Elsa Schiaparelli's Private Album - Prijzen

Crafting the Woman Professional in the Long Nineteenth Century

Over the course of the nineteenth century, women in Britain participated in diverse and prolific forms of artistic labour. As they created objects and commodities that blurred the boundaries between d...

Dinner with Churchill

A delightful and delicious tribute to Churchill's heroic appetite for wining, dining and politicking - Ben Macintyre, author of Operation Mincemeat. A friend once said of Churchill He is a man o...

Elsa Schiaparelli's Private Album

Elsa Schiaparelli is regarded as one of the most important artist-couturiers and taste-makers of the 20th century. A genuine influence on the style of her times, she numbered among her collaborators a...

Holy Motherhood

This study brings images of holy motherhood and childbearing into the centre of an art-historical enquiry, showing how images worked not only to script and maintain gender and social roles within patr...

Joan Miro

A distinguished art critic and close friend traces Miro's evolution from peasant artist to transcendentalist

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Exportschlager Tod

Kapitalismus

Er hat den Kalten Krieg für sich entschieden und diktiert die Bedingungen, unter denen wir unser Leben führen. Was aber ist der Kapitalismus eigentlich? Wie fing er an, wie entwickelte er sich, wie si...

Tips for Living

On the day Nora discovered that her husband, Hugh, had gotten another woman pregnant, she made a vow: I will come back to life no matter how long it takes' It's taken Nora three years. With the help...

Picus Who Is Also Zeus

Originally published in 1916, this book was written by the renowned British biblical scholar, archaeologist and manuscript specialist J. Rendel Harris (1852-1941). The text is composed of nine loosely...

Sidney'S Arcadia and the Conflicts of Virtue

Wood reads Philip Sidney's New Arcadia in the light of the ethos known as Philippism after the followers of Philip Melanchthon the Protestant theologian. He employs a critical paradigm previously used...

Fear Itself

Injecting fresh potency into the phrase ''scared to death,'' the wickedly talented author of The Girls He Adored has delivered a spine-chilling follow-up, introducing an unforgettable villain who conf...