Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. — 404 p. — (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema). Based on extended field research and meetings with members of Morocco’s film world, this book traces the development of Moroccan cinema over the past three decades. Drawing from his extensive work on Moroccan cinema, Kevin Dwyer discusses important aspects of Moroccan film culture such as freedom of...
Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2025. — 149 S. — (Schriften zur vorderasiatischen Archäologie 21). Drei Felsreliefs zieren eine Felswand am Sirkeli Höyük, einem bronze- und eisenzeitlichen Fundort im Ebenen Kilikien. Sie tragen Darstellungen hethitischer Könige aus dem 13. Jahrhundert v.u.Z., deren am besten erhaltene Großkönig Muwattali II., Gegner des Pharao Ramses II., in der...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 320 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 11). Examinations of the use of diagrams, symbols etc. found as commentary in medieval texts. In our electronic age, we are accustomed to the use of icons, symbols, graphs, charts, diagrams and visualisations as part of the vocabulary of communication. But this rich ecosystem is far from a...
The Boydell Press, 2020. — 265 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 20). Ground-breaking study of the enigmatic and unique tabernacles from fourteenth-century Italy, which for the first time combined relics and images. Images and relics were central tools in the process of devotional practice in medieval Europe. The reliquary tabernacles that emerged in the...
The Boydell Press, 2017. — 220 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 10). An examination of women as mothers in medieval French sculpture. What can medieval sculptural representations of women tell us about medieval women's experiences of motherhood? Presumably the work of male sculptors, working for clerical patrons, these sculptures are unlikely to have been...
The Boydell Press, 2020. — 356 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 19). Medieval tombs often depict husband and wife lying side-by-side, and hand in hand, immortalised in elegantly carved stone: what Philip Larkin's poem An Arundel Tomb later described as their "stone fidelity". This first full account of the "double tomb" places its rich tradition into...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 380 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 16). New interpretations of an art form ubiquitious in the Middle Ages. English alabasters played a seminal role in the artistic development of late medieval and early modern Europe. Carvings made of this lustrous white stone were sold throughout England and abroad, and as a result many...
Taschen, 2016. — 96 p. From impossible staircases to tesselated birds, Dutch artist M.C. Escher (1898–1972) crafted a unique graphic language of patterns, puzzles, and mathematics. Dense, complex, and structured by intricate principles, his work is at the same time decorative and playful, toying constantly with optic illusions and the limitations of sensory perception. Working...
Taschen, 2017. — 97 p. Since his work is categorized as illustration and was most famously featured on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, fine art critics were slow to acknowledge the importance of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) as true artist, though his work was enormously popular during his lifetime and has endured as a crucial element in America’s perception of itself in...
Skylight Editions, 2021. — 480 p. A Grandmaster of technical and erotic phantasy without limits. The Japanese artist Sorayama lives in Tokyo. He is a global phenomenon and has the reputation of being an enfant terrible. His art is being shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institute of Technology Museum. Washington DC, the World Erotic Art Museum, Miami...
Vault Editions Ltd, 2024. — 96 p. How to Draw Tattoo Flash is your gateway to mastering the art of 40 iconic tattoo flash designs. This book has been created with beginners in mind, offering a step-by-step progressive learning system that empowers even those with no prior drawing experience to embark on a creative journey like no other. In this comprehensive guide, we dive deep...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 264 p. In Britain, Ireland and Southern Scandinavia, the Early Neolithic is characterised by monumental constructions (e.g. causewayed enclosures, dolmens) and by specific traditions of depositional practice. Some aspects of these practices are similar in both regions, for example the shapes and use of monuments, their overall developmental sequences,...
Sidestone Press, 2025. — 327 p. This volume collects papers on the pre-Corded Ware horizon in central Europe and adjacent areas (i.e. from c. 3500 – 2800 BC). This phase is very patchily researched, partly also because certain kinds of evidence, notably domestic architecture and burials, are rare or absent in many regions. This has occasionally been interpreted as signs of a...
The Boydell Press, 2022. — 245 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 23). The Ashburnham Pentateuch is an early medieval manuscript of uncertain provenance, which has puzzled and intrigued scholars since the nineteenth century. Its first image, which depicts the Genesis creation narrative, is itself a site of mystery; originally, it presented the Trinity as...
