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(Paperback)
By: Robert Hampson
ISBN: 9781789143041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 23rd November 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An original interpretation of Joseph Conrad's life of writing.
(Paperback)
By: Rainer Crone
ISBN: 9781780233796
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The book traces Malevich's development from his beginnings in Ukraine and early years in Moscow - where he was closely involved in the Futurist circle - through to the late 1920s and beyond.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Quentin Morton
ISBN: 9781780235806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new history of the United Arab Emirates, which looks behind the region's glossy facade to cast a revealing light on a much-misunderstood land.
(Paperback)
By: Terry Satsuki Milhaupt
ISBN: 9781780232782
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Kimono traces the transformation of the Japanese garment from everyday attire to National symbol, exploring the historic and contemporary use of this enduring cultural legacy.
(Hardback)
By: Charlotte Horlyck
ISBN: 9781780237367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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From Korean artists' first encounters with oil paintings in the late nineteenth century to the varied and vibrant creative outputs of the 2000s, this new account covers a critical and, from a cultural perspective, a revolutionary time, signified by the breakdown of earlier artistic conventions and the rise of new art forms.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: David Matless
ISBN: 9781780235813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2016
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: John Beck
ISBN: 9781789143058
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: W. Jason Miller
ISBN: 9781789141955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new biography of Langston Hughes, taking in his extraordinary life and canonical works.
(Paperback)
By: Stephen M. Hart
ISBN: 9781780233659
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Toby Sonneman
ISBN: 9781780230344
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Julie Peakman
ISBN: 9781789141405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 14th October 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A challenging, iconoclastic history of empire-building from the point of view of women.
(Hardback)
By: Esther Leslie
ISBN: 9781780236452
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Boria Sax
ISBN: 9781780238289
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Phil Baker
ISBN: 9781789142181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th April 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An informative, witty and concise account of London's past, and its present.
(Paperback)
By: Linda Simon
ISBN: 9781789140712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2019
UK Publication Date: 15th April 2019
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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(Paperback)
By: Edward Kanterian
ISBN: 9781861893208
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2007
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Helen Crisp
ISBN: 9781789142198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 15th February 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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An in-depth insight into the history of Madrid, as well as the city today.
(Paperback)
By: Adam Watt
ISBN: 9781780230948
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Adam Watt's biography considers Proust's early years of personal and aesthetic experiment, the growth of his masterwork A la recherche du temps perdu and his personal decline due to ill-health.
(Hardback)
By: Anthony Bale
ISBN: 9781789144703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 11th October 2021
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe.
(Hardback)
By: Stephen James OMeara
ISBN: 9781789142204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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The most up-to-date account available of Mars, a small world with a big reputation.
(Hardback)
By: Michael Quentin Morton
ISBN: 9781789143119
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2020
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Sheds new light on Qatar, a country that has previously defied explanation.
(Paperback)
By: Maria Golia
ISBN: 9781780234977
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2016
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Meteorite: Nature and Culture is a unique, richly illustrated cultural history of these ancient and mysterious phenomena.
(Paperback)
By: Professor J.A.E. Curtis
ISBN: 9781780237411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st February 2017
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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This is an absorbing account of the life and work of one of Russia's most inventive and exuberant novelists and playwrights.
(Hardback)
By: Hannah Velten
ISBN: 9781861896568
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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Though milk is the sustaining and essential food of all mammals, the majority of the world's population cannot digest raw cow's milk. Of those that do drink milk regularly, most have never actually tasted raw milk. This book explores the myths and misconceptions surrounding the drink.
