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based in

Islington Islington ( ) is an inner-city area of north London, England, within the wider London Borough of Islington. It is a mainly residential district of Inner London, extending from Islington's #Islington High Street, High Street to Highbury Fields ...

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, England. It was founded in 1985 in

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, Scotland, and moved to London in 1987. Reaktion originally focused on the fields of art, architecture, and design. In recent years it has broadened to include more areas and also publishes series of books.

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Reaktion originally focused on the fields of art, architecture, and design – its first book was '' Ian Hamilton Finlay: A Visual Primer'' by Yves Abrioux. In recent years Reaktion's list has broadened substantially, and now also encompasses animal studies, Asian art and culture, biography, cultural studies, current events, fashion, film, food history, geography, general history, music, philosophy, photography, politics, and sports history. Reaktion now produces around 70 new titles each year and has about 500 titles in print. Among the monographs released by Reaktion are studies of the Ottoman architect Sinan and the artists Delaroche, Holbein,

Tintoretto Jacopo Robusti (late September or early October 1518Bernari and de Vecchi 1970, p. 83.31 May 1594), best known as Tintoretto ( ; , ), was an Italian Renaissance painter of the Venetian school. His contemporaries both admired and criticized th ...

, Bellini, Malcolm Morley, Leon Golub, and

Caspar David Friedrich Caspar David Friedrich (; 5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romanticism, German Romantic Landscape painting, landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation, whose often symbolic, and anti ...

, the last of which was awarded the 1992 Mitchell Prize for the History of Art. Reaktion also publishes many series of books, including ''Animal'', short natural and cultural histories of individual animals; ''Edible'', global histories of a particular food, drink, or ingredient; ''Critical Lives'', concise critical biographies of important cultural figures; and ''Earth'', studies of the historical and cultural significance of natural phenomena. Recent books of note from Reaktion include ''Twenty Minutes in Manhattan'' by Michael Sorkin, ''Travels in the History of Architecture'' by Robert Harbison, ''Werner Herzog – Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests'' by Kristoffer Hegnsvad, ''Boxing: A Cultural History'' by Kasia Boddy, and ''Owl'' by Desmond Morris.

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