Material Culture
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Notes on Camp
Susan SontagCurrent price €6.08Original price €6.99'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries...
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A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity
The School of LifeCurrent price €16.59Original price €19.99Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less. The modern world can be a complicated, frenzied and noisy pla...
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Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love
Haruki MurakamiCurrent price €14.80Original price €18.50The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet and shares photos of his extensive unique personal T-shirt collection. Haruki Murakami's ...
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A History of the World in 100 Objects
Dr Neil MacGregorCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Neil MacGregor's A History of the World in 100 Objects takes a bold, original approach to human history, exploring past civilizations through the o...
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Queer
David J. GetsyCurrent price €19.13Original price €21.99Part of the acclaimed ''Documents of Contemporary Art'' series of anthologies. There has never been an anthology of artists'' writings li...
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Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China: Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle
Sandy NgCurrent price €98.99Original price €109.99Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations, in introducing modern des...
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Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism
Andrew MilnerCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materialism brings together twenty-six essays charting the development of Andrew Milner's distinctivel...
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Fragile Cargo: Chinas Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City
Adam BrookesCurrent price €17.39Original price €19.99'The kind of history deserving of a cinematic blockbuster' Julia Lovell, Literary Review'[A] gripping and meticulously researched account of an epi...
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A Social and Economic Theory of Consumption
Arto NoroCurrent price €74.69Original price €82.99Kaj Ilmonen was a pioneer in the third wave of the sociology of consumption. This book provides a balanced overview of the sociology of consumption...
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Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious change in modern Britain. I...
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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change
New York University PressCurrent price €31.49Original price €34.99Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to ef...
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Victorian Liberalism and Material Culture
Kevin A. MorrisonCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50Current price €32.85Original price €36.50Save 10% -
In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World
Simon GarfieldCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99In Miniature is a delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small th...
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Shanghai Housewares
Zhou QiCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50The numerous items of everyday material culture that we employ in housework, cleaning, office work and entertainment are more than mere disposable ...
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Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement
Cornell University PressCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals w...
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Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual Age
Jaco J. HammanCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Growing Down explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology. Author Jaco Hamman examines how our...
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Ceramic Art
Magdalene OdundoCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConc...
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Encountering Early America
Rachel WinchcombeCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early E...
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A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects
Sally CoulthardCurrent price €22.52Original price €28.50The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...
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Clarity, Cut, and Culture: The Many Meanings of Diamonds
Susan FallsCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has ...
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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England
Sarah BendallCurrent price €31.76Original price €36.50Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette und...
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