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A vivid portrait of the formidable-looking yet sociable and intelligent crab.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

The recent retirement of Fidel Castro turned the world's attention towards the island nation of Cuba and the question of what its future holds. Amid the talk and hypothesizing, it is worth taking a moment to consider how Cuba reached this point. The author provides this with his incisive history of Cuba since 1959.

(Hardback)

'Curry' is one of the most widely used and misused terms in the culinary lexicon. Outside of India, the word curry is often used as a catch-all to describe any Indian dish or Indian food in general. This title describes the Anglo-Indian origins of curry and how it has been adapted throughout the world.

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As well as much-needed electricity, dams generate extremes of emotion. This book traces the development of dams from the Industrial Revolution onwards. It offers an account of their design, construction and function, which may appeal to general readers and those interested in environmental policy, history and civil engineering.

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Horror films revel in taking viewers into shadowy places where evil resides, whether it is a house, a graveyard or a dark forest. This title leads us inside these haunted spaces to explore them and the monstrous antagonists who dwell there.

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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.

(Hardback)

A full portrait of the complex and brilliant Spanish poet and dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca.

(Paperback, 2nd edition)

Taking account of developments such as Facebook and the iPhone, this title charts the history of digital culture, as marked by responses to digital technology in art, music, design, film, literature and other areas. It is suitable for those concerned about the ever-changing future of our Digital Age.

(Hardback)

(Hardback)

. Including traditionaldumpling recipes for readers to make at home, Dumplings shows whatmakes this food special in so many countries.

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From the colourful abstraction of the Rietveld chair to the dry wit of the 'milkbottle lamp' by design cooperative Droog, modern design in the Netherlands has always been a hotbed of experimentation. This book takes a look not just at designs made in the Netherlands, but behind the works created throughout the twentieth century and beyond.

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Marta Braun's new biography of Eadweard Muybridge traces the sensational events of Muybridge's life against his personal reinventions as artist, photographer, high-minded researcher and showman.

(Hardback)

An exploration of the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the `long eighteenth century.

(Hardback)

Echoes of Valhalla is a unique account of modern adaptations of the Icelandic eddas (poems of Norse mythology) and sagas (ancient prose accounts of Viking history, voyages and battles).

(Hardback)

A beguiling tour in a bite-sized book, this mix of anecdotes, recipes and cultural history journeys through the lore of the most versatile of foods - the egg.

(Hardback)

This monograph, the first full account of Eileen Agar's complete works, including paintings, collages, photographs and objects, comes at a time when there is a major revival of interest in surrealism in the UK and world-wide.

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A musical composer who dabbled in the Dada movement, a Bohemian gymnopediste of fin-de-siecle Montmartre, and a legendary dresser known as The Velvet Gentleman for his sartorial choices, Erik Satie was nearly unprecedented in technique, style and philosophy among European composers in the early twentieth century. This book tells his story.

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South Korea a democratic high-tech Asian Tiger; North Korea a secretive dictatorship on Bush's notorious axis of evil', with a controversial nuclear program and a poverty-stricken population. This title tells the story of the common heritage from the ancient states of Old Choson and Wiman Choson to the relics of Cold War politics.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Film and music belong together; classics like Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" (1927) and Mike Nichols' "The Graduate" (1967) are renowned for their brilliant soundtracks. But what exactly is film music This title traces the history of music in film and discusses central theoretical questions concerning its narrative and psychological functions.

(Paperback)

Flamingo presents the natural and cultural history of the bird in an accessible way, including its behaviors, habitats and rich symbolism. It describes how the bird gets its distinctive pink colour, and why it has become such an iconic animal throughout the world.

(Hardback)

An engaging account of foie gras, a luxurious yet controversial ingredient.

(Hardback)

From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food in Art gives fresh insights into how food items were cultivated, hunted, trapped, stored, traded, prepared and served throughout the ages.