This book collects the contributions from the VII edition of the UPhD Green Conference, held in Florence, Italy on November 7, 2024, as part of the Urbanpromo event. It includes topics such as sustainable development, urban and territorial plann...More info...
This book explores photographic collections as way of doing and/or inspiring research in the humanities and social sciences. This book examines photographic collections as ways of doing and/or inspiring research in the humanities an...More info...
Turn sound into storytelling magic. Whether you’re an indie creator, media student, or creative professional eager to dive into audio drama, this guide gives you everything you need to produce professional-quality work that captivates listeners....More info...
Turn sound into storytelling magic. Whether you’re an indie creator, media student, or creative professional eager to dive into audio drama, this guide gives you everything you need to produce professional-quality work that captivates listeners....More info...
This volume details the recent efforts of developing sustainable approaches to reclaim synthetic polymers and explore natural polymers in design production. An invaluable resource for students, educators, architects, product designers, practitioners...More info...
This volume details the recent efforts of developing sustainable approaches to reclaim synthetic polymers and explore natural polymers in design production. Not long ago, plastic was envisioned as a miraculous material. Now plastic pollution has b...More info...
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media and highlights the potential in I...More info...
The book examines the sustainability of tall buildings by addressing the critical challenges they pose, and the strategic responses required to achieve environmentally responsible development. It calls for a fundamental rethinking of how tall buildi...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191649)
This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (197081) -- ....More info...
Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the field’s various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273489)
Gladys Hynes (1888–1958) was a pioneering figure whose life and work embody the complex currents of the first half of the 20th century Though largely forgotten today, Gladys Hynes (1888–1958) was a pioneering artist whose life and w...More info...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries. Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guid...More info...
Combining history, theory, case studies and practical guidance, this book offers a critical introduction to interdisciplinary production in the arts and cultural industries.Taking a production studies approach, the book examines how arts an...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478038764)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, Cécile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478033837)
Considering race as form across literature, theory, painting, and photography, Cécile Bishops Forms of Blackness explores the formal devices that make Blackness both visible and recognizable. In keeping with Black Francophone theorists like Glissant...More info...
A fresh look at Vincent van Goghs iconic Sunflowers paintings, their context, and what they reveal about the artist and his creative process Vincent van Goghs (18531890) Sunflowers paintings are among the worlds most recognizable works of art. Cen...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300243840)
An essential volume in the history of dance and its critical literature The French dance criticism of the Russian émigré André Levinson (18871933) set a new standard for the genre by regaling readers with a heady mix of formalist acumen, h...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252089534)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252049873)
Buzz Busbys move to Washington, D.C., in 1951 helped launch bluegrass in the nations capital while the intensity of his mandolin playing drew raves for its unrelenting pace and innovative style. His high lonesome singing rivaled that of Bill Monro...More info...
Gary Hume RA (b.1962) is one of the foremost British painters of the last 40 years. In this new book, Martin Gayford explores the evolution of the artists oeuvre and examines the opportunities and dilemmas that helped to shape Humes singular pathw...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300282740)
A groundbreaking study of woven images in the medieval Mongol Yuan Empire and their enduring effect on Chinese and East Asian art East Asias Yuan Empire (12711368), led by the nomadic Mongol people and Qubilai Khan (12151294), was marked by cross-...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198273)
The book explores the full catalogue of the films produced by the Empire Marketing Board, General Post Office and Crown Film Units between 1930 and 1952. It identifies themes which both reflect the sponsors demands and the anxieties of the time as w...More info...
Series: Anthropology, Creative Practice and Ethnography
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198297)
Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526198198)
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards. -- ....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691277820)
How a once-forgotten Dutch painter inspired generations of artists, writers, and filmmakersJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) is one of the most beloved painters in the world. But when an enterprising French journalist and art critic set...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Bookmark, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835628621)
Pack of 10 foiled bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring a Bookshelves design by Marianne North. FSC-certified....More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Bookmark, Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781835628614)
Pack of 10 foiled bookmarks, printed on both sides, with a silky ribbon and featuring a Bookshelves design by Marianne North. FSC-certified....More info...
Coastal Scenes in Watercolour comprises 10 seaside tutorials, from ships in a harbour and fishing nets on a beach, to clifftop seabirds and a wetland estuary....More info...
This collection brings together three interrelated volumes by Michael Fried, one of the most influential and distinguished scholars currently at work in the humanities...More info...
Forget about imperfection and find the fun in making a mess. This is a journal that lets you embrace your inner Stitch! Take a page from Stitchs book, with creative journaling ideas that encourage a little destruction and a whole lot of i...More info...
Most Anticipated Books of 2025 Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, W Magazine, The Millions Best Books of Spring 2025 Oprah Daily, Town & Country Sharp, elegant and eye-opening . . . a crucial toolbox fo...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487560805)
Why do we keep returning to the Weimar Republic as a focal point for queer and trans histories, and why are images so crucial to our understanding of this period? This volume brings together research from disciplines including history, art history...More info...
Seán Hemingway, Dorothy Abramitis, Alexis Belis, Federico Carò, Giorgios Gavalas, Elizabeth Hendrix, Joseph Alexander MacGillivray
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN-13: 9781588397973)
A comprehensive collection of early Cycladic antiquities presented through an unprecedented partnership between Greece and The Metropolitan Museum of Art Created more than four millennia ago in an archipelago in the Aegean Sea, the...More info...
Published to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the Worshipful Company of Weavers, this richly illustrated book is a tribute to the creativity, resourcefulness, and passion behind weaving in Britain today. Visiting a wide range of makers, from handl...More info...
Ilka Kressner, Ana María Mutis, Ana María Mutis, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Ilka Kressner, Elizabeth Marcela Pettinaroli, Josué Chavajay Quincaín, Giovanna Montenegro, Katja Cecchetti-Higgins, Alejandra Olarte...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813954516)
Reframing traditional conceptions of ecology Ecologies of Resistance brings together fourteen groundbreaking studies on Latin American and Latinx writing, visual and performing arts, film, and activism that propose alternatives to prevaili...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526191649)
This groundbreaking book highlights a generation of women who made art as a way of defining a culture of experimental thought and practice, against the backdrop of the French womens movement or Mouvement de Libération des Femmes (197081) -- ....More info...
The official retrospective for controversial erotic historical drama Caligula, written by Gore Vidal and directed by Tinto Brass.Tracing Caligula’s difficult production and the various cuts released, from the 1979 cut distributed by produc...More info...
Although scholarship on how Islamic art is studied, collected, and exhibited is on the rise, less attention has been paid to how the field’s various commitments relate to pedagogical and curating practices. Bridging the gap between theory and practic...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Publisher: New York Review Books, ISBN-13: 9781681379593)
Pour over the letters, sent and unsent, by the one and only Eve Babitz--queen of the witty, gossipy, and thoroughly engrossing missive. Babitzs famous friends and lovers--Joan Didion, Joseph Heller, Annie Leibovitz, Paul Ruscha, Ann Rice, Steve Mar...More info...
“The Greatest Sculptor in the World.” Adored in Sweden—forgotten elsewhere. Canova’s unknown counterpart. Flesh and blood, rest and movement. Caricature as an artistic expression and a means of survival. The laborer and the courtier. The arti...More info...
(Pub. Date: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300273489)
Gladys Hynes (1888–1958) was a pioneering figure whose life and work embody the complex currents of the first half of the 20th century Though largely forgotten today, Gladys Hynes (1888–1958) was a pioneering artist whose life and w...More info...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...More info...
