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The Banjara - an ethnic group composed of nomadic tribes, centered in the Indian state of Rajasthan - are renowned for their highly colourful textiles, often embellished with mirrors and intricate embroidery and produced from natural resources. This book is devoted to the traditions and embroidery of the Banjara.

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A fun and thoughtful exploration is offered of imaginary people who have affected our lives and culture, from Jim Crow and Sherlock Holmes to James Bond and Archie Bunker to Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus.

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How the idea of the West drove twentieth-century US foreign policy, how it fell from favor, and why it is worth saving

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An exploration of the personal and spiritual truths revealed through LSD.

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"The Aesthetics of Stealth proposes a cultural analysis as well as a political theory of stealth in its various aesthetic articulations"--

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In the modern information age, our brains coping mechanisms have been overloaded, and our irrationality turned up to eleven. Amanda Montell blends cultural criticism and personal narrative to explore our modern cognitive biases and the power, disadvantages and highlights of magical overthinking.

Chronicling the traditions of Chinese life and culture, The Art of Chinese Living is a visual cornucopia and an epic cultural immersion into everything from cuisine and history to art and rituals, calligraphy and music to artefacts and interiors, and from widespread national traditions to the minutiae of daily family life.

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An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.

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"From the City of New Angeles to the colony Heinlein on the Moon, the World of Android is a futuristic world like no other. This volume highlights the intricate designs of each character from the game itself. In addition, dive into the art of each locale and world, as well as each threat and gadget noted in the game!"--

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Provocative personal essays on race, representation, and the experience of having--or loving--a black body.

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The book as object, as content, as idea, as interface.

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Dive into this vibrantly illustrated history of everything humans have invented to entertain ourselves, from Chess and Nintendo to Drag Queen Story Hour and Burning Man.

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A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.

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A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

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A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood

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As America ceases to be defined by the black/white divide and enters a more complex multiethnic era, one of the most articulate young correspondents on television today offers a fast-paced road trip through the country's racial terrain.

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Jonathan Hennessey provides readers with everything they need to know about video games - from their early beginnings during World War II to the emergence of arcade games in the 1970s to the rise of Nintendo to today's app-based games like Angry Birds and Pokemon Go.

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An edition combining all seven books in John Peacock's "Fashion Sourcebooks" series, which charts in meticulous drawings the development of women's and men's clothing in the 20th century. It will be useful for the library of fashion students, historians and collectors.

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The Complexity and Progression of Black Representation in Film and Television examines the complexities of race, representation, Black masculinity, sexuality, class, and color in American cinema and television.

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"A media theory genealogy of the material and infrastructural features of networking practices, a kind of pre-history of networked society"--