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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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Art & Architecture

Paperback. In this study, Joseph Koerner establishes the character of Renaissance art in Germany and examines how artists such as Albrecht Durer and Hans Baldung Grien reflected in their masterworks the changing status of the self in 16th-century Germany. Num Pages: 564 pages, 1 colour plate, 223 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACND; AFC; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 278 x 217 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1572.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226449999
ISBN
9780226449999
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.81
€ 52.25

paperback. Explores the complex interrelationships among creativity, sexuality, the body, and the mind in eighteenth-century France. This work examines the different forms of deviance ascribed to male and female artists. It also demonstrates that the perceived connections among sexuality, creativity, and disease also opened artistic opportunities for women. Num Pages: 320 pages, 63 halftones. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226752884
ISBN
9780226752884
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 28.82

Paperback. Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. This study traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history. Series: Chicago Architecture and Urbanism. Num Pages: 298 pages, 132 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AMB; AMG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight in Grams: 580. Louis Sullivan and the Chicago Department Store. Series: Chicago Architecture and Urbanism. 298 pages, 132 halftones. Long recognized as a Chicago landmark, the Carson Pirie Scott Building also represents a milestone in the development of architecture. This study traces the origins of the building's design and analyzes its role in commercial, urban, and architectural history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; AMB; AMG. Dimension: 150 x 227 x 16. Weight: 580.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226761374
ISBN
9780226761374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.38
€ 55.42

Hardcover. Presents the voices of three musicians - queer nightclub star Zeki Muren, arabesk originator Orhan Gencebay, and pop diva Sezen Aksu - who collectively have dominated mass media in Turkey since the early 1950s. Using these three singers as a lens, the author examines Turkey's repressive politics and civil violence as well as its public life. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 halftones, 1 map, 20 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DVT; AVG; JFCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 18. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226775050
ISBN
9780226775050
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.17
€ 89.47

paperback. Michael Tenzer offers a study of Balinese gamelan music, focusing on the pre-eminent 20th-century genre, gamelan gong kebyar. He applies music theory and analysis to this non-Western orchestral genre to discuss composition and structure, as well as looking at the ethographic background. Series: Chicago Studies in Ethnomusicology. Num Pages: 504 pages, 27 halftones, 70 music examples, 26 line drawings, 10 tables. BIC Classification: 1FMNB; AVGE; AVGH; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 180 x 33. Weight in Grams: 950.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780226792835
ISBN
9780226792835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.32
€ 60.16

Hardcover. Suitable for scholars, curators, and critics invested in modern and contemporary German art, this title explores the work of three generations of German artists who, beginning in the 1960s, turned to jokes and wit in an effort to confront complex questions regarding German politics and history. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12 colour plates, 76 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 255 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226898957
ISBN
9780226898957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.38
€ 55.42

Paperback. Editor(s): Gjelsvik, Anne; Schubart, Rikke. Num Pages: 256 pages, 15. BIC Classification: APFA; APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231165655
ISBN
9780231165655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.55

Paperback. One of the ethnomusicologists takes the reader along for a tour of his workplace. Series: Music in American Life. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: AV; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252064685
ISBN
9780252064685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.10

Paperback. Discusses the role of the workshop in the creation of African art Editor(s): Kasfir, Sidney Littlefield; Forster, Till. Series: African Expressive Cultures. Num Pages: 424 pages, 65 b&w illus., 8 color illus. BIC Classification: 1H; ACB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 574.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253007490
ISBN
9780253007490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

paperback. How ethnological show business shaped European and American perceptions of Africa and Africans. Editor(s): Lindfors, Bernth. Num Pages: 320 pages, 40 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; 1H; 1KBB; ASZH; JFC; JFSL3; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 174 x 18. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253212450
ISBN
9780253212450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.94

Paperback. A massive underground sensation, "The Big Lebowski" has been hailed as the first cult film of the internet age. This book addresses the film's influences - westerns, noir, grail legends, the 1960s, and Fluxus - and its historical connections to the first Iraq war, boomers, slackerdom, surrealism, college culture, and bowling. Editor(s): Comentale, Edward P.; Jaffe, Aaron. Series: The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory. Num Pages: 512 pages, 44 b&w illus. BIC Classification: APFA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 177 x 159 x 31. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253221360
ISBN
9780253221360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.32

paperback. Situates the Teatro within working-class Mexican performance history, the Chicano movement and gender relations Num Pages: 304 pages, 31 b&w photos, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: AN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 794.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780292708013
ISBN
9780292708013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.75

