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  • On Conservation as a Human Science

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
    Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it. In this erudite and virtuosic book, the historian Peter N. Miller imagines the outlines of a new, expansive notion of conservation ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Peiresc’s Mediterranean World

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republic of Letters and the most gifted French intellectual in the generation between Montaigne and Descartes. From Peiresc’s study in Aix-en-Provence, his insatiable curiosity poured forth in thousands of letters that traveled the Mediterranean, seeking knowledge of matters mundane and exotic. Mining the ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • History and Its Objects

    Antiquarianism and Material Culture since 1500

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. — Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, ParisCultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture—the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Peiresc's Orient

    Antiquarianism as Cultural History in the Seventeenth Century

    by Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The ten essays published in this volume were written over the space of a decade, but they were conceived from the start as a coherent whole, presenting Peiresc's study of discrete languages and literatures of the Near East and North Africa. For Peiresc the student of the Classical past, this described the eastern and southern space in which the Greeks and Romans lived and strove. For Peiresc the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Markets, Morals, Politics

    Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought

    by Peter N. Miller, John Robertson, Richard Tuck, Pasquale Pasquino, Keith Tribe, Michael Sonenscher, Gareth Stedman Jones, Raymond Geuss, J. G. A. Pocock, John Dunn ...
    When István Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of liberalism, he looked not only to the works of great thinkers but also to their reception and use amid revolution and interstate competition. His ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800

    by Francois Louis, Peter N. Miller ...
    Series series The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World
    This book is a project in comparative history, but along two distinct axes, one historical and the other historiographical. Its purpose is to constructively juxtapose the early modern European and Chinese approaches to historical study that have been called "antiquarian." As an exercise in historical recovery, the essays in this volume amass new information about the range of antiquarian-type ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • CISSP For Dummies

    by Lawrence C. Miller, Peter H. Gregory ...
    Showcase your security expertise with the highly regarded CISSP certificationThe CISSP certification, held by more than 150,000 security professionals worldwide, is the gold standard of cybersecurity certifications. The CISSP Exam certifies cybersecurity professionals and opens doors for career advancement. Fully updated and revised to reflect the 2024 ISC2 CISSP Exam Outline, CISSP For Dummies is ... Read more

    $27.00 USD

  • How to Wash the Dishes

    by Peter Miller ...
    Find order and beauty in the kitchen with this delightfully elegant primer on washing the dishes that elevates and illuminates a seemingly routine chore.Washing the dishes is an ordinary, everyday task--but with examination and care, it can become much more. In this reverent guide to the household chore, Peter Miller shows us how washing dishes can become a joy, a delight, a meditative exercise, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Warren Buffett Way

    by Robert G. Hagstrom ...
    Warren Buffett is the most famous investor of all time and one of today’s most admired business leaders. He became a billionaire and investment sage by looking at companies as businesses rather than prices on a stock screen. The first two editions of The Warren Buffett Way gave investors their first in-depth look at the innovative investment and business strategies behind Buffett's spectacular ... Read more

    $13.00 USD

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  • Fashion Writing and Criticism

    History, Theory, Practice

    by Peter McNeil, Dr Sanda Miller ...
    Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves.Integrating history and ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Warren Buffett Way

    by Robert G. Hagstrom ...
    Series series Wiley Investment Classics
    An insightful new take on the life and work of one of the world's most remarkable investors: Warren BuffettIn the 30th Anniversary Edition of The Warren Buffett Way, celebrated author and investor Robert Hagstrom delivers the definitive version of his bestselling compendium of the investment strategies made famous by Warren Buffett. The Warren Buffett Way describes the twelve investment tenets of ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

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