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    A Curious History of Sex

    by Kate Lister ...
    Narrated by Kate Lister ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 18 min

    The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatize particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow—hopefully for the better—but ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts

    A History of Sex for Sale

    by Kate Lister ...
    Narrated by Kate Lister ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 6 min

    The history of selling sex is a hidden one—and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers, from medieval streets to Wild West saloons, and from brothels to state bedrooms.Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts' chapters are structured thematically in a broadly chronological order, ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Paraphernalia! Victorian Objects

    Edited by Helen Kingstone, Kate Lister ...
    Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
    The Victorian era is famous for the collecting, hording, and displaying of things; for the mass production and consumption of things; for the invention, distribution and sale of things; for those who had things, and those who did not. For many people, the Victorian period is intrinsically associated with paraphernalia.This collection of essays explores the Victorians through their materiality, and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Vikings and the Vikings

    Essays on Television's History Channel Series

    Edited by Paul Hardwick, Kate Lister ...
    This essay collection is a wide-ranging exploration of Vikings, the television series that has successfully summoned the historical world of the Norse people for modern audiences to enjoy. From a range of critical viewpoints, these all fresh essays explore the ways in which past and present representations of the Vikings converge in the show's richly textured dramatization of the rise and fall of ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

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    Frida Slattery As Herself

    A Novel

    by Ana Kinsella ...
    Narrated by Jessica Regan, Darragh Hand ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 17 min

    A sweeping, witty, and wise novel following an actress and a writer-director—told through the plays they make together and the time they spend apartYou could probably run cities on the energy generated between directors like him and actresses like her.When Frida Slattery and John Reddan meet in a Dublin pub in 2006, neither can imagine how they will come to shape and define each other’s lives. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Behind Closed Doors

    At Home in Georgian England

    by Amanda Vickery ...
    From the award-winning author of The Gentleman's Daughter,a witty and academic illumination of daily domestic life in Georgian England.In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arts & Crafts Movement

    Design, craftsmanship, and beauty in daily life

    by Oscar Lovell Triggs ...
    “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” This quote alone from William Morris could summarise the ideology of the Arts & Crafts movement, which triggered a veritable reform in the applied arts in England. Founded by John Ruskin, then put into practice by William Morris, the Arts & Crafts movement promoted revolutionary ideas in Victorian England. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Craftsmanship

    Towards a New Bauhaus

    by Christopher Frayling ...
    Series series Oberon Masters Series
    'Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places, just as it did in the last few recessions.'The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant and timely as it is today. Assailed on all sides by – among many other tendencies - flexible working, short-termism, portfolio careers, quick-fix training and the cult of celebrity, it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain

    by Leah Price ...
    How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn? Why did law courts forbid witnesses to kiss the Bible? What made Victorian cartoonists mock commuters who hid behind the newspaper, ladies who matched their books' binding to their dress, and servants who ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Merry Heart

    Reflections on Reading, Writing, and the World of Books

    by Robertson Davies ...
    "A splendid gallimaufry of the eminent Canadian's talks and essays, mostly about literature and the creative life . . . a thought-filled and amusing book."— The Washington PostFor devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the "urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef," vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu ( Cleveland Plain Dealer).Robertson ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives of Houses

    Edited by Kate Kennedy, Hermione Lee ...
    Notable writers—including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow—celebrate our fascination with the houses of famous literary figures, artists, composers, and politicians of the pastWhat can a house tell us about the person who lives there? Do we shape the buildings we live in, or are we formed by the places we call home? And why are we especially ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Companion to Children's Literature

    Edited by M. O. Grenby, Andrea Immel ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Some of the most innovative and spell-binding literature has been written for young people, but only recently has academic study embraced its range and complexity. This Companion offers a state-of-the-subject survey of English-language children's literature from the seventeenth century to the present. With discussions ranging from eighteenth-century moral tales to modern fantasies by J. K. Rowling ... Read more

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