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The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between. Apart from architecture informing scenography and cities serving as backdrops to the moving image,...

“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.” —Psalm 46:1 In the midst of our troubled times and seasons of spiritual restlessness, God extends to us His offer of provision and care. No matter what, He will meet you in your need...

After Nirvana, everything changed. Kurt Cobain and his band ushered in a new era in music, bringing the authenticity of US underground punk to mainstream rock audiences. Award-winning biographer and music critic Marc Burrows dives into the world of...

An edition of George of the Arab's homily on the Chronicon - on the reckoning of the year and the computation of the dates of feasts such as Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter.Book InformationISBN 9781463247058Author George KirazFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Phyllis Dodd was born in Chester and studied firstly at Liverpool School of Art 1917-21 After winning a Royal Exhibition scholarship spent a further four years at the RCA in the company of her life-long friends Henry Moore, Raymond Coxon and Edna Ginesi...

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre profession. It brings together research from the UK, US, Australia and beyond, providing an essential resource for educators, students,...

"After a good dinner one evening, with excellent company and a bottle of wine, I settled by my fire with a volume of paintings by the 15th century Venetian painter Vittore Carpaccio. For much of my life I have been under the spell of this artist. I am no...

This book radically reimagines theatre/performance pedagogy and dramaturgy in response to the accelerating climate crisis.This text is founded upon the principle that the theatre is the most anthropocentric of all the arts: the means of its...

Between 1979 and 1982 Nicholas Hagger wrote three letters to the eminent literary critic Christopher Ricks about his poetic identity, and Ricks agreed with his final view that his verse blends the Romantic and Classical traditions within the Baroque...

The office FAZ architectes was founded in Geneva in 2016 by Véronique Favre and Tanya Zein. Its diverse projects always relate to the context and sustainability. In that sense, the atmospheric poetry of the details plays a key role. Text in English and...

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion. From the 2011 revolution to Sisi’s seizure of power in 2013, like millions of others, Mona Abaza was swallowed by a draining and exhausting daily life of a city caught up in the aftermath of revolt – a daily life...

A comprehensive, in-depth examination of nearly three centuries of sculptural production from France’s famous Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory Sèvres Extraordinaire! brings to light the production of sculpture at Sèvres over the 280 years of the...

Fine artists can see great images in an empty page. Develop this useful skill with Altair Design pattern pads. Choose a design, relax, and look without staring. Slowly, faces, animals, scenes and patterns will appear. Pick up some pencils or pens and...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was an architect who communicated his ideas with the same disciplined restraint as he developed his buildings. This book is a heterogeneous collection of writings, speeches, and interviews. Read together, they reveal the breadth...

Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege. Using only elements of the original paintings, Volker Hermes masterfully...

The fourth offering in Rachel Reinert’s best-selling Coloring Wonderland series, Woodland Wonderland is a delightful sojourn in the magical world of woodland flowers and creatures. Journey through the lovely flora and fauna of our woodlands and forests,...

The book is motivated by the author's long-lasting interest in the role of art in society in general and education in particular and is a contribution to arts-based approaches to education. An introduction to pedagogy of dissensus: a pedagogy informed by...

A lively, unbelievably fun (even titillating!) art book that celebrates Playgirl magazine’s 50-year anniversary, including historic articles, spreads, commentary, photography, and artwork from the ’70s through todayPlaygirl is a movement. This...

The crisis of 21st-century religion is upon us. With fewer people remaining committed to traditional religions and most new religious movements in their infancy, where does that leave the vast “silent spiritual majority” who find the old religions to be...

A gorgeous look at popular illustrators of the Jazz Age and their influential role in the dynamic culture of the 1920s and ’30s The 1920s in the United States was characterized by economic prosperity and dramatic social change. Known as the Jazz Age, it...

Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international art world insider. Praised by the Art Newspaper as ‘the best art writer of his generation’, Michael...

A unique blend of perennial wisdom and modern psychological practice The Journey of Psychosynthesis is unique in several ways: it is the first book on psychosynthesis based on a defined path of learning that has been refined and proven over more than 20...

This beautiful NIV edition of the Bible is bound in cloth and foil stamped with an illustration inspired by the Garden of Eden. Designed to sit alongside classic literature on your bookshelf , this is an edition to be treasured forever. The New...

The artist and conservationist David Shepherd had a lifelong interest in railways. They were not only the subject of many of his paintings, but he also actively supported railway preservation in the UK and abroad. He was instrumental in setting up the...

A fresh, modern take on paint-by-number features 20 frame-worthy mushroom images, accompanied by step-by-step instructions and humorous profiles of each mushroom. This book is an open invitation to create art. Inside you'll find tips and techniques for...

Welcome to The Museum of Witchcraft, an eclectic exploration of witchcraft and magic through 100 objects, practices and symbols. Every sense is tingling. Even the dust here is rich, imbued with the past. It's cold, and quiet, so why don't you feel...

Kitchen hymns are the songs sung at home, not in the chapel; in vernacular speech, not Latin. The poems in Padraig O Tuama's new collection are a form of hymnody that arise neither from belief nor devotion. A man asks himself if he believes in God and...

Can God handle our hardest questions, biggest struggles, and secret doubts?We instinctively assume he cannot. We figure giving voice to those things will bring shame, rejection, and distance from him. But what if our hard questions don't need to function...

Waterhouses is about the places the people of Lagos have inhabited, imagined, and made home for the past two centuries. It asks what a house in Lagos is and explores how the answer to that question has been historically constructed and reconstructed in...

Interesting Bird Nests & Eggs presents charming and wonderfully diverse portraits of bird eggs and nests, each specially selected from specimens held by the Natural History Museum, London. The Museum holds one of the largest and most comprehensive...

This unique guide explores the broad arc of terrain that flanks the city of Edinburgh – the three old counties of East Lothian, Midlothian and West Lothian, plus the district of Falkirk, ancient hub of Central Scotland. It’s a rolling landscape dotted...

Explore deep into the heart of Phoenix to find its best kept secrets, natural wonders, and inspiring people – not to mention a few ghosts – and discover the Old Western charm that still permeates the culture here. Visit a mystery castle, a gleaming white...

Extreme weather events, droughts, floods, shifts in precipitation and temperature patterns, melting glaciers, sea-level rise, water salinization, and more generally, changes in the water cycle remind us that the climate crisis is mostly a water crisis...

"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and...

This book highlights a number of the major Sufi figures whose writings on legal theory were strongly shaped by their Sufism, showing how they belonged to the same tradition and developed each other's ideas. The book focuses in particular on Ibn ?Arab?,...

Between North Carolina's coastal plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains lies the Piedmont: some 250 linear miles of rolling, long-settled lands covering almost half of the state. Geologically speaking, piedmont regions are found all over the world, but North...

This open access book considers how relationships to place and spatial ecologies more broadly are becoming redefined in light of intersecting climate, health, identity and care crises. Through an interdisciplinary, intersectional discourse it...

This beginner-friendly needle felting kit has all the tools you need to learn the art of felting and create a miniature fuzzy sculpture of a French Bulldog. Designed by Alyson Gurney, the artist behind the viral online brand Little Felted Friends, this...

High Park, at Blenheim in Oxfordshire UK, is a SSSI of great significance for its numerous ancient oaks and the organisms associated with these trees. This book gives a detailed, lavishly illustrated and thoroughly researched description of the...

In her sculptures, installations, films, and interventions in public spaces, Croatian artist Luiza Margan explores the disparity between officially recorded history and history which is invisible. She questions the ways in which power structures and...