Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place a... more

With research that spans multiple election cycles across nearly a decade, and data drawn from a nati... more

his final hours. Editor and translator Gregory S. Johnston penetrates the archaic script, confronts the haphazard...... more

From long-standing worries regarding the use of lead and asbestos to recent research into carcinogen... more

discussion of archaeology s twin evils, looting and faking. In the final chapter, the editors propose avenues for productive new...... more

This book critically reflects upon how images are mobilised within certain knowledge traditions, bey... more

synthetic frameworks in order to promote innovative thinking and practical solutions. Edited by David Sanderson, Jerold S...... more

synthetic frameworks in order to promote innovative thinking and practical solutions. Edited by David Sanderson, Jerold S...... more

Reunites the editors of Star Trek and Philosophy with Starfleet s finest experts for 31 new, highly logical essays...... more

Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readin... more

The term ’Jewish music’ has conveyed complex and diverse meanings for people around the world across... more

promising aspects of a designer’s work. In this way, design students are supported in revisiting and critically evaluating their...... more

AWARD WINNER OF THE 2018 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE This volume is the first sust... more

interpretation and meaning and in music s interactions with other artistic media, and yet no book has dealt extensively with...... more

Part pop culture trope, part hypothetical cataclysm, the zombie apocalypse is rooted in modern liter... more

Over the last twenty years or so there has been a sharp increase in interest from national sports fe... more

A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture presents a collection of 26 original essays from top schol... more

This book provides an illustrative overview of some of the key methodological and technical innovati... more

This book details the state-of-the-art of research and development in design computing and design co... more

consciousness-raising. The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media...... more

consciousness-raising. The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media...... more

An examination of how screen texts embrace, refute, and reinvent the cultural heritage of antiquity,... more

The notion of the individual creator, a product in part of the Western romantic ideal, is now troubl... more

This innovative new work suggests that The Wire reflects, not simply a cultural take on contemporary... more

This is the first monograph dedicated to this interdisciplinary research area, combining the views o... more

Design thinking, the label given to the acts of designing, has become a paradigmatic view that has t... more

inadequate and how best to help today’s highly nicotine-dependent smokers who are struggling with their addiction quit....... more

African American playwright, actor, television producer and filmmaker Tyler Perry is an American cul... more

In the age of economic globalisation, do art and heritage matter? Once the domain of elitist practit... more

Many of Canada s foremost career practitioners have contributed to this unique textbook for students of career...... more

insights voiced by characters in TV’s most irreverent animated series. Offers readers a philosophically smart and candid...... more

intertextuality or literary complexity, Melody Graulich and Nicolas S. Witschi’s edited volume brings a much-needed perspective to...... more

designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S. Fainstein, the volume features original...... more

interpretation and meaning and in music s interactions with other artistic media, and yet no book has dealt extensively with...... more

: Critical Approaches, Shelley S. Rees presents a collection of essays that examines the complex relationship between narrative...... more

settings, contributors use case studies from films and television series spanning from the 1920s to the present....... more

Sustainability in the built environment is a major issue facing policy-makers, planners, developers ... more

The term ’cult film star’ has been employed in popular journalistic writing for the last 25 years, b... more

There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performanc... more

space that was defined by its two predecessors, this volume investigates the ever-changing state of video’s deployment as...... more

Explores cultural responses to war in Israeli society since 1978. The year 1978 marked Israel’s entry into Lebanon...... more

Ceramic Tabourets (Margaret S. Graves); III. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT: A Symbolic Khassakiyya: Representations of the Palace...... more

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical cu... more

Functional organic and organometallic polymers and materials have gained much attention as versatile... more

Employing a range of approaches to examine how "monster-talk" pervades not only popular culture but ... more

or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it s the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains...... more

This volume focuses specifically on narrative inquiry as a means to interrogate research questions i... more

socio-political climate of the time. Twentieth-Century Organ Music examines the organ’s repertory from the entire period...... more

This new book investigates the relationship of film to history, power, memory, and cultural citizens... more

performance and the lowering of cost of hardware since the mid 1970s, and the continuing advances in many areas of computer...... more

to Professor Daining Fang of Tsinghua University for co-chairing the symposium with J. S. Yang. Our special thanks belong...... more

practices of music education in order to understand the role culture plays in shaping children’s musical learning and thinking...... more

kaleidoscopic compositions of 1960s Op Artists. The psychedelic sensibility didn’t die at the end of the 1960s; Psychedelic traces...... more

mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he...... more

in landscape design--from M. Paul Friedberg s Riis Plaza Park in New York to Dan Kiley s Nationsbank Plaza in Tampa--have...... more

original essays investigate such topics as music drama in light of rituals of naming in the composer’s works and the politics...... more

Frances Connelly examines how the concept of the "grotesque" has influenced the history, practice, a... more