'An excellent history of UK dance culture' - The Sunday Times'Engrossing history' - The ObserverFrom the illicit reggae blues dances and acid-rock free festivals of the 1970s, through the ecstasy-fuelled Second Summer of Love in 1988 to the increasingly corporate dance music culture of the post-Covid era, Party Lines is a groundbreaking new history of UK dance music from journalist and filmmaker Ed Gillett, exploring its pivotal role in the social, political and economic shifts on which modern Britain has been built.
Cuando se hace referencia al parque Nacional, predomina la percepción de que su distribución se dispone en sentido sur-norte sobre la carrera Séptima de Bogotá.
Beinahe 30 Jahre lang glänzte die »Völkerfreundschaft« zwischen Kuba und der DDR im öffentlichen Diskurs der SED als Musterbeispiel ihres proletarischen Internationalismus.
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** Unmissable Stephen Fry'A delight' Katherine Rundell Illuminating Susie Dent'Brilliant' Philippa Perry'Enthralling' Jeanette WintersonWhat do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?
WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize *; Shortlisted for the Cundill History PrizeA riveting history (Wall Street Journal) of the Soviet dissident movement, which hastened the end of the USSR and still provides a model of opposition in Putin's Russiaand beyond';A book about a past time that is very much a book for our time.
An Economist, GQ and Times Book of the Year 2025An ambitious history of masculinity and family, from the Bronze Age to the contemporary 'crisis of men', Fatherhood dares to offer a more caring and affirmative vision of the roles men play at home and in the world.
"e;I am honoured as a Kalinago leader to be part of this wonderful work as it relates to the history of our people,"e; says Irvince Auguiste, former Kalinago Chief.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Witchcraft is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the magical myths that have coloured the popular imagination for centuries.
'A sympathetic and perceptive account of a fine writer at a critical moment in our cultural life' KEN LOACHOn 27 May 1958, A Taste of Honey opened in a small fringe theatre in London.
I suppose that by my books of the Antiquity of the Jews, most excellent Epaphroditus, have made it evident to those who peruse them, that our Jewish nation is of very great antiquity, and had a distinct subsistence of its own originally; as also, I have therein declared how we came to inhabit this country wherein we now live.
La irrupción en Bogotá de la carrera Décima, a mediados del siglo XX, fue, además de un paliativo para la movilidad del centro de la ciudad, un hecho simbólico de la historia de la Capital: representó el ingreso de Bogotá a la modernidad, con la adopción de patrones arquitectónicos de vanguardia –que rompían con la hegemónica mezcla de los estilos colonial y republicano– y la existencia de una élite comercial y profesional que, escapando del nebuloso panorama político que vivía el país, promovió proyectos de desarrollo para la urbe como la avenida en cuestión.
Winner of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing 2017 Journeying around the globe, through past and present, Emma Tarlo unravels the intriguing story of human hair and what it tells us about ourselves and society.
John Follain erzählt die wahre, blutige Geschichte des legendären und berüchtigtsten aller Mafia-Clans, der mächtigsten und reichsten Familie der sizilianischen Mafia, die Mario Puzos Roman ›Der Pate‹ inspirierte.
Im Januar-Heft des Merkur gibt Till Breyer den immer akuten Fragen des Asyls ihre (theorie)historische Tiefendimension und sucht dabei nach "Figuren der Schwelle zwischen Territorium und Asyl, zwischen dem Eigenen und dem Gemeinsamen".
Wie Demografie unsere Welt erklärtDemografische Übergänge, die einst mehrere Generationen Zeit brauchten, vollziehen sich heute in nur wenigen Jahrzehnten – und wir sind mittendrin!
Fur die Zeit vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart und fur Europa und Nordamerika untersuchen in 16 Beitragen renommierte Autoren und Autorinnen unterschiedliche Facetten der universitaren Festkultur und der Inszenierung von feierlichen Anlassen: Jubilaumsfeiern wie religiose Zeremonien, Graduierungsfeste und Memorialfeiern oder Depositionsakte und schliesslich Festlichkeiten aus Anlass politischer Stellungnahmen.
