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A concise and comprehensive overview, with 100 iconic and lesser-known images.

Presents an in-depth look into how Debussy's love of poetry influenced his musical compositions.

In The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art, Francois Quiviger shows how Renaissance artists made touch, sound and scent palpable to the minds of their audience.

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An examination of the significance of water in Western and Oriental art. 110 illustrations.

A wide-ranging portrait of the lion drawing on art, literature, oral traditions, plays, films, natural history, the latest scientific research, and even the memoirs of a lion-tamer. Colour and b/w illustrations complete the picture.

A survey of the camel, it's natural history and role in society, history and popular culture. Illustrated.

In "A History of Diplomacy, " historian Jeremy Black investigates how a form of courtly negotiation and information-gathering in the early modern period developed through increasing globalization into a world-shaping force in twenty-first-century politics. The monarchic systems of the sixteenth century gave way to the colonial development of European nations--which in turn were shaken by the revolutions of the eighteenth century--the rise and ...

A portrait of one of the 20th century's most eclectic, prolific and controversial authors.

Now available in paperback, this is a highly engaging and original investigation of insomnia throughout the ages.

A subtle yet uncompromising analysis of the iconic photographs of torture from the prison at Abu Ghraib. Now in paperback.

A chatty, charming and intelligent tale of wine from Neolithic times to the present.

Latest titles in this series which explores the myths, history, art, culture and science surrounding iconic foodstuffs. 'The "Edible" series contains some of the most delicious nuggets of food and drink history ever. Every volume is such a fascinating and succinct read that I had to devour each in just a single sitting... food writing at its best!' Ken Hom.

Caviar: piquant, luxurious and decadent, it is renowned the world over. A story of greed, indulgence, enterprise and hope, this book starts by looking back to its heyday in Tsarist Russia, America and Europe in the Roaring Twenties, before telling the story of production, trade and consumption today.

What birthday, wedding, bar mitzvah or children's party would be complete without it? This book explores the origin of modern cake and its development from sweet bread to architectural flight of fancy, together with the meanings, legends and rituals attached to cake throughout the world.

Playing catch with a rattlesnake. Shooting oneself while explaining gun safety. Crashing a small plane in an attempt to moon the occupants of a similarly low-flying plane. People have met their fates performing these extraordinarily stupid acts-and for this they have been finalists for the wildly popular Darwin Awards. While these awards are relatively recent, the history of stupidity is quite long. Stupidity, in fact, is as old as civilizatio...

Consuming Bodies "explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art and how they connect with the wider conditions of modern Japanese culture. Engaging with performance, digital media, painting, sculpture and including the diary of a sex worker, it features essays by writers, historians, curators and artists. With more than 160 powerful and sometimes controversial images, this book is bound to provoke debate about this li...

The first in Reaktion's new "Objekt" series, "Factory "examines the cultural importance of the factory in its many manifestations: as an icon of the industrial age, as innovator, as inno-vation and as laboratory, and shows more than 100 intriguing visual examples. Whether discussing the utopian schemes of Robert Owen or Claude Ledoux, the "cathedrals of industry" of Albert Kahn and Frank Lloyd Wright, or the post-industrial revivals of former ...

China to Chinatown "examines one of the most notable examples of the globalization of food. J.A.G. Roberts recounts how the West's attitudes to Chinese food have changed from the time of Marco Polo to now. Early travelers in China too often avoided the local food and chronicled the "disgusting" diet of dogs, cats, and snakes. Others, for example Jesuit mission-aries, were more enthusiastic about Chinese food. In the 20th-century with the sprea...

A Cultural History Of Longevity From Antiquity To The Present". 16 illus.