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Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in ...

Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in ...

Lynda Nead

Lynda Nead charts the relationship between London's formation into a modern organised city in the 1860s and the emergence of new types of production and consumption of visual culture.
The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film C.1900

The Haunted Gallery: Painting, Photography, Film C.1900

Lynda Nead

This groundbreaking book explores the history of visual media in Britain during this key period, when the 19th century was closing and the 20th just beginning.
The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality

Lynda Nead

The Female Nude represents the first feminist survey of the most significant subject in Western art. It reveals how the female nude is now both at the centre and at the margins of high culture.
Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin

Esther Leslie

the Concept of History' (London, 2006) Eugene Lunn, Marxism and Modernism; A Historical Study of Lukács, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno (Berkeley, CA, 1982) Laura Marcus and Lynda Nead, eds, The Actuality of Walter Benjamin (London, ...
Best-sellers by Design: Vicki Baum and the House of Ullstein

Best-sellers by Design: Vicki Baum and the House of Ullstein

Lynda J. King

Amidst the historical context of commercial literature, it is these relationships between publisher, author, and reader that Lynda King investigates in the development of a uniquely twentieth-century phenomenon—the best-seller. ( continued on ...
Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy

Scientists as Prophets: A Rhetorical Genealogy

Lynda Walsh

In Scientists as Prophets, Lynda Walsh argues that our science advisors manufacture certainty for us in the face of the unknown.
Corporate Excellence In The Year 2000: :A Framework for Success

Corporate Excellence In The Year 2000: :A Framework for Success

Lynda King Taylor

Lynda King Taylor interviews 30 of the UK's top businesspeople, including some of Britain's toughest bosses, and talks to them about how they survived the recession and plan for continued success.
The Women's Guide to Motorcycling: Everything a Woman Needs ...

The Women's Guide to Motorcycling: Everything a Woman Needs ...

Lynda Lahman

In The Women’s Guide to Motorcycling, author Lynda Lahman, herself a motorcycle owner and rider, provides a comprehensive look at motorcycling techniques, street smarts, and safety concerns while addressing female-specific challenges as ...
Beyond Reporting

Beyond Reporting

Lynda Bourne

Reports serve a purpose, but they cannot always replace solid stakeholder communication.
SkillsWork: Student's book

SkillsWork: Student's book

Lynda Edwards

Integrated skills practice for students of English as a foreign language at intermediate level and above.
Fish in a Tree

Fish in a Tree

Lynda Mullaly Hunt

She discovers that there’s a lot more to her—and to everyone—than a label, and that great minds don’t always think alike. From the Hardcover edition.

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