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Art & Architecture

Architecture books onlineIntroducing… our broad range of books on Architecture, Photography, Art Forms, Film TV & Radio, Dance and Performing Arts, Music and History of Art. In our Film TV & Radio section, we have many other sub-genres such as Books That Inspired Movies including Gone Girl, The Enigma, Fifty Shades of Grey and Foxcatcher. Our Music section includes biographies and sheet music of famous musicians past and present, international and Irish – Elvis, Taylor Swift, David Bowie, Bob Geldof, Ed Sheeran, One Direction, Bono and many more.

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Hardcover. This ground-breaking collection explores the assumptions behind and practices for performance implicit in the manuscripts and playtexts of the medieval and early modern eras, focusing on work which engages with performance-oriented research. Editor(s): Bennett, Susan; Polito, Mary. Num Pages: 284 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; AMG; ANF; DSBD; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137320162
ISBN
9781137320162
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.30

Hardcover. Melodrama in Contemporary Film and Television debates the ways in which melodrama expresses and gives meaning to: trauma and pathos; memory and historical re-visioning; home and borders; gendered and queer relations; the family and psychic identities; the national and emerging public cultures; and morality and ethics. Editor(s): Stewart, Michael. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APF; APT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137319845
ISBN
9781137319845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.93

Hardcover. This book contributes to the growing literature on the biopic genre by outlining and exploring the conventions of the postfeminist biopic. It does so by analyzing recent films about the lives of famous women including Sylvia Plath, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen. Num Pages: 200 pages, biography. BIC Classification: APB; APFA; APFN; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 216 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137273475
ISBN
9781137273475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.71

Hardback. Num Pages: 356 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AKC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
Humana Press Inc. United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896030701
ISBN
9780896030701
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 125.81

hardcover. Encounters with the Gypsy female flamenco dancer throughout history Num Pages: 300 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: AB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 189 x 25. Weight in Grams: 812.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780819573537
ISBN
9780819573537
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 44.99
€ 41.68

Hardback. Examines the design and use of public space such as streets, squares, and parks in the cities of contemporary Asia Pacific, which has experienced the fastest urban and economic growth in the world. This volume provides first-hand reports on the unique characteristics of Asia Pacific public places (as compared to those in Western cities). Editor(s): Miao, Pu. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 392 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1MK; AMVD; RG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 747.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792370833
ISBN
9780792370833
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.65

Hardback. 3rd International Conference on Flow Interaction of Science and Art with Exhibition/Lectures on Interaction of Science and Art, 28 February-3 March 2000 at the ETH Zurich Editor(s): Gyr, Albert; Koumoutsakos, Petros D.; Burr, U. (IHW-ETH Zurich, Switzerland). Num Pages: 352 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AGC; PHDF; TGMF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 760.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792363583
ISBN
9780792363583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 189.36

Hardback. This argument in favour of subsidizing the arts offers a distinctly political rationale for government support: engaging the arts helps develop the intellectual faculties of judgement. For those who oppose subsidy, it maps arts subsidy onto the larger landscape of political liberalism. Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792362920
ISBN
9780792362920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.00

Hardback. Suggests that the true sense of fine arts, enchantment, needs to be revived. This book states that in the conceptualised, commercialised, artificial approach to fine arts, we forgot its authentic experiential sense, and that it lies at the imaginative heart of all arts, there to be retrieved by the creative recipient as the very 'truth of it all'. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies; Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 336 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792361831
ISBN
9780792361831
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.47

Hardback. Deals with the origin of the modern conception of the object as well as the subject of music. Starting from the magic of numbers of Pythagorean and neo-Platonic doctrines, this volume leads the readers to 'sound' and 'affections' in modern terms. Editor(s): Gozza, Paolo. Series: The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 638.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360698
ISBN
9780792360698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.47

Hardback. What is art? This perennial question is forcefully thrown open by the electronic expansion of its field and proliferation of arts. This book addresses this question with philosophical underpinnings. Editor(s): Kronegger, Marlies. Series: Analecta Husserliana. Num Pages: 490 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 873.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
490
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792360087
ISBN
9780792360087
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 247.11

