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(H/B) BEER
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0108

Pilsners, blonde ales, India pale ales, lagers, porters, stouts: the varieties and styles of beer are endless. But as diverse as the drink is, its appeal is universal - beer is the most-consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. From pubs and inns to restaurants, bars and microbreweries, beer has made itself a staple drink around the globe. Celebrating the heritage of the world's favourite tipple, Gavin D. Smith traces beer from its earliest days to its contemporary consumption. After exploring the evolution of brewing technology, the book ...
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(P/B) GREECE
MODERN ARCHITECTURES IN HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0073

This book is an unprecedented account of modern architecture in Greece, providing a unique understanding of the development of architectural practice and theory in the context of the country's political and social history. Alexander Tzonis and Alcestis Rodi present the ambitious Neoclassicist projects thought appropriate for a new nation that followed from the establishment of the Greek state in the 1830s before explaining the rise and stylistic development of civic, school and university buildings in the later nineteenth century and after...
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(P/B) Artemisia Gentileschi and Feminism in Early Modern Europe
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0120

Artemisia Gentileschi is by far the most famous woman artist of the pre-modern era. Her art addresses issues that resonate today, such as sexual violence and women's problematic access to political power. Her forceful paintings with their vigorous female protagonists have excited modern audiences, especially feminists. This book breaks new ground by placing the artist in the context of women's political history, and the feminist protest that was bubbling in early modern Europe. Mary D. Garrard shows that Artemisia most likely knew or knew ...
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(P/B) COUNTER-TEXTS
LANGUAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0114

In Counter-Texts, Kim Dhillon provides a much-needed critical reassessment of written language in contemporary art. Considering the politics, aesthetics and ethics of language, Dhillon explores artworks that use inscribed language, with a particular focus on works that challenge dominant narratives or which reveal, in visual form, the varied systems of oppression contained within words. Featuring many artists from diverse backgrounds, ranging from artists such as Serena Lee, Abbas Akhavan and Joi T. Arcand to Glenn Ligon, Brian Jungen and ...
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(P/B) The Persians
Lost Civilizations
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0119

Now available in paperback, The Persians tells the story of this cultured ancient civilization, tracing the unique features of Persian life as well as their influence down the centuries. This book describes the difficulties early Persians encountered and how such challenges contributed to their unique character and the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire. It recounts the keenly fought conflicts with the Greeks for mastery of the Eastern Mediterranean, a contest which was to dominate the geopolitics of the ancient world, and it paints a ...
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(H/B) THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE MOVIES
EIGHT KEY FILMS
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0104

In The Middle Ages and the Movies eminent historian Robert Bartlett takes a fresh, cogent look at how our view of medieval history has been shaped by eight significant films of the twentieth century. The book ranges from the concoction of sex and nationalism in Mel Gibson's Braveheart, to Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece Siegfried, the art-house classic The Seventh Seal to Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev and the epic historical drama El Cid. The historical accuracy of these films is examined, as well as other salient aspects - how was Umberto Eco...
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(P/B) WHAT MAKES A GREAT EXHIBITION?
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0060

Rising attendance at museums, along with increased press coverage in the age of the international biennial and the 'blockbuster' exhibition, has translated into a growing interest in how exhibitions are made. The new curatorial studies programmes springing up across Europe and North America often deal with theoretical issues, yet one of the central questions of curating frequently remains unframed: makes an exhibition great? In this book, fourteen essays by active curators and historians address the issue head-on. Focusing on the curation...
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(H/B) FORESHADOWED
MALEVICH'S BLACK SQUARE AND ITS PRECURSORS
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0091

When Kasimir Malevich's Black Square was produced in 1915, no one had ever seen anything like it before. And yet it does have precedents. In fact, over the previous five hundred years, several painters, writers, philosophers, scientists and censors - each working independently towards an absolute statement of their own - alighted on the form of the black square or rectangle, as if for the first time. This book explores the resonances between Malevich's Black Square and its precursors, showing how a 'genealogical' thread binds them together...
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(H/B) VODKA
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0096

Vodka is the most versatile of spirits. While people in Eastern Europe and the Baltic often drink it neat, swallowing it in one gulp, others use it in cocktails - from the Bloody Mary to the vodka Martini - or mix it with tonic water or ginger beer to create a refreshing drink. Vodka manufacturers even infuse it with flavours ranging from lemon and strawberry to chocolate, bubble gum and bacon. Created by distilling fermented grains, potatoes or other vegetables, this colourless, flavourless and odourless liquor has been enjoyed by both th...
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(H/B) TEA
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0099

