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Quiet gardens
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Susan Bowden-Pickstock |
"Quiet Gardens describes a journey that seeks to re-investigate humankind's relationship with nature and, through this, an understanding of what is spiritual. For many, enjoying and/or making a garde… |
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Glory and terror
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Antoine de Baecque |
"Fully engaging our fascination with the macabre, Glory and Terror illustrates how certain corpses became highly charged political symbols during the course of the French Revolution. Arguing that the… |
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Body Style
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Theresa M. Winge |
"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body … |
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The actor in costume
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Aoife Monks |
"How do audiences look at an actor in costume onstage? Monks explores this question, engaging with the main theoretical approaches to the study of actors in performance. The book considers costume's… |
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Consuming passions
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Sian Griffiths,Jennifer Wallace |
Summary:Descartes is to blame. For centuries his tag "I think therefore I am" has dominated our notion of ourselves and the world that the mind is what counts seems to be the message of Cartesianism,… |
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Masquerade and identities
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Efrat Tseëlon |
Masquerade is now a central topic in many disciplines. This text explores and revisits the role of disguise in constructing, expressing, or representing marginalised identities. |
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Where the sky touched the Earth
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Don Lago |
The Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, the Sedona red rockshave long filled humans with wonder about nature. Nowhere else in the world is the link between earth and sky so powerful. Lago witnesses a sola… |
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Hippopotamus
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Edgar Mark Williams |
"Hippos are well-loved, cumbersome, rotund mammals famous for lounging, semi-submerged in muddy pools. Gregarious herbivores, they emerge after dusk from the water into the cool night air to graze on… |
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The illustrated herbiary
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Maia Toll |
"The symbolism of plants -- whether in the ancient Greek doctrine of signatures or the Victorian secret language of flowers -- has fascinated us for centuries. Contemporary herbalist Maia Toll adds h… |
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The mythical zoo
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Boria Sax |
"From Aesop's Fables to Mockingjay, animals have always played a pivotal role in human culture. Even today, animals wield symbolic powers as varied as the cultures that embrace them. Sacred cows, wil… |
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The book of trees
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Manuel Lima |
Data viz expert Manuel Lima examines the more than eight hundred year history of the tree diagram, from its roots in the illuminated manuscripts of medieval monasteries to its current resurgence as a… |
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Dance and the body in western theatre
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Sabine Sörgel |
"The mid to late twentieth century has been widely regarded as the century of the body, when philosophers, cultural critics, sociologists, and theatre historians spent inordinate amounts of time and … |
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366 tian dan sheng hua yu dan sheng shi
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Jan Rui Matsuoka |
Dan sheng hua yu dan sheng shi de you lai, ke shang su zhi gu xi la luo ma shen hua shi qi, na shi ren men xiang xin mei yi tian dou ge you shen ming zhang guan, ba shen, hua, bao shi jie he, zuo che… |
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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood
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Aspasia Stephanou |
"Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the promiscuous circulations of blood in science and philosophy, vampire novels, films and vampire communities to draw a vascular map of the symbolic me… |
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Bloomers!
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Rhoda Blumberg |
Explains how the new-fashioned outfit, bloomers, helped Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony spread the word about women's rights. |
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The bald eagle
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Pamela Dell |
Discusses characteristics of the bald eagle, the powerful bird living only in North America, and the story of how it became a symbol and included on the Great Seal of the United States. |
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Weaving identities
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Carol Elaine Hendrickson |
"An innovative ethnography of Maya traje that describes the social life of cloth, its role in the construction of identity, and its part in the changing structure of regional gender relations. Traje … |
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Visualizing the Nation
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Joan B. Landes |
"Popular images of women were everywhere in revolutionary France. Landes highlights the widespread circulation of images of the female body, notwithstanding the political leadership's suspicions of t… |
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The classic ten
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Nancy MacDonell Smith |
Nancy MacDonell Smith explores the origins, meaning, and remarkable staying power of the ten staples of feminine fashion:* the little black dress* the white shirt* the cashmere sweater* blue jeans* t… |
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The other within
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Daniel Deardorff |
"Explains how innovations generated within societal and psychic margins ironically benefit the very ones who deny and exclude the so-called misfit and delineates the creation of 'otherness'"--Provide… |
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