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The Four Seasons of Venice - 12 Historical Walking Tours (Hardcover): John Costella The Four Seasons of Venice - 12 Historical Walking Tours (Hardcover)
John Costella
R967 Discovery Miles 9 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Venice is a resplendent city of a thousand islands in the middle of a lagoon, which has an elegant and eventful history. Her geographical location and the political and commercial shrewdness of her former rulers, together with the spirit of her citizens once made her the mistress of the seas and master of a great empire. This journal is intended to provide helpful, descriptive and enjoyable routes to explore, as well as providing many interesting historical and architectural facts throughout its passage. As an artist the author has painted a journalistic picture of Venice by visiting the 'Serenissima' each month over the course of a year to enjoy the islands and understand the Venetians themselves, who have battled through centuries of evolution, toil and achievement. Throughout each interesting tour John has recorded many scenes in pen and ink water colour sketches, which he feels will bring the beauty and history of the Venetian islands to both the armchair reader as well as those who explore the Serenissima.

Missions of Central California (Hardcover): Robert A. Bellezza Missions of Central California (Hardcover)
Robert A. Bellezza
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gillette Castle - A History (Paperback): Erik Ofgang Gillette Castle - A History (Paperback)
Erik Ofgang
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Artwalks in New York - Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten... Artwalks in New York - Delightful Discoveries of Public Art and Gardens in Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Staten Island (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
Marina Harrison, Lucy D Rosenfeld
R3,085 Discovery Miles 30 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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"The third edition of "Artwalks," substantially revised and updated with seven new walks, leads readers through various sections of the city, highlighting what the authors consider to be public art, whether seen outdoors or within the confines of museums and other buildings. With directions on how to get there by subway and car, plus excellent and easy-to-read maps, Artwalks has much to offer the art lover, including off-the-beaten-path suggestions like the Chinese Scholar's Garden at Snug Harbor on Staten Island ('not to be missed') and the Ukrainian Institute of America on East 79th Street. A helpful section, 'Choosing an Outing, ' lists walks by subject, such as parks or flower gardens.... [R]ecommended."
--"Library Journal"

"East side, west side, all around the townathis handy, pocket-sized guide is a great tool for the wanderer in search of those out-of-the-way treasures that New York is abundantly full of. Revised and updated, "Artwalks" is a must for the discerning curious.a
--"Art Times"

"Art enthusiasts who also love the big city will relish this third revised, updated edition."--"The Bookwatch"

"Opinions are freely given about the quality of work one will see, and there is real concern shown for such creature comforts as finding relief for sore feet after a visit to the Met. Historical and other background details are provided throughout each walk, which even the most inveterate New Yorker will find compelling."
--"American Reference Books Annual"

Praise for previous editions

"A sharp eye for art in unexpected corners. "Artwalks in New York" is bouncy, well written, and filled with goodtips."
--The New York Times

"Like two good cooks, the writers have mixed enough tasty nuggets to make this one scrumptious cookie of a read. It is an insider's guide ot the Apple for the visitor, and an eye opener for even the most jaded native New Yorker."
--Adrian Benepe, Commissioner, City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation

Completely updated, the new edition of this acclaimed guide brings us 33 tours of public art, covering the length of the island, from the Cloisters and Harlem in northern Manhattan, to Central Park and the museum mile, to Rockefeller Center and Chelsea, and all the way down to the southern tip at Battery Park City. This indispensable guide also covers the outer boroughs, from Snug Harbor, Staten Island to the Socrates Sculpture Park and the Noguchi Museum in Queens, from Wave Hill in the Bronx all the way to the botanical gardens in Brooklyn.

The perfect guidebook for residents and tourists alike, Harrison and Rosenfeld uncover nooks and crannies off the beaten track alongside favored treasures, reminding us all why New York City is the art capital of the world.

Artwalks in New York contains: Completely revised and updated entries, including seven new walks, reflecting the ever-changing city Includes over 25 walking tour maps, directions, and suggested visitation hours Listings of museums, art and auction galleries, art-filled public spaces, hotel lobbies, gardens, restaurants, subway stations, public sculpture and murals, and more Hundreds of interesting facts, anecdotes, and tidbits about New York City art from two expert guides

