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The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America's Early Auto Age

The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in...

Author: John A. Jakle ,  Keith A. Sculle
ISBN: 9781572339583
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The garage—whether used for automobile storage, parking, repair, or sales—has been an American commonplace for so...  Read More >>

Paper: An Elegy

Paper: An Elegy

Author: Ian Sansom
ISBN: 9780007480272
Format: Paperback
$16.99

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The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith

The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith...

Author: Lynne Hume
ISBN: 9780857853615
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This accessible study of religious dress practices contains case studies on a wide range of religious groups, including:...  Read More >>

The Emergent Past: A Relational Realist Archaeology of Early Bronze Age Mortuary Practices

The Emergent Past: A Relational Realist Archaeology...

Author: Chris Fowler (Lecturer in Later Prehistoric Archaeology, Newcastle University)
ISBN: 9780199656370
Format: Hardback
$261.95

Fowler presents a detailed study of Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age mortuary practices based on a reading of recent...  Read More >>

The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith

The Religious Life of Dress: Global Fashion and Faith...

Author: Lynne Hume
ISBN: 9780857853608
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This accessible study of religious dress practices contains case studies on a wide range of religious groups, including:...  Read More >>

The Book: A Global History

The Book: A Global History

Author: Michael F. Suarez, S.J. (University of Virginia) ,  H. R. Woudhuysen (Lincoln College, Oxford)
ISBN: 9780199679416
Format: Hardback
$103.95

Tracing the history of the book throughout the world from ancient times to the present day, this reference draws...  Read More >>

Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image

Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media:...

Author: Helen Grace
ISBN: 9780415830638
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816: ‘Killing art to make history’

The Museum of French Monuments 1795-1816: ‘Killing art...

Author: Alexandra Stara ,  Assoc. Prof. Michael E. Yonan
ISBN: 9781409437994
Format: Hardback
$315.00

The first volume in two centuries on Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments in Paris, this study presents...  Read More >>

Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton Industry in Scotland C.1840-1940

Colouring the Nation: The Turkey Red Printed Cotton...

Author: Stana Nenadic ,  Sally Tuckett
ISBN: 9781905267804
Format: Paperback
$84.48

A history of Turkey red, a dyeing process that produced a fast, washable shade of red, overprinted with exotic patterns...  Read More >>

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury

The Painted Closet of Lady Anne Bacon Drury

Author: H.L. Meakin
ISBN: 9780754663973
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Lady Anne Bacon Drury (1572-1624) devised dozens of panels comprised of pictures and Latin mottoes for the walls...  Read More >>

Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture

Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material...

Author: Isabelle de Solier (Victoria University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780857854223
Format: Paperback
$56.99

This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping...  Read More >>

The Language of War Monuments

The Language of War Monuments

Author: David Machin (Orebro University, Orebro) ,  Gill Abousnnouga
ISBN: 9781623563332
Format: Hardback
$320.00

This book analyses war monuments by developing a multimodal social-semiotic approach to understand how they communicate...  Read More >>

Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture

Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material...

Author: Isabelle de Solier (Victoria University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780857854216
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This fascinating study focuses on the material culture of food, demonstrating how food offers a means of shaping...  Read More >>

Collaboration Through Craft

Collaboration Through Craft

Author: Amanda Ravetz ,  Alice Kettle (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9780857853912
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Offering a challenging new argument for the collaborative power of craft, this ground-breaking volume analyses the...  Read More >>

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Contesting Bodies and Nation in Canadian History

Author: Patrizia Gentile ,  Jane Nicholas
ISBN: 9781442645592
Format: Hardback
$150.00

In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the...  Read More >>

A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939-45

A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian...

Author: Graham Broad
ISBN: 9780774823630
Format: Hardback
$212.18

A long-overdue challenge to the commonplace assumption that the Second World War was a period of consumer austerity...  Read More >>

Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media: The Prosaic Image

Culture, Aesthetics and Affect in Ubiquitous Media:...

Author: Helen Grace
ISBN: 9781134664955
Format: Undefined
$168.93

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Tourism Art and Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism

Tourism Art and Souvenirs: The Material Culture of Tourism...

Author: David Hume
ISBN: 9780415839440
Format: Hardback
$305.00

First Published in 2013. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough

Cybersemiotics: Why Information Is Not Enough

Author: Soren Brier
ISBN: 9781442626362
Format: Paperback
$89.99

Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that encompasses them...  Read More >>

The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980

The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of...

Author: Robert Ross ,  Marja Hinfelaar
ISBN: 9789004254909
Format: Paperback
$174.24

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Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art and Technology amongst the Nyamikum Abelam of Papua New Guinea

Growing Artefacts, Displaying Relationships: Yams, Art...

Author: Ludovic Coupaye
ISBN: 9780857457332
Format: Hardback
$140.00

What gives artefacts their power and beauty? This ethnographic study of the decorated long yams made by the Nyamikum...  Read More >>

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