Exploring the Selfie: Historical, Theoretical and Analytical Approaches to Digital Self-Photography
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This volume explores the selfie not only as a specific photographic practice that is deeply rooted...
ClareR (5542 KP) rated Glorious Exploits in Books
Feb 26, 2024
This is a story that shows the need for art even in a time of war and horror, and the importance of friendship, love, family and community.
Lampo, one of the two main characters leaps from the page in the way that he describes life in the city of Syracuse. He’s poor and uneducated, but he certainly has a lot to say! His venture with his best friend, Gelon, sees beyond the horrors that the Athenians must have committed - or perhaps he’s come to terms with what they’ve done - and he can see that their punishment doesn’t really fit their crime.
The Syracusans speak in the Irish vernacular, and what’s really strange, is that it doesn’t sound out of place (in my head, anyway!).
I laughed and cried whilst reading this. It really is a glorious read.
The Ministry of Nostalgia: Consuming Austerity
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In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows how our past is being resold in order to...
A History of Interior Design
Judith Gura and John Pile
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A History of Interior Design tells the story of 6,000 years of domestic and public space. This fully...
Medieval Song in Romance Languages
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In this book, John Haines presents a detailed survey of songs performed in Vulgar Latin and early...
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories
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Delmore Schwartz became the voice of a new generation, when 'In Dreams Begin Responsibilities' was...
Parsonages
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From the middle ages to the present day the houses of local clergy - parsonages, vicarages and...
Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints
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A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still...
30 Cakes to Eat Naked
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'I don't know how my pictures happen, they just do. They exist, but for the life of me I can't...
The Task of the Cleric: Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
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Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain's first vernacular...