Camp Bowie Boulevard (Hardcover): Juliet George Camp Bowie Boulevard (Hardcover)
Juliet George
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Story of the Malverns - With Appendices and Illustrations (Hardcover): G.W. Hastings Story of the Malverns - With Appendices and Illustrations (Hardcover)
G.W. Hastings
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Oxford University - Stories from the Archives (Hardcover): Alice Blackford Millea Oxford University - Stories from the Archives (Hardcover)
Alice Blackford Millea
R1,078 R807 Discovery Miles 8 070 Save R271 (25%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The University Archives was established in 1634. Based in the Bodleian Library, it is the institutional archive of Oxford University, holding records which span just over 800 years, documenting the University's activities and decisions throughout that time. Fifty-two documents and objects from the University Archives are showcased here, telling a wide range of intriguing stories about the University. Arranged chronologically, they deal with the University's relations with governments and monarchs; the effects of war; teaching and student behaviour; the University's buildings and institutions; widening access to university education; and the impact it has had on the city of Oxford and its people. Also documented here are fascinating insights into the University's erstwhile police force, a hidden time capsule, brewing licences, brawls and illicit steeplechasing. The items - all illustrated - also often unlock human stories to which we can relate today, opening a window on the individuals (from University, city, or even further afield) whose lives the University has touched, including people who would perhaps not be expected to feature in a history of Oxford University, but whose stories are preserved forever in its magnificent archives.

New York City Zoos and Aquarium (Hardcover): Joan Scheier New York City Zoos and Aquarium (Hardcover)
Joan Scheier
R674 Discovery Miles 6 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Wind Cave National Park - The First 100 Years (Hardcover): Peggy Sanders Wind Cave National Park - The First 100 Years (Hardcover)
Peggy Sanders
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visit the City - Essen (3 Days In) - Make the most of your time (Paperback): John Sykes Visit the City - Essen (3 Days In) - Make the most of your time (Paperback)
John Sykes; Edited by Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen
R194 Discovery Miles 1 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The BKB travel guide presents everything you need for your short stay in Essen including information on attractive city quarters, addresses for accommodation, shopping and of course entertainment. Highlights include the Philharmonic Concert Hall, Aalto Opera House, Essen Cathedral, the Golden Madonna, Villa Hugel, Museum Folkwang, the Zollverein Colliery, shopping and nightlife in Essen.

Archiving Cultures - Heritage, community and the making of records and memory (Hardcover): Jeannette A. Bastian Archiving Cultures - Heritage, community and the making of records and memory (Hardcover)
Jeannette A. Bastian
R1,568 Discovery Miles 15 680 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Archiving Cultures defines and models the concept of a cultural archives focusing on how diverse communities express and record their heritage and collective memory and why and how these often-intangible expressions are archival records. Analysis of oral traditions, memory texts and performance arts demonstrate their relevance as records of their communities. Key features of this book include definitions of cultural heritage and archival heritage with an emphasis on intangible cultural heritage. Aspects of cultural heritage such as oral traditions, performance arts, memory texts and collective memory are placed within the context of records and archives. Presents strategies for reconciling intangible and tangible cultural expressions with traditional archival theory and practice. Offers both analog and digital models for constructing a cultural archives through examples and vignettes. Audience includes archivists and other information workers who challenge Western archival theory and scholars concerned with interdisciplinary perspectives on tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Relevant to scholars involved with non-textual materials. Will appeal to a range of academic disciplines engaging with 'the archive'.

Beyond the Halls - An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums (Hardcover): MacKenzie Finklea Beyond the Halls - An Insider's Guide to Loving Museums (Hardcover)
MacKenzie Finklea
R743 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visit the City - Regensburg (3 Days In) - Make the most of your time! (Paperback): John Sykes Visit the City - Regensburg (3 Days In) - Make the most of your time! (Paperback)
John Sykes; Edited by Brigitte Hintzen-Bohlen
R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The BKB travel guide presents everything you need for your short stay in Regensburg. Regensburg is one of the most beautiful cities in Germany, situated in the Oberpfalz region, with its Italian atmosphere and Bavarian way of life, At its heart the picturesque Old Town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an impressive example of a centre of medieval trade. This guide includes all the city attractions, addresses for accommodation, shopping and of course entertainment. Highlights include the World Heritage Site Old Town, the Stone Bridge, Thurn & Taxis-Palace and The Walhalla.

High Culture and Tall Chimneys - Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 (Paperback): James Moore High Culture and Tall Chimneys - Art Institutions and Urban Society in Lancashire, 1780-1914 (Paperback)
James Moore
R764 Discovery Miles 7 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre. By the end of the century almost every major town possessed an art gallery, while Lancashire art schools and artists were recognised at home and abroad. The book documents the remarkable rise of visual art across the county, along with the rise of the commercial and professional classes who supported it. It examines how Lancashire looked to great civilisations of the past for inspiration while also embracing new industrial technologies and distinctively modern art movements. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the new industrial society of the nineteenth century, from art lovers and collectors to urban and social historians. -- .

