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In 1256, the countess of Provence, Beatrice of Savoy, enlisted her personal physician to create a health handbook to share with her daughters. Written in French and known as the Régime du corps, this health guide would become popular and influential,...

For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith was among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith had also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of...

Imagine a powerful listening experience that you want to share with others. You could describe it to someone with words, or you may choose a flashier alternative. You could, for example, costume yourself and take to the stage in a famous concert venue,...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Wherever on the globe anyone sets foot, they find...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961883024Author Xiao JiangFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Karma, New YorkPublisher Karma, New York

Turtles are among the most fascinating, attractive, easily recognized and loved vertebrates on the planet. Yet, of the hundreds of species worldwide, well over half are in danger of becoming extinct due to habitat loss, road mortality, disease,...

Pattern and Paradox: The Quilts of Amish Women is an inspirational, lavishly illustrated book which will appeal to quilt enthusiasts, quilters and crafters, scholars and art lovers alike, with photography detailing fronts, backs and stitching of fifty...

In The Trouble with Light, Jeremy Michael Clark reflects on the legacy of familial trauma as he delves into questions about belonging, survival, knowledge, and self-discovery in unflinching lyrical poems. “Like you,” he writes, “I have . . . [a] history...

A lyrical meditation on time, survival, and merciful moments of joy Sara Henning’s Burn draws readers deep into the moments that make us, focusing on instances of crisis and renewal to explore our relation to time and lived experience. In these poems, we...

Since the nineteenth century, some of the most influential historians have portrayed opera and tragedy as wholly distinct cultural phenomena. These historians have denied a meaningful connection between the tragedy of the ancients and the efforts of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919624501Author Maria Shéhérazade GiudiciFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Architectural Association PublicationsPublisher Architectural Association...

Michael Broyles shows how three key decades-the 1840s, the 1920s and the 1950s-shaped America's musical future. In each, new styles of music combined with emerging technologies, from the locomotive to the transistor radio, to have lasting impact on our...

"This worthy meditation on an essential state of being uplifts without sugarcoating."--Publishers Weekly What is gratitude? Where does it come from? Why do we need it? How does it change us? In Gratitude, award-winning author Cornelius Plantinga...

Introduction by Jonathan Edwards. William Henry Davies (1871-1940) was a Welsh poet and writer. He was also a traveller and adventurer, often living on his wits as a tramp and itinerant labourer. After a serious accident while attempting to board a...

A debut poetry collection about Earth and to Earth that contemplates imposed systems-gender, capitalism, time, wage and exploitation-and how they are mapped onto us, the trees, and the planet.Immersed in a tangled weave of contemporary life where big box...

Whether you want to get a glimpse of the Hollywood sign, wander among giant redwood trees at Muir Woods, or camp in a National Park, the local Fodor's travel experts in California are here to help! Fodor's California guidebook is packed with maps,...

From the first drawings in the early 1960s to today's uber-popular new Bronco, get the full story of Ford's legendary SUV in this stunningly illustrated volume. When Ford introduced the Bronco for the 1966 model year, its intent was to get a slice of the...

The Upanisads are rich and complex Sanskrit Hindu scriptures dating back to the 8th century BCE and are a staple of world religion courses across the globe. In this volume, Signe Cohen guide readers through on the thirteen "Classical Upanisads," those...

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Action Cinema Since 2000 addresses an increasingly lively and evolving field of scholarship, probing the definition and testing the potential of action cinema to reframe the mode for the 21st century. Contributors examine a broad range of content,...

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Oh, give me a biome! Whether you need an old-growth forest, a perilous glacier, an arid desert, or the open prairies, set the scene for nearly any adventure with the Pathfinder Flip-Mat: Basic Environments Multi-Pack! Cover your ground in any situation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857251011Author Micol FortiFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira

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The RIBA Building Regulations Principal Designer Professional Services Contract 2024 is a new contract for the appointment of a Building Regulations Principal Designer and is suitable for the appointment of a Principal Designer under Part 2A of the...

This collection pays unique attention to the highly challenging problems of addressing inequality within decarbonisation – particularly under-explored aspects, such as high consumption, degrowth approaches and perverse outcomes. Contributors point out...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857249162Author Micol FortiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint SkiraPublisher Skira