Miniature and the English Imagination. Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650-1765, Paperback - Melinda Alliker Rabb

Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study examines the appeal and function ...

Reducere. Francis Spufford explores the British obsession with polar exploration in a book that Jan Morris, writing in The Times, called, "A truly majestic w...

In blurring the boundaries between fact and fiction, diplomats and travellers, English nation and Italian nation, Maura O'Connor shows us the exten...

DescriptionThe dozens of artists and craftspeople featured in this volume create miniature representations of real-world scenes--everything from ho...

Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Ang...

In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform loca...

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the past three years Peter Toon published articles dealing with various facets of Calvinistic theology in the Age of Reason. Thes...

DescriptionWith his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the...

Reducere. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic an...

A delightful and peculiar exploration of the human instinct to make things small, from the bestselling author of Just My Type and On the Map

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Sally HarperNumber of pages: 462Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 29Cover type: Paperback / s...

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DescriptionTracing the leading role of emotions in the evolution of the mind, a philosopher and a psychologist pair up to reveal how thought and cu...

Challenges the received wisdom about the relative weakness of French naval power when compared with that of England.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd...

Do you dream of raising a feeder animal but have limited land, time, and money? Dirk van Loon has a solution for you Covering everything from buyin...

Reducere. A2012 Nautilus Silver Award Winner Pocket Neighborhoods: Creating Small Scale Community in a Large Scale World introduces an antidote to faceless, ...

Josh Volk, author of the best-selling Compact Farms, offers small-scale farmers an in-depth guide to building customized equipment that will save t...

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DescriptionDuring the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to ...

This book brings together 11 essays by international specialists in Victorian culture and modernism and provides a general and period-specific intr...

Reducere. DescriptionBestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans' peculiar fascination with small th...

Through explanatory illustrations, this manual provides guidance on safety matters related to work on a small-scale fishing vessel (fire safety, de...

'Since its very first edition, Social Cognition has been the undisputed bible of the field. Insightful, authoritative and beautifully written by tw...

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What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in E...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagNumber of pages: 232Collection: Culture & TheoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 224 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

The author of The End Of Innocence explores the human instinct to produce miniature versions of reality, meeting eccentric and meticulous collector...

An investigation of different uses for the architectural model through history-as sign, souvenir, funerary object, didactic tool, medium for design...

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Reducere. Internationally acclaimed watercolorist and art instructor Zoltan Szabo demonstrates how to create charming little watercolor landscapes in this in...

By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and...

Highlights the importance of fish and the small-scale fisheries sector for food security and nutrition, as well as the role of women in fisheries. ...

Reducere. A small-scale gasifier can provide off-grid electricity and motive power on demand using waste garden prunings and wood scraps. The technology, whi...

Publisher: Open University PressAuthor(s): Martyn DenscombeNumber of pages: 400Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 26Cover type: Paperbac...

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together establishe...

This unusual book explores the historical assumptions at work in the style of literary criticism that came to dominate English studies in the twent...

Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place inte...

The most detailed set of studies ever on all aspects of one of the most beautifully decorated Egyptian non-royal tombs, new in paperback This lavis...