U.S. Politics and Government in Comparative Perspective

The American Anomaly

A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2012 
'Stephen Kite's study gives us an unprecedented understanding of the development of Ruskin's observation of, and thinking about, Italian Gothic architecture in the period leading to the publication of The Stones of Venice. The book sheds substantial new light on Ruskin's thinking at a key period in his intellectual development. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the subject.' Mark Swenarton, University of Liverpool, UK 
'Kite’s professional concerns include architecture and conservation within the build environment, and his expertise runs through this skilful and enjoyable book.' Ruskin Review and Bulletin 
'Building Ruskin's Italy is a well illustrated book ... Stephen Kite's investigation of how Ruskin went from youthful traveller to knowledgeable architectural pundit fills a niche. By going beyond the boundaries of Venice, we are reminded of how Ruskin stretched his understanding of Italian Gothic architecture, and of his joy of discovery.' Eighth Lamp - Ruskin Studies Today 
'[This is] a book that combines architectural acumen with a deft sense of the nuanced demands of archival research ... [Stephen Kite] takes us deep into John Ruskin's techniques and expertise in order to show just how impactful his method of architectural observation and interpretation was upon later practices.' The Journal of Architecture

Watching Architecture

Building Ruskin's Italy

Analysis of the Institutes of the Christian Religion of John Calvin

A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2012 
'Nicholas Chare has written an intellectually engaging and rich theoretical analysis of the work of Francis Bacon ... a significant contribution and in many respects an important and necessary intervention in the art historical literature on the artist. Chare's particular focus on issues of sex and sexuality in Bacon's life and work not only extends the prevailing discussion in new and interesting directions, but also makes evident some other ways in which to think about sense and aesthetics - a topic of considerable interest in art history, cultural studies and contemporary philosophy.' John Paul Ricco, University of Toronto, Canada, author of The Logic of the Lure and The Decision Between Us 
'Chare grounds his chapter heavily with theory and his visual analysis of Bacon's work to deliver impressive clarity in his approach.His book proves overall to be experimental both theoretically and stylistically; it is a pleasure to read, for Chare obviously delights in theoretical variety and his prose often reflects the sensuousness of the works. He discusses Bacon’s treatment and incorporation of bodily sensation without leaning too far towards the sensational, making a strong case for the paintings to be read as a form of sadomasochistic practice.' Art History

Synaesthesia and Sex in Paint

After Francis Bacon

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of The Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel

Overall, the essays in this volume will appeal to a very specialized audience: the "fonters." 'Nevertheless, collections such as this one remind scholars that we must think beyond the confines of our field and reach out to other disciplines in order to attempt to construct a more holistic view of the Middle Ages.' Comitatus 
'...a set of highly interesting and well written essays, which make a positive contribution to the literature on baptismal practice and its material evidence.' Speculum 
'The volume is well produced and illustrated, and the consistency of editors' visual/material focus means that the articles hang together to make a coherent whole ... papers like Gray's and Kuuliala's amply demonstrate the potential of fonts to inform much wider questions of medieval cultural and social practice ...' Medieval Archaeology

Essays on Medieval Fonts, Settings and Beliefs

The Visual Culture of Baptism in the Middle Ages

'In this eye-opening book, Muriel Darmon shows that becoming anorexic is a social process. Rather than dismissing anorexics as pathological, Darmon seriously considers the experiences and perspectives of population of French anorexics and former anorexics to shed light on broader processes of self-transformation, social class, institutionalization, and embodiment. Highly recommended!' - Abigail C. Saguy, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, USA

A sociological study

Becoming Anorexic

A must-read taut and twisty psychological thriller

The Life I Left Behind

'... a well-researched and clearly written book that I can see pairing with one of the Johnsons' films in a graduate or undergraduate course. Ahrens, Lindstrom, and Paisley have given their readers a helpful narrative that connects American fantasies about empire to popular culture. And, even more useful, they have done this by focusing on one couple whose drive to film and document the world was both tireless and entertaining.' American Historical Review 
'... the book not only offers greater historical context on race and empire but also contributes to understandings of early 20th-century feminism and gender roles ...' The Journal of Pacific History

Visual Culture and American Empire in the Twentieth Century

Across the World with the Johnsons

Analyse der Diskrepanz zwischen staatlicher Innovationspolitik einerseits und Perzeption der Unternehmen andererseits

