Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy, Hardcover - Sharon T. Strocchia

A new history uncovers the crucial role women played in the great transformations of medical science and health care that accompanied the Italian R...

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Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Mike SielskiNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 200 x 242 x 36Cover type: Hard...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty--all have been as...

Reducere. The recent trend toward holistic living has heightened our national fascination with herbal remedies and less conventional therapies such as acupun...

Reducere. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) is a work of art history by Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt. Recognized today as the founder o...

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of the modern world - a world ...

The twelve essays in this volume, each written by a leading specialist, present an accessible and comprehensive introduction to Italian Renaissance...

Through its examination of the religious paintings by Pontormo, this book offers a new way to understand the fraught relationship between artistic ...

A primary mode for the creation and dissemination of poetry in Renaissance Italy was the oral practice of singing and improvising verse to the acco...

Titian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, t...

Reducere. Lively and reader-friendly, this second edition of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy provides a colorful and accurate sense of how it felt to inhabit...

In this fascinating new history, Paul N Balchin provides a comprehensive account of one of the more formative historical periods, uniquely describi...

Fruits and vegetables as erotic metaphors in still life paintings, the Florentine Baptistry replicated in sausage and cheese by Andrea del Sarto, a...

A bold, revisionist account of the political thought of the Italian Renaissance--from Petrarch to Machiavelli--that reveals the all-important role ...

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This extraordinary story is told from the archive documents in the case of Sister Benedetta Carlini, an Abbess who was imprisoned for thirty-five y...

Available in English for the first time, Julius von Schlosser's seminal work in the history of art and collecting was the first study to interpret ...

Reducere. DescriptionPolly is a real estate solicitor. She is also losing her mind. Someone keeps drinking her coffee. And talking to her clients. And doing ...

Business transformation typically involves a wide range of visualisation techniques, from the templates and diagrams used by managers to make bette...

Reducere. A trailblazing anthropologist and an indigenous Amazonian healer explore the convergence of science and shamanism "The dose makes the poison, " say...

A wonderful resource for anyone who knows or works with teens who suffer from executive functioning disorder (EFD)--including parents, teachers, co...

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The act of eating is a basic human need. Yet, in all societies, quotidian choices regarding food and its consumption reveal deeply rooted shared cu...

The first book to chart the hedonistic history of London's PiccadillyPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Stephen HoareIllustration(s): 8 Pla...

Two men decide to become beekeepers, learning about nature and about themselves in the process

Can the criminal justice system achieve justice based on its ability to determine the truth? This book investigates the concept of truth and scruti...

Reducere. Famous, fascinating Benjamin Franklin -- he would be neither without his accomplishments in science. Joyce Chaplin's authoritative biography consid...

Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire: The Design of Difference - Madeline Zilfi

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives MatterPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Derecka PurnellNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

Reducere. In over his head with two pigs, a dozen chickens, and a baby due any minute, the acclaimed author of Population: 485 gives us a humorous, heartfelt...

Reducere. DescriptionA Californian who had never touched an oar before arriving at Yale, Stephen Kiesling became part of the

Reducere. An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. -- Starred Review, Kirkus With d...

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Publisher: EverymanAuthor(s): Nancy MitfordNumber of pages: 488Collection: Everyman's Library CLASSICSPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 137 x...

This invaluable collection explores the many faces of murder and its cultural presences across the Italian peninsula in the Renaissance. Dealing wi...