A hundred years. Thousands of women. One extraordinary pond.I have learned about peacocks and terrapins, giant cobras and booming widgeons; I have heard about celebrity spottings and al-fresco lovemaking and digestive biscuits. These things make up t...More info...
"e;A real heartwarming portrait of Britain and our love of time off. I couldnt put it down. Cathy Adams, The Times travel desk"e;How we spend our time off tells us a lot about who we are and Thorpe understands that."e; Tom Chesshy...More info...
A bold new history of psychology that uncovers the lost legacies of the women who shaped our understanding of what it is to be humanIf asked to name a psychologist, who springs to mind? No doubt Freud, perhaps Pavlov and his dog, maybe Jung or Piaget...More info...
Tom Fort has a unique knack of finding new ways to reflect Britain back to ourselves and Lido Land may be his best book yet! Charlie Connelly, author of The Shipping NewsPeople are currently flocking back to Britains lidos in their thousands. But...More info...
Carlos Manuel Salomon, Jocyl Sacramento, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, Nicholas L. Baham, III
(Pub. Date: 07-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040739709)
This book guides instructors and students through an intersectional and comparative approach to understanding key theories, concepts, practices, and movements in Ethnic Studies.Written for introductory courses and for those new to Ethnic Studies, the...More info...
Carlos Manuel Salomon, Jocyl Sacramento, Jennifer Kim-Anh Tran, Nicholas L. Baham, III
(Pub. Date: 07-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040473016)
This book guides instructors and students through an intersectional and comparative approach to understanding key theories, concepts, practices, and movements in Ethnic Studies.Written for introductory courses and for those new to Ethnic Studies, the...More info...
Joins the very front rank of memoirs of post-war Britain DAVID KYNASTONA winning blend of personal memories, evoked with startling clarity, and fascinating social history CLARE CHAMBERSIn Red, Red Robin, Alison Light puts herself into history, co...More info...
Shapeshifting, collaborative, endlessly inventive and robustly empowering: Black music has transformed British culture and society, and gifted generations of Black Britons a powerful means to reject misrepresentation and find freedom and joy in sound...More info...
Britains favourite German historian Sunday TimesSuperb... Hoyer finds the town of Weimar a perfect microcosm for a country teetering into darkness... intelligent, original and well-researched Daily TelegraphFrom bestselling historian Katja Hoyer...More info...
Scintillating ... a thrill ride through the filthy streets and dank rooms of Georgian England where the lies and deceptions that fooled a nation were born Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five Here lies Fanny Lynes, whose whispers from beyond the g...More info...
Our ancestors didnt just take the piss. They used it too.The human body leaks. It oozes. It sweats and spits. It bursts, it bleeds and it squirts. Over the history of humanity, our bodies have evolved into sophisticated vessels for survival, leaving...More info...
What do dogs do in art? A dazzlingly original cultural history from the Cundill Prize-winning historian Long before the phrase man s best friend became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dog s Gaze, th...More info...
Its a marvellous deep dive into the American psyche. Publishers Weekly THE NYT BESTSELLER Americas getting old. Its soon to celebrate its 250th birthday. Its getting harder and harder for its citizens to find anything to agree on, even the nations...More info...
The Marxian theory of fetishism is usually interpreted as a theory of false consciousness, alienation, or reification pertaining to commodities or culture. This book reconstructs how Marx, Lukacs, Adorno, and Lefebvre interpret and use the theory of...More info...
Simon Chadwick, Yue Meng-Lewis, Donna Wong, Paul Widdop
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
(Pub. Date: 06-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040817124)
This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the global esports industry by examining its significance in the context of global geopolitics and economics. As perhaps the most rapidly growing sector of the sports and entertainment industry w...More info...
Simon Chadwick, Yue Meng-Lewis, Donna Wong, Paul Widdop
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
(Pub. Date: 06-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040817179)
This book adds a new dimension to our understanding of the global esports industry by examining its significance in the context of global geopolitics and economics. As perhaps the most rapidly growing sector of the sports and entertainment industry w...More info...
El situacionismo no es historia, es un espejo incomodo en el que el presente sigue reconociendose. En los anos sesenta y setenta, una ola de revueltas recorrio el mundo en respuesta al creciente dominio de la mercancia y el Estado sobre todos los a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300291971)
From an acclaimed archaeological writer, a worldwide history of huntingHunting is one of humanitys most ancient and universal activities. It has been embedded in every facet of our lives, shaping social bonds, power hierarchies, and interactions wit...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300292572)
How does modern British history look when seen through the eyes of those not yet grown up? In newly affluent 1950s Britain, ideas about adulthood and childhood began to change radically. Adults married, bought houses, and had children far sooner, a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300292176)
An engaging, beautifully illustrated history of London told through twenty-five lost buildings London has been rebuilt and reshaped perhaps more than any other city over its two-millennia history. From the construction of the Underground to slum cl...More info...
Series: InterConnections: the Global Twentieth Century
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469690834)
Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gai...More info...
Series: InterConnections: the Global Twentieth Century
(Pub. Date: 05-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469690827)
Nestled between Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname, Guyana is the third-smallest sovereign state in mainland South America, and one of its youngest. Originally a Dutch colony, Guyana remained under British rule from the late eighteenth century until gai...More info...
At a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond,Deviants and Trailblazersarrives as a powerful antidote, uncovering a rich, overlooked history. Spanning from the first legal gender changes in 1944 and the devastating Corbett v....More info...