’There isn't a business person on the planet that isn't concerned about sustainability practices across the stakeholder spectrum. Conrad and Thompson offer not only big strategic insights here but they have also curated the most comprehensive set of case stories I know of. This is important work and will be referenced time and time and time again.’ Jonathan Mildenhall, VP Global Advertising Strategy & Creative Excellence, Coca-Cola  ’The stream of global communications is ever flowing. A current of social responsibility cuts through it, while an undertow of misunderstanding preys on our perceptions. Marjorie EllisThompson and Christian Conrad help pilot us through with clear thinking and inspiring case histories of successful corporate responsibility.’ Tim Love, Vice Chairman Omnicom Group and CEO Omnicom Asia Pacific India Middle East Africa  ’Marjorie EllisThompson pioneered Corporate Social Responsibility twenty years ago when she established a specialist unit within Saatchi & Saatchi. At that time Marketing Directors shied away, disbelieving they could find mutual benefit between their brands and not-for-profit causes. Well those same Marketing Directors can now read the error of their ways in this definitive compendium of success stories. Choose to ignore Conrad and Thompson at your peril.’ Marcus Brown, Executive Vice President, Young & Rubicam, EMEA  ’The role of business is to make the world a better place. The New Brand Spirit is an indispensable companion on this often complex and challenging journey. It’s everything you expect from Marjorie Ellis Thompson and Christian Conrad: direct, candid, inspirational, uncompromising, wise, and crystal clear about what to do.’  Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide, Saatchi & Saatchi  ’With the most fundamental debate globally being around responsible capitalism and resource constrained growth this book arrives at an important time. The development of new sustainable business models is integrating corporat

How Communicating Sustainability Builds Brands, Reputations and Profits

The New Brand Spirit

’This enlightening, thought-provoking study by Jolly (Skidmore College) focuses on depictions of Mary Magdalene in Northern Renaissance art ... The contributions of this book will have significant implications in many fields ... Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through researchers/faculty.’ Choice 
'Penny Howell Jolly brilliantly expands on recent research on the history of dress, performance, and sexuality, to explore how ideas associated with the female body of Mary Magdalen, such as its permeability and instability, were expressed visually through a series of symbolic signs and acts that offer her process of transformation from sinner to saint as a model that could be emulated by ordinary Christians. With a sharp eye and a thorough understanding of the rich and complex cult of the Magdalen, Jolly analyzes visual imagery to successfully explain the broad appeal of the Magdalen, a prostitute who became a saint.' Diane Wolfthal, Rice University 
'... a convincing argument that the visual symbolism of Mary Magdalene’s spiritual pregnancy is a consistent and evolving feature of Northern Renaissance art. One of Jolly’s great strengths throughout this work is her ability to comprehend and explain the complexity of signification within art history, and its capacity to subtly change meaning over time ... Jolly uses a formidable range of resources in the endeavour to support her claims, drawing upon the literature and drama of the Northern Renaissance as well as its art, thereby demonstrating the interconnections between these different mediums in terms of the complex significations of the body of Mary Magdalene.' Journal of the Northern Renaissance 
'One of the many strengths of this publication is that Jolly focuses on roles for the Magdalene yet to be explored. Her novel approach offers a deeper understanding of Magdalene images ...' Historians of Netherlandish Art Review of Books

Addressing and Undressing the Sinner-Saint

Picturing the 'Pregnant' Magdalene in Northern Art, 1430-1550

Schicksal, freier Wille und die Ordnung des Lebens neu gesehen

Astrologie zwischen Chaos und Kosmos

Archäologische Demographie

Storia della Poesia Siciliana - Volume Primo

'Altogether, this diverse collection of essays makes a stimulating contribution to the study of humor in visual culture.' Renaissance Quarterly 
'... a most welcome beginning to future work on comedy. The volume innovatively discusses the tough topic of laughter and comedy.' Historians of Netherlandish Art 
'With its discerning and in-depth essays, the book contributes significantly to the study of festive culture and attests to the importance and the need of analyzing carefully all its manifestations.' Journal of the Northern Renaissance 
'The book offers a rich array of delightful visual and textual material, which will enable readers to rediscover art from a different perspective, as defined by Paul Barolsky: "art is frequently fun-a form of play!"' Sixteenth Century Journal

Essays on Comedy as Social Vision

Parody and Festivity in Early Modern Art

African Elites from Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town

The Politics of Distinction

Winner, CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant 
'Caterina Sforza remains a little understood character. This book provides a very rounded account of her life, dispelling or unravelling the many myths that have grown up around her without removing the fascination of her life. De Vries’s book allows us to see Caterina in multiple contexts, analysing architecture, material culture as well as her spiritual and humanist patronage. This is a detailed, evocative study that is also a pleasure to read.' Evelyn Welch, Queen Mary University of London, UK 
'... this book is a well-written and useful contribution to the field of Renaissance studies, not only because it makes available an up-to-date account of Caterina Sforza for the English-speaking world, but also because it sheds much light on Renaissance production and consumption of serially manufactured goods, and therewith on the kind of material culture that, in the end, was much more widespread than the few paintings by famous artists that art history has focused on for such a long time.' Sehepunkte 
'This is an interesting and persuasive book that throws light on the central importance of luxury goods in the construction of nobility and the pursuit of status in early modern Europe. De Vries’s very welcome analysis of Caterina Sforza’s cultural self-fashioning whets our appetite for a new assessment of her unusually autonomous political role in a very troubled period of Italian history.' Parergon

