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Blooming Flowers - A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy
Category: Home and Garden
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure "From the meaning of carnations in Sex and the City to the use of sunflowers in the cleanup of Chernobyl, from Henry VIII's ban on saffron dye in Ireland t ...Show more
Blooming Flowers - A Seasonal History of Plants and People by Kasia Boddy
Category: Home and Garden
An evocative and richly illustrated exploration of flowers and how, over the centuries, they have given us so much sustenance, meaning, and pleasure The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella--there is no end of reas ...Show more
Boxing - A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
Category: Sports and Hobbies
Throughout history, potters, sculptors, painters, poets, novelists, cartoonists, song-writers, photographers, and filmmakers have recorded and tried to make sense of boxing. From Daniel Mendoza to Mike Tyson, boxers have embodied and enacted our anxieties about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. In ...Show more
Boxing: A Cultural History by Kasia Boddy
Category: Sport
Boxing is one of the oldest and most physical of sports, its visceral appeal lying in the stark struggle for dominance through the brutal silencers of fists and pain. The permeation of boxing into Western culture is the subject of Kasia Boddy's fascinating and comprehensive investigation. From ancient G ...Show more
Geranium by Kasia Boddy
Category: Gardening | Series: Botanical
Reaktion's new 'Botanical' series is the first of its kind, integrating horticultural and botanical writing with a broader account of the cultural and social impact of plants. In that sense, the South African geranium (the enduring, if confusing, common name for the genus Pelargonium) is perhaps the per ...Show more
The New Penguin Book Of American Short Stories, From Washington Irving To Lydia Davis by BODDY KASIA
Category: Fiction
The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its finest examples from the early nineteenth century to the present. It contains a richly diverse cast of characters, including convicts, artists, farm labourers, slaves, soldie ...Show more
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