Bloomsbury

Caroline Paul was recovering from a bad accident (she had been flying a plane when it happened) and thought things couldn&'t get worse. But then her beloved cat Tibia disappeared. She and her partner, illustrator Wendy MacNaughton, anxiously waited for his return, before resigning themselves to their loss.  But weeks later, Tibia waltzed back into...

Life Lessons from an Ancient PoetHorace lived at a pivotal moment. Rome was facing a profound crisis: though it ruled the world, the values which had made it great were disintegrating. As efficiency and pragmatism became watchwords, Horace championed the supremely useless endeavour of poetry, and glorified friendship and wine. Horace and Me charts...

A Visual AnthropologyMuseums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of...

Exploring the Contours of Raunch EroticismThe mainstreaming of pornographic imagery into fashion and popular culture at the turn of the millennium in Britain and the US signalled a dramatic cultural shift in construction of both femininity and masculinity. For men and women, raunch became the new cool. This engaging book draws from a diverse range...

We make it clear in our literature that we are looking for extraordinary couples - progressive people who are open to radical ways of doing things.'Jo and Alex are the perfect professional couple - the ideal modern family. But at the centre of their comfortable lives a void has opened and Jo is desperate to find a solution. Her unorthodox...

Social media such as microblogging services andsocial networking sites are changing the way people interact online and searchfor information and opinions.  This book investigates linguistic patterns in electronic discourse,looking at online evaluative language, Internet slang, memes and ambientaffiliation using a large Twitter corpus (over 100...