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Philosophy of Hope
Häftad, 2024
165 kr
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In this book Lars Svendsen embarks on a profound exploration of the nature of hope, asking what exactly hope is and how it differs from related phenomena such as wishful thinking. He argues that hope is rooted in the ability to shape one’s own future, crucial for a society built on freedom instead …
Fabulosa!
The Story of Polari, Britain’s Secret Gay Language
Av Paul Baker
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2019‘Richly evocative and entertaining.’ – Guardian‘A delightful read.’ – Tatler‘An essential book for anyone who wants to Polari Bona!’ – AttitudePolari is a language that was used chiefly by gay men in the first half of the twentieth century. It …
How Many Roads
A Life of Bob Dylan
Inbunden, 2026
232 kr
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How Many Roads chronicles Bob Dylan’s rise from apprenticeships in Minneapolis cafés and Greenwich Village folk clubs to international stardom as a breathtakingly original songwriter and singer. Scott Peeples follows Dylan through decades of radical shifts in his writing, recording and performing …
First Russian Revolution
The Decembrist Revolt of 1825
Inbunden, 2025
253 kr
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One of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025: HistoryOn 14 December 1825 a group of young Russian army officers led 3,000 troops to Senate Square in St Petersburg, aiming to force the Senate to adopt a liberal constitution and transform the Russian Empire. The Decembrist Revolt – as it came to be …
Chromophobia
Häftad, 2000
214 kr
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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse – a fear of corruption or contamination through colour – lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge colour, either by making it the property of some …
Medieval Scriptorium
Making Books in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2024
335 kr
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This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various aspects of manuscript production. Sara …
Winter Dreams
A Historical Guide to Old Age
Inbunden, 2025
253 kr
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One of Daily Telegraph’s Greatest Books of 2025.Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of ageing through artistic, literary and historical records. While old age is often depicted as ‘sans …
Comics at the Movies
From Flash Gordon to Avengers: Endgame
Inbunden, 2026
297 kr
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Comics at the Movies explores the rich and often overlooked history of comic-book film adaptations, from 1930s serials like Flash Gordon to today’s Marvel and DC blockbusters. It traces how the comic and film industries have intersected over the decades, analysing how adaptations reflect their …
Yardbirds
The Most Blueswailing Futuristic Way-Out Heavy Beat Sound
Inbunden, 2025
313 kr
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The Yardbirds were trailblazers in the rapid development of pop music in Britain between 1963 and 1968. With members including Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, they helped to set the basic template of what has been known ever since as rock music, and gave rise to one of the most commercially …
Dinner in Rome
A History of the World in One Meal
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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‘There is more history in a bowl of pasta than in the Colosseum,’ writes Andreas Viestad in Dinner in Rome. From the table of a classic Roman restaurant, Viestad takes us on a fascinating culinary exploration of the Eternal City, and global civilization. Food, he argues, is history’s secret driving …
Medieval Scriptorium
Making Books in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 2025
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170 kr
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This book takes the reader on an immersive journey through medieval manuscript production in the Latin Christian world. Each chapter opens with a lively vignette by a medieval narrator – including a parchment-maker, scribe and illuminator – introducing various aspects of manuscript production. Sara …
English Soul
Faith of a Nation
Häftad, 2025
123 kr
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Now available in paperback, The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection, perhaps the embodiment, of the English soul. This fascinating new history …
Green Fuse
Essays in Making Sense of Gardens
Av Peter Dale
Inbunden, 2025
271 kr
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Why do interiors of houses mimic nature – the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative?The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens …
Berghain Nights
A Journey through Techno and Berlin Club Culture
Av Liam Cagney
Inbunden, 2025
206 kr
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An Irish Times Book of the Year 2025Liam Cagney is residing in a Berlin squat when one night he finds himself at Berghain. Fascinated by the strange techno and even stranger dance floor, he sets out to explore Berlin’s unique club culture in all its intensity. Berghain Nights is the result, the …
Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It
Av Alec Ryrie
Inbunden, 2025
186 kr
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We live in an age where Hitler and the Nazis dominate our cultural imagination, shaping values once defined by religion. In this book historian Alec Ryrie explores why society remains captivated by this struggle, from history and fiction to modern myths such as Star Wars and Harry Potter. He …
Precious beyond Measure
A History of Korean Ceramics
