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Kopäd Verlag Biografische Theaterarbeit zwischen kollektiver und individueller Darstellung Ein theaterpdagogisches Modell
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GHOSTWRITY Ivan
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Nova Science Publishers Inc An Essential Guide to Electrodynamics
The opening chapter of An Essential Guide to Electrodynamics describes a new theory of the electron, from which derives a fully deductive explanation of the chemical inertness of the group 18 elements of the periodic system. The authors propose that there is a need to present the detailed mathematical steps that are required to prove the equations of Maxwell textbooks and course instruction to help students gain a firm grasp of the equations and their applications. Additionally, this compilation examines the wave equation for the electromagnetic 4-potential, which has a form that explicitly involves the 4-velocity vector of a moving frame. Hence, Minkowski electrodynamics implies the absolute nature of mechanical motion in medium. Next, the authors represent the electromagnetic field from different and unknown points of view, and the duality of natural time is considered. Chapter five is focused on an accurate and profound investigation, interpretation and explanation of resonant and anomalous phenomena in radiated electromagnetic fields that arises due to the passage of charged particle beams over arbitrary-shaped periodic interfaces of natural or artificial material. Later, it is shown that a suitable modification of the Lee-Wick idea can also lead to linear potential at large distances. For this purpose, the authors study an Abelian model that "simulates" the quantum chromodynamics confining phase while maintaining the Coulomb behaviour at short distances. In the final chapter, the authors present a generalization of the transformation of the electromagnetic field from the frame co-moving with an accelerated particle into an inertial frame of reference and from an inertial frame into the frame co-moving with a moving particle.
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Schiffer Publishing Ltd Lingerie: Two Centuries of Luscious Design
Peek into the most personal clothing in a woman’s boudoir—the undergarments designed to shape, conceal, enhance, and reveal the body to create a silhouette for outerwear fashions from 1770 to 1970. From corsets to negligees to reverse thongs, hundreds of fascinating garments are shown in over 500 color photographs that reflect ever-changing social factors, which influenced day and nighttime occasions. The lively, well researched text explores evolving clothing styles where unmentionables came into play. The full glossary, value guide, and index assist archivists, researchers, clothing dealers, designers, and collectors who will refer to this study frequently for documented examples.
£25.19
Schiffer Publishing Ltd 1,000 Hats
Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourrelets, bigonnets, chapeaux rouges, nurses' hats, Pamelas, pillboxes, toreodors, turbans, and wedding hats. They are made with materials including felts, furs (real and imitation), and feathers, and are adorned with beads, flowers, sequins, and much more! Among the milliners whose hats are shown are John B. Stetson, Tress & Co., Elsa Schiaparelli, Lilly Daché, Christian Dior, Laddie Northridge, Frank Olive, and Hattie Carnegie. The meticulously researched text provides an engaging retrospective of the millinery business. A precise glossary of terms is very useful to today's collectors and researchers. Prices reflecting the hat market today are in the captions. Vintage clothing collectors, dealers, historians, milliners, and curators all will find this an essential and beguiling reference.
£33.29
Little, Brown Book Group The Food Mixer Cookbook
Home-made food has so many attractions. With your food mixer to hand, cakes and pastries, pies and tarts, sweet and savoury fillings and lots more besides, are quick, easy and fun to make. Children will love joining in with weighing ingredients and decorating the finished product. A food mixer also means much more control over the choice and quality of ingredients.Discover how to exploit this handy kitchen aid to its full potential, using the versatility of the food mixer's three blades and their functions to whisk, whip, knead and mix.There is a mouthwatering and tempting collection of over 100 delicious recipes including sweet and savoury recipes: biscuits and cookies; scones and muffins, small cup cakes and tray bakes; large cakes and teabreads; puddings and desserts; as well as savoury pies, tarts, pastries and crumbles; breads and pasta. And there are also recipes for icings and spreads, fillings, toppings, and much more.
