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  1. Period : The Real Story of Menstruation

    Clancy, Kate
    Princeton University Press 2023 Unabridged

    This audiobook narrated by Kate Clancy shares a bold and revolutionary perspective on the science and cultural history of menstruation Menstruation is something half the world does...

  2. The Dawn of Everything : A New History of Humanity

    Graeber, David; Wengrow, David
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

    INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of ag...

  3. Acoustemologies in Contact: Sounding Subjects and Modes of Listening in Early Modernity

    Open Book Publishers

    In this fascinating collection of essays, an international group of scholars explores the sonic consequences of transcultural contact in the early modern period. They examine how c...

  4. A Biography of Loneliness : The History of an Emotion

    Bound Alberti, Fay
    OUP Oxford 2019

    'A compassionate, wide-ranging study.' Terry Eagleton, The Guardian Despite 21st-century fears of a modern 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biogra...

  5. Ålevangeliet : berättelsen om världens mest gåtfulla fisk

    Svensson, Patrik
    Albert Bonniers Förlag 2019

    VINNARE AV AUGUSTPRISET 2019 I DEN FACKLITTERÄRA KLASSENHur mycket kan man veta om en ål? Eller om en människa?"Ålevangeliet" är en bok om världens mest gåtfulla fisk. En fisk som...

  6. I Like to Watch : Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution

    Nussbaum, Emily
    Random House Publishing Group 2019

    From The New Yorker’s fiercely original, Pulitzer Prize-winning culture critic, a provocative collection of new and previously published essays arguing that we are what we watch. “...

  7. Burning Down the Haus : Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Mohr, Tim
    Algonquin Books 2018

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY  Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon *  Rough Trade Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence “[A] riveting and inspiring history o...

  8. Capital Punishment and the Criminal Corpse in Scotland, 1740–1834

    Bennett, Rachel E.
    Springer 2018 1. painos

    Table of contents1. IntroductionRachel E. BennettPart I. The Implementation of the Death Sentence in Scotland2. Capital Punishment and the Scottish Criminal Justice SystemRachel E....

  9. Victoria : The Queen: An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Ruled an Empire

    Baird, Julia
    Random House Publishing Group 2016

    The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria...

  10. Timekeepers : How the World Became Obsessed with Time

    Garfield, Simon
    Canongate Books 2016

    By the bestselling author of Just My Type: a “thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating” journey into the concept of time “stuffed with fascinating material” (Observer, UK). Timekeeper...

  11. Histories of Nations : How Their Identities Were Forged

    Furtado, Peter; Bassir, Hussein
    Thames and Hudson Ltd 2014

    To understand the cultural and political differences that endanger our world, we need to appreciate fundamental national stories. In this unique book, leading writers and scholars...

  12. A Matter of Souls

    Patrick, Denise Lewis
    Lerner Publishing Group 2014

    From the shores of Africa to the bowels of a transatlantic ship to a voting booth in Mississippi to the jungles of Vietnam, all human connection is a matter of souls.In this stirri...

  13. A Short History of the Modern Media

    Cullen, Jim
    John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2014 1. painos

    A Short History of the Modern Media presents a concise history of the major media of the last 150 years, including print, stage, film, radio, television, sound recording, and the I...

  14. Blackness in Opera

    University of Illinois Press 2012

    Blackness in Opera critically examines the intersections of race and music in the multifaceted genre of opera. A diverse cross-section of scholars places well-known operas (Porgy a...

  15. Calcutta : Cities of the Imagination

    Dutta, Krishna
    Andrews UK 2010 1. painos

    In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Nigh...

  16. Health and the Modern Home

    Jackson, Mark
    Taylor & Francis Group 2008 1. painos

    In an article published in the New York Times in 1980, Ralph Blumenthal highlighted government reports of the multiple health hazards supposedly present in modern American homes. ‘...