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By: Xiang Yao
ISBN: 9780008400002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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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By: Jesper Juul
ISBN: 9780262529952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 2nd September 2016
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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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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By: Jack Kirby
ISBN: 9781506752235
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2025
UK Publication Date: 23rd September 2025
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics,U.S.
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By: Wendell Berry
ISBN: 9781640091580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd January 2019
Publisher: Counterpoint
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By: Asmodee
ISBN: 9781506725550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2021
UK Publication Date: 30th December 2021
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics,U.S.
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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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By: Johanna Isaacson
ISBN: 9781910924105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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By: Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
ISBN: 9781583228890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Provocative personal essays on race, representation, and the experience of having--or loving--a black body.
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By: Russ Frushtick
ISBN: 9780762480487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Running Press,U.S.
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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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By: Kate Summerscale
ISBN: 9781788162814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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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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By: Kate Summerscale
ISBN: 9781788162821
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 12th October 2023
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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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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By: Ayesha S. Chaudhry
ISBN: 9780861540853
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood
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By: Farai Chideya
ISBN: 9780688175801
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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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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By: Jonathan Hennessey
ISBN: 9780399578908
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2017
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
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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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By: John Peacock
ISBN: 9780500512760
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 19th September 2005
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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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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By: Pitirim A. Sorokin
ISBN: 9781851680283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1992
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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An analysis of the nature, causes and consequences of the crisis of modern society. Professor Sorokin asserts that the whole of modern culture is undergoing a period of transition brought on by the struggle between the forces of the materialistic order and a new idealistic order.
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By: Barry Glassner
ISBN: 9781541673489
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 29th November 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things-now updated for the age of Trump
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By: Michael Parenti
ISBN: 9781583227046
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Seven Stories Press,U.S.
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Drawing from cultures around the world, the author shows that beliefs and practices are readily subjected to political manipulation and that many parts of culture are being commodified, separated from their group or communal origins, to be packaged and sold to those who can pay for them.
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By: Rogan P. Taylor
ISBN: 9781917516211
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2025
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
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By: Jonathan Clements
ISBN: 9781529332421
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history - and the story it tells us about the land and its people.
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By: Jonathan Clements
ISBN: 9781529332469
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 20th January 2022
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history - and the story it tells us about the land and its people.
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By: Jonathan Clements
ISBN: 9781529332445
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history - and the story it tells us about the land and its people.
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By: Amanda Little
ISBN: 9781786076458
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Mary Roach meets Michael Pollan in this ambitious, dynamic and thought-provoking foray into the future of food
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By: Amanda Little
ISBN: 9781786077875
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2020
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Mary Roach meets Michael Pollan in this ambitious, dynamic and thought-provoking foray into the future of food
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By: Jayson Lusk
ISBN: 9780307987037
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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A rollicking indictment of the liberal elite's hypocrisy when it comes to food. The book celebrates what is good about the American food system and how take back forks and foie gras before it's too late.
