Yumeji Modern: Designing the Everyday in Twentieth-Century Japan, Hardcover - Nozomi Naoi

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The first comprehensive history in English of modern Japanese design.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Sarah TeasleyNumber of pages: 272Publicati...

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Covers films produced in New England between 1915-1960 and held in the collections of the repository, Northeast Historic Film.

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Enno (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) MaessenNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dim...

Reducere. At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...

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A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

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These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

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English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...