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  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    by Morag Martin ...
    Series series The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    An "enjoyable" history of the French cosmetic industry and the evolution of beauty standards and commercial culture during a revolutionary era ( European History Quarterly).As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged cheeks disappeared in favor of a more natural ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Picturebooks Second Edition

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles ...
    Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? This revised edition of a bestselling title carries invaluable insight into a highly productive, dynamic sector of the publishing world. Featuring interviews with leading illustrators and publishers ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Selling Beauty

    Cosmetics, Commerce, and French Society, 1750–1830

    by Morag Martin ...
    Series Book 127 - The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
    Morag Martin’s history of the cosmetic industry in France examines the evolution of popular tastes and standards of beauty during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As the French citizenry rebelled against the excesses of the aristocracy, there was a parallel shift in consumer beauty practices. Powdered wigs, alabaster white skin, and rouged cheeks disappeared in favor of a more natural and ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • Children's Picturebooks

    The Art of Visual Storytelling

    by Martin Salisbury, Morag Styles ...
    Children’s picturebooks are the very first books we encounter, and they form an important, constantly evolving, and dynamic sector of the publishing world. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children?In seven chapters, this book covers the key stages of conceiving a narrative, creating a visual language and developing storyboards and design of a picturebook. The book ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Imagining Regulation Differently

    Co-creating for Engagement

    by Annie Oliver, David Frayne, Penny Evans, Makala Cheung, Ari Cantwell, Greg Leo Bond, Jenny Barke, Janet Newman, Bronwen Morgan, Eva Elliott0, Gareth Thomas1, Gabrielle Ivinson2, Emma Renold3, Nathan Evans4, Debbie Watson5, Kitty Webster6, Naomi Millner7, Helen Thomas-Hughes8, Helen Manchester9, Therese O’ Toole0, Sue Cohen1, Martin Innes2, Marilyn Howard3 ...
    Series series Connected Communities
    There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with new methods of regulating for engagement.Using original, co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a ‘bottom-up ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Sacred Inception

    Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World

    by Marianne Delaporte, Morag Martin, Pamela Hunt, Kristin Brig, Claire de LaBrusse, Cara Delay, Andrea L. DeMaria, Gökçen B. Dinç0, Anna M. Fedele1, Tracy Humphrey2, Sara MacLennan3, Sharifah Huseinah Madihid4, Dunen Kaneybia Muelas Izquierdo5, Tatiana Novikova6, Florence Pasche Guignard7, Anne Sylvie Ramelet8, Camila Rangel9, Angela Santamaria0, Amba J. Sepie1, Beth Sundstrom2, Ogechukwu Ezekwem Williams3, Angela Castañeda4 ...
    This edited volume explores the intersection of spirituality with childbirth from 1800 to the present day from a comparative perspective. It illustrates how over this time period in much of the world, traditional practices, home births, and midwives have been overshadowed and undermined by male dominated obstetrics, hospitalization, and ultimately the medicalization of the birthing process itself. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    A Hands-On Guide From Story Creation to Publication

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  • How to Be an Illustrator Second Edition

    by Darrel Rees ...
    This book offers practical help and guidance to aspiring illustrators. All areas of the job are covered – creating a portfolio; approaching potential clients; preparing for meetings and negotiating contracts; setting up a studio; maintaining a flow of work and managing one’s time and cash. Self-promotion, creating websites, self-publishing and the pros and cons of agents are all explored ... Read more

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  • Craftland

    In Search of Lost Arts and Disappearing Trades

    by James Fox ...
    An “impassioned and inspiring account of the extraordinary men and women still doing traditional artisanal work” (The Sunday Times) in the face of massive technological industrialization—by renowned Cambridge art historian Dr. James Fox.“Beautifully written and (charmingly illustrated) . . . His chronicle of the decline of the traditional trades is staggering.”—The Wall Street JournalDuring an age ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • House of Lilies

    The Dynasty That Made Medieval France

    by Justine Firnhaber-Baker ...
    The definitive history of the Capetians, the crusading dynasty that made the French crown the wealthiest and most powerful in medieval Europe and forged France as we know it today.“A joy to read from start to finish. This is not only the best history of the Capetian dynasty now available in English, it is also one of the most entertaining popular history books published in recent years.” —Dan ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

    And Other Episodes in French Cultural History

    by Robert Darnton ...
    **The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.“Robert Darnton has the inquisitiveness of an investigative reporter, the thoroughness of a rigorous scholar, and the sensitivity of a novelist.” —New Republic**When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the ... Read more

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  • Erotic Exchanges

    The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris

    by Nina Kushner ...
    Nina Kushner's Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris brings to life a vibrant but relatively unknown part of early modern urban life, the world of the demimonde, the quasi-respectable underworld, with its elite prostitutes, wealthy patrons, and juicy scandals.... Kushner reveals the complexity and influence of this corner of Parisian social and cultural life ... Read more

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