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Pearson Learning Solutions Managing Diversity
£139.50
Periplus Editions Filipino Homestyle Dishes: Delicious Meals in Minutes [Filipino Cookbook, Over 60 Recipes]
Cook delicious and authentic homemade dishes with this easy-to-use Filipino cookbook.Filipino food is one of the least well-known of all Southeast Asian cuisines. Strongly influenced by the historical presence of the Spaniards, Chinese and Americans, it lacks the singular national identity that characterizes the food of other nations. Yet it is precisely that indefinable quality, this veil of mystery surrounding it, that makes Filipino food such an interesting and delicious discovery. Filipino Homestyle Dishes offers the best of Filipino cuisine—more than 60 classic Filipino recipes as they are prepared in Filipino homes. From delightful snacks to delectable seafood, rice and noodle dishes, this wonderful Filipino cookbook is full of utterly delightful Filipino fare. Making these classic Filipino dishes has never been easier—a quick trip to your local supermarket for some basic ingredients is all you need to enjoy these mouthwatering recipes. Clear recipes, step-by-step photographs and a glossary of ingredients ensure fantastic results every time!Authentic Filipino recipes include: Tasty Pork and Shrimp Spring Rolls Braised Vegetables with Fish Shrimp Rice Noodles Chicken and Pork Adobo Stuffed Beef Roll Iced Fruit Mix (Halo-Halo) And many more… Many of the dishes are personal favorites of the author; all have been kitchen tested and are representative of true Filipino cuisine, in all its diversity, simplicity and complexity. They are a magical discovery of the food of a resilient people who, while adopting foreign influences, have managed to create a cuisine that is truly their own—part Western, part Asian, and uniquely Filipino.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Gauguin’s Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism
Several decades have now passed since postcolonial and feminist critiques presented the art-historical world with a demythologized Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), a much-diminished image of the artist/hero who had once been universally admired as “the father of modernist primitivism.” In this volume, both long-established and more recent Gauguin scholars offer a provocative picture of the evolution of Gauguin scholarship in the recent postmodern era, as they confront and consider how the dismantling of the longstanding Gauguin myth positions us now in the 21st century to deal with and assess the life, work, and legacy of this still perennially popular artist. To reassess the challenges that Gauguin faced in his own day as well as those that he continues to present to current and future scholarship, they explore the multiple contexts that influenced Gauguin's thought and behavior as well as his art and incorporate a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, from anthropology, philosophy, and the history of science to gender studies and the study of Pacific cultural history. Dealing with a wide range of Gauguin's production, they challenge conventional art-historical thinking, highlight transnational perspectives, and offer clues to the direction of future scholarship, as audiences worldwide seek to make multicultural peace with Gauguin and his art. Broude has raised the bar of Gauguin scholarship ever higher in this groundbreaking volume, which will be necessary reading for students and scholars of art history, late 19th-century French and Pacific culture, gender studies, and beyond.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges
Has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy for more than 30 years. Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars, each focusing on specific and sometimes controversial concerns for public personnel management, such as social equity, labor relations, public employee rights, and the operation of nonprofits. Presents new, original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and practitioners alike, including: new ways of working including remote work, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on public service workforces, work-life balance, patterns of discrimination and employees’ perceptions of fairness, affirmative action, generational differences in the workforce, and – as the field of public personnel management becomes more internationalized – a chapter addressing human resource management across Europe. Provides professors and students alike with an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage, to cultivate a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit human resource management (HRM) today.
£59.99
1517 Media The Difficult But Indispensable Church
£15.95
LPRL Versión Martina
En esta 2 edición de la Ley de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, versión Martina, con anillas y a color, Vicente Valera, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre dicha norma de carácter básico, versión que favorece el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Como bien es sabido esta norma tiene un papel destacadísimo en la multitud de programas oficiales /oposiciones de ámbito Local (Ayuntamientos y Diputaciones especialmente) y, en consecuencia, su conocimiento contribuye especialmente a poder superar los mismos.
