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- Reaktion Books, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78914-051-4
EAN 9781789140514
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In her encyclopedic investigation of the shifting social, political, and cultural resonances of this most ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-929-3
EAN 9781780239293
Trading Territories tells the compelling story of maps and geographical knowledge in the early modern world from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. Examining how European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World -Africa and Southeast Asia - this book shows how the historical preoccupation with Columbus's discovery' of the New World of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 17,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-716-9
EAN 9781780237169
Born in Budapest in 1905, Arthur Koestler was a pivotal European writer and intellectual who inspired, provoked and intrigued in equal measure. Koestler wrote enduring works of reportage and memoir but he is most famous for his political novel Darkness at Noon, which received widespread international acclaim. This book offers a fresh and unbiased account ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 19,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-650-6
EAN 9781780236506
During the first and second millennia BCE a swathe of nomadic peoples migrated outward from Central Asia into the Eurasian periphery. One group of these people would find themselves encamped in an unpromising, arid region just south of the Caspian Sea. From these modest and uncertain beginnings, they would go on to form one of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-672-8
EAN 9781780236728
Faith and Sword gives a concise history of what has arguably been the longest conflict in human history - a conflict that continues, in a new form, to this day. The overtly religious Christian-Muslim struggle lasted for nearly thirteen centuries, and for most of that period the Muslims were in the ascendant. The Christians eventually ...
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Can it!
The Perils and Pleasures of Preserving Foods
What do beer, cheese, yogurt, bacon, sauerkraut, miso and jam have in common? They are all preserved foods, and come from a culinary need as old as human civilization itself: the problem of alternating food scarcity and seasonal overabundance. Can It! celebrates the miracle of preservation, which has done so much to create the diversity ...
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The South Pole
Nature and Culture
The Geographic South Pole is a place of paradox. It is a point around which the Earth, quite literally, pivots; yet it has a habit of falling off the edge of our maps. An invisible spot on a high, featureless ice plateau, the Pole has no obvious material value, but is nonetheless a much sought-after ...
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Phillips, Michael W., Jr. / Zorach, Rebecca
Gold
Nature and Culture
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-578-3
EAN 9781780235783
Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, as an outsized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of Spain, the savannahs of Africa, and the rivers and lakes of the ...
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Nights in the Big City
Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930
- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-586-8
EAN 9781780235868
This elegantly written book describes the evolving perception and experience of the night in three great European cities: Paris, Berlin, and London. As Joachim Schlör shows, the lighting up of the European city by gas and electricity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought about a new relationship with the night for both those ...
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A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern age places us squarely before the reflection of our own tragic condition, our existence characterized by utmost contingency, homelessness, instability, unredeemed suffering, and broken morality.Christopher Hamilton examines the works of ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-598-1
EAN 9781780235981
As with the compass needle, so people have always been most powerfully attracted northwards; everyone carries within them their own concept of north. "The Idea of North" is a study, ranging widely in time and place, of some of the ways in which these ideas have found expression. Peter Davidson explores the topography of north ...
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Fast Food
The Good, the Bad and the Hungry
- Reaktion Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,15 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-574-5
EAN 9781780235745
Fast food is the most pervasive culinary trend of our time. It is an industry that has changed the way the world eats, as the model works virtually everywhere. At its heart are large multinational chains, running an estimated one million outlets in virtually every corner of the world, serving hundreds of millions of people ...
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The Destruction of Memory
Architecture at War
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- Reaktion Books, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78023-174-7
EAN 9781780231747
Food has always been a favourite subject of the world's artists, from still-lifes by Matisse and Picasso to the works of Claes Oldenberg and Andy Warhol. But how do artists eat? The Modern Art Cookbook provides a window into how both great and lesser-known modern artists, writers and poets ate, cooked, depicted and wrote about ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-924-8
EAN 9781861899248
Mother's Milk or Blue Ruin, Dutch Courage or Cuckold's Comfort - the fanciful nicknames that gin has acquired only hint at its colourful story. The story begins with the aromatic juniper berry originally used by the Dutch to flavour the whisky-like genever. The drink then made its way to Britain, where cheap imitations laced with ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-926-2
EAN 9781861899262
What did Charles Dickens savour in punch, Thomas Jefferson eat in omelettes, Queen Victoria sip in navy grog, and the Kamehameha Kings of Hawaii drink straight? What helped spark the American Revolution, was used as currency in Australia, was targeted by the Temperance Movement, and is still a sacramental offering among voodoo worshippers? The answer ...
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- Reaktion Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86189-929-3
EAN 9781861899293
A tasteless, odourless and colourless liquid, vodka is the most versatile of spirits. It can be transformed into a classic cocktail; turned into a refreshing drink when combined with fruit juice, tonic water, or ginger beer; or is a powerful beverage in its own right, taken neat and swallowed in one gulp, Russian style. Vodka ...
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