At a time when trans rights are under attack across Britain and beyond, Deviants and Trailblazers arrives as a powerful antidote, uncovering a rich, overlooked history. Spanning from the first legal gender changes in 1944 and the devastating Corbett...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954806)
An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old SouthVirginia was the state with the most enslaved people prior to the Civil War. It was also at one time the state with the most resident free people of color-free fr...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954806)
An authoritative study of the free people of color in the largest state of the Old SouthVirginia was the state with the most enslaved people prior to the Civil War. It was also at one time the state with the most resident free people of color-free fr...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040685419)
Myths of Masculinity and American Film examines ideologies of white American manhood that permeated US culture between 1974 and 2016-the period in which the boys of Generation X grew into adulthood.Stephen R. Duncan argues that the mass media of movi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040918951)
This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040918999)
This collection introduces the transnational dimensions of contemporary Italian comics to the predominantly Anglophone arena of comics studies. The volume explores how Italian comics culture transcends geographical and linguistic borders, revealing t...More info...
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040596418)
Myths of Masculinity and American Film examines ideologies of white American manhood that permeated US culture between 1974 and 2016-the period in which the boys of Generation X grew into adulthood.Stephen R. Duncan argues that the mass media of movi...More info...
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111709635)
Thinking in binaries ("e;us"e; versus "e;they"e;) has often been identified as a characteristic of modern Western societies. This is reflected in the ubiquitous concept of "e;identity,"e; both in colloquial and academic discou...More info...
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation
(Pub. Date: 04-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111709369)
Thinking in binaries ("e;us"e; versus "e;they"e;) has often been identified as a characteristic of modern Western societies. This is reflected in the ubiquitous concept of "e;identity,"e; both in colloquial and academic discou...More info...
The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has mens business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the F...More info...
The surprising story of how the plain black suit became a symbol of masculinity, democracy, and modernity.How did black suits become so ubiquitous? Why has mens business clothing been so plain for the last 250 years? How did a style adopted by the F...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197834527)
Feminist biography burst on the scene in the 1970s dedicated to discovering and reclaiming female characters whose lives had been ignored or overlooked. Recovering womens lives wasnt enough. Feminist biographers pioneered an interpretive and narrat...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197834534)
Feminist biography burst on the scene in the 1970s dedicated to discovering and reclaiming female characters whose lives had been ignored or overlooked. Recovering womens lives wasnt enough. Feminist biographers pioneered an interpretive and narrat...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954837)
A shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim CrowThe eugenics movement, in which the state claimed the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history. Virginia was infamous a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954837)
A shocking story of social engineering in the era of Jim CrowThe eugenics movement, in which the state claimed the right to determine who could and who could not have children, was a dark, shameful chapter in American history. Virginia was infamous a...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040912126)
Cobbett is best known today as the author of Rural Rides, but in his lifetime, he was an enormously productive political and economic journalist and writer of books in many fields, and he is important to students in a number of disciplines, ranging f...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040910900)
Originally published in 1921, this book examines the economic and political situation of France in 1789 and discusses the historical and social forces that led to the dismantling of the feudal system. Sydney Herbert provides a detailed analysis of th...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040912331)
French History and Society (1974) ranges over French history and society, thought, literature, painting, sculpture and architecture, music, and politics and institutions to examine France as a whole from the sixteenth century to the present day....More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040912096)
Cobbett is best known today as the author of Rural Rides, but in his lifetime, he was an enormously productive political and economic journalist and writer of books in many fields, and he is important to students in a number of disciplines, ranging f...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040912409)
French History and Society (1974) ranges over French history and society, thought, literature, painting, sculpture and architecture, music, and politics and institutions to examine France as a whole from the sixteenth century to the present day....More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040910870)
Originally published in 1921, this book examines the economic and political situation of France in 1789 and discusses the historical and social forces that led to the dismantling of the feudal system. Sydney Herbert provides a detailed analysis of th...More info...
Why do Jews continue to serve as targets of hatred - and how coherent is the idea of antisemitism itself? In Antisemitisms, Sander L. Gilman draws on decades of scholarship to argue that such hatreds are less stable and more opportunistic than often...More info...
Why do Jews continue to serve as targets of hatred - and how coherent is the idea of antisemitism itself? In Antisemitisms, Sander L. Gilman draws on decades of scholarship to argue that such hatreds are less stable and more opportunistic than often...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, EPUB+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806663)
Explores how non-Israeli filmmakers have used the essayistic travelogue to capture Israels complex and contested landscape.Brief Encounters offers the first extended exploration of a distinct and often overlooked corpus of travel documentaries made...More info...
Series: SUNY series, An American Region: Studies in the Hudson Valley
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806168)
Traces the history of Poughkeepsies development from the nineteenth through the twentieth and into the challenges of the twenty-first century.Main Street to Mainframes is an in-depth study of a small American city and its evolution in the twentieth...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806670)
Explores how non-Israeli filmmakers have used the essayistic travelogue to capture Israels complex and contested landscape.Brief Encounters offers the first extended exploration of a distinct and often overlooked corpus of travel documentaries made...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-May-2026, PDF+DRM, Publisher: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855806717)
Brings Connecticut suffragist and socialist Emily Pierson out of the shadows, exploring her role in the social and political movements that shook America from the 1910s to the Cold War.At once the story of a largely forgotten local firebrand of left...More info...