£17.89
Octopus Publishing Group Quick Cooking for Diabetes: 70 recipes in 30 minutes or less
From Butternut Squash and Coconut Soup to Tenderloin of Pork with Pear & Potato and Individual Lime & Raspberry Cheesecakes, this selection of delicious recipes will help you to manage your diabetes more effectively and live life to the full. Whether you're looking for a quick snack for one or meals to entertaining friends and family, Quick Cooking for Diabetes provides you with over 60 sensational, speedy recipes, plus stylish menus to help you plan every meal. It also contains practical information on how to create a balanced diet to suit your needs and maintain healthy blood-glucose levels.
£8.42
Ley Orgnica de Igualdad Versin Martina 32007 de 22 de marzo Texto legal Incluye audios y preguntas de autoevaluacin Spanish Edition
En esta genial edición de la Ley Orgánica de Igualdad versión Martina, con anillas y a color, Vicente Valera, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre dicha norma de carácter básico, versión que favorece el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Del mismo modo, acompaña a la misma, tanto los audios, a los cuales puede accederse desde un código QR situado junto a los respectivos artículos, como también 200 preguntas exclusivas, en formato TEST, con cuatro respuestas alternativas, de las cuales sólo una de ellas es correcta. Como bien es sabido esta norma tiene un papel destacadísimo en la mayoría de programas oficiales /oposiciones de ámbito Estatal y, en consecuencia, sin su dominio se hace prácticamente imposible superar los mismos.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Space Education Phenomenon at NASA, Brazil & Beyond
£175.49
LBRL versión Martina
En esta edición de la Ley de Bases de Régimen Local, versión Martina, con anillas y a color, goma de cierre y solapas interiores, Vicente Valera, junto a la diseñadora gráfica Cinthia Moure, ofrece una versión fácil estudio sobre dicha norma de carácter básico, versión que favorece el empleo de la memoria visual, algo tradicionalmente poco empleado en el mundo jurídico. Como bien es sabido esta norma tiene un papel destacadísimo en la totalidad de programas oficiales /oposiciones de ámbito Local (Ayuntamientos y Diputaciones especialmente) y, en consecuencia, sin su dominio absoluto se hace prácticamente imposible superar los mismos.
£18.19
University of the West Indies Press Jamaican Ceramics: A Historical and Contemporary Survey
£54.00
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Cengage Learning, Inc Missing Pieces
£12.50
Taylor & Francis Ltd Public Personnel Management: Current Concerns, Future Challenges
Public Personnel Management has served as an essential, concise reader for public personnel and human resource management courses in the fields of public administration, political science, and public policy over the last 25 years. Since the first edition published in 1991, the book has offered professors and students alike an in-depth look at cutting-edge developments beyond standard textbook coverage, to provide a broad understanding of the key management and policy issues facing public and nonprofit HRM today. Original chapters are written expressly for the text by leading public administration scholars, each focusing on specific and often controversial concerns for public personnel management, such as pensions, gender and sexuality, healthcare, unions, and a multi-generational workforce. Now in an extensively revised sixth edition, Public Personnel Management presents new, original chapters to examine developments of interest to researchers and practitioners alike, including: remote working, cybersecurity, public service motivation, the abandonment of traditional civil service at the state and local levels, the Affordable Care Act and its implications for practice, pension systems and labor relations, affirmative action, social equity, legislation surrounding LGBT rights, and – as the field of public personnel management becomes more internationalized – a chapter addressing public personnel management across Europe. This careful and thoughtful overhaul will ensure that Public Personnel Management remains a field-defining book for the next 25 years.
£69.99
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary: Low Intermediate Workbook
Reinforce everything your low-intermediate students are learning with activities that follow the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition page-by-page.
£25.90
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary: High Beginning Workbook
Reinforce everything your high-beginner students are learning with activities that follow the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition page-by-page.
