Arts, Architecture & Design Books

A rusty derailed train blocking any potential light at the end of the tunnel. A self-help guide - providing you do everything the author doesn't. A memoir of misadventures in life, love, music and worse...

Den här boken är en ovärderlig vägledning för journalister och mediearbetare som vill förstå och arbeta i Afrikas mest komplexa och ofta förbisedda regioner. Med autentiska berättelser från konfliktdrabbade områden, politiskt känsliga miljöer och...

This book offers groundbreaking insights into transforming the concrete industry with innovative, environmentally conscious solutions. It explores the latest advancements in sustainable technologies, including climate-improved concrete, green binders,...

Tesla's Opera: The Real, Stranger-Than-Fiction Nikola Tesla brings the visionary inventor Nikola Tesla to life through the opera he inspired, Violet Fire. For its creators, only opera could encompass the extremes and surreal qualities of Tesla's life and...

This book is the third in a series Carol Jacobsen I started in 2020 called Women of Color and Accomplishment. After seeing the senseless murder of George Floyd and then the brutality of attacks on the peaceful protesters, I was dismayed and angered at...

What's This Gadget For?When the author inherited an old family cabin on a beautiful lake and began visiting it every summer, she found the kitchen drawers full of old-fashioned gadgets that had never been thrown away. To amuse visiting guests, she...

The book explores contemporary Italian cinematic representations of precarity and its intersection with gender. Characters in Italian films portray precarity by navigating uncertain lives and lacking job security and well-being. The book analyses...

This book looks at architecture history in reverse, so you can follow chains of precedents back through time to see how ideas can disrupt civilization's flow.

Systematic Security: A CISO's Playbook by Timur Qader offers a groundbreaking guide to building a resilient and scalable security practice from the ground up. Blending real-world experience with practical insights, this book lays out a phased approach to...

Enhancing Interoperability and Automation of Construction Waste Quantification outlines the construction waste quantification (CWQ) modelling that supports data-driven decision-making in the built environment

This introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped this ever-changing field across the past two centuries, through ten key moments and movements.

The Routledge Companion to the Contemporary Musical is dedicated to the musical's evolving relationship to American culture in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

This practical reference surveys corrosion and deterioration in reinforced concrete and gives guidance on surveys and diagnostics, electrochemical and physical methods of protection and repair, and good design and construction. It suits asset managers,...

What's in the glass is only half the story. The other half is the moment.Vibe Drinking isn't just a cocktail book - it's a modern guide to the experience of drinking with intention. Featuring 100 iconic craft cocktails, each recipe is thoughtfully paired...

Probenpraxis, Hybridität und Heritage beschreibt die musikalische Praxis bolivianischer Chöre und Orchester. Der Autor stellt die Herangehensweisen und Konzepte vor, mit denen Instrumentalist*innen und Vokalist*innen Kompositionen der Kolonialzeit aus...

This edited collection traces the evolution of writing, retelling, and critically reading children's and young adult tales over decades of cultural, social, and technological changes. Global contributions cover the increasingly diverse narratives found...

Step into a world where ancient Norse wisdom meets modern magik. Blood, Bone, and Bewitchment is an eclectic and powerful grimoire blending Asatru tradition, spellcraft, and spiritual practice into one essential volume. Part personal "Galdrabok," part...

Photography by local enigma Corbin Corbin, archiving basement shows, Portland Music Venues, Pro and Semi Pro Wrestling, Dog and Cat shows, Protests, Parades, and Unrest. These are the places Corbin took their disposable camera from 2015-2023.

Set in the charged twilight of 1970s Rhodesia, High Class Natives is a sweeping musical stage play that brings to life the inner struggles of the Choto family-torn between ancestral roots and Western aspirations, tradition and modernity, resilience and...

"Immersion" is everywhere in entertainment today. But this promise didn't start with digital media - it was over two hundred years ago that Georgian London became the world centre of such immersive spectacles as the Leicester Square Panorama, the...

Sự phát triển của công nghệ khiến truyền hình truyền thống phát triển từ một phương tiện độc lập sang đa nền tảng, với những yếu tố được bổ sung như: các trang web, phát video trực tuyến, phòng trò chuyện, sự kiện được truyền hình trực tiếp, mạng xã hội,...

No progressive rock band could ever be said to be a household name, but Van der Graaf Generator, who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2018, rarely enjoyed that distinction even in the households of many prog fans. VdGG, and the band's main...

Discover the transformative world of dumpster diving with The Dumpster Divers Manifesto. Unearth hidden treasures in trash, while challenging societal norms and embracing an eco-conscious lifestyle. Packed with expert tips, the book covers essential...

Seattle, 1928. Dishwasher Eleanora dreams of performing magic tap dance. Sure, she can conjure fire, but that talent remains buried thanks to Prohibition, which has banned booze and magic, and the devastating panic attacks that knock her unconscious...

For fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir and Elizabeth Fremantle, an untold story about how the plot against Anne Boleyn entrapped a gifted young musician. A glamorous queen, a volatile king, a gifted musician concealing a forbidden romance. Everyone...

Tales from Topographic Oceans has been described as progressive rock's biggest and most difficult work. The story that surrounds its creation, challenging reception and troublesome but ground-breaking tour deserves careful and painstaking attention. In...

Barb Rogers claims that anyone can make a fabulous costume using her method of conversion costuming.  With the secrets she shares in this book, you don't have to go through the work of making costumes from scratch.  Instead, create fabulous,...

Written by scholars working across translation studies, film and media studies, this volume examines the ways in which Korean media has been received and translated in the UK, as well as how British media has fared in South Korea.

AI, AR, and VR in Theatre and Performance investigates the cutting-edge application of evolving digital technologies within the creative industries, with a focus on theatre and the dramatic arts.

Bringing together artists, curators, activists, academics, managers, and educators from around the world, this anthology examines the notion of ethics within socially engaged art. This collection is an ideal text for interdisciplinary courses that place...

This book concerns the urgency of thinking and acting in response to climate change through art and education. Events of Art and Education in Post-climate Times will be helpful for students studying art, education, environment and sustainability, and...

In this coffee-table companion book to the documentary film of the same name, artist and author Holt Webb tells the story of the American Steam engine through his camera lens.The book contains one hundred pages of creative color and black-and-white...

Denne smukt illustrerede malebog til børn i alderen 7+ indeholder et fantastisk udvalg af fantastiske, perfekt mønstrede farvelægningssider af Fantastiske dyr, som vil give dit barn eller teenager timevis af kreativ farve-hygge.Denne malebog indeholder...

Sarah Knowles Bolton (September 15, 1841 - February 21, 1916) was an American writer. She was born in Farmington, Connecticut. In 1866, she married Charles E. Bolton, a merchant and philanthropist. She wrote extensively for the press, was one of the...

55 images d'animaux mignons à colorier par Lea SchöningAnimaux de Noël Livre de Coloriage offre un moyen unique d'exprimer sa créativité et de se détendre en même temps. Les pages du livre contiennent des illustrations détaillées de scènes d'animaux de...

This book focuses on Aby Warburg (1866-1929), one of the legendary figures of twentieth century cultural history. His collection, which is now housed in the Warburg Institute of the University of London bears witness to his idiosyncratic approach to a ...

"An unforgettable baby shower starts with 'My Little Baby' Guest Book - the perfect keepsake to celebrate your little one's arrival!"Are you planning a baby shower for a precious baby girl on the way? Our Elephant Girl and Her Mom themed guest book is...

Amazon's Top 10 Bestselling Black female romance author, Theodora Taylor, says romance writers need to use tons of butter in their plots and, taking her advice, the book, The Artist & Her Lover, has lots of island history, art, music, dance, and yes,...

Set in the charged twilight of 1970s Rhodesia, High Class Natives is a sweeping musical stage play that brings to life the inner struggles of the Choto family-torn between ancestral roots and Western aspirations, tradition and modernity, resilience and...

In "All the Hits All the Time," Larry Coffman delves into the world of rock music with a fresh perspective, offering readers a wealth of trivial facts, intriguing backstories, and unforgettable memories from rock's colorful history. The book's title pays...

Before TikTok. Before Instagram. Before "adulting" had a name... there was just a mad dream, a battered van, and the kind of tour no one was expected to survive.Shaun Morris didn't set out to become a legend. He just wanted to escape small-town boredom...

This book examines 'The Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context', which celebrates the twentieth anniversary of its adoption in 2011, and its 'Kiev Protocol on Strategic Environmental Assessment' which came...

This collection builds on recent studies by considering the production, reception, adaptation and survival of jazz. An interdisciplinary group of contributors break down the traditional barriers between historians, theorists and practitioners casting new...

These essays investigate the relation of traditional music to Irish modernity. The author integrates a survey of the early sources of Irish music with recent work on Irish social history in the eighteenth century to explore the question of the antiquity...

Although a prolific and much esteemed composer in Australia, John Antill's wider reputation is sustained chiefly by his ballet Corroboree - a work which was perceived to bring an authentic Australian musical style before both a national and international...

Louis XIV - the 'Sun King' - casts a long shadow over the history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. Yet while he has been the subject of numerous works, much of the scholarship remains firmly rooted within national frameworks and traditions...

A fresh, creative introduction to theological ethics. Offering an imaginative approach through dialogue with theatrical theory and practice, Vander Lugt demonstrates a new way to integrate actor-oriented and action-oriented approaches to Christian ethics...