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Faces of the Living Dead | |||
| The Belief in Spirit Photography | Social Studies | |||
| Martyn Jolly | ||||
| British Library 2006 160 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0712348999 247x227mm | ||||
| Published Price £20.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Technical advances between 1870 and 1930 brought an array of fads, among them the art of capturing ghostly apparitions in photographs. In a world ravaged by war, the chance to contact lost loved ones was readily embraced, and celebrity spirit photographers were both revered as miracle workers and reviled as frauds, exploiting the bereaved. Drawing on collections in The British Library and other archives, this book examines the evolution and popularity of spirit photography and reproduces works by its leading exponents. | ||||
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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 £10.99 | |||
| 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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