£26.02
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary Second Edition: English-Vietnamese Edition: Bilingual Dictionary for Vietnamese-speaking teenage and adult students of English
A fully integrated vocabulary development program in American English, progressing from essential words to the more complex, delivered in short thematic units. Realistic scenarios and modern artwork are easy to relate to and these, together with story pages and practice exercises, have been applauded for their success in promoting critical thinking skills. Content is fully supported by a range of components (in English only) - including Workbooks, Classroom Activities, Audio and website.
£30.40
Spinifex Press Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade
For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that ‘sex work’ is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Prostitution Narratives refutes the lies and debunks the myths spread by the industry through the lived experiences of women who have survived prostitution. These disturbing stories give voice to formerly prostituted women who explain why they entered the sex trade. They bravely and courageously recount their intimate experiences of harm and humiliation at the hands of sex buyers, pimps and traffickers and reveal their escape and emergence as survivors. . Essential reading for Women’s Studies.
£17.95
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary Second Edition: English-Brazilian Portuguese Edition: Bilingual Dictionary for Brazilian Portuguese-speaking teenage and adult students of English
A fully integrated vocabulary development program in American English, progressing from essential words to the more complex, delivered in short thematic units. Realistic scenarios and modern artwork are easy to relate to and these, together with story pages and practice exercises, have been applauded for their success in promoting critical thinking skills. Content is fully supported by a range of components (in English only) - including Workbooks, Classroom Activities, Audio and website.
£30.40
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Vietnamese Dictionary
The English/Vietnamese dictionary is the core component of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition program, building students' vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills for success in their daily lives. It features all of the new content from the monolingual dictionary. Dictionary ensures vocabulary retention with over 4,000 words, 421 verbs, and practice activities. Updated content including Job Search, Career Planning, Soft Skills, Digital Literacy, Internet Research, and Health Insurance prepares students to meet the requirements of their daily lives. Updated activities prepare students for work, academic study, and citizenship.
£36.11
Supuestos Pécticos de la Ley 402015 de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público
El presente manual plantea, partiendo de la estructura de la norma, distintos supuestos prácticos que analizan las determinaciones contenidas en la Ley 40/2015, de 1 de octubre, de Régimen Jurídico del Sector Público.
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Ediciones Península De regreso a casa la lucha contra el olvido en Ciudad Juárez
Cuando el 14 de febrero de 2001 Alejandra García Andrade desapareció, con sólo diecisiete años, al salir del trabajo, su madre, Norma, no imaginaba el alcance de la pesadilla que acababa de comenzar para ella y para el resto de su familia. En Ciudad Juárez, la desaparición de una mujer no parece importar más que a los familiares y a los periódicos amarillistas: las autoridades apenas investigan este tipo de casos, sobre todo entonces, y muchos caen en el olvido al cabo de poco tiempo. Por ello, cuando el cuerpo de Alejandra apareció, una semana después, con señales de tortura y abuso sexual, Norma decidió poner manos a la obra y fundó la asociación Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa, desde la que padres y madres de víctimas de los feminicidios de Júarez, liderados por Malú, hermana de Alejandra, luchan contra la corrupción y el olvido.Lo que Norma y Malú no sabían era que pelear por la verdad, por descubrir a los responsables de la muerte de Alejandra, y solicitar al Gobierno mexican
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Rowman & Littlefield Shipwrecks, Disasters and Rescues of the Graveyard of the Atlantic and Cape Fear
£7.55
Mountain Press Roadside Geology of Nevada
£24.59
Acair An t-Isean Glas
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Taylor & Francis Inc Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education
Computers have changed the ways that mathematics are taught and learned. Is your institution taking advantage of what today's technology offers?With contributions from researchers and practitioners alike, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education explores the impact of the computer on the curriculum, the teaching and learning of mathematics, and the professional development of teachers, both pre-service and in-service.As editor James Tooke states: “The connection between mathematics and the computer is obvious. Elementary notions of mathematics gave rise to the computer; advanced notions gave it a more powerful state. As the computer advanced, it expanded mathematics, allowing the creation of further branches of the field; for instance, fractal geometry had no reality until the advent of high-speed computers.”In its look at the relationship between mathematics, the computer, and mathematics education, Using Information Technology in Mathematics Education: addresses the computer as a vehicle for teaching calculus at Texas A&M includes reports from several programs that have utilized the computer when teaching mathematics at lower levels of content than calculus such as intermediate algebra and geometry examines the computer's role in student learning probability discusses the use of computers in the professional development of teachers explores ways to use computers to reduce mathematics anxietyUsing Information Technology in Mathematics Education examines the history and impact of computers in mathematics and mathematics education--from the early, crude computer-assisted instruction efforts through LOGO software for elementary schools, through MAPLE for the university, to the Web-based calculus courses now being offered by outstanding universities. Use it to facilitate learning and teacher growth in your institution!
