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FiltersDrone imaginaries
The power of remote vision
Edited by Andreas Immanuel Graae and Kathrin Maurer
This book investigates the representation of civilian and military drones in visual arts, literature, and architecture. What emerges, is a compelling new aesthetic: 'drone imaginary', a prism of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7898-5
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£20.00
Pre-OrderAdaptation and resilience in the performing arts
The pandemic and beyond
Edited by Pascale Aebischer and Rachael Nicholas
This book offers insights into some of the digital innovations, structural adaptations and analogue solutions that enabled live performance in the UK to survive through the COVID-19 pandemic. It ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7240-2
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£40.00
Pre-OrderHow to be multiple
The philosophy of twins
By Helena de Bres
In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people. The way we think about twins ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7986-9
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£20.00
Buy NowCulture is not an industry
Reclaiming art and culture for the common good
By Justin O'Connor
Culture is at the heart of what it means to be human. But twenty-five years ago, the British government rebranded art and culture as 'creative industries', valued for their economic contribution, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-7126-9
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£14.99
Buy NowConceptualising China through translation
By James St André
This monograph provides an innovative methodology for investigating how China has been conceptualised historically by tracing the development of four key cultural terms (filial piety, face, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-5732-4
FORMAT:
£85.00
Buy NowMigrants shaping Europe, past and present
Multilingual literatures, arts, and cultures
Edited by Helen Solterer and Vincent Joos
This pioneering volume explores the contribution of migrants to European culture from the early modern era to today. It takes culture as an aesthetic and social activity of making, one practised ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6616-6
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Hardcover
£25.00
Buy NowHigh culture and tall chimneys
Art institutions and urban society in Lancashire, 1780-1914
By James Moore
This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6699-9
FORMAT:
£25.00
Buy NowDreams of disconnection
From the autonomous house to self-sufficient territories
By Fanny Lopez
Why do we live in homes and communities built around the century-old industrial model of large service networks that use polluting resources? For more than a century, creative architects and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4689-2
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£25.00
Buy NowNorthern memories and the English Middle Ages
By Tim William Machan
This book provocatively argues that much of what English writers of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries remembered about medieval English geography, history, religion and ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4535-2
FORMAT:
£85.00
Buy NowGender, rhetoric and regulation
Women's work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55
By Helen Glew
The Civil Service and the London County Council employed tens of thousands of women in Britain in the early twentieth century. As public employers these institutions influenced both each other ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4663-2
FORMAT:
£26.00
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