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Crime, Harm and Consumerism (Hardcover): Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, Mark Horsley Crime, Harm and Consumerism (Hardcover)
Steve Hall, Tereza Kuldova, Mark Horsley
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge essays on the relationship between crime, harm and consumer culture. Although consumer culture has been addressed across the social sciences, it has yet to be fully explored in criminology. The editors bring together an impressive list of authors with original ideas and a fresh perspective to this field. The collection first introduces the reader to three sets of ideas which will be especially useful to students and researchers piecing together theoretical frameworks for their studies. New concepts such as pseudo-pacification, the materialist libertine and the commodification of abstinence can be used as foundation stones for new explanatory criminological analyses in the 21st century. The collection then moves on to present case studies based on rigorous empirical work in the fields of consumption and debt, 'outlaw' gangs, illegal drug markets, gambling, the mentality that drives investment fraudsters and the relationship between social media and state surveillance. These case studies showcase the strength of the research skills and knowledge these scholars offer to the field of criminology. Written in a clear and direct style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, cultural studies, social theory and those interested in learning about the effects of consumer culture in modern society.

The Winter of the Witch (Paperback): Katherine Arden The Winter of the Witch (Paperback)
Katherine Arden 1
R308 R252 Discovery Miles 2 520 Save R56 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A magical and captivating coming of age novel set in medieval Russia - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

One girl can make a difference...

Moscow is in flames, leaving its people searching for answers – and someone to blame. Vasilisa, a girl with extraordinary gifts, must flee for her life, pursued by those who blame their misfortune on her magic.

Then a vengeful demon returns, stronger than ever. Determined to engulf the world in chaos, he finds allies among men and spirits. Mankind and magical creatures alike find their fates resting on Vasya's shoulders.

But she may not be able to save them all.

'heart-stoppingly good...beautifully written, this adventure shimmers and shines with magic of all kinds. Unmissable.' Sunday Express

'If you're a lover of fairytales you are in for an absolute treat. It's truly magical' The Pool

'Katherine Arden’s Winternight Trilogy isn’t just good―it’s hug-to-your-chest, straight-to-the-favourites-shelf, reread-immediately good, and each book just gets better. 'Laini Taylor

Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color (Paperback): Kay Nielsen Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color (Paperback)
Kay Nielsen
R365 R322 Discovery Miles 3 220 Save R43 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh") Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden age of illustration. Known for his soft yet ornate pastels and a splendid use of various design elements, the Danish-American artist became famous for his memorable illustrations of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the Nordic fables recounted in "East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon" and the tales collected in "In Powder and Crinoline."
This enchanting compilation of 59 full-color illustrations draws upon Nielsen's images from scores of beloved tales, from the nasty characters in "Rumpelstiltskin" to the mysterious and magical figures in "The Blue Belt," "The Hardy Tin Soldier," "The Nightingale," "The Real Princess," "Hansel and Gretel," "Snowdrop," and many more.
Certain to delight fans of fairy tales, this dazzling collection will also thrill lovers of fine art, as well as Nielsen admirers.

Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Paperback): Lisa Schneidau Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (Paperback)
Lisa Schneidau
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered in woodland. Many of the trees have been cleared, but our connection with the wildwood remains. It is a place of danger, adventure and transformation, where anything could happen. Here is a collection of traditional folk tales of oak, ash and thorn; of hunting forests and rebellion, timber and triumph in battle, wild ghosts and woodwoses. Lisa Schneidau retells some of the old stories and relates them to the trees and forests in the landscape of our islands today.