£31.99
Gail Fairfield LLC Historias casi siempre verdaderas de las aventuras de Roly Poly en Los Grandes Lagos
£32.00
Groundwood Books Ltd ,Canada The Funeral
A New York Times / New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s BookNew York Public Library Best Books for KidsEzra Jack Keats Award Honor WinnerNorma and her parents are going to her great-uncle Frank’s funeral, and Norma is more excited than sad. She is looking forward to playing with her favorite cousin, Ray, but when she arrives at the church, she is confronted with rituals and ideas that have never occurred to her before. While not all questions can be answered, when the day is over Norma is certain of one thing — Uncle Frank would have enjoyed his funeral.This sensitive and life-affirming story will lead young readers to ask their own questions about life, death and how we remember those who have gone before us.Key Text Featuresspeech bubblesCorrelates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts:CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.7With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the story in which they appear (e.g., what moment in a story an illustration depicts).CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.3Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.7Explain how specific aspects of a text's illustrations contribute to what is conveyed by the words in a story (e.g., create mood, emphasize aspects of a character or setting)
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Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cádiz Fundamentos de C
Este libro explica el lenguaje de programación C++ según la norma aprobada hace unos años por el instituto de normalización ANSI. Ha sido elaborado pensando en los alumnos de Metodología y Tecnología de Programación II, asignatura de segundo curso de Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Gestión.
£11.58
Rowman & Littlefield Lighthouse Ghosts and Carolina Coastal Legends
£10.78
Arcadia Publishing Andover
£20.80
John Wiley & Sons Inc Essential Coloproctology for Nurses
As this field of surgery evolves, the educational needs of nurses specialising in this area continue to grow. This innovative text, a collaboration between specialists in the UK and the USA, and the first textbook written specifically for nurses, covers these exciting developments and also examines those factors that are driving the changes in the range and delivery of services offered to patients with colorectal disease.
£73.95
Deadendia 1. La prueba del guardián
Harto de que sus padres no acepten su identidad, Barney se va de casa. Su amiga Norma le ha conseguido un trabajo en Deadendia, la mansión encantada de Phoenix Parks, así que decide instalarse allí junto con su perro Boniato. Un plan sin fisuras. Lo que no imagina es que Deadendia conduce directamente a los multiplanos del inframundo, ni que su nueva compañera de cuarto, Courtney, está a punto de desatar un caos de proporciones inimaginables.Norma, Barney y Boniato deberán unir fuerzas para enfrentarse a criaturas sobrenaturales, posesiones infernales, fantasmas vengativos, viajes en el tiempo y enamoramientos. Porque acaso existe una fuerza más sobrenatural que el amor?Una divertidísima y tenebrosa novela gráfica que toca temas tan cercanos como la autoaceptación, la amistad, la salud mental o el primer amor.
£17.26
Aunt Lute Books El Mundo Zurdo 2: Selected Works from the 2010 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua
£17.86
John Wiley & Sons Pura vida
£197.00
Gail Fairfield LLC Historias casi siempre verdaderas de las aventuras de Roly Poly en Los Grande Lagos
£17.00
West Point Print and Media LLC Boricua de Pura Cepa
£12.99
UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press Paths to Discovery: Autobiographies from Chicanas with Careers in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering
In Paths to Discovery a group of extraordinary Chicanas trace how their interest in math and science at a young age developed into a passion fed by talent and determination. Today they are teaching at major universities, setting public and institutional policy, and pursuing groundbreaking research. These testimonios—personal stories—will encourage young Chicanas to enter the fields of mathematics, science, and engineering and to create futures in classrooms, boardrooms, and laboratories across the nation.
