The World According to Color: A Cultural History
By: James Fox
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' …
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1. Confabulations
By: John Berger
3.97
Format: 133 pages, Kindle Edition
'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as … read more
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- art
- nonfiction
"Preachers love only their own voices."-John Berger, Confabulations
"The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue."-John Berger, Confabulations
"A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral functions are linguistic. And this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate."-John Berger, Confabulations
"Much of what happens to us in life is nameless because our vocabulary is too poor. Most stories get told out loud because the storyteller hopes that the feeling of the story can transform a nameless …"-John Berger, Confabulations
2. Some Prefer Nettles
By: Edward G. Seidensticker , Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
4.05
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst seeking passion and fulfilment in the a… read more
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3. Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour
By: Kate Fox
3.00
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In WATCHING THE ENGLISH anthropologist Kate Fox takes a revealing look at the quirks, habits and fo… read more
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4. Modern Nature
By: Derek Jarman
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
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- art
- nonfiction
"But now I have re-discovered boredom, where I can fight ‘what next’ with nothing."-Derek Jarman, Modern Nature
5. Art as Therapy
By: Alain de Botton , John Armstrong
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What is art for? In the engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain… read more
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6. The History of Jazz
By: Ted Gioia
4.67
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jazz is the most colorful and varied art form in the world, and it was born in one of the most colo… read more
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7. Moneta & labirintas
By: Mantas Adomėnas
3.95
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
2018-ieji, Nižnedvinskas, Šiaurės Rusija. Lietuvos saugumo Giliosios geopolitikos skyriaus žvalgybi… read more
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8. Baltieji prieš juoduosius
By: Danutė Kalinauskaitė
4.12
Format: 202 pages, Hardcover
Danutė Kalinauskaitė – pripažinimo sulaukusi prozininkė, laimėjusi ne vieną literatūrinį apdovanoji… read more
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9. Žuvis vandenyje
By: Eugenijus Laurinaitis
3.41
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Knyga apie sklandų bendravimą Nuo pat gimimo iki paskutinio atodūsio esame tarp žmonių, visą lai… read more
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- psychology
10. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- design
- science
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
11. Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
By: Catherine McCormack
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their b… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
"[We are]expected to be wooed and seduced by the male artist’s libidinous vision, a vision that has dominated and come to define our perception of genius, beauty and value from the perspective of the …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"society tolerates sexually explicit images of women as long as they conform to an ideal that doesn’t relate to women’s autonomous erotic pleasure. Encouraged to be hyper-sexualised and available spec…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"The problem is not that erotically charged images can’t also be seen as culturally valuable expressions (they can), but that woman’s highest cultural expression has been as a passive sex object, and …"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
"Picasso and Modigliani’s ‘Venuses’ represent a sort of iconoclasm in their self-conscious rejection of the cold, perfectly-finished, stuffy beauty of the Western tradition of art. For the contemporar…"-Catherine McCormack, Women in the Picture: What Culture Does with Female Bodies
12. I Will Write to Avenge My People: The Nobel Lecture
By: Annie Ernaux
4.15
Format: 26 pages, Kindle Edition
Published for the first time in a beautiful collectible edition, the essential lecture delivered by… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Grybo sapnas
By: Gabija Grušaitė
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
„Grybo sapnas“ – tai romanas apie žmones, pasiklydusius savo vidiniuose labirintuose. Visuomenės ak… read more
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14. The Story of Art Without Men
By: Katy Hessel
4.31
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before th… read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
15. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
By: Serhii Plokhy
4.23
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- science
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
16. Ką veikia Japonija
By: Andrius Kleiva
4.48
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Kaip atrodo Japonija iš vidaus, ką apie save ir kitus galvoja salų šalies žmonės, kai lietuvis su j… read more
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- nonfiction
17. Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me
By: Michela Murgia
4.30
Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition
La viva voce dell'intellettuale più lucida e appassionata del nostro tempo torna a visitarci per un… read more
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- nonfiction
"La fuga salva. La fuga non è mancanza di coraggio. La fuga a volte è l'unico modo che hai di essere viva."-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me
"Si dice che quando ti morde il lupo te lo aspetti, ma i guai cominciano davvero quando ti morde la pecora."-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me
"Nelle relazioni si litiga sempre per restare. Quando te ne vuoi andare non litighi. Non spieghi, non perdi tempo. Te ne vai. Litigare è un segno di salute."-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me
"Mi auguro che la Chiesa si apra in futuro in maniera più deliberata. Non si possono fare cose che riguardano il genere umano tagliando fuori metà del genere umano."-Michela Murgia, Ricordatemi come vi pare. In memoria di me
18. The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.11
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From colorful 30,000-year-old threads found on the floor of a Georgian cave to the Indian calicoes … read more
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- art
- art history
- history
- historical
- nonfiction
- microhistory
"Canopy, an environmental organisation, believes that 120 million trees are felled each year to produce rayon and other cellulose-based materials."-Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
19. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
By: Patrick Grant
4.37
Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more
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- nonfiction
20. The World According to Color: A Cultural History
By: James Fox
4.23
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic exploration that traverses history, literature, art, and science to reveal humans' … read more
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- art
- history
- historical
- psychology
- nonfiction
- design
- microhistory
- science
21. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler
By: Peter Pomerantsev
4.13
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more
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- history
- psychology
