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  • Early Modern Media Ecology

    by Peter W. Marx ...
    Series series Elements in Shakespeare Performance
    The early modern world was as enigmatic as it was dynamic. New epistemologies and technologies, open controversies about the world and afterworld, encounters with various cultures, and numerous forms of entertainment wetted the appetite for ever-new sensational experiences, an emerging visual language, and different social constellations. Thaumaturgy, the art of making wonder, was the historical ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire

    Edited by Peter Marx ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The 19th century ushered in an unprecedented boom in technology, the unification of European nations, the building of global empires and stabilization of the middle classes. The theatre of the era reflected these significant developments as well as helped to catalyse them. Populist theatre and purposebuilt playhouses flourished in the ever-growing urban and cosmopolitan centres of Europe and in ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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    Greatest Comedy Sketches

    Narrated by Dudley Moore, Peter Cook, Groucho Marx ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 11 min

    A collection of the most famous comedy sketches of all time from actors and comedians, such as Peter Cook, Groucho Marx and Bob Hope.Chapters1. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - One Leg Too Few2. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis - Marriage and Girlfriends3. Marx Brothers - Ravelli in Court4. Jack Benny - Competition5. Lenny Bruce - Ku Klux Klan6. Charlie McCarthy and Humphrey Bogart - Opening a Jail7. ... Read more

    $5.45 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography

    Edited by Tracy C. Davis, Peter W. Marx ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Performance Historiography sets the agenda for inclusive and wide-ranging approaches to writing history, embracing the diverse perspectives of the twenty-first century and Critical Media History.Written by an international team of authors whose expertise spans a multitude of historical periods and cultures, this collection of fascinating essays poses the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Information Technology in Environmental Engineering

    Selected Contributions to the Sixth International Conference on Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (ITEE2013)

    Edited by Burkhardt Funk, Peter Niemeyer, Jorge Marx Gómez ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Information technologies have evolved to an enabling science for natural resource management and conservation, environmental engineering, scientific simulation and integrated assessment studies. Computing plays a significant role in the every day practices of environmental engineers, natural scientists, economists, and social scientists. The complexity of natural phenomena requires ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • What is Architectural History?

    by Andrew Leach ...
    Series series What is History?
    What is Architectural History? considers the questions and problems posed by architectural historians since the rise of the discipline in the late nineteenth century. How do historians of architecture organise past time and relate it to the present? How does historical evidence translate into historical narrative? Should architectural history be useful for practicing architects? If so, how? Leach ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

  • The Irresistible Fairy Tale

    The Cultural and Social History of a Genre

    by Jack Zipes ...
    A provocative new theory about fairy tales from one of the world's leading authoritiesIf there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread—or why so many people cannot resist its appeal, no matter how it changes or what form it takes. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Goethe

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ritchie Robertson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In 1878 the Victorian critic Matthew Arnold wrote: 'Goethe is the greatest poet of modern times... because having a very considerable gift for poetry, he was at the same time, in the width, depth, and richness of his criticism of life, by far our greatest modern man.' In this Very Short Introduction Ritchie Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Modern Art

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Cottington ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    As public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of Tate Modern and the Bilbao Guggenheim, there is a real need for a book that will engage general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. This book achieves all this and focuses on interrogating the idea of 'modern' ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Psychogeography

    by Merlin Coverley ...
    In recent years the term "psychogeography" has been used to illustrate a bewildering array of ideas from ley lines and the occult, to urban walking and political radicalism. But where does it come from and what exactly does it mean? This book examines the origins of psychogeography in the Paris of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political application in the work of Guy ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art

    Materials, Power and Manipulation

    Edited by Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Ika Matyjaszkiewicz, Zuzanna Sarnecka ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things: objects that were collected, exchanged, held in hand, carried on a body, assembled, cared for or ... Read more

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  • Cafes and Bars

    The Architecture of Public Display

    Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey ...
    Series series Interior Architecture
    The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America.This volume presents and examines this significant urban ... Read more

    $70.99 USD