The Culture of Sewing: Gender, Consumption and Home Dressmaking, Paperback - Barbara Burman

Throughout its long history, home dressmaking has been a formative experience in the lives of millions of women. In an age of relative affluence an...

Reducere. This pioneering work traces the history and evolution of the textiles of Myanmar (Burma) made and used by the Burman (Bama) ethnic majority. Writte...

Reducere. Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptural works, as well as indigenous and Spanish sixteenth-century texts, were filled with images of foodstuffs an...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

Reducere. Never losing sight of his relentless passion for faith, family, and economic empowerment, Salter is focused on what he calls the civil rights issue...

Reducere. Former Goldman Sachs Vice President Lisa Endlich draws on an insider's knowledge to bring to life this unique company and the most stunning accompl...

DescriptionThe world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth...

Reducere. This book explores business ethics as applied in a modern context including data management, corporate social responsibility, media ethics, and gov...

Reducere. In this thoughtful and highly readable book, No l Sturgeon illustrates the myriad and insidious ways in which American popular culture depicts soci...

Here is a selection of inspiring projects including: quilts, pillows, a spring wreath, little deer toy, handstitched pincushions, pretty fabric bag...

Publisher: Webster's Digital ServicesAuthor(s): Anthony HoldenIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 180Publication date: ...

Reducere. Architects of the Culture of Death, Paperback

This book takes the themes, energy and passions of the 'A Disorder for Everyone!' events - bringing together many of the event speakers with others...

Over the course of the last century, the focus group has become an increasingly vital part of the way companies and politicians sell their products...

Much more than a drink, wine is a real myth, with one millenary history, a very rich tradition and a vast and articulated system culturally, both a...

Reducere. Have you ever been championed by someone? You have likely had times when people believed in you more than you believed in yourself and told you, "Y...

A wide-ranging look at surrealist and postsurrealist engagements with the culture and imagery of childhood.

It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste - the world of politeness, manners, and aesthetics - e...

Reducere. *** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***It's time to do things differently.Trust your team. Be radical...

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

Explores the representation of everyday life across several disciplines in a century known for its interest in individual experience of the mundane...

*** Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year ***It's time to do things differently.Trust your team. Be radical...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Barbara ZimbalistNumber of pages: 330Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 22Cover type...

Where did the custom of duelling originate, and why did it spread so quickly all over Europe and the Americas?Illustrations: 30 b&w illus

Reducere. Doctors are taught how to cure people. But they don't always know how to care for them. Hardly anyone is happy with American healthcare these days....

Reducere. Secret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying he...

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 ...

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 lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

Contributor(s): Author: G. Allen PowerYears before the federal government started setting goals to reduce the use of psychotropic drugs in long-ter...

Reducere. AwardsHilary Weston Prize for NonfictionDescription"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalis...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Joseph (University of Ulster, UK) McBrinnIllustration(s): 16 colour and 71 bw illusNumber of pages: ...

Reducere. Cognitive disorders take a toll on everyone--the person living with the condition, their family, friends, caregivers, and the communities they live...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Argui...

America is the most punitive nation in the world, incarcerating more than 2.3 million people--or one in 136 of its residents. Against the backdrop ...

Reducere. Why did people choose the Reformation? What was in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree tackles these q...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): D LyonNumber of pages: 172Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 144 x 222 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Oliver ScharbrodtIllustration(s): 16 bw illusNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Traditional Japanese embroidery technique, sashiko, is currently a major sewing trend in craft, interior design and fashion. The big stitches are u...

From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Address...

The Sociology of Consumption: A Global Approach offers college students, scholars, and interested readers a state-of-the-art overview of consumptio...

Examining the emergence of modernism from the fin-de-siecle primitivist project this volume shows how ethnographic materials shaped a variety of hi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Vilhelm GronbechEditor: MR Mark Ludwig StinsonThe Culture of the Teutons by Vilhelm Gronbech is out-of-print and in the pub...

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter years of engaging in various forms of anti-racism organizing, I discovered that the methods that were being used lent to further d...

Digital games have become an increasingly pervasive aspect of everyday life as well as an embattled cultural phenomenon in the twenty-first century...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Emerita Ruth Pritchard (University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA) DawsonIllustration(s): 60 bw i...

Reducere. The Silencing of Ruby McCollum refutes the carefully constructed public memory of one of the most famous--and under-examined--biracial murders in A...