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Our Autumn/Winter 2008 season sees the launch of our new Edible series, delectable global food and beverage histories by some of the leading writers in the field. Each book provides a portrait of the food or drink in question – its history, production, evolution, dispersal, and role in culture and society. The first titles in the series to be published are Hamburger by Andrew F. Smith, Pizza by Carol Helstosky, and Pancake by Ken Albala.
Three new titles visit the darker side of cultural anxieties: From Demons to Dracula by Matthew Beresford roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as the author investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature and art; Barry Curtis’s Dark Places: The Haunted House in Film leads us deep inside the haunted spaces of film; and Lars Svendsen’s A Philosophy of Fear explains the underlying factors behind this powerful human emotion.
We have two new titles in our Exposures series: Photography and Flight by Denis Cosgrove and William L. Fox looks at the history of photographing the earth from the skies; while Photography and Science by Kelley Wilder reveals the major role photography has had in the development of science and medicine, and the way scientific innovation has conversely affected the technological advances in photography.
Lastly we have several significant new art and architecture titles: Nature Over Again by eminent garden historian John Dixon Hunt examines the garden designs and ‘interventions’ of Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener Ian Hamilton Finlay; Sensuous Surfaces by Jonathan Hay is a richly illustrated and in-depth introduction to the decorative arts in Ming and Qing dynasty China; and Brazil by Richard J. Williams reveals the abundant modernist architectural history of Brazil.
We hope you enjoy these and all our new titles this season – for a complete list please click here.
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