Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape: Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Hiroshige: Landscape, Cityscape: Woodblock Prints in the Ashmolean Museum (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Illustrated discussion of over 50 prints from the Ashmolean Museum's collection serving as an introduction to the life and work of Utagawa Hiroshige. The art and process of Japanese wood-block print making is also

Plum Blossom and Green Willow: Japanese Surimono Poetry Prints from the Ashmolean Museum (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

An introduction to the art of surimono, illustrated with previously unpublished examples from the Ashmolean Museum's

Japanese Woodblock Bird Prints (Kashu Numata)(Paperback)

In the 1880s, an economic boom in Japan encouraged a renaissance of traditional color woodblock painting. During this prosperous period, a well-born painter named Numata Kash created A Picture Book of Birds. Kash 's three-volume series blended the contemporary interest in woodblock prints with

Murder at the Ashmolean (Eldridge Jim)(Paperback)

1895. A senior executive at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is found in his office with a bullet hole between his eyes, a pistol discarded close by. The death has officially been ruled as suicide by local police, but with an apparent lack of motive for such action, the museum's administrator,

An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Wildman Stephen)(Paperback)

Japan Journeys: Famous Woodblock Prints of Cultural Sights in Japan (Marks Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

Presenting classic Japanese woodblock prints, Japan Journeys offers a unique perspective on the country's most famous travel destinations. This stunning art book gathers together approximately two hundred Japanese woodblock prints depicting scenic spots and cultural icons that still delight

Bedtime (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Clare Pollard wrote her first book 'The Heavy-Petting Zoo' while still at school. Its sequel is 'Bedtime' a setting for intimacy and tenderness as well as cruelty and pretence, where reality and fantasy are

Fierce Bad Rabbits - The Tales Behind Children's Picture Books (Pollard Clare)(Paperback / softback)

Avebury: Biography of a Landscape (Pollard Joshua)(Paperback)

This book traces the history of the Avebury stone circle and its surrounding landscape. Covering a period of around 12,000 years, it is a comprehensive examination of the area, as well as the people who have moved through it, from the mesolithic to the late medieval

Ovid's Heroines (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Ovid's Heroides, written in Rome some time between 25 and 16 BC, was once his most popular work. The title translates as Heroines, and it's a series of poems in the voices of women from Greek and Roman myth - including Phaedra, Medea, Penelope and Ariadne - addressed to the men they love. It has

Incarnation (Pollard Clare)(Paperback)

Poems about children and the stories we tell them, about childbirth, innocence and responsibility and what it means to bring new human beings into this

Learning in the Museum (Hein George E.)(Paperback)

Learning in the Museum examines major issues and shows how research in visitor studies and the philosophy of education can be applied to facilitate a meaningful educational experience in museums. Hein combines a brief history of education in public museums, with a rigorous examination of how the

Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Breidbach Olaf)(Paperback)

The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's

Landscape as Territory: A Cartographic Design Project (Olóriz Clara)(Paperback)

Landscape as Territory is a cartographic book project that critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called 'Urban Age, ' understanding the notion of 'territory' as a field of design praxis through which Interconnected landscapes are produced. Territory, understood as a 'political

Anthropology of Landscape: The Extraordinary in the Ordinary (Tilley Christopher)(Paperback)

An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book emphasises four individual themes: embodied identities, the landscape as a

Queering the Museum (Sullivan Nikki)(Paperback)

Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age (Grincheva Natalia)(Paperback)

Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age explores online museums as sites of contemporary cultural diplomacy. Building on scholarship that highlights how museums can constitute and regulate citizens, construct national communities, and project messages across borders, the book explores the political

Lady Midnight (Clare Cassandra)(Paperback / softback)

The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought

Ancient Trees in the Landscape: Norfolk's Arboreal Heritage (Barnes Gerry)(Paperback)

Ancient Trees in the Landscape is the outcome of many years research into the history of trees in Norfolk, and represents the first detailed, published account of the ancient and traditionally managed trees of any English county. Yet it is far more than a regional survey. It is an exploration of

Whitney - The Whitney Museum of Art(Paperback / softback)

The Whitney Museum is building itself a new home in downtown Manhattan's Meatpacking District. Due to open on May 1st, 2015, the project will substantially enlarge the Whitney's exhibition and programming

Marshmallow Pie The Cat Superstar in Hollywood (Vulliamy Clara)(Paperback / softback)

The third book in the Marshmallow Pie the Cat Superstar series by Clara Vulliamy, the author-illustrator of Dotty

Lochaber and Glencoe: Landscapes in Stone (McKirdy Alan)(Paperback)

The latest in the acclaimed series on Scotland's geology and landscapes which explains how Scotland's scenery was made, why it looks the way it does today and how it has changed over millions of

Http/2 in Action (Pollard Barry)(Paperback)

Summary HTTP/2 in Action is a complete guide to HTTP/2, one of the core protocols of the web. Because HTTP/2 has been designed to be easy to transition to, including keeping it backwards compatible, adoption is rapid and expected to increase over the next few years. Concentrating on practical

Complete Roman Legions (Pollard Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

Focusing on the legions as the core of the Roman army, and chronicling their individual histories in detail, this volume builds on the thematic account of the Roman military force given by its companion The Complete Roman Army. It is suitable for anyone who has enjoyed that