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Fabulosa!
Paul BakerPaul Baker recounts the story of Polari with skill, erudition and tenderness.Read more › -
A Feast for the Eyes
Carolyn TillieA delicious, beautifully illustrated tour of edible art, from Arcimboldo to zucchini.Read more › -
Five Years Ahead of My Time
Seth BoveyThe first comprehensive survey of garage rock, from the late 1950s to the present day.Read more › -
Fat
Christopher E. ForthA survey of how fat has been perceived and imagined in the West since antiquity.Read more › -
Cosmos
Roberta J. M. OlsonCharts the human love affair with the heavens in art and astronomy, and includes both sound science and insightful art and cultural history.Read more › -
The Europe Illusion
Stuart SweeneyThe Europe Illusion considers Britain’s relationships with France and Prussia-Germany since the map of Europe was redrawn at Westphalia in 1648.Read more ›
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Galaxy
Mapping the Cosmos
James Geach
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Eyewitnessing
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Peter Burke
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Eyewitnessing evaluates the place of images among other kinds of historical evidence....
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Tomato
A Global History
Clarissa Hyman
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In the history of food, the tomato is a relative newcomer but it would now be...
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Pauline Fairclough
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Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century...
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Donatello and the Dawn of Renaissance Art
A. Victor Coonin
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The Italian sculptor known as Donatello helped to forge a new kind of art – one...
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Rabindranath Tagore
Bashabi Fraser
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Polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to be awarded the Nobel Prize...
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