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  • Invisible Hands

    Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics

    The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial tradeIn the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market. Invisible Hands tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have ... Read more

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  • Ceramic Art

    Series series ART/WORK
    A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay. The story spans history and continents, examining the global traditions of ceramists that range ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Arts of Allusion

    Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam

    The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, ... Read more

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  • Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights

    Series series New Directions in the History of Education
    Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights–a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowland’s case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

    Renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of quartets is ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Planning for Rural Resilience

    Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures

    Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats.Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures makes clear that communities and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Wonder Of Women - Love Stories

    Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

    Unabridged

    14 hours 43 min

    Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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  • Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean

    The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content.Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • In Praise of Harmony

    The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler

    In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English. ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has ... Read more

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  • Ottoman Dress and Design in the West

    A Visual History of Cultural Exchange

    "This amply illustrated, attractive book is valuable for dress history scholars . . . [an] ideal textbook for courses on clothing and cultural history." — The Journal of Dress HistoryOttoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus