The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakamis extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526181053)
The eight studies presented here on late medieval religious objects provide new insight into miracle stories, spiritual writings, religious drama, and medieval English poetry. Objects in late medieval Europe were a means for lay people and cl...Loe edasi...
Through the use of case studies from across the Roman world, this book investigates the cultural interaction and local traditions of provincial communities under the control of imperial Rome, by drawing its theoretical approach from the anthropology...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, ISBN-13: 9798765124451)
This edited collection explores the multiple dimensions of authorship that constitute the ecology of writing. Examining the early 20th century to the present, Ecologies of Writing expands our understanding of this period of dramatic media-technolo...Loe edasi...
Unfolding in nine chapters to examine nine aspects of life with cats, Cat is both a memoir and a meditation on the things cat people admire in their pets: laziness and lawlessness. Touching on the age-old rivalry between cats and dogs, the stereotyp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526174260)
Industrial memory in North East England examines how the regions industrial myth and memory have been articulated in the renegotiation of northernness, offering a critical contextualisation of the concept of northernness and the English North. -- ....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the archaeological evidence available for the Early Iron Age northern Syrians and southeastern Anatolian cultures (including Neo-Hittites/Syro-Hittites, Aramaean, etc.) at war. Can be assessed independently or in association wi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837050468)
Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can come closer to the reality experienced by the soldiers who fought at Waterloo that most iconic of all battles....Loe edasi...
A beautifully illustrated history of one of the most important cultural categories in JapanThe Japanese term meibutsu refers to things of the highest cultural value, evolving over time to encompass both craft and fine art, hi...Loe edasi...
Topics covered by the papers include: Aesthetics and politics of the kitchen in fascist Italy, The bamboo tea whisk in Japanese tea culture, Cooking under fire, 1914-1918, Sugar sculpture in Italian court banquets, Mongolian milk spoons, Perfumi...Loe edasi...
With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains. ...Loe edasi...
Tracing the dissemination of Secessionist ideas of child creativity from their origination in early-20th century Vienna through to their eventual commodification in postwar America this book highlights the central role that visual art has played i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781035321070)
This pioneering book analyzes the intersection of arts, heritage and performative politics, challenging traditional distinctions between these disciplines. Highlighting the value of art-based approaches to heritage research, it outlines diverse artis...Loe edasi...
The Nightwatchman: Essays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa brings into focus the African policeman as a subject of portraiture. While colonial governments co-opted and conscripted Africans into military and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Wits University Press, ISBN-13: 9781776149360)
The Nightwatchman: Essays on Portraiture and the Black Male Figure in Colonial South Africa brings into focus the African policeman as a subject of portraiture. While colonial governments co-opted and conscripted Africans into military and policing...Loe edasi...
This open access book is the first to focus on material visualities of bhakti imagery that inspire, shape, convey, and expand both the visual practices of devotional communities, as well as possibilities for extending the reach of devotion...Loe edasi...
Textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period. Up until the 19th century, civilizations throughout the world manipulated thread and fabric to communicate in a way that would astound many of us now. Unlike text...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750997966)
The story through objects of the SOE, an undercover outfit of fifth columnists tasked to mobilise resistance, hamstring the enemy and pave the way for D-Day...Loe edasi...
Contemporary textile artist and researcher Linda Brassington provides an unexpected and expansive critical perspective on the practices, meanings and heritage of a global textile technique.Drawing connections across disciplines from...Loe edasi...
