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  • Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860

    Edited by Franco Piperno, Simone Caputo, Emanuele Senici ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Music
    Music, Place, and Identity in Italian Urban Soundscapes circa 1550-1860 presents new perspectives on the role music played in the physical, cultural, and civic spaces of Italian cities from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Across thirteen chapters, contributors explore the complex connections between sound and space within these urban contexts, demonstrating how music and sound were ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Game Development Tool Essentials

    by Paula Berinstein, Remi Arnaud, Alessandro Ardolino, Simon Franco, Adrien Herubel, John McCutchan, Nicusor Nedelcu, Benjamin Nitschke, Don Olmstead, Fabrice Robinet, Christian Ronchi, Rita Turkowski, Robert Walter, Gustavo Samour ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Game Development Tool Essentials provides must-have tips and tricks from industry professionals for strengthening and streamlining your game tools pipeline. Everyone knows the game tools pipeline is important, but in the current environment of shrinking budgets and increased time pressure, developers often have to settle for inefficient, ad hoc, messy pipelines.This unique book will break you out ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Thomas Pynchon, Sex, and Gender

    by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard, Simon de Bourcier, Catherine Flay, Marie Franco, Doug Haynes, Luc Herman, Molly Hite, Kostas Kaltsas, Christopher P. Kocela, John Krafft, Angus McFadzean, Richard Moss, Jeffrey Severs ...
    Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether Pynchon’s representations of women are sexist, feminist, or reflective of a more general misanthropy ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Mathematical Cardiac Electrophysiology

    by Simone Scacchi, Luca Franco Pavarino, Piero Colli Franzone ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book covers the main mathematical and numerical models in computational electrocardiology, ranging from microscopic membrane models of cardiac ionic channels to macroscopic bidomain, monodomain, eikonal models and cardiac source representations. These advanced multiscale and nonlinear models describe the cardiac bioelectrical activity from the cell level to the body surface and are employed ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

    Edited by John Whenham, Richard Wistreich ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Music
    Claudio Monteverdi is one of the most important figures of 'early' music, a composer whose music speaks powerfully and directly to modern audiences. This book, first published in 2007, provides an authoritative treatment of Monteverdi and his music, complementing Paolo Fabbri's standard biography of the composer. Written by leading specialists in the field, it is aimed at students, performers and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art

    Edited by Babette Bohn, James M. Saslow ...
    Series Book 29 - Wiley Companions to Art History
    A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern history.Presents a collection of original, in-depth essays from art experts that address various aspects of European visual arts produced from circa 1300 to ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edited by Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Arthur of the Italians

    The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture

    by F. Regina Psaki, Gloria Allaire ...
    Series series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
    This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse ... Read more

    $36.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Opera and Sovereignty

    Transforming Myths in Eighteenth-Century Italy

    by Martha Feldman ...
    Performed throughout Europe during the 1700s, Italian heroic opera, or opera seria, was the century's most significant musical art form, profoundly engaging such figures as Handel, Haydn, and Mozart. Opera and Sovereignty is the first book to address this genre as cultural history, arguing that eighteenth-century opera seria must be understood in light of the period's social and political ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus