Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • AIDS and Representation

    Queering Portraiture during the AIDS Crisis in America

    AIDS & Representation explores portraits and self-portraits made in response to the AIDS epidemic in America in the 1980s and 1990s. Addressing the work of artists including Mark Morrisroe, Robert Blanchon and Felix Gonzalez-Torres through the interrelated themes of sickness and mortality, desire and sexual identity, love and loss, Fiona Johnstone shows how the self-representational practices of ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Getting a Good Night's Sleep

    A Handbook for People Who Have Trouble Sleeping

    An end to wakeful nights with expert advice on how to get to sleep, sleep well, and stay asleep. We all recognise the importance of a good night's sleep on a regular basis, but many people suffer from a sleeping disorder of some kind. Help is at hand in this practical book which provides straightforward advice on how to develop good sleeping habits. I Compulsory reading for all of us who toss and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Ireland, Historic and Picturesque

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Rich Tapestry of Ireland through History and Landscape

    In "Ireland, Historic and Picturesque," Charles Johnston offers a vivid exploration of Ireland's rich cultural heritage and historical significance. This work melds detailed descriptions with a poetic narrative style, presenting the enchanting landscapes and storied past of the Emerald Isle. Johnston draws upon his keen observation and deep appreciation for the natural beauty and historical ... Leer más

    Antes $1.99 USD Ahora $0.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?

    Series series Law, Technology and Media
    Canadians are deeply worried about wait times for health care. Entrepreneurial doctors and private clinics are bringing Charter challenges to existing laws restrictive of a two-tier system. They argue that Canada is an outlier among developed countries in limiting options to jump the queue.This book explores whether a two-tier model is a solution.In Is Two-Tier Health Care the Future?, leading ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Anti-Portraiture

    Challenging the Limits of the Portrait

    Edición de Fiona Johnstone, Kirstie Imber ...
    The portrait has historically been understood as an artistic representation of a human subject. Its purpose was to provide a visual or psychological likenesses or an expression of personal, familial or social identity; it was typically associated with the privileged individual subject of Western modernity. Recent scholarship in the humanities and social sciences however has responded to the ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    A Surgeon and a Maverick

    The Life and Pioneering Work of Magdi Yacoub

    Narrado por Charles Johnston ...

    Completo

    11 hora 8 minutos

    “[A] remarkable journey.”—The TelegraphThe incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the oddsVeteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Wearable Objects and Curative Things

    Materialist Approaches to the Intersections of Fashion, Art, Health and Medicine

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the intersections between wearable objects and human health, with particular emphasis on how artists and designers are creatively responding to and rethinking these relations. Addressing a rich range of wearable artefacts, from mobility aids and prosthetics to clothing and accessories to digital health tracking devices, its themes include care and cure; wellness culture and the ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Animal Death

    Series series Animal Publics
    Animal death is a complex, uncomfortable, depressing, motivating and sensitive topic. For those scholars participating in human-animal studies, it is accompanied by the concept of 'life' the ground upon which their studies commence, whether those studies are historical, archaeological, social, philosophical, or cultural. It is a tough subject to face, but as this volume demonstrates, one at the ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

La gente que leyó estos también disfrutó

  • What Art Is

    What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex question. Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, What Art Is challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning. Danto argues that despite varied approaches, a work of ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Speculative Everything

    Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming

    How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures.Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Wars of the Irish Kings

    A Thousand Years of Struggle, from the Age of Myth through the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

    The riveting true story of how Ireland came to be, told through eyewitness accounts from a thousand years of struggle“A fascinating mixture of mythology and actual historical events. . . . Lovers of Irish and medieval literature will relish this book.”—BooklistFor the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its wars. Beginning with the legends of ancient battles and warriors, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School

    de Kit White ...
    Lessons, demonstrations, definitions, and tips on what to expect in art school, what it means to make art, and how to think like an artist.What is the first thing to learn in art school? “Art can be anything.” The second thing? “Learn to draw.” With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD