Transforming Girls. The Work of Nineteenth-Century Adolescence, Paperback - Julie Pfeiffer

Reframes our understanding of the history of the girls' book and provides insightful readings of forgotten bestsellers. The book also outlines an a...

Contributor(s): Author: Julie StrawAuthor: Barry DavisAuthor: Mark Scullard..".a bright gem of a book." --JIM KOUZES & BARRY POSNER, authors of the...

Provides an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment...

Unmaking Sex is the first history of intersex in both medicine and literature. It opens up new lines of inquiry in both literary and gender studies...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this adult coloring book, artist Maggie Clemmons offers you an escape to a place of calm and love. As you tap into your most creative...

Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music his...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Reducere. This book comprises a series of Christian Teachings, given over a period of sixteen years, exploring in depth the meanings behind those quotations ...

Reducere. In George Appo's world, child pickpockets swarmed the crowded streets, addicts drifted in furtive opium dens, and expert swindlers worked the lucra...

A pathbreaking history of art that uses digital research and economic tools to reveal enduring inequities in the formation of the art historical ca...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Paul W. RhodeIllustration(s): 13 line drawings, 132 tablesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Nati...

In this innovative book, Gundula Kreuzer argues for the foundational role of technologies in the conception, production, and study of nineteenth-ce...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotTranslator: Charlotte MandellMaurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the rela...

Reducere. DescriptionAn emblematic question that has been fueling debates for years, the question of the artistic essence of video games continues to be deba...

"Walk thrice where thieves are hanged. Iron your own shirt." With the prisms of varied vocabularies refracting detail and language, the author illu...

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. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

Compelling, moving and unexpected portraits of London's poor from a rising star British historian - the Dickensian city brought to real and vivid l...

Reducere. A verse biography of Albert Einstein that vividly depicts the enormous pressures of his scientific life, the unraveling of his marriage, and the sp...

The practice has developed a diverse body of work that explores new forms of communication through correlated systems of interaction. Beyond style,...

Reducere. D. L. Moody's reaction was quick and to the point. "No A thousand times no I have no intentions of standing off here in New York City and approving...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

This unique anthology includes generous selections from the six nineteenth-century French poets most often read in the English-speaking world today...

The Highlands and Islands of Scotland experienced massive changes during the nineteenth century. Economic restructuring, introducing sheep and deer...

Labyrinths of Deceit. Culture, Modernity and Identity in the Nineteenth century - Richard J. Walker

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial te...

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transiti...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

Publisher: Inter-Varsity PressAuthor(s): Robert (Author) LethamNumber of pages: 284Collection: Contours of Christian TheologyPublication date: 1993...

Hearing Things is a meditation on sound's work in literature. Drawing on critical works and the commentaries of many poets and novelists who have p...

Publisher: Unicorn Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Caroline ChapmanIllustration(s): 60 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2...

Reducere. Journey back to a bygone era when city streets and country roads were thronged with a rich assortment of horse-powered vehicles: ice wagons, drays,...

Reducere. The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This stud...

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. While the 'venereal peril' of nineteenth-century France was responsible for thousands of deaths, much attention has focused on the range of social ...

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on the history of the future and in particular how Irish people in the nineteenth century thought about t...

DescriptionThis volume of twenty essays presents a unique insight into the world of Scottish children's literature throughout the long nineteenth c...

Volume 1 surveys late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history, focusing on the profound impact of the Enlightenment. It co...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

Reducere. In this compelling collection of talks, essays, interviews, and letters, Toni Packer presents a radically simple and original approach to spiritual...

The book charts the career of architect David Connor, identifying influences and professional liaisons with partners, collaborators and clients.Ill...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Jacques DerridaNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 140 x 215 x 18Cover type:...

Florence Knoll (1917-2019) was a leading force of modern design. She worked from 1945 to 1965 at Knoll Associates, first as business partner with h...

Rana M. Jaleel links international law's redefinition of mass rape as a crime against humanity to the expansion of US imperialism and its effacemen...

Reducere. Christianity is Christ--not just creed, dogma, religion, or ethic, though it may contain elements of all these. Who Christ is, what He did, and doe...