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by Susan Fast
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Dangerous is Michael Jackson's coming of age album. Granted, that's a bold claim to make given that many think his best work lay behind him by the time this record was made. It offers Jackson on a threshold, at long last embracing adulthood-politically questioning, sexually charged-yet unable to convince...
Landskipping
Painters, Ploughmen and Places
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first...
A History of Popular Culture in Japan
From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The phenomenon of 'Cool Japan' is one of the distinctive features of global popular culture of the millennial age. A History of Popular Culture in Japan provides the first historical and analytical overview of popular culture in Japan from its origins in the 17th century to the present day, using...
Re-Viewing the Past
The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Re-Viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Imperial Japan analyzes the complicated relationship between history films, audiences, reviewers and censors in Japan for the critically important years from 1925-1945. First contextualizing the history of the popular "Bakumatsu†? period...
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan
Histories and Cultures of the Book
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
The Uses of Literature in Modern Japan explores the varying uses of literature in Japan from the late Meiji period to the present, considering how creators, conveyors, and consumers of literary content have treated texts and their authors as cultural resources to be packaged, promoted, and preserved.
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by Alec Waugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
First published in 1967, this tells of an Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those...
by Ivor Brown
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
Somerset Maugham was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era and reputedly the highest paid author during the 1930s.
In 1947 Maugham instituted the Somerset Maugham Award, awarded to the best British writer or writers under the...
by Denis Mackail
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
The authorized biography of Sir James Barrie, Bart, O. M. (1860–1937) playwright and novelist. Best known as the author of Peter Pan, Barrie was born in Kirriemuir, Angus, Scotland, educated at Edinburgh University and initially worked as a journalist in England. His early books comprised novels...
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
The first edition of Dolores was published in 1911. It sold well, and was promptly forgotten. Now that her career of sixty years is ended, and her long achievement more and more acclaimed, Dolores, standing at that remote beginning, is curiously reborn.
Independence
The Struggle to Set America Free
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
No event in American history was more pivotal-or more furiously contested-than Congress's decision to declare independence in July 1776. Even months after American blood had been shed at Lexington and Concord, many colonists remained loyal to Britain. John Adams, a leader of the revolutionary effort,...
Modern Fashion Traditions
Negotiating Tradition and Modernity through Fashion
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Modern Fashion Traditions questions the dynamics of fashion systems and spaces of consumption outside the West. Too often, these fashion systems are studied as a mere and recent result of globalization and Western fashion influences, but this book draws on a wide range of non-Western case studies...
Fabric of Vision
Dress and Drapery in Painting
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Clothing appears in all forms of figurative painting, often taking up two thirds of a frame; yet it can often go unnoticed. Far more than a simple means of identifying the status or occupation of a figure, clothes and cloth are used creatively by artists to hint at ambiguities in character, adjust...
Cities and Wetlands
The Return of the Repressed in Nature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
From New Orleans to New York, from London to Paris to Venice, many of the world's great cities were built on wetlands and swamps. Cities and Wetlands is the first book to explore the literary and cultural histories of these cities and their relationships to their environments and buried histories....
by Dylan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2008
First came fire, the wheel, and penicillin...and then, according to Dylan Jones, a compulsive album collector, music journalist, and multi award-winning men's magazine editor, the next great invention to bless the human race was the iPod, Apple's groundbreaking mp3 player. Small, sleek, and sexy,...