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Artful History A Practical Anthology
ISBN: PB: 9780300239904, Yale University Press, April 2020
304 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm
Is there any reason that serious historical scholarship cannot receive literary expression? Isn't it possible that the most committed empiricists and postmodernists might both achieve better results by thinking of writing as a craft, rather than just...
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£28,00
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Art of Curating Paul J. Sachs and the Museum Course at Harvard
ISBN: HB: 9781606065693, Getty Publications, August 2018
288 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 123 black&white illus., 1 map
From 1921 until 1948, Paul J. Sachs (1878-1965) offered a yearlong program in art museum training, "Museum Work and Museum Problems", through Harvard University's Fine Arts Department. Known simply as the Museum Course, the program was responsible fo...
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Art of Creative Research A Field Guide for Writers
ISBN: PB: 9780226179803, ISBN: HB: 9780226179773, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 21.6x14 cm
All writers conduct research. For some this means poring over records and combing, archives but for many creative writers research happens in the everyday world – when they scribble an observation on the subway, when they travel to get the feel for a...
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£41,50
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Alive in the Writing Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov
ISBN: PB: 9780226568195, ISBN: HB: 9780226568188, University of Chicago Press, March 2012
168 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm
Anton Chekhov is revered as a boldly innovative playwright and short story writer – but he wrote more than just plays and stories. In "Alive in the Writing" – an intriguing hybrid of writing guide, biography, and literary analysis – anthropologist an...
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£17,50
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£50,00
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American Paratrooper Helmets
ISBN: HB: 9782352501411, Casemate, Histoire et Collections, November 2010
224 pp., 30x22.5 cm, 300 colour illus.
Michel De Trez has agreed to open up the showcases and the reserves of the Centre Historique des Parachutistes du Jour-J to present us with this compendium of American paratrooper helmets. This study, the first made of the various helmet markings,...
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£37,00
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Art of Natural History Illustrated Treatises and Botanical Paintings, 1400-1850
ISBN: PB: 9780300160246, Yale University Press, March 2010
280 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 164 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.
"Making knowledge visible" is how one sixteenth-century naturalist described the work of the illustrator of botanical treatises. His words reflected the growing role played by illustrators at a time when the study of nature, as a product of the Renai...
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£40,00
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Allied and German Soldiers Normandy 1944
ISBN: PB: 9782915762884, Casemate, OREP, July 2009
48 pp., 24x17 cm, illustrated throughout
On the 6th of June 1944, thousands of men landed on the Normandy beaches to free Europe from the Nazi occupation. Over 2 months, soldiers of all origins were to battle in the Normandy bocage. American and British soldiers of course, but also Canadian...
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£7,00
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Asian Mythologies
ISBN: PB: 9780226064567, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout
These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of t...
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£31,00
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