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Hope and Fear
A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a …
Napoleon at Peace
The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did …
French Suite
French Suite examines a range of important French painters and two writers, Baudelaire and Flaubert, from the brothers Le Nain in the mid-seventeenth century to Manet, Degas, …
Albertus Magnus and the World of Nature
The first comprehensive English-language biography of Albert the Great in a century. As well as being an important medieval theologian, Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great) also made …
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
Science museums have paradoxes at their core. They must be accessible and fun while representing increasingly complex science. They must be both historic and contemporary. Their …
Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
From their quirky origins to their contemporary role as centers of advocacy, a look at the secret lives of science museums-past, present, and future. Science museums have paradoxes …
Designing Modern Japan
From Muji to Sony televisions, our lives are surrounded by Japanese design. We think we know it, whether it reflects calming minimalism, avant-garde catwalk fashion or the Kawaii …
Full-Length Mirror
Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture-and the full-length mirror. This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. …
The Index of Prohibited Books
For more than four hundred years, the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum struck terror into the hearts of authors, publishers and booksellers around the world, while …
Shifting Currents
Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. …
Sigmund Freud
However much his work has been reviled or contested, Sigmund Freud remains one of the most significant thinkers of the last 150 years. He founded psychoanalysis, and his vision of …
Counter-Texts
In Counter-Texts, Kim Dhillon provides a much-needed critical reassessment of written language in contemporary art. Considering the politics, aesthetics and ethics of language, …