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Ceramic Art

by Margaret S. Graves, Sequoia Miller, Magdalene Odundo, Vicki Parry, Ulla Holmquist, Carl Knappett, Soon Kai Poh, Yao-Fen You ...

Series series ART/WORK
A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay. The story spans history and continents, examining the global traditions of ceramists that range ... Read more

$35.19 CAD

A new examination of the history of ceramic art, spanning ancient to modern times, emphasizing its traditions, materials, and methods of makingConcise but comprehensive, Ceramic Art brings together the voices of art historians, conservators, and artists to tell the history of making art from fired clay. The story spans history and continents, examining the global traditions of ceramists that range
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Invisible Hands

Fabrication, Forgery, and the Art of Islamic Ceramics

by Margaret S. Graves ...

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial tradeIn the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market. Invisible Hands tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have ... Read more

$71.49 CAD

The remarkable history of forged and fabricated Islamic ceramics, their makers, and their unique role in colonial tradeIn the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market. Invisible Hands tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have
... Read more
In Praise of Harmony

The Teachings of Abbé Georg Joseph Vogler

by Floyd K. Grave, Margaret G. Grave ...

In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English. ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

In Praise of Harmony is the first critical and biographical study of Vogler to appear in English.
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Arts of Allusion

Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam

by Margaret S. Graves ...

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature, ... Read more

$95.99 CAD

The art of the object reached unparalleled heights in the medieval Islamic world, yet the intellectual dimensions of ceramics, metalwares, and other plastic arts in this milieu have not always been acknowledged. Arts of Allusion reveals the object as a crucial site where pre-modern craftsmen of the eastern Mediterranean and Persianate realms engaged in fertile dialogue with poetry, literature,
... Read more
The String Quartets of Joseph Haydn

by Floyd Grave, Margaret Grave ...

Renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of quartets is ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Renowned music historians Floyd and Margaret Grave present a fresh perspective on a comprehensive survey of the works. This thorough and unique analysis offers new insights into the creation of the quartets, the wealth of musical customs and conventions on which they draw, the scope of their innovations, and their significance as reflections of Haydn's artistic personality. Each set of quartets is
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Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean

by Ünver Rüstem, Gülru Çakmak, Hala Auji, Emily Neumeier, Marcus Milwright, Jessica Gerschultz, Ashley Dimmig, Peter Christensen, David J. Roxburgh ...

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content.Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

The Islamic world's artistic traditions experienced profound transformation in the 19th century as rapidly developing technologies and globalizing markets ushered in drastic changes in technique, style, and content.Despite the importance and ingenuity of these developments, the 19th century remains a gap in the history of Islamic art. To fill this opening in art historical scholarship, Making
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Planning for Rural Resilience

Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures

by Wayne Caldwell, Erica Ferguson, Emanuel Lapierre-Fortin, Jennifer Ball, Suzanne Reid, Paul Kraehling, Eric Marr, John Devlin, Chris White, Tony McQuail, Margaret Graves, Bill Deen, Ralph Martin, Christopher Bryant ...

Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats.Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures makes clear that communities and ... Read more

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Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats.Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures makes clear that communities and
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Neglected Authors, The - Irish, Scottish & Welsh Women

Celebrated in their time, forgotten in ours

by Anna Maria Hall, Lady Augusta Gregory, Charlotte Riddell, Bithia Mary Croker, Ethna Carbery, Rosa Mulholland, Clotilde Graves, Dora Sigerson Shorter, Margaret Oliphant, Margaret Oliphant, Jane Findlater0, Violet Quirk1, Violet Jacob2 ...

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick3, Ghizela Rowe4, Tanya Thompson5 ...

Unabridged

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

All too often the talents of women have been scorned, mocked and laughed at. In reality that was more usually by those who’s own talents were hardly fit to even grace their shadows.But society in general still connived and set women to one side in almost everything that men considered their rightful territory. And literature was one such territory. Remarkably resilient as well as talented these
... Read more
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights

by Margaret A. Nash, Karen L. Graves ...