Who's Buried Where in London (Paperback): Peter Matthews Who's Buried Where in London (Paperback)
Peter Matthews 1
R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

London's many cemeteries, churches and graveyards are the last resting places of a multitude of important people from many different walks of life. Politicians, writers and military heroes rub shoulders with engineers, courtesans, artists and musicians, along with quite a few eccentric characters. Arranged geographically, this comprehensive guide describes famous graves in all the major cemeteries and churches in Greater London, including Highgate, Kensal Green, Westminster Abbey, and St Paul's Cathedral, as well as the City churches and many suburban parish churches. The book gives biographical details, information on the monuments, and is richly illustrated. As well as being an historical guide, it also serves as an indispensable reference guide for any budding tombstone tourist.

The Burrell Collection: Renaissance of a global museum (Hardcover, Select): Bridget McConnell, Duncan Dornan, John McAslan,... The Burrell Collection: Renaissance of a global museum (Hardcover, Select)
Bridget McConnell, Duncan Dornan, John McAslan, Glasgow Museums/Glasgow Life
R880 Discovery Miles 8 800 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections - Hands On, Hands Off (Hardcover): Hieke Huistra The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections - Hands On, Hands Off (Hardcover)
Hieke Huistra
R4,463 Discovery Miles 44 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Afterlife of the Leiden Anatomical Collections starts where most stories end: after death. It tells the story of thousands of body parts kept in bottles and boxes in nineteenth-century Leiden - a story featuring a struggling medical student, more than one disappointed anatomist, a monstrous child, and a glorious past. Hieke Huistra blends historical analysis, morbid anecdotes, and humour to show how anatomical preparations moved into the hands of students and researchers, and out of the reach of lay audiences. In the process, she reveals what a centuries-old collection can teach us about the future fate of the biobanks we build today.

Creative Placemaking - Research, Theory and Practice (Hardcover): Cara Courage, Anita Mckeown Creative Placemaking - Research, Theory and Practice (Hardcover)
Cara Courage, Anita Mckeown
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book makes a significant contribution to the history of placemaking, presenting grassroots to top-down practices and socially engaged, situated artistic practices and artsled spatial inquiry that go beyond instrumentalising the arts for development. The book brings together a range of scholars to critique and deconstruct the notion of creative placemaking, presenting diverse case studies from researcher, practitioner, funder and policymaker perspectives from across the globe. It opens with the creators of the 2010 White Paper that named and defined creative placemaking, Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus, who offer a cortically reflexive narrative on the founding of the sector and its development. This book looks at vernacular creativity in place, a topic continued through the book with its focus on the practitioner and community-placed projects. It closes with a consideration of aesthetics, metrics and, from the editors, a consideration of the next ten years for the sector. If creative placemaking is to contribute to places-in-the-making and encourage citizenled agency, new conceptual frameworks and practical methodologies are required. This book joins theorists and practitioners in dialogue, advocating for transdisciplinary, resilient processes.

Discovering Totem Poles - A Traveler's Guide (Paperback): Aldona Jonaitis Discovering Totem Poles - A Traveler's Guide (Paperback)
Aldona Jonaitis
R510 Discovery Miles 5 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska.

"Discovering Totem Poles" is the first guidebook to focus on the complex and fascinating histories of the specific poles visitors encounter in Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, Alert Bay, Prince Rupert, Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands), Ketchikan, Sitka, and Juneau. It debunks common misconceptions about totem poles and explores the stories behind the making and displaying of 90 different poles.

Travelers with this guide in their pockets will return home with a deeper knowledge of the monumental carvings, their place in history, and the people who made them.

Aldona Jonaitis is the author of a number of books including "Art of the Northwest Coast" and, with Aaron Glass, "he Totem Pole: An Intercultural History." She is director emerita of the University of Alaska Museum of the North.

Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Paperback): Heidi Strobel Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
Heidi Strobel
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage. These material goods may have been intended to enforce and affirm gendered norms, however as the essays demonstrate, their use by subjects frequently put normative formations of gender into question, revealing the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies. This book will appeal to art historians, museum professionals, women's and gender studies specialists, students, and all those interested in the history of objects in everyday life.

