Introduces professionals working with families to the everyday issues faced by disabled people of various ages in family life. This book covers the spectrum of disability issues, and offers information and advice for professionals working with familie...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) was renowned for his dramatic depictions of the human form. This volume contains about sixty of Bacon's disturbing yet captivating studies of the human figure, encompassing works from the late 1940s until his death. It offers...
In this engrossing book, an internationally respected historian gives an account of contemporary representations of Louis XIV-in paintings, and engravings, medals and sculptures, plays, and ballets, and operas-to show how the making of a royal image illum...
The second edition of History and Social Theory will continue to stimulate both students and scholars across a range of disciplines with its challenging assessment of the roles of history and social science today.
"Ich belehre nicht, ich erzähle." So charakterisiert Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) seine "Essais". Peter Burke, der hervorragende Kenner der Renaissance, lotet aus, warum diese Versuche so modern anmuten und uns vertraut erscheinen....
In this text Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach to examine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe from the invention of printing to the publication of the French Encyclopedie.
A guide to the family Icteridae, known as blackbirds, troupials or New World Blackbirds, which range throughout the Americas, from Alaska to Cape Horn, and including the Caribbean. This book depicts every species, showing races where relevant, and coverin...