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A bumper edition of John Peacock's renowned costume drawings, charting the development of women's and men's clothing from the 1920s onwards. This beautifully illustrated, easy-reference volume features over 2,100 meticulous illustrations that record in...

Lee Remick's ascent as an actress was swift and distinguished. At age 24 she attained stardom in Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and was nominated as Best Actress three years later for her role in Days of Wine and Roses (1962). In the second half of her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619029392Author Victor CoronaFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 346gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 141mm * 22mm

In the attention economy, online influencers are an emerging class of power brokers. How can you harness their potential? Break the Internet takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307949424Author Annalee NewitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 252gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Broken Threads tells the story of the destruction of the Jewish fashion industry under the Nazis.Jewish designers were very prominent in the fashion industry of 1930s Germany and Austria. The emergence of Konfektion, or ready-to-wear, and the development...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806531151Author H. Paul JeffersFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 227g

How are our personal soundtracks of life devised? What makes some pieces of music more meaningful to us than others? This book explores the role of memory, both personal and cultural, in imbuing music with the power to move us. Focusing on the...

A critical history of the social media influencer's rise to global prominenceBefore there were Instagram likes, Twitter hashtags, or TikTok trends, there were bloggers who seemed to have the passion and authenticity that traditional media lacked. The...

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Straight edge is a clean-living youth movement that emerged from the punk rock subculture in the early 1980s. Its basic tenets promote a drug-free, tobacco-free, and sexually responsible lifestyle-tenets that, on the surface, seem counter to those...

'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there. In fact, public parks are an invention. From their medieval inception as...

This inspirational gift book filled with Bob Ross-themed challenges for art and life will bring the painter's philosophy to your world in a whole new way.When the iconic artist calls us to take out our two-inch brush, we know it means one thing: This is...

In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-blowing adventures. They discuss, among other topics, the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a...

Culture Smart guides help travellers have a more meaningful and successful time abroad through a better understanding of the local culture. Chapters on values, attitudes, customs, and daily life will help you make the most of your visit, while tips on...

What history, pop culture, and diaspora can teach us about North and South Korea today.Korea is one of the last divided countries in the world. Twins born of the Cold War, one is vilified as an isolated, impoverished, time-warped state with an abysmal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250282699Author Alan PaulFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 611gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 166mm...

An unremitting assault on the impact and pretensions of television that demolishes conventional arguments.' - TLS'Book InformationISBN 9781565845121Author Pierre BourdieuFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The New PressPublisher The New...

An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy.Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813068527Author Aaron CometbusFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University Press of FloridaPublisher University Press of FloridaWeight(grams) 152g

"This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers." -...

Initially published on the twentieth anniversary of his death, this candid book reveals new information on the breakup of the Beatles, fellow musicians such as Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Lennon's attitudes towards revolution and drugs, and his...

First published in 1982, The Sociology of Art considers all forms of the arts, whether visual arts, literature, film, theatre or music from Bach to the Beatles. The last book to be completed by Arnold Hauser before his death in 1978, it is a total...

Don't just see the sights-get to know the people. Set in Africa, but not wholly African; an isolated nation, yet receptive to the outside world; hierarchical and conservative, yet innovative and desirous of modernity; conformist as a people, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780517883860Author Dave MarinaccioFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harmony BooksPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452296534Author Nicholas MeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 251g

Is virtual reality merely a video game that consumes and distracts the player immersed in its simulations? Or is it an immaterial world, rich in meaning, beckoning people to a better future world inside computers? In Get Real: A Philosophical Adventure...

Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061978050Author Franklin FoerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in small-scale societies across the globe. The Handbook of Material Culture provides a critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496858Author Stewart O'NanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Offering an accessible introduction to the study of film genres and genre films, this book examines the use of genre in cinema from its beginnings to the present day.This book explains the various elements of genre, the importance of genre in popular...

'I loved this book!' - Alison Weir'[A] lively, gossipy forage through royal wardrobes' - Daily Mail'A sparkling history' - Dr Kate StrasdinPeek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royalsWhy did women wear such heavy and uncomfortable skirts...

To his millions of fans worldwide, Ryan Gosling is not just a handsome face that can say "Hey girl!" in a way that makes them go weak at the knees (though he can and does), he is the defining icon of the new Golden Age of cinema, a 21st-century Cary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239085Author Joseph P. FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 374g

In Mindful Movement, exercise physiologist, somatic therapist, and advocate Martha Eddy uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field-somatic movement education and therapy--and its impact...

A perfect life. A perfect lie. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with her new husband Brad, their future was bright: living in one of the most picturesque towns in the US, the couple mingled with neighbors, attended...

Beginning with early trailblazers like Different from the Others, Kyle Turner has selected 100 of cinema's greatest queer films to guide you through the eras. From Hitchcock's Rope and cult classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show through the New Queer...

A cultural phenomenon. A worldwide obsession. An agent of emotional chaos. There's no parallel to Taylor Swift in history: a teenage girl who turns into the world's favorite pop star, songwriter, storyteller, guitar hero, live...