Gender, Art and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Caterina Sforza and the Art of Appearances

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The Christmas Guest

Patois Celte De Bigorre (Hautes-Pyrénées): Langue Primitive, Origine De Huit Langues Aristocratiques, Savantes Ou Écrites ... Véritable, Seule Et Uniq

Preispolitische Analyse und Untersuchung der Wahrnehmung durch den Endverbraucher

Tarifstrukturen der Festnetzanbieter

Duality in Optimization and Variational Inequalities

Augmentative and Alternative Communication for Children, Adolescents and Adults with Developmental Disorders

'... we owe a scholarly debt of gratitude to Delbeke for having undertaken with such success the herculean task of retrieving and analyzing the art theory of one of the most prominent intellectuals of Seicento Italy. This book will be an important point of reference for all future discussions of art theory in Bernini’s Rome.' Renaissance Quarterly 
'Delbeke marshals an impressive variety and range of Italian and French sources for his arguments. His engaging and complex book is a major addition to the literature of early modern art theory. In a time when “neo-baroque” style in art, design, and fashion relies on the most generalized and hackneyed idea of “the baroque,” Delbeke presents the sophistication and nuances of art and theory in seventeenth-century Italy.' CAA Reviews
'The book is a refreshing antidote to the fetishization of Caravaggio, on the one hand, and the Roman classicists, on the other. It is a masterful demonstration of the ways in which the sources and techniques of intellectual history can be used to illuminate the history of art.' Catholic Historical Review 
'A long-awaited book that sets new standards in the understudied history of baroque art theory' Frank Fehrenbach, Harvard University, USA 
'This exciting and elegant book is like nothing else to have appeared thus far in English concerning the epicenter of Baroque art, namely Bernini's Rome. Delbeke shows us how art theory works in early modernity, by examining the discourses and practices of seventeenth-century Rome through the lens of one of the most prominent figures of the age, Sforza Pallavicino, who was a philosopher, theologian and strikingly innovative aesthetic thinker whose ideas have surprisingly strong links with the aesthetic philosophy of the eighteenth century to come. Many major and minor players on the Roman stage-from Urban VIII and Alexander VII to Giovanni Ciampoli and Bernini himself-fill the pages of this beautifully composed book. Offering an invaluable guide to the intellectual ferment of the Seicento in the Eternal City, this is at once a work of theory and cultural history of a high order, and should be of interest to anyone who has ever fallen under the seductive sway of the Baroque.' Jon R. Snyder, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Sforza Pallavicino and Art Theory in Bernini's Rome

The Art of Religion

Doggone It

Anger: How to Live with It and Without It

Eine psychobiologische Betrachtung geschlechtsspezifischer Aggression am Beispiel der Anorexie und Bulimie

Eßstörungen als autoaggressives Verhalten

'...provides a provocative examination of the lives and mindsets of women who conventional histories of terrorism have overlooked. It single-handedly dispels any myths that women have been less involved in planning, plotting and perpetrating violence throughout history. A massive contribution to the terrorism studies literature.' Jarret Brachman, United States Military Academy, USA   'Academicians, government officials and policy makers will find From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists an extensive and enlightening analysis. Grounded in theory and framed within history, Eager meets the challenge society continues to grapple with: women’s role in violence.  Eager demonstrates that within social movements and organizations, women have consciously and frequently challenged successfully their assumed roles in society at large.' Rosemarie Skaine, author of  Women at War: Gender Issues of Americans in Combat, The Women of Afghanistan Under the Taliban and Female Suicide Bombers  'Eager (Hood College) casts a wide net in this broadly comparative analysis of left- and right-wing women who engage in political violence...This specialized book may be among the first to integrate all types of women "freedom fighters and terrorists", from Right to Left and north to south...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research and professional collections.' Choice  'It is a major contribution to the terrorism studies readily available to military readers. The author has cited extensively from a wide range of works on the subject, thereby showing the depth of her research. The book is recomended for all formation and unit libraries.' USI Journal  'Employing sound reasoning and a clear methodology, Eager presents a broad range of well-researched case studies...the book is an insightful read that illustrates well the extent and nature of the roles women play in guerrilla, resistance and terrorist groups. It challenges views still widely held by policymakers, who underestimate

Women and Political Violence

From Freedom Fighters to Terrorists

Eine Spielfibel

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