Craft of Use - Post-Growth Fashion (Paperback): Kate Fletcher Craft of Use - Post-Growth Fashion (Paperback)
Kate Fletcher
R1,426 Discovery Miles 14 260 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book explores the 'craft of use', the cultivated, ordinary and ingenious ideas and practices that promote satisfying and resourceful use of garments, presenting them as an alternative, dynamic, experiential frame with which to articulate and foster sustainability in the fashion sector. Here Kate Fletcher provides a broad imagining of sustainability in fashion that gives attention to tending and wearing garments, and favours their use as much as their creation. She offers a diversified view of fashion beyond the market and the market's purpose and reveals fashion provision and expression in a world not dependent on continuous consumption. Framing design and use as a single whole, the book uncovers a more contingent and time-dependent role for design in sustainability, recognising that garments, while sold as a product, are lived as a process. Drawing from stories and portrait photography that document the ways in which members of the public from across three continents use their clothes, and the work of seven international design teams seeking to amplify these use practices, Craft of Use presents a changed social narrative for fashion, borne out of ideas of satisfaction and interdependence, of action, knowledge and human agency, that glimpses fashion post-growth.

Global Glam and Popular Music - Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s (Paperback): Ian Chapman, Henry Johnson Global Glam and Popular Music - Style and Spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s (Paperback)
Ian Chapman, Henry Johnson
R1,248 Discovery Miles 12 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is the first to explore style and spectacle in glam popular music performance from the 1970s to the present day, and from an international perspective. Focus is given to a number of representative artists, bands, and movements, as well as national, regional, and cultural contexts from around the globe. Approaching glam music performance and style broadly, and using the glam/glitter rock genre of the early 1970s as a foundation for case studies and comparisons, the volume engages with subjects that help in defining the glam phenomenon in its many manifestations and contexts. Glam rock, in its original, term-defining inception, had its birth in the UK in 1970/71, and featured at its forefront acts such as David Bowie, T. Rex, Slade, and Roxy Music. Termed "glitter rock" in the US, stateside artists included Alice Cooper, Suzi Quatro, The New York Dolls, and Kiss. In a global context, glam is represented in many other cultures, where the influences of early glam rock can be seen clearly. In this book, glam exists at the intersections of glam rock and other styles (e.g., punk, metal, disco, goth). Its performers are characterized by their flamboyant and theatrical appearance (clothes, costumes, makeup, hairstyles), they often challenge gender stereotypes and sexuality (androgyny), and they create spectacle in popular music performance, fandom, and fashion. The essays in this collection comprise theoretically-informed contributions that address the diversity of the world's popular music via artists, bands, and movements, with special attention given to the ways glam has been influential not only as a music genre, but also in fashion, design, and other visual culture.

The Mountain of Light (Paperback): Jim Crumley The Mountain of Light (Paperback)
Jim Crumley
R218 R198 Discovery Miles 1 980 Save R20 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This is a mixture of folk-tale, magic, myth, love story and hymn of praise to the natural world of Scotland's high and low lands, their landscapes and creatures, and the poet-guardians who timelessly maintain their care for them. It is the legend-story of the mysterious Wanderer, who comes from the North to Striveling (Stirling) and its great Castle Rock, and the tales he tells to the five men and a woman who befriend him there. Who is this Wanderer, who seems ageless, who has profound affinities with animals and birds, who can take on the shape of swans and what is his mission to the South? Who are these friends, whose friendship becomes more, as they begin to realize that they are part of the strange, timeless and mythic destiny of a country older than civilization? What is the meaning of the unearthly love of the Wanderer and the mysterious Bella?

Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Paperback): Keagan Brewer Prester John: The Legend and its Sources (Paperback)
Keagan Brewer
R1,276 Discovery Miles 12 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The legend of Prester John has received much scholarly attention over the last hundred years, but never before have the sources been collected and coherently presented to readers. This book now brings together a fully-representative set of texts setting out the many and various sources from which we get our knowledge of the legend. These texts, spanning a time period from the Crusades to the Enlightenment, are presented in their original languages and in English translation (for many it is the first time they have been available in English). The story of the mysterious oriental leader Prester John, ruler of a land teeming with marvels who may come to the aid of Christians in the Levant, held an intense grip on the medieval mind from the first references in twelfth-century Crusader literature and into the early-modern period. But Prester John was a man of shifting identity, being at different times and for different reasons associated with Chingis Khan and the Mongols, with the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, with China, Tibet, South Africa and West Africa. In order to orient the reader, each of these iterations is explained in the comprehensive introduction, and in the introductions to texts and sections. The introduction also raises a thorny question not often considered: whether or not medieval audiences believed in the reality of Prester John and the Prester John Letter. The book is completed with three valuable appendices: a list of all known references to Prester John in medieval and early modern sources, a thorough description of the manuscript traditions of the all-important Prester John Letter, and a brief description of Prester John in the history of cartography.

