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TV's American Dream examines how the U.S. television industry in the 2010s pursued audiences whose ideas about hope, fairness, work, and economic class were shaped by the Great Recession. As Americans navigated the trauma of the economic meltdown, new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667502984Author Larry OllisonPage Count 224Imprint Harrison HousePublisher Harrison House

A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310530800Author Christopher A. BeethamFormat HardbackPage Count 1472Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage. Just as zombies, ghouls, and the undead in modern media often stand in...

A brand-new visual odyssey from Accidentally Wes Anderson, authorised by the legendary filmmaker, taking readers on stunning adventures to every continent and sharing oddly moving human tales along the way.AWA is back with a new book full of incredible...

Museums and Entrepreneurship: The Effects of Capitalising on Culture in the 21st Century addresses the largely under-examined impact that different entrepreneurial endeavours have on museum practices today.It identifies an entrepreneurial turn in today’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299184Author Christoph NiemannFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Introducing Religion examines the different ways of looking at religion in the twenty-first century. Providing a broad overview to the discipline of religious studies, this new edition continues to introduce students to engaging and contemporary topics...

Unique and user-friendly techniques for figure drawing and understanding human anatomy The third title from bestselling author Robert Osti, Drawing the Body is a highly accessible book that presents an engaging, systematized way to draw the human figure...

This volume comprises the full poetic works of one of our wittiest, most beloved writers, and includes many previously uncollected poems.When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was published in 1986, Wendy Cope became that rarest of creatures: a celebrated...

The ultimate guide to woodworking: a complete guide to essential tools and key techniques plus 5 inspiring projects. Want to get into woodworking but don’t know where to start? Then this is the book for you. Designer-maker-teacher Chris Tribe walks you...

Cheers to cosiness! Why is everyone so "crazy" about the Munich Oktoberfest? One thing is certain: the Oktoberfest epitomises everything that Germany and the whole world love about Bavarian culture: Fesche Madln, hefty food and hearty dance music. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636702254Author Declan DonnellanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Get started creating origami art with this chunky, colourful, and inspiring book of 333 sheets of origami-weight paper in 60+ unique designs! Adorable illustrated designs from cute and kawaii animals to kooky foods are printed on a wide variety of...

For thousands of years, people have built so-called calendar buildings: buildings that served as sundials for measuring time or were used for astronomical calculations. The most famous examples include the Pyramids of Giza, the Megalithic Temples of...

Hold Your Own, Kae Tempest's first full-length collection for Picador is an ambitious, multi-voiced work based around the mythical figure of Tiresias. This four-part work follows him through his transformations from child, man and woman to blind prophet;...

The term “migration of form” describes a curatorial method that takes aim at the contradictions of the Western museum traditions and the ways exhibitions we have been conceived and designed. The method addresses transcultural entanglements in the past...

When David Bowie died in 2016 some people say the world went to hell in a handcart. It seems that while Bowie was alive his songs and their strange commentaries on modern life had some kind of deep significance that made sense of it all for many people...

Jemima Foxtrot's Treasure is a shining work of alchemy and liberation which explores power dynamics, sex work, desire, and female friendship with a fresh and playful perspective. Foxtrot investigates shimmering sexualities, the economies of desire, the...

The figure of the prophet circulates in all fields of the textual and visual production of premodern Islam. This volume focuses on two aspects of this phenomenon: On the one hand, it investigates the historical transformations of this figure in diverse...

This book takes you back it the years of Network SouthEast. On 10 June 1986 the image of the rail network of London and the South East of England was overhauled, officially launched by Chris Green in a blaze of publicity at Waterloo station. Stations...

What do movable dolls' eyes have to do with a Catholic church? Where could you meet Plain Bob Maximus and Surprise Major? Why does just one person know where Oliver Cromwell's head is buried? And where is a dog a very large cat? The answers to all these...

If we desire to honor God in all we do, we need to be in his Book every day. Through the Bible, God offers us so much more wisdom for living and leading--and for every domain of life--than anything this world can ever give us. That's why Hobby Lobby...

Get started creating origami art with this chunky, colourful, and inspiring book of 333 sheets of origami-weight paper in 60+ unique designs! Beautiful cosmo-themed designs are printed on a wide variety of coloured paper. Patterns include alcohol ink...

The first monograph of the hundreds of billboards by artist-led coalition For Freedoms, the largest public creative collaboration in American history Founded in 2016 by Hank Willis Thomas, Eric Gottesman, Wyatt Gallery, and Michelle Woo, For Freedoms is...

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary examination of Apple TV's Severance, in which employees of a biotech firm consent to having their brains severed so that their work selves and non-work selves do not retain each other’s memories. What...

In this new contribution to the New Testament Library, renowned New Testament scholar Beverly Roberts Gaventa offers a fresh account of Paul's Letter to the Romans as an event, both in the sense that it reflects a particular historical moment in Paul's...

Jamie McKendrick's Drypoint depicts the turbulent present with incisive detail while often taking us back to an equally conflictual Biblical or classical world. Acute and stoical in tone, these poems transport us by bus or ferry or ghostly Rolls Royce to...

For 5 years after they'd swapped sought-after apprenticeships for life on the dole, brothers William and Jim Reid sat up till the early hours in the front room of their parents' East Kilbride council house, plotting their path to world domination over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958299191Author Chip KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Songscapes takes a deeper look into the craft that goes behind the making of a successful music identity, with artist interviews, production processes, and plenty of behind-the-scenes details. Amid the sea of listening options available in our digital...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969992449Author Warren SiebritsFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958297029Author David BaileyFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Case Studies in Disaster Preparedness: A volume in the Disaster and Emergency Management: Case Studies in Adaptation and Innovation series presents international cases on planning, training, exercise and evaluation, and public information and education...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783721210408Author Ulysses VoelkerFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Niggli VerlagPublisher Niggli Verlag

Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social...

The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783958298606Author Michel ComteFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely...