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  • Name What I Feel

    ***Expressing how we feel comes easy…… for some people, but not for everyone.***Children often need support regulating and expressing their emotions in a healthy way.Name How I Feel uses fun, rhyming verse and vibrant colors to explore a number of these emotions and reassures children that all feelings are okay—not just those that are pleasant. After all, it is what we do with our feelings that ... Read more

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  • Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century

    Strategic Reinterpretations

    Series series Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
    Thinking Women represents state-of-the-art feminist scholarship in the field of eighteenth-century French and British art and visual culture. Topics range from women and their activities in art and science, to gendered representations of childhood and animals to fashion, femininity and temporality. Some chapters center on individual genres like hunting portraits, or on specific paintings, such as ... Read more

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  • GROW: Tending to the Hearts and Minds of Children Through the Practice of Mindfulness

    What if I told you the number one thing......you should teach your kids was mindfulness?People from all walks of life have been drawn to the practice of Mindfulness. Those who use Mindfulness undoubtedly note its benefits on their overall well-being. However, most people do not discover these practices until adulthood. Which leaves us to wonder…What would happen if we put these tools in the hands ... Read more

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  • Women, Art and the Politics of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe

    Edited by Melissa Hyde, Jennifer Milam ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground ... Read more

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... Read more

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  • The Smile Revolution

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    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... Read more

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    Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Céleste Vénard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

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    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of French Theater

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