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A classic account of how landscape has been central to questions of 'Englishness' - of national identity, history and modernity, as well as concepts of citizenship and the body.

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A new biography of Langston Hughes, taking in his extraordinary life and canonical works.

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This book provides a succinct and comprehensive history of Latin American cinema from its origins in 1896 to the award-winning cinema of the present day.

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In this robust new account of the Vikings, Tom Shippey explores their mindset, and in particular their fascination with scenes of heroic death. Laughing Shall I Die Ironbeard and Long Serpent , and the death of Thormod the skald. The most exciting book on Vikings for a generation, Laughing Shall I Die

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You can squeeze it, zest it, slice it, juice it, pickle it, or even take a bite out of it as Sicilians do. This title tells the story of the remarkable adventure of the lemon, starting with its fragrant and mysterious ancestor, the citron, adored by the Greeks and Romans for its fine perfume and sacred to many of the world's great religions.

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A natural and cultural history of the 'perfect predator' - the leopard - and its depiction in literature, art, film, advertising and popular culture.

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Lesser Dragons Lesser Dragons

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Levitation tells the peculiar story of those who have dreamed, believed, or practiced levitation through history, whether they were successful or not.

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As Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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A challenging, iconoclastic history of empire-building from the point of view of women.

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In Lightning: Nature and Culture Beautifully illustrated with stunning lightning displays and strikingimages of storm gods and goddesses, as well as the distinctive fern-likebranching patterns left by lightning on people's skin, Lightning: Nature and Culture

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

A celebrated collaboration between writer Iain Sinclair and photographer Marc Atkins, documenting the duo's peregrinations around London's back streets, canals and landmarks.

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(Hardback)

The wide range of anecdotes and practical advice of Listening to Design

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Ideas about quantities, magnitudes and frequencies shape and give texture to almost everything we feel, say, dream and do.

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Filled with beguiling images throughout, Lizard is a unique and sometimes surprising introduction to this popular but little-understood reptile. Boria Sax describes the diversity of lizard species and traces the representation of this reptile in cultures worldwide.

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London is known as a metropolitan, ordered city full of tourist attractions and exclusive shops, but the real face of the city disordered, chaotic, sprawling, vigorous, untamed remains unseen and unexplored. London from Punk to Blair London from Punk to Blair embraces the city like no other book has before.

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"London Fashion Week" has maintained London's position as one of the most important cities on the international fashion calendar. Arguing that fashion was central to the impact of modernity in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century London, the author maps the progress of fashion against the city's neighbourhoods and streets.

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An informative, witty and concise account of London's past, and its present.

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Unveils Lucas Cranach the Elder, an artist whose vision transcended personal brilliance.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein, writes noted scholar Edward Kanterian, was a 'philosopher's philosopher'. He was one of the founders of modern analytic philosophy and is regarded as the greatest philosophical genius since Immanuel Kant. In this book, Kanterian traces the complex relationship between the philosopher's life, his work and his time.

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An in-depth insight into the history of Madrid, as well as the city today.