association of the vulture with death and putrefaction, offering a concise and enlightening new history of this previously much-misunderstood bird.
(Hardback)
By: Kerri Andrews
ISBN: 9781789143423
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Jones
ISBN: 9781789141610
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An enlightening and entertaining guide to the natural and cultural history of the wasp.
(Paperback)
By: Veronica Strang
ISBN: 9781780234328
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Veronica Strang's Water: Nature and Culture
(Hardback)
By: Nina Edwards
ISBN: 9781780234274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A scientific and cultural history of weeds, which shows that regarding certain plants as weeds and not others is purely a matter of context. Weeds reveals just how interesting and useful these seemingly annoying plants can be.
(Paperback)
By: Nina Edwards
ISBN: 9781789149586
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2024
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A scientific and botanical history of weeds, from unwanted intruder to beautiful ornament.
