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The Development of Embroidery in America
ISBN: 9781507857199 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Development of Embroidery in America," by Candace Wheeler. Candace Wheeler was the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman interior and textile designers (1827-1923).
"The Development of Embroidery in America," by Candace Wheeler. Candace Wheeler was the "mother" of interior design, was one of America's first woman ...
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When the Nurse Becomes a Patient: A Story in Words and Images
ISBN: 9781606352304 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paintings and reflections that share a nurse's personal experience of illness
In the summer of 2013, Cortney Davis, a nurse practitioner and author who often writes about her interactions with patients, underwent routine one-day surgery. A surgical mishap led to a series of life-altering and life-threatening complications, resulting in two prolonged hospital stays and a lengthy recovery. During twenty-six days in the hospital, Davis experienced how suddenly a caregiver can become a care receiver and what it's like to be "on the other side of the sickbed." As a... Paintings and reflections that share a nurse's personal experience of illness
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Wingmakers
ISBN: 9781936671298 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,37 |
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Debating Authenticity: Concepts of Modernity in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781782389125 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Debating Authenticity presents the reader with a rich collection of ethnographic case studies, unpacking the complexity of the concept in various social settings across the globe." - The Australian Journal of Anthropology The longing for authenticity, on an individual or collective level, connects the search for external expressions to internal orientations. What is largely referred to as production of authenticity is a reformulation of cultural values and norms within the ongoing process of modernity, impacted by globalization and contemporary transnational cultural flows. This... "Debating Authenticity presents the reader with a rich collection of ethnographic case studies, unpacking the complexity of the concept in various ... |
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Palissy the Potter: The Life of Bernard Palissy, of Saintes, His Labours and Discoveries in Art and Science
ISBN: 9781108078078 / Angielski / Miękka / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510 c.1590) was published in 1852, the year after the Great Exhibition, in which Palissy's extraordinary art had been brought before the Victorian public by Minton's highly decorated 'Palissy wares'. Henry Morley (1822 94) trained in medicine but later became an author and editor, writing for Charles Dickens among others. Here he gathers together all the material then available about Palissy, including the potter's own writings and a contemporary biography. Palissy was among the many...
This two-volume biography of the sixteenth-century French potter and natural scientist Bernard Palissy (c.1510 c.1590) was published in 1852, the year...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall,
ISBN: 9781108079334 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626 97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the...
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmole...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall,
ISBN: 9781108079341 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626 97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the...
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmole...
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Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: To Which Are Added, Hearne's Journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall,
ISBN: 9781108079358 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmolean Museum, but is significant because it contains the biographical notes on the 'lives of eminent men' furnished by John Aubrey (1626 97) to Anthony a Wood, who was at the time compiling his Athenae Oxonienses. Aubrey's subsequently famous Brief Lives were published for the first time in this 1813 work, and, although described as the fourth appendix to it, in fact comprise slightly less than half of the second volume and the entirety of the...
This three-volume compilation by the Oxford antiquary John Walker (1770 1831) consists mainly of manuscripts from the Bodleian Library and the Ashmole...
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215,21 |
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History and Practice of the Art of Photography
ISBN: 9781508562191 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Hybrid Heritage on Screen: The 'Raj Revival' in the Thatcher Era
ISBN: 9781137463968 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, gender and class relations during the Thatcher Era as represented in cinema and television.
Hybrid Heritage on Screen provides a long overdue thorough analysis of the 1980s 'Raj Revival'. It examines imperial nostalgia and troubled ethnic, ge...
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Mapping Cultures: Place, Practice, Performance
ISBN: 9781137533951 / Angielski / Miękka / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mapping Cultures is a collection of essays exploring the diverse practices and cultures of mapping on the one hand, and the mapping of different forms of cultural practice on the other. The book draws on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, including critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, architecture, and popular music studies. Underpinning the theoretical and methodological approaches of all the contributions is a close engagement with mapping both as a mode of cultural and spatial analysis, and as a...