The Brain-Friendly Museum - Using Psychology and Neuroscience to Improve the Visitor Experience (Paperback): Annalisa Banzi The Brain-Friendly Museum - Using Psychology and Neuroscience to Improve the Visitor Experience (Paperback)
Annalisa Banzi; Foreword by John H. Falk
R1,196 Discovery Miles 11 960 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Brain-Friendly Museum proposes an innovative approach to experiencing and enjoying the museum environment in new ways, based on the systematic application of cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Providing practical guidance on navigating and thinking about museums in different ways, the book is designed to help develop more fulfilling visitor experiences. It explores our cognitive processes and emotions, and how they can be used to engage with and enjoy the museum environment, regardless of the visitor's background, language, or culture. The book considers core cognitive processes, including memory, attention, and perception, and how they can successfully be applied to the museum environment, for example, in creating more effective displays. Using evidence-based examples throughout, the book advocates for a wellbeing approach improving visitor experience, and one that is grounded in research from psychology and neuroscience. This book is a must-read for all museum practitioners and psychologists interested in the relationship between cultural heritage, psychology, and neuroscience. It will also be of great interest to art therapists, neuroscientists, university students, museum stakeholders, and museum lovers.

Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum - A Brief History (Paperback): Stephen A. Harris Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum - A Brief History (Paperback)
Stephen A. Harris
R536 Discovery Miles 5 360 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the monarchy, the garden has, unsurprisingly, a curious past. By tracing the work and priorities of each of the garden's keepers, this book explores its importance as one of the world's oldest scientific plant collections. It tells the story of the planting of the garden by its first keeper, Jacob Bobart, and his son, together with how they changed the garden to suit their own needs. The story develops during the eighteenth century as the garden grew exotic plants under glass and acquired a fine succulent collection but then experienced a downturn under the stewardship of the eccentric Professor Humphrey Sibthorp (famous for giving just one lecture in thirty-seven years). Finally, the narrative throws light on the partnership of gardener William Baxter and academic Charles Daubeny in the early nineteenth century, which gave the garden its glasshouses and ponds and contributed to its survival to the present day. This generously illustrated book is the first history of the garden and arboretum for more than a century and provides an essential introduction to one of Oxford's much-loved haunts.

Manhattan Beach Police Department (Hardcover): Jan Dennis Manhattan Beach Police Department (Hardcover)
Jan Dennis
R781 R686 Discovery Miles 6 860 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
History's Beauties - Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Paperback): Lara Perry History's Beauties - Women and the National Portrait Gallery, 1856-1900 (Paperback)
Lara Perry
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The 'beauties' - women of note - who were welcomed to the National Portrait Gallery's early collection were those whose lives and portraits were recognized as significant to the 'civil, ecclesiastical and literary history of the nation'. This brief was interpreted to include figures as diverse as the devout Lady Margaret Beaufort, and the entertaining Lady Emma Hamilton. History's Beauties, the first detailed study of this collection, maps a culture of femininity that reframes the Victorian fascination with women's domestic and sentimental presence by locating it within a Parliament-centred 'national' culture. Including an essay on the Gallery's Trustees, the book traces the translation of their governors' culture to a public institution through discussions of three themes in the National Portrait Gallery's collection of women's portraits: portraits of the Royal family and the cult of legitimacy in antiquities and in national identity; the educated woman as model of domestic and national cultivation; and finally the role of female beauty in defining social and artistic power in nineteenth-century Britain. The first monograph study of gender in a major museum, History's Beauties engages themes of gender, national identity, class cultures, and aesthetics in Victorian England to interpret the National Portrait Gallery's fascinating collection.

Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City - Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur (Paperback): Yamini Narayanan Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City - Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur (Paperback)
Yamini Narayanan
R1,437 Discovery Miles 14 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable urban policy. This book explores the historical and on-going influence of religion on urban planning, design, space utilisation, urban identities and communities. It argues that the conceptual and empirical approaches to planning sustainable cities in India need to be developed out of analytical concepts that define local sense of place and identity. Examining how Hindu religious heritage, beliefs and religiously influenced planning practices have impacted on sustainable urbanisation development in Jaipur and Indian cities in general, the book identifies the challenges and opportunities that ritualistic and belief resources pose for sustainability. It focuses on three key aspects: spatial segregation and ghettoisation; gender-inclusive urban development; and the nexus between religion, nature and urban development. This cutting-edge book is one of the first case studies linking Hindu religion, heritage, urban development, women and the environment in a way that responds to the realities of Indian cities. It opens up discussion on the nexus of religion and development, drawing out insightful policy implications for the sustainable urban planning of many cities in India and elsewhere in South Asia and the developing world.

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