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Fashion Figures
Missy Maker is a middle school girl who loves math and fashion. She sees math in everything she does. She tries to hide this from her friends, because she thinks it's too geeky. …
The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies, Commonly Call'd Mother Ross; who, in Several Campaigns ... in the Quality of a Foot-soldier and Dragoon, Gave Many Signal Proofs of an Unparallell'd Courage ... Taken From her own Mouth
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Figures of Crisis
A major reevaluation of a towering figure in twentieth-century art and the relationship of his sculpture to the crisis of nationalism in modern Europe In 1935, Swiss artist …
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
Emerging in several different versions during the author's lifetime, Lewis Carroll's Alice novels have a publishing history almost as magical and mysterious as the stories …
Shakespeare's Political Drama
There is political interest everywhere in Shakespeare. Macbeth and Hamlet are concerned with kingship, Measure for Measure with law, The Tempest with power. Shakespeare is …
Pictures and Popery
The part religion played in questions of national identity in early modern England is a familiar historical theme, yet little work has been done on how this worked culturally. …
Funus Hispaniense: espacios usos y costumbres funerarias en la Hispania Romana
This volume presents the study of a number of variants of Romano-Hispanic burial rituals. The research was carried out focusing on structural typologies, the analyses of materials …
Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography
This fascinating new study is about cultural change and continuities. New technologies alter forms of cultural production and the book charts a way through these forms, from oral …
The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain
Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging …
Ethnicity and Kinship in North American and European Literatures
This edited collection applies kinship as an analytical concept to better understand the affective economies, discursive practices, and aesthetic dimensions through which cultural …
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures
Music in Modern Japanese and Hebrew Literatures examines the place of classical music in early 20th-century Japanese and Hebrew literatures. As this book shows, both Japanese and …
Pictures and Visuality in Early Modern China
The sixteenth century in China was a period of rapid and unprecedented economic expansion. The period also saw a parallel growth in the sphere of cultural production,as a growing …