Hardcover. Presents some of the rare masterpieces by artists from Bernardo Daddi to Fra Angelico, Orazio Gentileschi's Danae, Annibale Carracci's Virgin and Child, and precious, small-scale coppers by major Mannerist and Baroque masters. This title catalogues more than fifty major works from the 14th to the 17th century. Series: Yale University Art Gallery. Num Pages: 272 pages, 60 black-&-white illustrations & 77 colour images. BIC Classification: 1DST; ACK; ACN; ACQ; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 314 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300114881
ISBN
9780300114881
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.46
€ 44.50

Paperback. A stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art. Num Pages: 176 pages, 250 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; ABA; GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 191 x 14. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393328387
ISBN
9780393328387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.52

Hardcover. The key book for interior designers and architects to learn the methodology for evidence-based design for healthcare facilities. Clearly presents a 4-step methodology that will achieve an outcome-based deliverable. Hospital clients are increasingly asking for "evidence-based design" in their Request for Proposals for design services. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 209 x 25. Weight in Grams: 714.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470149423
ISBN
9780470149423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.77

Paperback. Becoming a Landscape Architect provides everything you need to know before embarking on a career in landscape architecture, including complete coverage of residential design, ecological design, commercial design, and parks design. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: AMV; VSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 188 x 17. Weight in Grams: 726.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780470338452
ISBN
9780470338452
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.07

paperback. "Buffalo Bill" Cody describes his Wild West exhibition, the show that offered audiences a mythic experience of the American frontier Editor(s): Christianson, Frank. Series: The Papers of William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 photographs, 46 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; 3JH; ASZ; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803240544
ISBN
9780803240544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.96

hardcover. This book analyzes the relation of public memory to history, forgetting, and selective memory in three late-twentieth-century cities that have confronted major social or political traumas-Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 192 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 1KBBEY; 1KLSA; AB; HPS; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804745604
ISBN
9780804745604
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 113.37

hardcover. The aim of this book is to provide an account of modernist painting--from Pollock to Ryman--that follows on from the aesthetic theory of Theodor W. Adorno. It offers a materialist account of modernism with detailed discussions of modern aesthetics from Kant to Arthur Danto, Stanley Cavell, and Adorno. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 416 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; ACX; AFC; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 29. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804748940
ISBN
9780804748940
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

hardcover. In this book, leading scholars in architecture, design, history, and communications discuss the work of R. Buckminster Fuller in the context of the larger social and cultural patterns of the twentieth century. Editor(s): Chu, Hsiao-Yun; Trujillo, Roberto G. Num Pages: 248 pages, 49 illustrations. BIC Classification: AKB; AMB; TN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 20. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804752091
ISBN
9780804752091
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 118.43

Paperback. A contribution to the history of the blues and of Afro-American culture in general. Writing from a black/feminist standpoint, Harrison shows the joys, trials, heartbreaks and enduring influence of such singers as Victoria Spivey and Alberta Hunter. Num Pages: 314 pages, photographs, discography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; AVGJ; AVGK; JFFK; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813512808
ISBN
9780813512808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 41.60

paperback. Here, Vincent Brook examines the trend for American sitcoms featuring explicitly, Jewish lead characters from the period 1989 through 2002. He questions why this trend appeared at this particular historical moment and the significance of this phenomenon for Jews and non-Jews alike? Num Pages: 240 pages, 20 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: APT; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813532110
ISBN
9780813532110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. During the 1920s, sound revolutionized the motion picture industry and cinema continued as one of the most significant and popular forms of mass entertainment in the world. This work examines the film industry's growth and prosperity while focusing on important themes of the era. Editor(s): Fischer, Lucy Rose. Series Editor(s): Friedman, Lester D.; Pomerance, Murray. Series: Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema. Num Pages: 312 pages, 33 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJG; APF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813544854
ISBN
9780813544854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.53

Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AV; DSB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813562490
ISBN
9780813562490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.62

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