Inbunden, 2024
412 kr
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This is a captivating, richly illustrated history of the use of fired clay in Korea, spanning ancient times to the present day. Drawing on the latest research from Korean scholars, Precious beyond Measure features a wide range of examples from archaeological sites and museums. In addition, it …
Sounds of Lost Futures
British Musical Hauntology
Av Jamie Sexton
Inbunden, 2026
192 kr
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Musical hauntology conjures sounds of futures that never arrived: music that reflects on memory and the recent past, drawing on analogue instrumentation, sampling and digital processing to capture how time feels twisted in an age of endless reproduction. The Sounds of Lost Futures offers the first …
Tangled Paths
A Life of Aby Warburg
Inbunden, 2024
288 kr
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Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting Warburg’s many projects and identities – …
Zerox Machine
Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976–88
Häftad, 2024
239 kr
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Zerox Machine is an immersive journey through the vibrant history of British punk and its associated fanzines from 1976 to 1988. Drawing on an extensive range of previously unpublished materials sourced from private collections across the UK, Matthew Worley describes and analyses this …
Émile Zola
A Determined Life
Inbunden, 2025
288 kr
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Winner of the Franco-British Society Literary Award 2025.Émile Zola is widely regarded as one of the world’s greatest writers, whose reputation was reinforced by his historic intervention in the Dreyfus Affair. This book explores Zola’s life and work and the ways in which these were determined by …
Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
Av Keith Cooper
Häftad, 2026
153 kr
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to watch a double sunset on Tatooine, stand among the sand dunes of Arrakis or gaze at the gas-giant planet Polyphemus from the moon Pandora? In Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact, Keith Cooper explores the fictional planets of films such …
Sex Pistols
Poison in the Machine
Av John Scanlan
Häftad, 2026
153 kr
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The appearance of the Sex Pistols in 1976 seemed less like the arrival of a band than a warning from a nightmarish future. Sex Pistols: Poison in the Machine examines the group’s explosive impact by placing Malcolm McLaren’s audacious, self-sabotaging art project at its centre – a scheme forged …
Amplified
A Design History of the Electric Guitar
Häftad, 2026
225 kr
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The electric guitar is an exceptional object. Its sound is heard every day by hundreds of millions of people. Yet this beloved instrument started as an experimental project, hand-built by lone inventors and warily regarded by audience and players alike. Amplified traces the history of the design …
Masters of the Earth
A History of the Golden Horde, 1219–1502
Inbunden, 2026
288 kr
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The Golden Horde was a powerful nomadic state that shaped Eastern Europe and modern-day Kazakhstan from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. Masters of the Earth traces its rise within the Mongol Empire, its period of independence and prosperity and its eventual decline in the face of continual …
Point of the Needle
Why Sewing Matters
Häftad, 2026
127 kr
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Tens of millions of people sew for necessity or pleasure every day, yet the craft is surprisingly under-appreciated. Now available in paperback, The Point of the Needle redresses the balance: this is a book that argues for sewing’s place in our lives. It celebrates not only sewing’s recent …
Medieval Kitchen
A Social History with Recipes
Häftad, 2026
225 kr
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The Medieval Kitchen reveals a world in which food was central to daily life, status and belief. From lavish banquets scented with exotic spices to humble meals of bread, greens and porridge, Hannele Klemettilä paints a vivid picture of how people across Western Europe and Scandinavia prepared, …
Creatures of Story and Song
Tracing Britain’s Lost Species
Av Lee Raye
Inbunden, 2026
186 kr
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Discover why a beaver was said to bite off its own testicles, why the baleen of a right whale was prized by medieval knights or why you should give your crush the gift of a great auk.Creatures of Story and Song pieces together evocative legends, poems and historical accounts from a thousand years …
Hayek vs Keynes
A Battle of Ideas
Inbunden, 2017
246 kr
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Hayek vs Keynes: A Battle of Ideas offers a clear historical account of the works of the two great totems of modern economic thought: Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom and Keynes’s The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money were written against a …
Trick or Treat
A History of Halloween
Av Lisa Morton
Häftad, 2019
160 kr
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Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals like the Celtic Samhain and Catholic All Souls’ Day have blended to produce the modern Halloween, which has been reborn in America – but there are also …
Outrageous!
The Story of Section 28 and Britain’s Battle for LGBT Education
Av Paul Baker
Häftad, 2023
149 kr
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On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O’Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting – ‘Stop Section 28!’ – and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: ‘Beeb Man Sits on …
