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This study argues that intimacy requires an overcoming of shame, and each of these artists, in their own way, uses photography to frame moments that can be shameful to some and intimate others, leaving it to the viewer to navigate this affectively...

This edited volume proposes a theoretical reflection on the different artistic geographies of East-Central Europe (ECE) from an interdisciplinary perspective found at the intersection of art history, art and politics, and critical geography.Contributors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103241Author Tony RiggFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Georg Eisler (1928–1998) showed unwavering commitment to figurative painting and depicted his environment with a critical eye. Throughout his life, he devoted himself to a variety of themes that reveal his unique view of the world. His primary interest...

Since Spotify launched in 2008, music streaming services have steadily encroached on our lives. Streaming was sold as a legal alternative to piracy. But in reality, it was an untenable model that enriched a small number of executives while pillaging...

the tenth poetry collection from amanda lovelace deviates from the well-worn path of fairy tales & myths, instead bringing readers face to face with the person behind the poems that have made her beloved.from bestselling poetess amanda lovelace comes she...

Telephus, son of Heracles and king of Mysia, was a key figure in the Trojan War. Both enemy and ally of the Achaeans, he fought against them, was wounded and then cured by Achilles, and led Agamemnon’s army to Troy. This book is the first comprehensive...

Winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, this collection of poems seeks answers about how to live meaningfully in a world saturated by late capitalism.“The question isn’t / what exists,” writes Sarah V. Schweig in her engrossing and prize-winning collection,...

The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies.For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, generating encounters between Indigenous and Western...

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working with the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781424568321Author Dr Kevin LemanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint BroadStreet PublishingPublisher BroadStreet Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765101254Author Dr, Quito SwanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Architects! Lead the change in responsible and creative material use. There is a creative explosion of work taking place in architecture and design schools exploring materials such as mycelium, clay/earth, engineered timber, bio-based plastics and algae...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310369905Author Scott EricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

A fully updated new edition of David Attenborough’s bestselling classic. BIRDS. 11,000 species, the most widespread of all animals: on icebergs, in the Sahara or under the sea, at home in our gardens or flying for over a year at a time. Earthbound, we...

This book provides a summary of the Class Rules and Guides for mooring systems so that they are easier to navigate and therefore implement. Mooring systems have been evolving in design, analysis, operating management, and other areas to meet the...

This study of contemporary, new era Chinese Buddhism explores the relationship between religion and the state in China. Readers are shown the transformation of Buddhism in the context of the PRC’s growing economic and political power. An introductory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310165842Author R. L. SolbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished? What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete...

300 hand-picked puzzles from the world's Su Doku Master Su Doku took the world by storm in 2004 when Wayne Gould published his first series of puzzles in The Times. Marking 20 years since this phenomenon Wayne has hand-selected 300 of his original...

In 1711, in County Antrim, eight women were put on trial accused of orchestrating the demonic possession of young Mary Dunbar, and the haunting and supernatural murder of a local clergyman’s wife. Mary Dunbar was the star witness in this trial, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969993675Author Robert FrankFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Steidl VerlagPublisher Steidl Publishers

Scholars have long debated the relationship between Buddhist monks and Confucian literati during the late Chos?n (1700–1850), when the Korean state adopted anti-Buddhist policies. On the one hand, it is understood that literati openly displayed hostility...

This is the first anthology to represent the contributions and perspectives of medieval Islamic scholars on philosophy of religion. Assembling and translating 63 key texts, including many never before published in English, it captures the variety and...

How can photographers, curators, and editors convey narratives of peace and not just stories of war? Providing interdisciplinary and international perspectives on timely debates, Picturing Peace explores humanitarianism and visual culture, community...

The definitive account of the legendary Francis Ford Coppola's decades-long dream to reinvent American film-making, if not the entire world.'Supremely entertaining.' New York Times'Mouth-watering . . . Sizzingly vivid and compulsive.' Daily...

A master of subverting tropes with surgical precision, Elaine May forged a career in 1970s Hollywood with films like The Heartbreak Kid and Mikey and Nicky. Elizabeth Alsop explores the director’s non-conformist and uncompromising vision while looking at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398841444Author Eric SaundersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785948879Author Julie BeckettFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint BBC BooksPublisher Ebury Publishing

Focusing on the Mediterranean region from 2015 onwards, this volume explores photography’s engagement with displacement, a process that denotes the environmental and social breakdown of places and the forced mobility of people.The ongoing proliferation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913231767Author Daniel AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Velocity PressPublisher Velocity Press

Featuring 18 months of daily comic strips from 2021-2022, along with reflections and strip-by-strip commentary by award-winning cartoonist and USA TODAY bestselling author Stephan Pastis, this treasury is an open and shut case of absolute criminal...

Each day’s reading contains a Bible passage to read, a reflection on the passage and a prayer, followed by a 'Thought for the day' and a suggested 'Prayer focus' for the day. There is also a set of small group questions provided each week to fuel...

From whimsical visits to the Fey Fayre, to solving a mystery for the Spike Patch Grove gaterfolk, haunted train rides, and more, there is so much to enjoy in this collection of one-shot games! Enjoy this beautiful compendium of quick setup role-playing...

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe. It reviews the rules, policies and regulations that frame how murals and street art are managed across a range of cities and contexts. Murals and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350449138Author Geoff IsaacFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g

This accessible and informative textbook provides a guide to the craft of screenwriting with an emphasis on diverse perspectives, underrepresented groups, and their screen stories. Readers will learn to master writing a feature-length screenplay in a...

This book is an easily digestible guide to the management and practice knowledge needed to establish and run an architectural practice. It is of particular interest to those starting out in the profession and to students, whilst also being useful to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350449121Author Geoff IsaacFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bloomsbury Visual ArtsPublisher Bloomsbury Visual ArtsWeight(grams) 454g