Hardback. How do science, producing knowledge and technology, and art, producing revelations and sensations, confront each other? This book addresses this question by considering Albert Einstein and Rene Magritte. It presents the meeting between Einstein and Magritte as an experiment. It provides their attitudes, and encloses perspectives and insights. Editor(s): Aerts, Diederik; Mathijs, Ernest; Mosselman, Bert. Series: Einstein Meets Magritte: An Interdisciplinary Reflection on Science, Nature, Art, Human Action and Society. Num Pages: 286 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 1290.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
286
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792357582
ISBN
9780792357582
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.69

Hardback. Explores the evaluation of theory-practice and growth-conservation interactions in planning. This title presents an incentive to examine the evaluation methods used by means of a number of chapters on case studies. Editor(s): Borri, Dino; Khakee, Abdul (Dept. of Political Science, University of Umea, Sweden); Lacirignola, Cosimo. Series: Geojournal Library. Num Pages: 245 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMVD; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 622.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792343264
ISBN
9780792343264
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.44

Hardback. A discussion of the main issues that beset modern time and philosophy by locating these same issues in artworks and describing closely what they reveal. This volume is divided between contemporary and prehistoric art in order to reveal the presumptions of "Western" culture. Series: Contributions to Phenomenology. Num Pages: 512 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 28. Weight in Grams: 896.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792337744
ISBN
9780792337744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 250.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 95 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AMR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 297 x 210 x 5. Weight in Grams: 237.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
95
Condition
New
SKU
V9780442303006
ISBN
9780442303006
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.29

Paperback. In this work authorities in design review in architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, land use law, and urban policy discuss legal, procedural, and philosophical aspects of the subject, giving the reader a broad, multidisciplinary perspective. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMA; AMC; AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 950.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412991615
ISBN
9780412991615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 201.18

Hardback. Num Pages: 219 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AMC; AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 14. Weight in Grams: 642.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412983511
ISBN
9780412983511
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 194.12

Hardback. Describes the methods and systems to solve one of the highlighted problems within computer aided design, namely architectural and logic synthesis. This book emphasises the technologies in high level synthesis, concentrating on applicative studies and practical constraints or criteria during synthesis. Editor(s): Saucier, Gabriele; Mignotte, Anne. Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Num Pages: 402 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AMC; TJFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 747.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412726903
ISBN
9780412726903
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 193.02

Paperback. Editor(s): Roberts, R. D.; Roberts, T. M. Num Pages: 476 pages, 15 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 730.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
476
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412284700
ISBN
9780412284700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Paperback. This manual describes and illustrates procedures for making a variety of chains based on ancient loop-in-loop techniques. The illustrations by the author guide the reader, with previous knowledge of the basics of goldsmithing, thorugh the procedures of making these chains without assistance. Num Pages: 208 pages, 438 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKG. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (XV) Technical / vocational (manuals etc). Dimension: 279 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 533.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Chapman and Hall United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780412078811
ISBN
9780412078811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 134.40

Paperback. This title explores the relationship between music, people and places through an analysis of Bolivian music performances by a non-governmental organization involved in musical activities, by a music performing ensemble and by the people living in two rural areas of Potosi. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSL; AVA; AVGH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 349.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312240158
ISBN
9780312240158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.23

Hardcover. This book explores the role of photographs in newspapers and online news, analyzing how meanings are made in images and exploring text-image relations, illustrated with authentic news stories from both print and online news outlets. Num Pages: 260 pages, 46 black & white tables, 46 figures. BIC Classification: AJCR; CFB; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
2013th Edition
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230301009
ISBN
9780230301009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.30

Hardback. A timely book that identifies the practice of '(syn)aesthetics' in artistic style and audience response, which helps to articulate the power of experiential practice in the arts. This exciting new approach includes interviews with leading practitioners in of theatre, dance, site-specific work, live art and technological performance practice. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AN; DSBH; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
239
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230221277
ISBN
9780230221277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.93

paperback. A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment. Editor(s): Bean, Annemarie; Hatch, James V.; McNamara, Brooks. Num Pages: 324 pages, 25 illus. 6 tables. BIC Classification: ASZP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Edition
New
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9780819563002
ISBN
9780819563002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.03

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