Mark Rozzo's "Everybody Thought We Were Crazy" examines a brief but impactful moment in cultural history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-03 12:19:08 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has snapped up an "ingenious" cultural history of eyeliner by Zahra Hankir. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-06-25 20:32:21 UTC ]
On this episode of Sheltering, Nina Renata Aron speaks with Maris Kreizman about her new book, Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls, a memoir of codependency. They talk about the cultural history of love and its entanglement with suffering, particularly for women, and how hard it is to break... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-27 19:00:44 UTC ]
Survivor and journalist Kate Pickert chronicles the medical and cultural history of the disease. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-12-13 06:55:53 UTC ]
Travel book specialists Stanfords has opened a specialist food bookshop in a joint venture with street food pioneers KERB "to showcase London’s food and cultural history through literature". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-09-11 04:36:19 UTC ]
Hodder & Stoughton imprint Two Roads has landed BBC news anchor Babita Sharma’s “unique” debut memoir delving into the British corner shop’s cultural history. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has acquired a "major work of non-fiction" that examines how work has shaped human civilisation. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plexus is publishing David Bowie: Starman: A Colouring Book, a "cultural history in pictures" revealing the late musician's 50-year fashion evolution in 30 illustrations. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reading From Behind lines up for public vote alongside works including Soviet Bus Stops and Paper Folding With ChildrenIt might sound like a pain in the behind to read, but an academic tome about the cultural history of the anus is among the contenders on the shortlist for the 2016 Diagram prize... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
A photographic study of Soviet bus stops and a craft manual for flexible children go head to head with a cultural history of the anus on the shortlist for the 38th Diagram prizeDiagram prize: oddest book title shortlist gets behind cultural history of the anus Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-02-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hurst Publishers has appointed Alasdair Craig as commissioning editor and revealed his first commission of 2016 - Coconuts: A Cultural History by food anthropologist Kaori O’Connor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Serpent's Tail has acquired a new non-fiction book on the cultural history of tennis by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]