£21.28
Tuttle Publishing Pan de Sal Saves the Day: An Award-winning Children's Story from the Philippines [New Bilingual English and Tagalog Edition]
**Winner of the Carlos Palance Memorial Award for Literature** This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents an entertaining story from the Philippines in both English and Tagalog.A heart-warming story of a young Filipino girl who builds self-confidence after spending a day with her classmates, Pan de Sal Saves the Day: A Filipino Children's Story is an award-winning, inspiring tale for young children everywhere. It's the story of a young girl named Pan de Sal who lives in the Philippines and thinks she's the unluckiest girl in the whole world. Aside from not liking her own name and finding her appearance strange, she doesn't have all the fancy things her classmates have. She can't even muster the courage to try out for the Glee Club, even though she has a beautiful voice.Things change suddenly when an unexpected event forces her into the limelight. With her innate talent and resourcefulness, Pan de Sal wins the admiration of her classmates and finds the confidence she needs to fulfill her dreams.For anyone who has ever felt like an outsider or experienced adversity, Pan de Sal Saves the Day teaches children to see the unique qualities in everything and everyone, even themselves.
£8.62
Oxford University Press Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/French Dictionary
The English/French dictionary is the core component of the Oxford Picture Dictionary Third Edition program, building students' vocabulary, reading, and critical thinking skills for success in their daily lives. It features all of the new content from the monolingual dictionary. Dictionary ensures vocabulary retention with over 4,000 words, 421 verbs, and practice activities. Updated content including Job Search, Career Planning, Soft Skills, Digital Literacy, Internet Research, and Health Insurance prepares students to meet the requirements of their daily lives. Updated activities prepare students for work, academic study, and citizenship.
£38.18
University of Texas Press meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction
2020 Second Place, Best Nonfiction Multi Author, International Latino Book AwardsCollecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine the role of consumerism and entrepreneurialism in the production of creating and selling a style, meXicana Fashions examines and searches for meaning in these visible, performative aspects of identity.Focusing primarily on Chicanas but also considering trends connected to other Latin American communities, the authors highlight specific constituencies that are defined by region (“Tejana style,” “L.A. style”), age group (“homie,” “chola”), and social class (marked by haute couture labels such as Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta). The essays acknowledge the complex layers of these styles, which are not mutually exclusive but instead reflect a range of intersections in occupation, origin, personality, sexuality, and fads. Other elements include urban indigenous fashion shows, the shifting quinceañera market, “walking altars” on the Days of the Dead, plus-size clothing, huipiles in the workplace, and dressing in drag. Together, these chapters illuminate the full array of messages woven into a vibrant social fabric.
£84.60
University of Texas Press meXicana Fashions: Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction
2020 Second Place, Best Nonfiction Multi Author, International Latino Book AwardsCollecting the perspectives of scholars who reflect on their own relationships to particular garments, analyze the politics of dress, and examine the role of consumerism and entrepreneurialism in the production of creating and selling a style, meXicana Fashions examines and searches for meaning in these visible, performative aspects of identity.Focusing primarily on Chicanas but also considering trends connected to other Latin American communities, the authors highlight specific constituencies that are defined by region (“Tejana style,” “L.A. style”), age group (“homie,” “chola”), and social class (marked by haute couture labels such as Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta). The essays acknowledge the complex layers of these styles, which are not mutually exclusive but instead reflect a range of intersections in occupation, origin, personality, sexuality, and fads. Other elements include urban indigenous fashion shows, the shifting quinceañera market, “walking altars” on the Days of the Dead, plus-size clothing, huipiles in the workplace, and dressing in drag. Together, these chapters illuminate the full array of messages woven into a vibrant social fabric.
£26.99