Series series New Directions in the History of Education
Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights–a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowland’s case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

Mad River, Marjorie Rowland, and the Quest for LGBTQ Teachers’ Rights addresses an important legal case that set the stage for today’s LGBTQ civil rights–a case that almost no one has heard of. Marjorie Rowland v. Mad River School District involves an Ohio guidance counselor fired in 1974 for being bisexual. Rowland’s case made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the justices declined to consider it
... Read more
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Wonder Of Women - Love Stories

Celebrate the true pioneers of female literature

by Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Katherine Mansfield, Edith Nesbit, Edith Nesbit, Dorothy Parker, Charlotte Mew, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Gaskell, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Mary Shelley0, Mary Shelley1, Clotilde Graves2, Margaret Oliphant3, Kate Chopin4, Willa Cather5, Catherine Wells6, Catherine Wells7, Sarah Orne Jewett8, Zona Gale9, Zona Gale0, Mary Cholmondeley1, Elia W Peattie2, Ethel Dell3, Mary Tuttiett writing as Maxwell Gray4, Mary E Wilkins Freeman5, Ella D'Arcy6, Mary Wilkins E Freeman7, Eliza Haywood8 ...

Narrated by Eve Karpf9, Lisa Bowerman0, Laurel Lefkow1 ...

Unabridged

14 hours 43 min

Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on ... Read more

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Let’s be clear. We are all equal under the law. However, even in these more modern times that is not an absolute and still remains a distant ambition for many.In the days when Britain ruled the waves and bestrode the world as its policeman and plunderer in chief it also subjugated half of its own people to second class status. Women were chattel and property. There were some exceptions based on
... Read more
Achieving sustainable production of milk Volume 2

Safety, quality and sustainability

by Dr Ram Pratim Deka, Dr P. Moroni, Dr F. Welcome, M. F. Addis, Dr Bernadette O'Brien, Kieran Jordan, Erastus Kang'ethe, Jagger Harvey, Prof. Pamela L. Ruegg, Dr Réjean Bouchard, Claire Verraes, Helen Dornom, Anne-Charlotte Dockès, Nicole Sillett, Jamie Jonker, Emeritus Prof. Norman R. Scott, Curt Gooch, Ms Sophie Bertrand, Margaret E. Graves, Dr Ralph Martin, Dr J. Upton, Sabine Cardoen, E. Murphy, Dr Laurence Shalloo, M. Murphy, I. J. M. De Boer, Ben Tyson, Liza Storey, Dr Nick Edgar, Jonathan Draper, Christine Unson, Wendie Claeys, Prof. Florian Leiber, Dr A. Muller, Dr Veronika Maurer, Dr C. Schader, Anna Bieber, Dr Alison Bailey, Dr J. P. Hill, Dr John Moran, Dr J. M. K. Ojango, R. Mrode, Dr Lieve Herman, A. M. Okeyo, J. E. O. Rege, M. G. G. Chagunda, D. R. Kugonza, Dr Gidi Smolders, Dr Mette Vaarst, Dr Delia Grace, Silvia Alonso, Dr Johanna Lindahl, Sara Ahlberg, Professor Peter Groot Koerkamp ...

Series Book 9 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world ... Read more

$231.99 CAD

Summarises current research on pathogenic risks affecting milk and ways they can be controlled on the farm;Reviews ways of measuring and reducing the environmental impact of dairy farming such as better grassland management;Assesses the wider role of dairy farming and how it can be improved in the developing world
... Read more

Paper

Paging Through History

by Mark Kurlansky ...

From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has ... Read more

$18.99 CAD

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From the New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing ways it has shaped today’s world.Paper is one of the simplest and most essential pieces of human technology. For the past two millennia, the ability to produce it in ever more efficient ways has supported the proliferation of literacy, media, religion, education, commerce, and art; it has
... Read more

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