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A trailblazing and highly topical look at how - and why - we imagine the world is going to end.

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Italianissimo profiles fifty enticing Italian contributions to culture high and low, from the lofty realm of great ideas to the delicious realities of cuisine, fashion, cinema, and much more, all which embody the essence of Italy.

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In a stinging critique of our legal system, law scholar Thomas Ross reveals how in making and justifying their opinions, judges rely to a startling degree on personal constructs that often perpetuate deep biases in society. "Shatters myth after myth about race, poverty, and women's roles. A searingly effective piece of scholarship".--Richard Delgado.

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Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.

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A new and updated edition ofLondon Feeds Itself, edited by the food writer and editor of Vittles, Jonathan Nunn, exploring the charged intersections between food and modern London.

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A quirky collection of true stories from the stranger side of the Tube, featuring ghost stations, eccentric stationmasters and the real story of what happens under London at night.

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A timely and scintillating book that offers a fresh take on the roots of antisemitism and explores how an irrational belief can still flourish in a supposedly rational age.

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A singular work of narrative non-fiction that explores the unexpected connections between two titans of the British cultural psyche and what they can tell us about class, male identity and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years

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The Many Lives of the Batman (1991) was a pioneer within cultural and comic book scholarship. This fresh new sequel retains the best of the original chapters but also includes images, new chapters and new contributions from the Batman writers and editors. Spanning 75 years and multiple incarnations, this is the definitive history of Batman.

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In Masscult & Midcult, MacDonald turned his formidable critical attention to what he saw as a new, and potentially catastrophic, development in the history of Western civilization: the influence-by turns distorting, destructive, and inadvertently ridiculous-of mass culture on high culture.

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The unauthorized, behind-the-scenes story of the most popular, lucrative, and transformative cultural phenomenon of our time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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A reverential view of the Hopi Way as seen by one of the few white men who have lived within this culture. This text is his interpretation of the essence of Hopi tradition.

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A guide to the art, history, and politics of visible mending at once a practical instruction guide for techniques, a statement on the beauty of repairing and reimagining clothes, and a manifesto against fast fashion.

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A look at inner-city problems, focusing on solutions that recognise the link between urban and suburban well-being and suggestions for change.

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We all need help in achieving cultural fluency. We are baffled when problems arise and insist on resolving conflicts according to our cultural norms. When this behaviour kicks in, important deals fall through, opportunities are missed and good will is squandered.

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From the internationally acclaimed author of MINI PHILOSOPHY, here are 150 big ideas in bite-sized chunks.

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Richard Weight not only brings us up to the cults revival in the late 70s played out against its own soundtrack of Quadrophenia and the Jam but reveals Mod to be the DNA of British youth culture, leaving its mark on glam and Northern Soul, punk and Two Tone, Britpop and rave.

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With an abundance of data and evidence, this book explores the societal and biological factors that determine whether cultures are able to ascend socially, economically and intellectually. Drawing on science and statistics as much as on human instinct and emotion, it reconsiders the modern world with a motion to improving it.

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Delightful rhymes and charming hand-stitched art celebrate the many ways we sleep across the world. Perfect for a baby shower gift and for fans of This Is How We Do It.