Fashion and Psychoanalysis - Styling the Self (Paperback): Alison Bancroft Fashion and Psychoanalysis - Styling the Self (Paperback)
Alison Bancroft
R844 Discovery Miles 8 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history through the focal lens of psychoanalytic theory. Her discussion centres on studies of fashion photography, haute couture, queer dressing, and fashion/art in an attempt to shed new light on these key issues. According to Bancroft, problems of subjectivity are played out through fashion, in the public arena, and not just in the dark, unknowable unconscious mind. The question of what can be said, and what can only be experienced, and how these two issues may be reconciled, become questions that fashion addresses on an almost daily basis. By interpreting fashion within a psychoanalytic frame, Bancroft illustrates how fashion articulates some of the essential, and sometimes frightening, truths about the body, femininity and the self.

Enchantment Of The Faerie Realm  - Communicate With Nature Spirits & Elementals (Paperback, New edition): Ted Andrews Enchantment Of The Faerie Realm - Communicate With Nature Spirits & Elementals (Paperback, New edition)
Ted Andrews
R452 R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Save R85 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Have you ever taken a walk in the woods and felt like you were not alone? That's because you weren't Forests, lakes, mountains, caves--even your garden--are alive with the spirits of nature. Faeries are real, and you can learn to commune with a whole world of unseen beings, including elves, devas, and nature spirits. With an open mind and a little patience, you can begin to recognize their presence all around you. This book will help you deepen your connection to the natural world as you explore the magical, mystical world of the faerie folk.

--Discover hidden truths in faerie tales and use them as pathways into the faerie realm--Learn the basic habitats, powers and behaviors of faeries, elves, and other nature spirits--Read personal accounts of actual faerie encounters--Invoke fire spirits for traditional psychic readings--Share the magic and knowledge of twenty tree spirits--Find the elementals--gnomes, undines, sylphs and salamanders--with which you resonate most --Contact water sprites, mermaids and other water spirits--Find wood nymphs and the "lady of the woods"--Draw dragons into your environment with the right fragrances --Attract a faerie godmother into your life

Recapture the magic and wonder of a world where trees still speak and every flower tells a story. Explore the faerie realm--a place where faerie tales can and do come true.

Venus and Aphrodite - A Biography of Desire (Hardcover): Bettany Hughes Venus and Aphrodite - A Biography of Desire (Hardcover)
Bettany Hughes
R687 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R171 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fashion Journalism (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Julie Bradford Fashion Journalism (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Julie Bradford
R4,079 Discovery Miles 40 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This comprehensively revised and updated second edition of Fashion Journalism examines the vast changes within the industry and asks what they mean for the status, practices, and values of journalism worldwide. Providing first-hand guidance on how to report on fashion effectively and responsibly, this authoritative text covers everything from ideas generation to writing news and features, video production, podcasting, and styling, including advice on how to stay legally and ethically safe while doing so. The book takes in all types of fashion content - from journalism to branded content, and from individual content creation to editorial for fashion brands. It explores their common practices and priorities, while examining journalists' claim to special status compared to other content producers. In conjunction with expanded theory and research, the book includes interviews with journalists, editors, bloggers, filmmakers, PRs, and brand content producers from the UK, the US, China, and the Middle East to offer all a student or trainee needs to know to excel in fashion journalism.