Mapping Cultures is a collection of essays exploring the diverse practices and cultures of mapping on the one hand, and the mapping of different forms...
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152,93 |
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Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002
ISBN: 9781451656152 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,03 |
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Myriad Musings: A Treasury of Poems
ISBN: 9781482806052 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of twenty-seven poems that run through varying themes of loss through death and the enjoyment of life. It offers a brooding philosophical engagement with the reader in some pieces; while in others, it elevates the imagination and moves beyond a purely physical experience. This transcendental quality is intricately woven into most of the poems. There is a delightful use of metaphor in many instances, like in the depiction of a bleeding sun and a frequent animation of nature. One will find a lot of somberness and sadness in some of the poems, but it also tells a story of...
This is a collection of twenty-seven poems that run through varying themes of loss through death and the enjoyment of life. It offers a brooding philo...
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Performing the Nation in Global Korea: Transnational Theatre
ISBN: 9781137453570 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South Korean theatre in the global era. With a focus on performances that targeted global audiences, Lee explores the ways in which Korea's nationalistic desires for global visibility are projected on stage.
This book illustrates how local awareness of Western cultural hegemonic entities such as Broadway and Shakespeare have been implemented within South K...
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Behind the Masks of Modernism: Global and Transnational Perspectives
ISBN: 9780813061641 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultural object to clarify modernity s relationship to history. Carrie J. Preston, author of Modernism s Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, Solo Performance
Covering an impressive range of geographies, cultures, and time periods, these carefully researched essays explore the fascinating role of masks and masking in mediating the relationship between tradition and modernity in both art and literature. Paul Jay, author of The Humanities Crisis... A wide-ranging collection that allows the mask as artifact, metaphor, theatrical costume, fetish, strategy for self-concealment, and treasured cultura...
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Myth, Magic, and Metaphor - A Journey into the Heart of Creativity
ISBN: 9780990801184 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite the imagination while examining history, art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music as components of the creative process. It is a voyage of discovery, and maybe its real goal is simply the joy of knowing the journey will never end Patricia Daly-Lipe encourages us "to experience the sense of wonder we knew as children, to use our imagination, to feel and absorb the world around us, to listen, not just to hear, to see, not just to look;...
MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite ...
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Lectures on Art
ISBN: 9781508792710 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Lectures on Art" from Washington Allston. American painter and poet (1779-1843).
"Lectures on Art" from Washington Allston. American painter and poet (1779-1843).
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Proceedings of the International Symposium on Research of Arts, Design and Humanities (Isradh 2014)
ISBN: 9789812875297 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the interaction between art, design, technology and the social sciences.
This book examines the interaction between art, design, technology and the social sciences.
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Myth, Magic, and Metaphor - A Journey into the Heart of Creativity
ISBN: 9780990801177 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite the imagination while examining history, art, literature, philosophy, mathematics, and music as components of the creative process. It is a voyage of discovery, and maybe its real goal is simply the joy of knowing the journey will never end Patricia Daly-Lipe encourages us "to experience the sense of wonder we knew as children, to use our imagination, to feel and absorb the world around us, to listen, not just to hear, to see, not just to look;...
MYTH, MAGIC, and METAPHOR takes the reader on a journey. This book was not written to provide answers. It was written to provoke questions and ignite ...
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Companion to the Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: Being a Brief Account of the Vestments in Use in the Church, Prior To, and the Chan
ISBN: 9781108082723 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first version of this three-volume work was published in 1829 as a question-and-answer book of 80 pages. The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 edition of this hugely popular, highly illustrated work, reissued here, was published at the urging of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and consists of two volumes on Gothic ecclesiastical architecture and a 'companion' volume on church vestments. Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1805 88), a solicitor by profession, was an enthusiastic architectural historian with a passion for churches. In the preface, as well as explaining his reasons for another edition, Bloxam...
The first version of this three-volume work was published in 1829 as a question-and-answer book of 80 pages. The eleventh, and definitive, 1882 editio...
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