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By: Greil Marcus
ISBN: 9780571221578
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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New in paperback - Greil Marcus discusses America and its cultural tributes that carry its past, present and future.
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By: Sarah Boseley
ISBN: 9781783350384
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing
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If you are fat it is your fault. You should just get on your bike and go on a diet.
(Paperback)
By: Sheila Cliffe
ISBN: 9781350211186
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The Social Life of Kimono explores the material culture of the most socially significant garment in Japanese history, from its origins to the present day.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Bernie Sanders
ISBN: 9781568585536
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
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The historic filibuster that now-Presidential-candidate Bernie Sanders delivered on the Senate floor in 2010- denouncing income inequality, corporate greed, and tax cuts for the wealthy- now with an updated introduction that illustrates how the speech set Sanders on a course for the White House.
(Paperback)
By: Julie Klam
ISBN: 9780399573293
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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A lively and engaging exploration of celebrity: why celebrities fascinate us, what it means to be famous today, and why celebrities are so important.
(Hardback)
By: Daniel Goldberg
ISBN: 9781609806392
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 30th November 2015
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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(Paperback)
By: Adam Gopnik
ISBN: 9781849162876
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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The Table Comes First is at once a celebration of the rituals of eating - the scene of families, friends, lovers coming together, or breaking apart, the core of our memories - and an exploration of the extraordinary transformations that our notion of what makes food 'good' has undergone.
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By: Anthony Warner
ISBN: 9781786075932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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There are more diets than ever. So why arent we all getting thinner
(Hardback)
By: Anthony Warner
ISBN: 9781786075130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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There are more diets than ever. So why arent we all getting thinner
(Paperback)
By: John Reader
ISBN: 9780099474791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The story of one of the world's most important crops
From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those grown in China for McDonald's chips, the story of the spud is both satisfying and fascinating.
(Paperback)
By: Richard Hoggart
ISBN: 9780141191584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When a society becomes more affluent, does it lose other values Are the skills that education and literacy gave millions wasted on consuming pop culture Do the media coerce us into a world of the superficial and the material - or can they be a force for good This book asks these questions.
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By: Gay Talese
ISBN: 9781611855302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
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From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
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By: Patrick Barwise
ISBN: 9780141989402
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 19th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Ducat
ISBN: 9780807043455
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Beacon Press
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(Hardback)
By: Philomena Cunk
ISBN: 9781399819381
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A comic parody history of the world, from the star of BBC and Netflix's Cunk on Earth.
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By: Peter Doggett
ISBN: 9781847671141
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Canongate Books
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'An extraordinary book.Doggett emerges triumphant. Grab a copy - By Any Means Necessary.' (5 stars)-Mojo
(Paperback)
By: Sean Howe
ISBN: 9781593762780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2010
Publisher: Counterpoint
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"A close look at John Carpenter's 1988 classic amalgam of deliberate B-movie, sci-fi, horror, anti-Yuppie agitprop"--P. [4] of cover.
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By: Timothy Snyder
ISBN: 9780099563556
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th February 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Two explorers set out on a journey from which only one of them will return. Their unknown land is that often fearsome continent we call the 20th Century. Their route is through their own minds and memories. Thinking the Twentieth Century is about the life of the mind - and the mindful life.
(Paperback)
By: Marisa Meltzer
ISBN: 9781784742409
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food.
Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant.
(Hardback)
By: Marisa Meltzer
ISBN: 9781784742393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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'A life-changing book' Viv Groskop
Marisa Meltzer was put on her first diet aged five: it was the beginning of a fraught relationship with food.
Jean Nidetch was a housewife from Queens who defiantly lost 70 pounds after she was mistaken for being pregnant.
(Hardback)
By: Travis Elborough
ISBN: 9781408712849
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 8th July 2021
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A personal and insightful look at the extraordinary life and times of eyewear from the Ancient Greeks to Google Glass by the author of The Bus We Loved and A Walk in the Park.
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By: Jennifer Clapp
ISBN: 9780262551700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: J. Krishnamurti
ISBN: 9781570625961
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2000
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2000
Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
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This introductory material, comprising excerpts from a favoured medium, talks, is considered by the author to be the "core" of his teachings. Truth and impediments to our discovering it, innovative use of language and practical ways of clarifying our understanding of life are addressed.
(Hardback)
By: Alden Wicker
ISBN: 9780593422618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th June 2023
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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