Featured Titles

What is perverse sex and what isn’t? The Pleasure’s All Mine explores the gamut of sexual activity that has been seen as strange, abnormal or deviant over the last 2,000 years.

A cornucopia of life in the kitchen and in the studio throughout the twentieth century and beyond, The Modern Art Cookbook explores a wide-ranging panoply of artworks of food, cooking and eating from Europe and the Americas – from the early moderns through the Impressionists, Symbolists, Cubists, Futurists and Surrealists up to today’s art – as well as writing about food from contemporary novelists, writers and poets.

Imaginary Animals shows how, despite their liminal role, griffins, dog-men, mermaids, dragons, unicorns, yetis and many other imaginary creatures are socially constructed through the same complex play of sensuality and imagination as ‘real’ ones. Featuring nearly 200 striking images, the book traces the history of imaginary animals from Palaeolithic art to the Harry Potter stories and robotic pets.

Crossings explores the broad sweep of slavery across the Atlantic world, revealing the extraordinary efforts to end it as well as the remarkable degree to which slavery and the slave trade managed to survive, even to the present day. This groundbreaking study makes use of major new developments in research, rendering them available to a broad readership for the first time and offering a new understanding of one of the most important, and tragic, episodes in world history.

Part architectural history, part cultural analysis and part travelogue, Sex and Buildings explores how sexual attitudes appear in architecture.

Flickering Light traces neon’s technological, social and cultural history, from its beginnings in a late nineteenth-century London laboratory through its ubiquitous status in the world’s urban landscapes to its blinking presence in our contemporary art spaces.