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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987339114Author Beth Benton BuckleyFormat HardbackPage Count 377Imprint Benton Buckley BooksPublisher Benton Buckley Books

From ferocious dragons to mischievous sprites, Crocheted Mythical Creatures is the perfect guide for readers who are looking to ignite their imagination by creating an array of fantastical projects from their stashes of colourful yarn. Each project comes...

A collection of 1000 symbols and logotypes designed by the Pentagram partners from 1972 to the present. The biggest part of what Pentagram has done for the last fifty years has always been creating brand identities for clients from many different...

The Return of the Grey Partridge tells the extraordinary story of how wildlife is restored to the Arundel Estate in West Sussex. Prompted by the collapse in numbers of one species, the grey partridge of the title, the managers of the estate woke up to...

Global Cult Cinemas calls for a decolonisation of cult film studies. To date, discourses of cult cinema have predominantly focused upon Anglo-American cinema and its reception in the West. Even when cult scholarship has expanded to include non-English...

In this triptych of serial poems steeped in baseball and Toronto, Stephen Cain considers urban affairs and culture through playful, revelatory devices.""Walking & Stealing"" was composed between innings of his son's little league baseball games. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765105771Author Professor Greg M. Colón SemenzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

A stunning journey through the Holy Land, as told by the rare maps and prints that have long inspired Jewish, Christian, and Muslim pilgrimages.From the earliest days of the Roman Empire to the current war between Israel and Hamas, mapping the Holy Land...

Welcome to our amazing planet in the latest edition of The World: the definitive guide to every country on Earth. From the shimmering white-sands of Anguila to Zimbabwe's spectacular national parks; discover where and when to go, top experiences, and new...

For the first time, these rich and insightful lectures by Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh on the most important elements of the Creed of the Orthodox Church are available to read in this beautifully-produced volume. 'The Creed,' said Metropolitan...

Descended from Mughal nobility, Akhtar al-Nisa Begum Nawab Sarbuland Jung grew up in Hyderabad in southern India, where she lived a quiet, private, and privileged life at the heart of the state's royal court. In 1896, at the age of 20, she married Nawab...

In this long-awaited reprint - first published in 1967 - the late George Daniels, a master watchmaker of the twentieth century, documents the important contribution made by England and America in the development of the pocket watch from the earliest...

On December 31, 2020, the world was shocked to learn about the death of hip-hop legend MF DOOM. Born in London and raised in the suburban enclave of Long Beach, New York, Daniel Dumile Jr.'s love of cartoons and comic books would soon turn him into one...

Winner of the Outstanding Theological Research Book Award 2024 Scott Ying Lam Yip presents the first specialized narrative study devoted to the identity formation processes in Philippians, based on Paul Ricoeur’s narrative theory. Yip demonstrates that...

Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early Jewish writings, its discourse about purity functions as a way to make sense of life before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987228227Author Louis MeiselFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Artist Book FoundationPublisher Artist Book Foundation

This book considers the implications of the emerging post-pandemic reality for public space and the built environment. It addresses changes to our cities, parks, neighborhoods, transportation modes, schools, streetscapes, cultural spaces, and engineering...

Both a translation and critique of an early 20th century seminal French text on the physical effects of corseting, The Bad Corset explores contemporary anti-woman bias to challenge the commonly accepted assertions about corsetry's contribution to...

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) is a film very much of its cinematic moment, combining the gritty realism of entrapment in the everyday with furtive dreams of escape. Dana Polan's compelling study of the film examines its...

What did violence against women and children mean for ancient audiences and how do modern audiences hear and process the meaning of violence in the texts of the Hebrew Bible? The rape of Tamar, the sacrifice of Jephthah’s daughter, babes ripped from the...

This visually striking book is the first to explore the oeuvre of the celebrated multidisciplinary Nigerian artist, and its themes of identity, globalization, migration, cultural heritage, and African postcolonial identities. From his birth in a rural...

Surviving photographs of Jewish Viennese men during the fin-de-siècle and interwar periods – both the renowned cultural luminaries and their many anonymous coreligionists – all share a striking sartorial detail: the tailored suit. Yet, until now, the...

The world's bestselling pocket guidesMake the most of your trip to Seoul with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze with our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Seoul has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781837583188Author Lonely PlanetFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Lonely Planet Global LimitedPublisher Lonely Planet Global LimitedWeight(grams) 168g

The untold story of Chicago’s pivotal role as a country and folk music capital. Chicago is revered as a musical breeding ground, having launched major figures like blues legend Muddy Waters, gospel soul icon Mavis Staples, hip-hop firebrand Kanye West,...

A comprehensive guide on establishing and maintaining beehivesBeekeeping is a popular pastime that more and more people are taking up for fun or even modest profit. Today, you will find hives not only in large fields or rural spaces, but also in city...

The Salt Shed chronicles the compelling work of reimagining and transforming Chicago's impressive and iconic Morton Salt Warehouse while honoring its history and its working-class roots.Originally constructed in 1929, the Morton Salt Shed and Warehouse...

An artistic study of the Wendezeit in East Germany. The focus of this narrative-analytical text-photo-montage is the so-called Wendezeit in East Germany, the years after the reunification, and the individual and collective outbreaks of violence that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343721Author The Historical Society of Palm Beach CountyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

The first in an exciting and inspirational new V&A sketchbook series that explores the sketching processes and techniques of artists from the 16th century to the present day. Artists have been using sketchbooks for many hundreds of years, particularly...

An intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.From the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature...

An investigative roleplaying game of horrors both ancient and modern, inspired by the works of Arthur Machen and powered by the GUMSHOE system. Britain at the dawn of the 20th century. In the depths of the countryside, cults celebrate ancient rites in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506723594Author Andre BormanisFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dark Horse Comics,U.S.Publisher Dark Horse Comics,U.S.

Scholarly insight and reflection on finding meaning in the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic caused a horrific loss of life and had tremendous, long-lasting psychological effects. Diagnoses of anxiety and mental illness...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035418626Author Laia Farran GravesImprint WelbeckPublisher Headline Publishing Group

A special bond Born in Bern, the businessman Hermann Rupf was an avid collector of modern art. In 1907, he was Daniel Henry Kahnweiler’s first client at his Gallery in Paris. This catalogue contains previously unpublished archival material from the...

Astre is a stunning new art magazine from 3dtotal Publishing, featuring exclusive pieces from some of the best artists in the world. With 100 pages, 10 exclusive pull-out prints, luxury finishes, mixed paper types, artist insights, and incredible...

Photography and public memoryRe-creating the Citadel and the Photographs of Kaveh Golestan is a political archaeology of a little-known crime committed in the early days of the nascent Islamic state in Iran in 1979. The starting point and artistic core...

Der Sammelband zielt auf eine musikwissenschaftliche und -philosophische Neuperspektivierung der Theorie des Musikverstehens. Seine Beiträge plädieren für eine revidierte Hermeneutik. Dabei wird nicht nur angestrebt, die Prämissen und Methoden...

Poisoning Pigeons in the Park brings Tom Lehrer into 2023 with this fantastic new collection of the best, funniest and darkest songs from his career - alongside complimentary illustrations by thetalented Bob Dewar.From 'Ivy League alma maters' to 'It...