Casanova in the Enlightenment. From the Margins to the Centre, Hardback - ***

This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the En...

Outsider art is work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught visionaries, spiritualists, eccentrics, recluses, psychiatric pat...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 17 bw illus; 17 bw illusNumber of pages: 312Collection: Library of Gender and Popular CultureP...

A new theoretical concept is becoming increasingly visible within the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW): intersectiona...

Explores the art of acting in Europe between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, demonstrating how stage acting was understood as a branch of r...

Publisher: Practical Action PublishingNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 159 x 239 x 18Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Laura Turq...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Philip KellewayIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2021Dim...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Andrzej WalickiNumber of pages: 476Publication date: 1979Dimensions: 227 x 153 x 27Cover type: Paper...

This interdisciplinary collection charts the experiences of young people in rural and regional areas and city outskirts around the world. Internati...

Collecting from the Margins: Material Culture in a Latin American is the first anthology to provide a sustained discussion of the modern practice o...

Empowering Song: Music Education from the Margins weaves together subversive pedagogy and theories of resistance with community music education and...

A sweeping history of premodern architecture told through the material of stonePublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Fabio BarryIllustration(s...

The Sun is our neighbourhood star, igniting the imagination and setting the template for divinity. But in reality, it is crawling with sunspots of ...

Reducere. DescriptionAge of EnlightenmentFrom its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effe...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Anna TomaszewskaNumber of pages: 232Collection: Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German PhilosophyPub...

Reducere. The Military Enlightenment brings to light a radically new narrative both on the Enlightenment and the French armed forces from Louis XIV to Napole...

Reducere. As an introduction to political theory and science, this collection of writings by the great philosophers will be of close interest to general read...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In Journey to the Centre of the Earth, an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth's core in the steps of a medieval expl...

Placing much-needed emphasis on the re-emergence of religion, this timely and vital volume offers a new, critical approach to the study of the vola...

In a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences - and voices - of some of the most extraordinary women ...

A delightful collection of original essays by Elena Ferrante as she reflects on the "adventure of writing"-her own and others'.Publisher: Europa Ed...

A bold new look at war and diplomacy in Europe that traces the idea of a unified continent in attempts since the eighteenth century to engineer las...

In one of the best known and loved works by Jules Verne, certainly a science-fiction classics, Professor Lidenbrock is the one who comes by pure ch...

Profesorul Lidenbrock gaseste un manuscris vechi si se hotaraste sa rezolve un misterios mesaj codat aflat in el. Pana la urma descifreaza povestea...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Rebecca CypessIllustration(s): 39 halftones, 29 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Publication d...

"Expanded, revised and translated edition of Goauter le monde: une histoire culturelle du goaut aa l'aepoque moderne, published in French by PIE Pe...

Publisher: Art Gallery of New South WalesIllustration(s): 100 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 226 x...

In this breathtaking first novel, Khaled Nurul Hakim chronicles the hero's struggle for redemption through the backstreets and motorway service sta...

Aasha M. Abdill draws on fieldwork in Bedford-Stuyvesant to dispel stereotypes of black men as deadbeat dads. She presents qualitative and quantita...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

Between 1940 and 1946, about 200, 000 Polish Jewish refugees lived and toiled in the harsh Soviet interior. They endured hard labor, bitter cold, a...

A rich, wondrous anthology of the Western magical tradition, from the Old Testament to Doctor Faustus and Paradise Lost, now in a Penguin Classics ...

Written as an explorer's guide and packed with scientific facts about the stuff beneath our feet.

Assesses the stresses and pressures of the job. This title shows how to find a way to be prioritising a relationship with God and leading others in...