Cultural studies

Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit [9780500022894]

Cold War Steve has been acclaimed as the Brexit Bruegel and a modern-day Hogarth or Gillray. His Twitter feed, McFadden's Cold War, has become a cult …

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Cold War Steve Presents... A Prat's Progress: Boris Johnson's Britain [9780500023426]

Just in time for Brexit, the sequel to the Sunday Times bestselling Cold War Steve Presents... The Festival of Brexit: an absurdist journey through a …

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Clothes and Other Things That Matter [9781788401982]

Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue UK edit…

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Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them [9780241442227]

The British were once famous worldwide for being uninterested in food and our food being brown. This is no longer the case. UK food has changed remar…

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The Descent of Man [9780141981741]

'A breeze of a read, makes you see our male-manufactured world a little differently' - Matt Haig 'GRAYSON PERRY FOR KING AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND. Imagin…

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Sneakers [9780008274795]

An absolute necessity for design devotees and sneakerheads of all ages. Sneakers is a definitive exploration of the creative energy, innovation, colla…

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The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World [9780099586951]

'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' - Max Hastings, Sunday Times …

Scratch & Sniff Book of Weed [9781419724527]

This entertaining and whimsically illustrated journey into the world of weed not only charms the eyes and mind, but the nose as well. Twenty scratch-a…

The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature's Wild Harvests [9781781256220]

Shortlisted for the Andre Simon Food and Drink Book Awards for 2019 Look out of your window, walk down a country path or go to the beach in Great Brit…

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How to Feel the Fear and Eat It Anyway [9781784725808]

'One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.' - Virginia Woolf. The definition of 'healthy eating' has been chewed up, s…

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The Story of Food: An Illustrated History of Everything We Eat [9780241254783]

Includes a foreword by Giles Coren.Explore the rich stories, symbolism, and traditions that come wrapped up in the food on our plates - food that not …

Notre-Dame: The Soul of France [9781786077998]

The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved…

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Manchester: Looking for the Light through the Pouring Rain [9780571283385]

Manchester, its bands, its fashions, its attitude, has defined pop culture for the best part of four decades. Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks, New …

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The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning [9781633882935]

A Field Guide to Getting Lost [9781786890511]

In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lo…

Brick: A Social History [9780750991933]

Bricks - such small and seemingly uninteresting things - have helped to build the way we live as society has evolved, from the feudal system of early …

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Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes [9781787331495]

We are all dressed. But how often do we pause to think about the place of our clothes in our lives? What unconscious thoughts do we express when we d…

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English: A Story of Marmite, Queuing and Weather [9780008222246]

What makes the English English? Is it their eccentricity, their passionate love (or, indeed, hatred) of Marmite - or is it something less easily defin…

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In Miniature: How Small Things Illuminate The World [9781786890771]

A delightful, entertaining and illuminating investigation into our peculiar fascination with making things small, and what small things tell us about …

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The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World [9781786076458]

Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates w…

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