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Fonthill Recovered
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s e…
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- 9781787350458
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Canada in the Frame
Canada in the Frame explores a photographic collection held at the British Library that offers a unique view of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Canada. The collection, which contains in excess of 4,500 images, taken between 1895 and 1923, covers a dynamic period in Canada’s national history and provides a variety of views of its landscapes, developing urban areas and peopl…
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- 9781787352995
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- 770 HAT c
Botticelli Past and Present
The recent exhibitions dedicated to Botticelli around the world show, more than ever, the significant and continued debate about the artist. Botticelli Past and Present engages with this debate. The book comprises four thematic parts, spanning four centuries of Botticelli’s artistic fame and reception from the fifteenth century. Each part comprises a number of essays and includes a short intr…
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- 9781787354593
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- 959.15 BOT b
The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
Artist. Activist. Curator. Joane Cardinal-Schubert was a phenomenal talent. Her work recognizes the social and political ramifications of lived Indigenous experience, exposing truths about history, culture, and the contemporary world. She was a teacher and mentor, supporting those who struggle against the legacies of colonial history. She was an activist for Indigenous sovereignty, advocating f…
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- 9781552389508
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers
This volume contains an essay on Hogarth, written by the great English essayist and critic, William Hazlitt. This volume is a later printing of Hazlitt's writings, which were first published in 1818.
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From M.S.A. to C.A.
This book is for students who have studied Modern Standard Arabic (M.S.A.) for one year or more and would like to learn colloquial Arabic basics using their knowledge of M.S.A. It aims at transitioning learners from Novice Mid level to Intermediate Low through presenting situations useful for living in an Arab country. The book has several features including hyperlinks, practice dialogues with …
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See
Vision traditionally occupies the height of the sensorial hierarchy. The sense of clarity and purity, it is the one most explicitly associated with truth and knowledge. The law has always relied on vision and representation, from eye-witnesses to photography, and more precisely it can be understood as that which decrees what is visible and what is not, through its normative gaze. However, if la…
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“The Sting of Death” and Other Stories
How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own strange and spectacular self-representations. They include the enormous wig that actor Colley Cibber donned…
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Desafios contemporâneos da educação
"Se historicamente a educação escolar no Brasil foi marcada por um profundo corte elitista, o processo de democratização do ensino apresentou incontestáveis avanços desde a Constituição de 1988. A caminhada pela universalização, no entanto, não se deu à margem de suas heranças históricas, bem como novas fronteiras surgiram para o desafio da educação emancipatória. Esta obra re…
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Den Lernraum Betriebspraktikum gemeinsam öffnen
"Mandatory internships have become a firmly anchored curricular element of many vocational medium and high schools. With the help of a connectivity-oriented internship didactics, the authors unfold a special perspective on the design of teaching / learning processes in experience-completing internships. The internship is understood as a conglomeration of learning places, activities and phases c…
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