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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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 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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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 …

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Scooterboys: The Lost Tribe [9781908211750]

Scooterboys are the lost tribe of British youth culture. Unrecognised, uncelebrated and unwanted; misunderstood by a general public who mistook us for…

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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 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 …

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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 Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities and Meaning of Table Manners [9780241293645]

This is the book on the way we eat. Solidifying her standing as a preeminent observer and scholar of everyday life, Margaret Visser takes on the sweep…

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

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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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Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion - and the Future of Clothes [9781789546064]

An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry - and the grassroots, high tech, international movement fighting to reform …

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Ireland's Green Larder: The story of food and drink in Ireland [9781783525249]

Ireland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the Ceide Fields, established a th…

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Rethink: The Surprising History of New Ideas [9781847947581]

'Clever and entertaining.' - Sunday Times 'Elegantly written and full of surprises.' - Daily Telegraph 'Always entertaining and often eye-opening.' - …

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Selfie: How the West Became Self-Obsessed [9781447283669]

`Fascinating' Guardian `Brilliant' Evening Standard `Electrifying' Financial Times `So interesting I literally couldn't put it down' Sunday Times …

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