From oolong to sencha to chai, tea is one of the world's most popular beverages. Perhaps that is because it is a uniquely adaptable drink, consumed in many different varieties and ways by cultures across the globe and in many different settings, from the intricate traditions of the Japanese tea ceremony to the elegant tea-rooms of Britain to iced tea drunk on the verandas of the American Deep South. In Tea food historian Helen Saberi explores this rich and fascinating history. Saberi looks at the economic and social uses of tea, such as it...
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(H/B) THE ENGLISH ACTOR
FROM MEDIEVAL TO MODERN
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0118

The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church tradition of Mystery Plays - through the flourishing of the craft in the Renaissance to modern methods that followed the advent of film and television. The biographies of the most notable and celebrated actors are also explored, right up to the present day. In this book, Ackroyd gives us an original and superbly entertaining appraisal of how actors h...
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(H/B) ICE CREAM
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0102

Be it soft-serve, gelato, Indian kulfi or Israeli glida, some form of ice cream treat can found throughout the world in restaurants and home freezers. Though ice cream was once considered a food for the elite, it has evolved into one of the most popular mass-market products ever developed. In Ice Cream, Laura B. Weiss takes us on a vibrant trip through the history of ice cream from ancient China to modern-day Tokyo in order to tell the lively story of how this delicious indulgence became a global sensation. It's a tale populated with Chine...
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(H/B) BALLROOM
A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF DANCING
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0105

In the early twentieth century, American ragtime and the Parisian tango fuelled a dancing craze in Britain. Public ballrooms were built throughout the country, providing a glamorous setting for dancing. The new English style, defined in the 1920s and followed by the films of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1930s, ensured that ballroom dancing continued to be the most popular British pastime until the 1960s, rivalled only by cinema. This book explores the vibrant history of ballroom and Latin dancing: the dances, lavish venues, compe...
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(H/B) MINA LOY
APOLOGY OF GENIUS
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0090

Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe and, finally, Aspen, Colorado, where she died in 1966. Flamboyant and unapologetically avant-garde, she was a poet, painter, novelist, essayist, manifesto writer, actress, and dress and lampshade designer. Her life involved an impossible abundance of artistic friends, performance and spectacular adventures in the worlds of Futurism, Christian Science, feminism, fashion, and everything modern and modernist. This new account by Mary Ann Caws explore...
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(H/B) TEQUILA
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0094

With its unique aroma and heady buzz - the perfect accompaniment to even the spiciest tacos - tequila has won its way into drinkers' hearts worldwide. There are few places on earth besides Mexico that have the climate and terrain to evolve the agave plant from which tequila is made, and there are even fewer people who have the patience to wait the seven years or more that it takes 'the tree of marvels' to grow. Tequila is a lively history of this potent and popular drink. Mayans, Olmecs and Aztecs fermented a drink called pulque from the s...
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(P/B) THE FIRES OF LUST
SEX IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0115

The medieval humoral system of medicine suggested that it was possible to die from having too much - or too little - sex, while the Roman Catholic Church taught that virginity was the ideal state. Holy men and women committed themselves to lifelong abstinence in the name of religion. Everyone was forced to conform to restrictive rules about whom they could have sex with, in what way, how often, and even when, and could be harshly punished for getting it wrong. Other experiences are more familiar. Like us, medieval people faced challenges i...
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(H/B) DUEL WITHOUT END
MANKIND'S BATTLE WITH MICROBES
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0092

In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu and other great epidemics have led to enormous suffering and mass death, as well as contributing to the fall of empires and changing the course of history. We also discover how new infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 emerge. Man has struck back at microbes - antibiotics and vaccines have saved millions of lives - but the battle with these relentless, silent enemies is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoid...
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(H/B) WINE
A GLOBAL HISTORY
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0106

Look. Swirl. Sniff. Taste. Savour. Whether you're tasting a refreshing white or an aromatic red, these well-known steps are the only proper way to take the first sip of wine. How did wine surpass all other beverages to achieve global domination? In Wine, Marc Millon travels back to the origins of modern man to find the answer, discovering that this heady drink is intertwined with the roots of civilization itself. Wine traces the long history of the most complex, mysterious and magical of the world's beverages. It takes us from the Transcau...
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(H/B) FUTURE CITIES
ARCHITECTURE AND THE IMAGINATION
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0116

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today's cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus...
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(P/B) SHIFTING CURRENTS
A WORLD HISTORY OF SWIMMING
Εκδότης: REAKTION BOOKS
Κωδ. Πολιτείας: 3675-0103

Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual and art historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners - swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans' and Native Americans' swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water's power for themselves. Th...
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