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Notes on Camp
2024 || Paperback || Susan Sontag || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
'The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.'
These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.
Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Bal...
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Capitalism and Slavery
2024 || Paperback || Eric Williams || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Make Break Remix
The Rise of K-Style
2024 || Paperback || Fiona Bae || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A bold, stylish look at the global rise of Korean culture and style in the words and images of those shaping and living it.
K-pop, K-fashion, K-drama, K-beauty: over the last decade, K-style has exploded onto the global scene. What is behind this phenomenon? Where does K-Style go from here? Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style makes no attempt to define or categorize, instead celebrating the eclectic, multi-faceted nature of K-Style and its home city of Seoul.
Through...
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The Korean Myths
A Guide to the Gods, Heroes and Legends
2024 || Hardcover || Heinz Insu Fenkl e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Ways of Curating
2024 || Paperback || Hans Ulrich Obrist || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the practice of inspirational figures such as Diaghilev, skipping between exhibitions, continents and centuries, the author argues that curation is far from a static practice.
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What Dementia Teaches Us About Love
2024 || Paperback || Nicci Gerrard || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Hello Human: A History of Visual Communication
A history of visual communication
2024 || Hardcover || Michael Horsham || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A kaleidoscopic journey tracing the methods and means of visual communication from the cave paintings of the earliest humans to the ?photograph' of a black hole in deep space.
Since the beginning of our time as humans, we have never stopped making images and inventing channels for visual communication. From the cave dweller creating paintings on a wall at the dawn of civilized time to Instagram influencers today, technology may keep changing, but our need to reach one another, to m...
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Kids of Cosplay
2024 || Hardcover || Thurstan Redding e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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Down Girl
The Logic of Misogyny
2024 || Paperback || Kate Manne || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Kate Manne is an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University, having previously been a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She works in moral, social, and feminist philosophy and her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and the Huffington Post.
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Think Like a Freak
The Authors of Freakonomics Offer to Retrain Your Brain
2024 || Paperback || Steven D. Levitt e.a. || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics changed the way we see the world, exposing the hidden side of just about everything.Now, with Think Like a Freak, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner have written their most revolutionary book yet. With their trademark blend of captivating storytelling and unconventional analysis, they take us inside their thought process and offer a blueprint for an entirely new way to solve problems. The topics range from business to philanthropy to sports to p...