Little Guides to Style II - A Historical Review of Four Fashion Icons (Hardcover, Box set): Emma Baxter Wright Little Guides to Style II - A Historical Review of Four Fashion Icons (Hardcover, Box set)
Emma Baxter Wright
R1,160 R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Save R257 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Containing the stories of four legendary fashion houses, this collectable box holds a beautiful set of covetable style guides. Exploring four designers who exemplify elegance and high couture, these little books of fashion follow these brands from their creation, moving through their style evolutions, the key looks that define them and their impact on the fashion landscape today. Discover the story behind the red sole with the Little Book of Louboutin, the process of creating the world's most iconic bags with Louis Vuitton, the craftsmanship behind the androgynous Le Smoking in Yves Saint Laurent and the genius behind the most exquisite couture with Schiaparelli. Featuring hundreds of exquisite images and text by best-selling authors, these definitive guides to luxury style are the perfect gift for any fashion lover.

Merging Dimensions - The Opening Portals of Sedona (Paperback, 2nd Includes a New Color Photograph Section, Notes, and Updates.... Merging Dimensions - The Opening Portals of Sedona (Paperback, 2nd Includes a New Color Photograph Section, Notes, and Updates. ed.)
Tom Dongo, Linda Bradshaw
R465 R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Derbyshire Folk Tales (Paperback): Pete Castle Derbyshire Folk Tales (Paperback)
Pete Castle
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Passed down from generation to generation, many of Derbyshire's most popular folk tales are gathered together here for the first time. Ranging from stories specific to the region, such as 'The Derby Ram', to others which are local versions of well-known classics, like 'Beauty and the Beast', all of the tales in this collection are rooted in Derbyshire's past. Written to recreate the oral traditions that made these anecdotes popular, this book provides entertainment for all. Richly illustrated with original drawings, accounts of love, loss, heroes and villains are all brought to life through vivid descriptions that have survived for several centuries. These tales have been adapted to make them accessible, enjoyable and, at times, very relevant to contemporary readers. Pete Castle has lived in Derbyshire for over twenty years, and is a professional storyteller with over thirty years of experience. For the last ten years he has been editor of Facts & Fiction, the UK's only storytelling magazine.

Greek Myths - A new retelling of your favourite myths that puts female characters at the heart of the story (Paperback):... Greek Myths - A new retelling of your favourite myths that puts female characters at the heart of the story (Paperback)
Charlotte Higgins; Illustrated by Chris Ofili
R240 R192 Discovery Miles 1 920 Save R48 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

'A great storyteller' Madeline Miller, author of Circe In this powerful new collection, Charlotte Higgins foregrounds Greek mythology's most enduring heroines. Here are the myths of Heracles and Theseus, the Trojan war, Thebes and Argos and Athens. They are stories of love and desire, adventure and magic, destructive gods, helpless humans, fantastical creatures and resourceful witches. In this telling the female characters take centre stage as Athena, Helen, Circe, Penelope and others weave these stories into elaborate imagined tapestries. In Charlotte Higgins's thrilling new interpretation of these ancient stories, their tales combine to form a dazzling, sweeping epic of storytelling. With a series of original drawings by Chris Ofili.

She Seduced Me - A Love Affair with Rome (Paperback): Mark Tedesco She Seduced Me - A Love Affair with Rome (Paperback)
Mark Tedesco; Edited by Andrea Bailey
R313 Discovery Miles 3 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"I resisted, but she drew me back. I stayed away, but she beckoned me. I distanced myself, but she haunted me. I even rejected her but she did not abandon me..." She Seduced Me is that rare book in which the reader becomes part of a magical world in which places, monuments and artists come alive through their stories. In this case, however, that world is Rome and the reader becomes a participant in the ebb and flow of the city and gains insight into why so many have fallen in love with Rome despite its faults. This work of nonfiction is divided into chapters in which the reader experiences aspects of art, culture, history and the present through the eyes of the writer and of the inhabitants of Rome, past and present. The journey commences with the reader accompanying the author who, standing in front of Michelangelo's Moses statue, mouth agape, almost hears the artist scream at his creation: "Speak!" From this an odyssey of wonder begins: what is the story behind the Trevi fountain, behind that rock in the middle of the Roman Forum, behind all those priests and nuns everywhere, behind everything one stumbles upon, wonders about and takes selfies in front of? The quest is to uncover those stories. Author and reader continue to explore the life in the piazzas, experience camaraderie with street performers, see history through all the senses, get lost in Rome, observe Americans and foreigners, discover unique places to eat, speak with Romans, explore the houses of Nero, Augustus and Livia, encounter Caravaggio and chats with expats. This work is a virtual tour through a magical city that educates and enthralls.

