Laughing Histories. From the Renaissance Man to the Woman of Wit, Paperback - Joy Wiltenburg

Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and soci...

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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 ...

A celebration - in facts and quotes - of Sir Elton John: his career, music and character.Publisher: Welbeck Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Orange Hippo...

Reducere. DescriptionCountless women struggle to navigate the complex world of womanhood. During life's most difficult and trying times, such as puberty, dat...

Reducere. The latest adventures of Indian detective Vish Puri continues the series that "immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency as representing...

Why Is God Laughing? tells the story of successful comedian Mickey Fellows and his friend Francisco as they explore how to overcome fear, egotism a...

Early one morning, on the lawns of a grand boulevard in central Delhi, a group of professionals are attending their therapeutic Laughing Club when ...

DescriptionLaugh along with a spirited American presidency with this sequel to the best-selling Hugs from Obama Laughing with Obama is a photograph...

Reducere. She draws from the Native American tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of American culture, and the concept of feminine in...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works ...

The Shape of Sex is a pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex, focusing on ideas and individuals who allegedly combined or crossed sex or gender cate...

Learning about art through the ages has never been as interesting or fun as in this humorous and very informative graphic novel. As two kids give t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Corey WayneDear Friend, This book teaches you the hidden secrets to completely understand women. It covers both the dating ...

From the bestselling author of Viking Britain, a new epic history of our forgotten past. As Tolkien knew, Britain in the 'Dark Ages' was a mosaic o...

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

DescriptionA biography of Vittoria Colonna, a confidante of Michelangelo, the scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal ...

Larry Gonick's celebrated series The Cartoon History of the Universe is a unique fusion of world history and the comics medium, a work of serious s...

During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the New Kingdom cr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John AytoThe average contemporary English speaker knows 50, 000 words. Yet stripped down to its origins, this apparently hu...

Publisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Frances QuinnNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 223 x 141 x 34Cover type: HardbackRede...

One Man One Woman Five Lifetimes

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Jean E SnyderNumber of pages: 448Collection: Music in American LifePublication date: 2021Dimensio...

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...

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

Reducere. Already a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landma...

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

Reducere. This comprehensive activity book and curriculum guide about the Middle Ages contains comprehension questions and answers, maps and geography activi...

Showing how the Gothic can be read as a complex reaction to Enlightenment methods of historical representation, Sinister histories uncovers hithert...

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

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...

Popes continue to preach crusade, but the hope of a Christian empire comes to a bloody end at the walls of Constantinople. Aristotelian logic and G...

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

The Phelans have owned Mossgrove for generations. But when it is put up for sale, the lengths to which Irish people will go to keep their land beco...

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 ...

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