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Live Wires: The History of Electronic Music explores how the five key electronic technologies – the tape recorder, circuit, computer, microphone and turntable – revolutionized music.

This monograph, the first full account of Eileen Agar's complete works, including paintings, collages, photographs and objects, comes at a time when there is a major revival of interest in surrealism in the UK and worldwide.

Published to tie in with its centenary, Arc of Utopia provides an original account of the origins of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Lesley Chamberlain shows how Russian activists took the French revolutionary ideals, and combined them with German political philosophy, to forge a unique, new vision of liberty, equality and fraternity.

Secrets of the Centenarians delves into the reasons why the number of people living to 100 is growing at such an incredible rate.

Lost Girls: The Invention of the Flapper is a spirited revisionist history of the iconic, mythic flapper, which gives fresh insight into young women's experiences in America and Britain from the 1890s to the 1920s.