Welsh Monsters & Mythical Beasts - A Guide to the Legendary Creatures from Celtic-Welsh Myth and Legend (Paperback): C.C.J.... Welsh Monsters & Mythical Beasts - A Guide to the Legendary Creatures from Celtic-Welsh Myth and Legend (Paperback)
C.C.J. Ellis; Foreword by Stephanie Law; Introduction by Sian Powell
R871 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R288 (33%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"A love letter to the Welsh language... Ellis' detailed watercolor illustrations are the main attraction, providing fresh artistic representations to inspire a new generation of readers. Mythology fans and art enthusiasts alike will enjoy this beautiful book." - Booklist ''Packed with lore, history, and beautiful illustrations, Welsh Monsters & Mythical Beasts is an indispensable registry of everything that lurks in the shadows, glides just beneath the surface, or goes bump in the night. I love it!'' - Todd Lockwood My first thought upon seeing Welsh Monsters was "Goodness, what a useful book!" -John Howe Upon the dramatic landscape of Wales there have been born many creatures and beings of legend. This lushly illustrated guide delves into the dragons, beasts, fair folk, and spirits of Wales. Tales become blended and one with history, and this history meets illustration with C.C.J. Ellis' rich renderings of these creatures. Detail and colour lift these beings off the page and bring this compendium to life. Now available worldwide, this new edition includes a Welsh language guide so that each of the creatures might be known by their original Welsh names. You may have heard of the Red Dragon (Draig Goch) featured on the national flag of Wales, but have you heard of the Water Leaper (Llamhigyn Y Dwr) or of the Mary White (Mari Lwyd)? Ellis aims to re-introduce the beasts of Welsh myth and legend to the world and bring a touch of Wales to your shelves. Part of the Wool of Bat series focused on the preservation and promotion of folklore and oral history from around the world.

Myths of the Origin of Fire - An Essay (Paperback): Sir James G. Frazer Myths of the Origin of Fire - An Essay (Paperback)
Sir James G. Frazer
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of The Golden Bough, but his work ranged widely across classics, cultural history, folklore and literary criticism as well as anthropology. A Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, for 62 years, Sir James G. Frazer devoted his life to research. This volume was first published in 1930.

Working for Christian Dior - The Insights of a 1950s Fashion Model (Paperback): Jean Dawnay Working for Christian Dior - The Insights of a 1950s Fashion Model (Paperback)
Jean Dawnay
R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Working for Christian Dior is a contemporary personal reflection by Jean Dawnay, taking from her autobiography Model Girl, on her season working as a salon model for Dior's Spring/Summer collection of 1950. Jean Dawnay's status as one of the first household names in modelling was cemented in 1950 when she became the first Englishwoman to work for Christian Dior as a mannequin in his Paris salon. Re-christened `Caroline' by the famed designer, she became the designer's muse, who embodied a quintessential sense of Englishness. She was a model following Dior's acclaimed `New Look'; a style of dress that revolutionised fashion in the aftermath of the lingering austerity of post war Europe, and which made him the foremost designer of the era. The designs and legacy of Christian Dior have fascinated both critics and the general public for decades. Yet, other than Dior's own autobiography, Jean Dawnay's insights are the only surviving first-hand account of the intricacies of daily life working at the fashion house. This unique account invites you to delve under the couture veneer and to glimpse both the man beneath and the extraordinary women who worked alongside him in this golden age of fashion.

