Food in Painting. From the Renaissance to the Present, Hardback - Kenneth Bendiner

An exploration of food images in European and American painting from the early Renaissance to the present. It underlines the central importance of ...

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

A treasury of information based on solid scholarship, anyone seeking a factual and vivid account of the story of arms from the Renaissance period t...

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

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Reducere. Federica Francesconi writes the history of the Jewish merchants who lived and prospered in the northern Italian city of Modena, capital city of the...

Exploring the changing meanings of the circulation of second-hand goods from the Renaissance, this volume examines the blurring of boundaries betwe...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked...

Presents an anthology of Irish American poetry. This book collects the work of over two hundred Irish American poets, as well as other American poe...

Features the most significant submarines ever built, with each entry including a description of the submarine's development and history, a colour p...

From farming, cooking and feasting scenes depicted in the Middle Ages in books of hours to the fish and fruit of ancient frescoes and mosaics, Food...

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'Mesmeric ... a macabre and illuminating survey of anatomical art' Guardian

Publisher: West Virginia University PressIllustration(s): 7 tables, 8 graphsNumber of pages: 336Collection: Energy and SocietyPublication date: 202...

Learn even more about art through the ages in this humorous and informative graphic novel sequel. Two kids and their grandpa continue their adventu...

Reducere. The formation of the modern state, the rise of capitalism, the Renaissance and Reformation, the scientific revolution and the Age of Enlightenment ...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Claudia RodenNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 196 x 254 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Paul McCartneyNumber of pages: 912Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 347 x 286 x 84Cover type: HardbackEditor...

DescriptionSince the middle of the twentieth century, visual art has displayed an ambivalent nature, torn between the poles of abstractionism and r...

An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years War to the present da...

Publisher: Hirmer VerlagAuthor(s): Jessica RichardsonIllustration(s): 240 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 380Publication date: 2021Dimensions:...

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic a...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Stephen MennellNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Pa...

An epic history revealing how the US and Iran went from allies to adversaries over three hundred years

A volume of 40 speeches, contextualized, explained and then given, in their fundamental passages, to enable the reader to immerse in those years.

This book examines the many different ways in which women achieved public standing and exercised political power in England from the middle of the ...

A riotous, technicolour account of the evolution of heavy music.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): JR MooresIllustration(s): 19 illustrationsNumbe...

"3rd impression with second supplement published 2011"--Tp. verso.

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Jeffrey DeRosaIllustration(s): 270+ colour & b/w photosNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimen...

This is the first comprehensive study of Manchester Cathedral. Founded in 1421 by charter of Henry V, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, as it th...

Fashion history meets the Egyptians: the phenomena of the pharaohs and enduring fascinating with this ancient civilisation.Publisher: Pen & Sword B...

A reexamination of French Impressionism, focusing on the culinary metaphors that the most influential nineteenth-century critics used to express at...

The history of migration from prehistoric man's first steps out of the Rift Valley to the present-day exodus from Syria, and the effects migration ...

This short history of history is an ideal introduction for courses on the historian's craft, historical theory and method, and historiography. It s...

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