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A history of the gun, from cannons to laser beams.

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Introducing the major works and currentsof Joseon painting, Pathways to Korean Cultureexplores the various social, cultural and politicalperspectives of this dynamic, dynastic era(13921910), uncovering the fascinating historyof more than 500 years of Korean art andvisual culture.

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From the Linux logo to The March of the Penguins, a certain tuxedo-wearing member of the animal kingdom has long captured our hearts and imaginations. Stephen Martin regales us here with the cultural and natural history of the penguin, revealing many fascinating and little-known facts about this beloved bird.

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An exploration of the issues that arise when philosophers ask 'how are we to eat'

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Surveillance cameras. Airport security lines. We see manifestations of societal fears every day, and daily news reports on the latest household danger or raised terror threat level continually stoke our sense of impending doom. This book explores the underlying ideas and issues behind this powerful emotion.

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Photography and Anthropology is a highly illustrated, provocative analysis of anthropologists' use of photography from the 1840s to the present.

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Richly illustrated with many previously unpublished images, Photography and Germany is the first single-authored history of German photography, and deepens our understanding of how photography cultivates notions of a nation and its inhabitants.

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An accessible introduction to photographys perhaps most contested, complex and emotive subject, war.

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A celebration of the pie as well as a hugely informative history, Pie taps into the increasingly popular vein of books on culinary history, and will satisfy the appetites of those with a particular interest in the history of food, as well as the more general reader interested in food and cookery.

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Our frequent urban companion, cooing in the eaves of train stations or scavenging underfoot for breadcrumbs and discarded scraps, the pigeon has many detractors and even some fans. This title explores pigeon's cultural significance, comparing it to the dove.

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Pineapple is a culinary love story enriched with vivid illustrations andirresistible recipes from around the world for eating and drinking thepineapple.

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Playing at Home explores the different ways in which contemporary artists have engaged with ideas of the house and home - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses.

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In Poppy Andrew Lack explores all aspects of one of our most familiar but declining flowers, combining history and biology with symbolic associations and connections with the arts.

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Drawing on a range of images from Antiquity to the 20th century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, this title investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society.

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An investigation of how we view and understand portraiture as a genre, and how portraits function as artworks within social and political networks.

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Explores ambiguity in modern art, considering images that rely to a very particular degree on an imaginative or a projected response from the viewer to achieve their effect.

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This illustrated work introduces the world of "fin-de-siecle" Prague, and charts the effects of the emergence of modernism and the search for Czech national identity on both the fine and the applied arts, as well as on architecture, music and literature.

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Historical survey of urban images in cinema, from its origins to the present day. This survey of the historic relationship between film and the urban landscape shows how cinematic images have been fundamental to the ways in which cities have been imagined and formulated.

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Like a rich plum pudding, Pudding: A Global History

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Drawing extensively on Tchaikovsky's uncensored letters and diaries, this biography explores the composer's life in the artistic culture of nineteenth-century Russian society, revealing how he became a figure of international renown.

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A timely reappraisal of Indian writer, composer, musician, artist and activist Rabindranath Tagore.

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The natural and cultural history of an opportunistic omnivore, the raccoon.

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In Rat, Jonathan Burt traces the history of the human relationship with rats, from the first archaeological finds to the genetically engineered rats of the present day, describing its role in the arts and sciences, religion and myth, psychoanalysis and medicine.