Make it Work - 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion (Hardcover): Jan Ellyn Goggans Make it Work - 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion (Hardcover)
Jan Ellyn Goggans
R3,911 Discovery Miles 39 110 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Imagine a new critical theory that bases its literary value on fashion. In this theory exists a community that explores and interrogates conventionality, and in American literature of the 20th century, it includes fashion and home decoration, two paths to achieving white femininity, a prized component of many novels written by and for women. Drawing on cultural materialism and its connection to the cultural forms of objects, including apparel, Making it Work: 20th Century American Fiction and Fashion provides readers a new understanding of the aims of American writers, and the desires of their readers.

Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That - Modern Fashion Explained (Paperback): Marnie Fogg Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That - Modern Fashion Explained (Paperback)
Marnie Fogg 1
R327 R263 Discovery Miles 2 630 Save R64 (20%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Numerous designers have pioneered cutting-edge garments and collections throughout the evolution of fashion. But all too often a lack of obvious fit or purpose has been mistaken for a lack of design sophistication. In an informed defence of innovative fashion, Why You Can Go Out Dressed Like That champions the improbable, the provocative, the uncomfortable and the seemingly ridiculous. Inspired by diverse sources, theories and concepts, as well as futuristic textiles and techniques, the book explores the groundbreaking work of designers who strive to extend the boundaries of their creativity. There are no fixed elements to the 100 designs featured in this book, which range from the cerebral conceptions of Comme des Garcons, to the augmented anatomies of Thierry Mugler and the exaggerated physicality of Thom Browne's broad-shouldered men. The garments do not have to fulfil a function, keep you warm, or increase sexual attraction, nor do they have to beguile or disarm. They do need to have impact at the time of creation and to prove influential in the longer term. Many original designs elicit the response: `You can't go out dressed like that!'. Marnie Fogg proves decisively that modern fashion is not as outrageous and unwearable as it may seem.

Nature, Culture and Gender - Re-reading the folktale (Paperback): P. Mary Vidya Porselvi Nature, Culture and Gender - Re-reading the folktale (Paperback)
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
R1,264 Discovery Miles 12 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as it manifests in the lifeworlds of women, nature and language. The book introduces ecofeminist criticism and situates it within an innovative folktale t

Mexican American Women, Dress, and Gender - Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas (Hardcover): Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo Mexican American Women, Dress, and Gender - Pachucas, Chicanas, Cholas (Hardcover)
Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo
R3,899 Discovery Miles 38 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mexican American women have endured several layers of discrimination deriving from a strong patriarchal tradition and a difficult socioeconomic and cultural situation within the US ethnic and class organization. However, there have been groups of women who have defied their fates at different times and in diverse forms. Mexican American Women, Dress, and Gender observes how Pachucas, Chicanas, and Cholas have used their body image (dress, hairstyle, and body language) as a political tool of deviation and attempts to measure the degree of intentionality in said oppositional stance. For this purpose and, claiming the sociological power of photographs as a representation of precise sociohistorical moments, this work analyzes several photographs of women of said groups; with the aim of proving the relevance of "other" body images in expressing gender and ethnic identification, or disidentification from the mainstream norm. Proposing a diachronic, comparative approach to young Mexican American women, this monograph will appeal to students and researchers interested in Chicano History, Race and Ethnic Studies, American History, Feminism, and Gender Studies.

Painting the Tales - The Folk Tales Collection (Paperback): Katherine Soutar Painting the Tales - The Folk Tales Collection (Paperback)
Katherine Soutar; Foreword by Taffy Thomas
R778 R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Save R137 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Katherine Soutar has provided the cover illustrations for the vast majority of books in The History Press' popular Folk Tales series. This new collection features the best of these illustrations along with an explanation of the inspiration behind each design. Through the introductory text accompanying each illustration we gain an insight into how this artist works, learn how creating her fascinating artwork is often very much a family affair, and read anecdotes about working with storytellers.

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