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  • The Secret Life of Words

    How English Became English

    de Henry Hitchings ...
    "A colorful, thematic history of the English language . . . a fine choice for libraries and a 'smorgasbord' for language aficionados. Highly recommended." —E. L. Battistella, ChoiceWords are essential to our everyday lives. An average person spends his or her day enveloped in conversations, e-mails, phone calls, text messages, directions, headlines, and more. But how often do we stop to think ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    de David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Translation

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Matthew Reynolds ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world religions, and our literatures, our cultures, and our languages would be unrecognisable. In this Very Short Introduction, Matthew Reynolds gives an authoritative and thought-provoking account of the field, ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    de Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Libro 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ugliness

    A Cultural History

    de Gretchen E. Henderson ...
    ‘Ugly as sin’, ‘ugly duckling’, ‘rear its ugly head’. The word ‘ugly’ is used freely, yet it is a loaded term: from the simply plain and unsightly to the repulsive and even offensive, definitions slide all over the place. Hovering around ‘feared and dreaded’, ugliness both repels and fascinates. But the concept of ugliness has a lineage that has long haunted our cultural imagination.In this ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Domestic Space Reader

    Edición de Chiara Briganti, Kathy Mezei ...
    Tune in to HGTV, visit your local bookstore's magazine section, or flip to the 'Homes' section of your weekend newspaper, and it becomes clear: domestic spaces play an immense role in our cultural consciousness. The Domestic Space Reader addresses our collective fascination with houses and homes by providing the first comprehensive survey of the concept across time, cultures, and disciplines.This ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1600-1850: Academy to Avant-Garde

    Edición de Emma Barker ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Cultures of Collecting

    Edición de Roger Cardinal, John Elsner ...
    Series series Critical Views
    with essays by Jean Baudrillard, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Nicholas Thomas, Mieke Bal, John Forrester, John Windsor, Naomi Schor, Susan Stewart, Anthony Alan Shelton, Jaś Elsner, Roger Cardinal and an interview with Robert Opie.This book traces the psychology, history and theory of the compulsion to collect, focusing not just on the normative collections of the Western canon, but also on ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edición de Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • On Collecting

    An Investigation into Collecting in the European Tradition

    de Susan Pearce ...
    Series series Collecting Cultures
    On Collecting examines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere.Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • A Companion to British Art

    1600 to the Present

    Edición de David Peters Corbett ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Art History
    This companion is a collection of newly-commissioned essays written by leading scholars in the field, providing a comprehensive introduction to British art history.A generously-illustrated collection of newly-commissioned essays which provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of British artCombines original research with a survey of existing scholarship and the state of the fieldTouches ... Leer más

    $46.00 USD