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On the Dot | |||
| The Speck that Changed the World | Social Studies | |||
| Alexander Humez; Nicholas Humez | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2008 256 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0195324994 | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Despite the humble origins of its name (Anglo-Saxon for 'the speck at the head of a boil'), the dot has been one of the most versatile players in the history of written communication, to the point where it has become virtually indispensable. In this book, the brothers Humez offer an erudite and entertaining account of this minuscule and much overlooked sign, examining its roles not only in punctuation, but also in proof-reading, music, mathematics and money, Morse code examining its roles not only in punctuation, but also in proof-reading, music, mathematics and money, Morse code and Braille, abbreviations and computing. | ||||
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Woman's Hour | |||
| From Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne | Social Studies | |||
| Jenni Murray (Foreword.) | ||||
| John Murray 2006 392 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0719563801 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| First broadcast on 7 October 1946, Woman's Hour has long been one of Britain's best-loved national institutions. For more than half a century, the programme has consistently championed a woman's perspective, and has charted the changing status of women by covering just about every topic under the sun. Presented here is a generous selection of interviews with a wide variety of guests; from Joyce Grenfell to Sharon Osbourne, Eleanor Roosevelt to Margaret Thatcher, and Monica Lewinsky to Hilary Clinton. | ||||
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The Stuff of Thought | |||
| Language as a Window into Human Nature | Social Studies | |||
| Steven Pinker | ||||
| Viking 2007 499 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0670063274 | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| The psychologist Steven Pinker combines his interests in language and human nature in this fascinating study of the ways in which we create and use words - and what they reveal about ourselves and how we grasp reality. Exploring the semantics of ordinary language - news headlines, legal disputes, jokes, people's names - he argues that our thoughts are built around certain core ideas, such as space, force, kinship and contamination, and the metaphors and combinations we use reach back to these primal concepts. | ||||
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The Puzzle | |||
| Exploring the Evolutionary Puzzle of Male Homosexuality | Social Studies | |||
| Louis A Berman | ||||
| Godot 2003 582 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0972301313 | ||||
| Published Price $19.95 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Homosexual behaviour has been described as 'a profound puzzle...the antithesis of reproductive success' (Potts and Short): to explore that puzzle, Berman begins with the theory of human sexuality in general, then, summarizing the observations of researchers, therapists and gay men themselves, and exploring constitutional and environmental factors, he argues that male homosexuality results from the interaction of nature and nurture - as a variant of biologically functional human sexuality. | ||||
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Women Seeing Women: A Pictorial History of Women's Photography | |||
| from Margaret Cameron to Annie Liebovitz | Social Studies | |||
| Lothar Schirmer (Edited by) | ||||
| Haus 2002 248 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1905791208 325x228mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £12.99 | |||
| Beginning with late 19th century (the 'prologue') photographs by Clementina, Lady Hawarden and ending at the turn of the 21st century with the performance artist Vanessa Beecroft, who documents her body compositions in photographs, this history is composed solely of images of women, raising issues such as how women photographers see women differently from men and the intimacy between artist and model. The 159 photographs are accompanied by an essay by Elisabeth Bronfen and biographies of the photographers and their subjects. Explicit content. | ||||
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The French Romantics | |||
| Literature and the Visual Arts 1800-1840 | Social Studies | |||
| David Wakefield | ||||
| Chaucer 2007 240 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 190444959X 276x220mm | ||||
| Published Price £30.00 | Our Price £14.99 | |||
| In this richly illustrated study of French Romantic painting and literature, Wakefield attempts 'to approach the relationship between the two arts from a variety of different angles, both from the literary and pictorial points of view, illustrating the influence of painting on literature and vice versa'. Among the subjects he discusses are Madame de Stael, Chateaubriand's Atala, the Salon of 1824, pictorial imagery in Romantic poetry, Alfred de Vigny, Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset. | ||||
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