A thoroughly researched, balanced new biography of author, journalist and adventurer Ernest Hemingway.
An exploration of the issues that arise when philosophers ask ‘how are we to eat?’
The first history of American handmade and homemade pornography.
Uniquely explores how Sting’s working-class Newcastle background inspired his music.
A richly illustrated exploration of gender, identity, sexuality and celebrity in Edo-period Japan.
Playing at Home explores the different ways in which contemporary artists have engaged with ideas of the house and home - from 'broken homes' to haunted houses, doll's houses, mobile homes and greenhouses.
A magisterial account of representations of the body in health, disease and death.
Dorothy Yamamoto’s Guinea Pig is the first in-depth account of the storied history of guinea pig and human interaction, which shows how guinea pigs have influenced humans since earliest times,... Læs mere
A new critical biography of iconoclastic and scandalous French artist Yves Klein.
Traces the long relationship between humans and the cosily domestic, yet eerie cat.
In the early twenty-first century animals are news. This title looks at the cultural and social role of animals from 1800 to the present at the way in which visual... Læs mere
Explores the contested history of art and nationalism in the tumultuous last decades of British rule in India. With a fascinating array... Læs mere