Material culture Books
The History Press Ltd A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions
Book SynopsisWhy do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.Trade Review'I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us ... Every page elicits at least one “ah” “ooh” or “wow!”, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple As Far As The Eye Can See is a remarkable achievement.' -- Stephen Fry 'In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. As Far as the Eye Can See paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.' -- Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator 'A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that ...' -- Giles Coren, presenter, columnist 'From the first fires to the Facebook age, As Far as the Eye Can See takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.' -- Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experimentand Endeavour'I was entranced from the first paragraph. A magnificently readable survey of so much that in the human experience is profound and profoundly important to us ... Every page elicits at least one “ah” “ooh” or “wow!”, usually all three at once. Authoritative without being dry, academic or difficult, fluent and fun without being facetious or over simple As Far As The Eye Can See is a remarkable achievement.' -- Stephen Fry 'In his book, Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari gave us a portrait of our broad family history. As Far as the Eye Can See paints a picture that is more intimate, closer both physically and in time.' -- Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator 'A wonderful, wide-ranging, totally gripping account of the evolution of seeing, from the firelight shadows of 1 million BC to the age of Netflix. Well worth casting your eye over, if only to find out how - and why - you are able to do that ...' -- Giles Coren, presenter, columnist 'From the first fires to the Facebook age, As Far as the Eye Can See takes us on an elegant, sweeping and wholly fascinating tour through human history.' -- Peter Moore, best-selling author of The Weather Experiment and Endeavour
£18.19
Smithsonian Books The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of Northern
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£37.40
Smithsonian Books Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science,
Book SynopsisHow do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came from. In the pursuit of this understanding museums are invaluable; they are repositories not just of things but also of past, present, and future knowledge. Engaging Smithsonian Objects puts these ideas into practice, using objects to bring us to new knowledge and showing how museums support us in the endeavor. The book is organized around ten objects from the Smithsonian’s vast collections. Some of the objects are iconic—the Ruby Slippers from the The Wizard of Oz or three Stradivarius string instruments—while others are more ordinary, though no less interesting—an Iron Lung or a Hawaiian gourd drum. Two different authors with expertise in different academic disciplines write about each object from their unique professional and personal perspective. Both the authors and the ten featured objects represent a range of academic disciplines, from art to anthropology to geology. Taken together, the twenty essays in the book demonstrate just how much we can learn from objects by considering their kaleidoscopic meaning and significance from a variety of viewpoints. The book’s interdisciplinary engagement with objects was inspired by the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, now in its twenty-sixth year. For students of material culture and museum studies, this book illustrates the vitality and value of exploring material culture through the lens of intersecting disciplinary perspectives. For students of curiosity and lifelong learning, this book offers a lively and thoughtful look into the Smithsonian’s collection and the many vibrant worlds it represents. Richly illustrated with color plates and photographs throughout, Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts is a beautiful and stimulating answer to the question, “How do we know our world, and how can we know more?”
£30.39
Smithsonian Books The Value of Money
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£23.46
Brepols N.V. Medievalism and the Gothic in Australian Culture
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£38.91
Bohlau Verlag Object Links: Dinge in Beziehung
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£57.55
Bohlau Verlag Ergrabene Kontexte: Interpretationen
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£98.96
Bohlau Verlag Materielle Kultur und Konsum in der Frühen
Book SynopsisOb unscheinbarer Alltagsgegenstand oder gehüteter Kunstschatz die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Objekte haben Geschichte und machen Geschichte erzählbar. Zehn exemplarische Studien befassen sich mit der Frage, wie frühneuzeitliche Menschen, Institutionen und Gemeinwesen mit den sie umgebenden Dingen und den ihnen zur Verfügung stehenden Gütern umgingen. Anhand von Materialien und Macharten, Verbrauchsformen und Gebrauchsweisen, Eignungen und Anforderungen, Beziehungen und Bewegungen, Wissen und Wahrnehmungen werden aus objekt- und konsumgeschichtlicher Perspektive die Grundzüge der frühneuzeitlichen Epoche umrissen. Der aus einem internationalen und interdisziplinären Netzwerk hervorgegangene Band gibt erstmals eine deutschsprachige Einführung in dieses innovative Gebiet der Frühneuzeitforschung.
£61.08
Dietrich Reimer Bekenntnisse: Formen Und Formeln
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£36.10
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology:
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£95.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Katalog Der Romischen Graber Des 1. Jahrhunderts
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Stadt - Land - Fluss. Grabdenkmaler Der Treverer
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Stuckarbeiten Aus Kharab Sayyar: Das Grosse
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Konstanzer Marktstatte Im Mittelalter Und in
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£98.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim I.: Beitrage Zur Computertomographie
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim II.1.: Katalog Der Graber 1-300. Band
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag Lowenmensch Und Mehr: Die Ausgrabungen 2008-2013
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lauchheim II.2: Katalog Der Graber 301-600
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Germanische Siedlungsspuren Des 3. Bis 5.
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£171.00
Dr Ludwig Reichert Archaologie Des Mithraskultes: Architektur Und
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Konstanz Obere Augustinergasse: Ein
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau
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£70.30
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Gutshof Und Das Graberfeld Bei
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Der Romische Goldmunzenschatz Aus Der Feldstrasse
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£999.99
Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Apostelkanne Und Das Tafelsilber Im Hortfund
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£139.65
Dr Ludwig Reichert St. Simeon in Trier Zwischen Renovatio Und
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£111.15
Peeters Publishers The Iconography of Magic: Images of Power and the
Book SynopsisThe study of magical texts of the Classical, Greco-Roman and Late Antique World has experienced a remarkable impulse since the last decades of the twentieth century until today. The so-called "material turn" in philological studies has promoted an ever-growing interest in the study of the materiality and other non-textual components of ancient documents, which has favored interdisciplinary studies aimed at a holistic approach to ancient texts. From this perspective, the articles collected in this volume offer a series of in-depth case studies of images and other paratextual elements of magical artifacts. Comparative studies, statistical analyses, image-text interconnections, and other analytical possibilities are applied to achieve a greater understanding of the magical objects in question, as well as of the belief system in which they were produced. The book illustrates the importance of iconographic analysis as a fundamental part of understanding Antiquity, its ritual texts, and its magical objects.
£93.63
Nordic Academic Press Expanding media histories: Cultural and material
Book SynopsisContemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film, and television. This volume expands the scope further still to analyse ephemeral, mundane phenomena long overlooked by media historiography. In eight original essays, the volume demonstrates the strengths of a broad concept of the media. The first part centres on media systems and media events, with studies of spiritist séances, Gallup polls, the mediated persona of Kaiser Wilhelm II, and the burial of a Swedish elder statesman in 1915. The second part focuses on media materialities and infrastructure such as art replicas, ring binders, tourist guidebooks, and media technology in the IKEA home. Aimed at students and academics alike, Expanding Media Histories offers new empirical research, which engages critically with key concepts in media history today.
£45.95