Edited by Brett Reynolds and Peter Evans. With an introduction by Olli O. Silvennoinen. — Berlin: Language Science Press, 2025. — ix, 251 p. — (Classics in Linguistics 8; ISSN 2366-374X). — ISBN 978-3-96110-500-7. Otto Jespersen’s landmark study of negation provides a wide-ranging analysis of how languages express negative meaning. Drawing on an impressive array of historical...
The Boydell Press, 2019. — 349 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 17). Mappae mundi (maps of the world), beautiful objects in themselves, offer huge insights into how medieval scholars conceived the world and their place within it. They are a fusion of "real" geographical locations with fantasical, geographic, historical, legendary and theological material....
Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2024. — 256 p. — (Sanskrit Texts from the Tibetan Autonomous Region 26). This book presents the Diplomatic Edition of the Sanskrit manuscript of the first chapter of Sthiramati's Abhidharmakośaṭīkā Tattvārthā. It has not been found in Sanskrit and has been studied exclusively through poor translations into Tibetan, which have not yielded the...
Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2025. — 514 S. — (Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim Österreichischen Kulturforum in Rom: Abteilung II: Quellen 6.4). Diese Edition bildet den vierten Band der „Vorarbeiten zu einem Urkundenbuch des Patriarchats Aquileia“. Sie ergänzt damit die schon vorhandenen Ausgaben von Urkunden friaulischer Kirchen bis...
The Boydell Press, 2022. — 413 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 24). Joanna Cannon's scholarship and teaching have helped shape the historical study of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italian art; this essay collection by her former students is a tribute to her work. The essays collected here form a tribute to Joanna Cannon, whose scholarship and...
The Boydell Press, 2015. — 298 p. — (Boydell Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture 6). New insights into inscribed and stone monuments from across Europe in the early middle ages. Often fragmented and without context, early medieval inscribed and sculpted stone monuments of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD have been mainly studied via their shape, their decoration and the...
Routledge, 2006. — 240 p. — (The British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 29). The Association's 2004 conference focused mainly on the architecture and archaeology of the medieval diocese of Llandaff, comprising much of the historic counties of Glamorgan and Monmouthshire. Contributors consider Roman and early medieval south-east Wales, including surviving...
Routledge, 2003. — 274 p. — (The British Archaeological Association: Conference Transactions 26). In 2000 the annual conference of The British Archaeological Association met at Angers in France. This publication contains sixteen papers from the conference, in English and French, covering a number of different aspects of the history, art and architecture of Anjou and its...
Routledge, 2003. — 275 p. — (The British Archaeological Association: Conference Transactions 26). In 2000 the annual conference of The British Archaeological Association met at Angers in France. This publication contains sixteen papers from the conference, in English and French, covering a number of different aspects of the history, art and architecture of Anjou and its...
Oxford University Press, 2003. — 273 p. — (Oxford History of Art). Following 150 years of fashion, Christopher Breward offers a catholic view of this colorful and flamboyant universe, describing its trends, products, and inhabitants. From Haute Couture, High Street, and developing fabric technology to such stars of the fashion heavens as Coco Chanel, Giorgio Armani, and...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 256 p. — (Oxford History of Art). Medieval architecture comprises much more than the traditional image of Gothic cathedrals and the castles of chivalry. A great variety of buildings--synagogues, halls, and barns--testify to the diverse communities and interests in western Europe in the centuries between 1150 and 1550. This book looks at their...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 253 p. — (BAR International Series 2789). The main aim of this study was to analyse the Roman settlement patterns of the western part of the Conventus Bracarensis, located within a vast province of the Iberian Peninsula: the Hispania Citerior or Tarraconensis. In order to fully understand the Roman settlement patterns of the area under study, it was...
L'Harmattan, 2002. — 248 p. Le parler sénoufo proposé ici (nyènèrè) est utilisé au nord de la Côte-d'Ivoire, dans la sous-préfecture de Kolia. Fait unique en Côte-d'Ivoire : en partenariat avec l'O.N.G. Savane-Développement et le ministère de l'Education nationale Ivoirienne, le nyènèrè est, à ce titre expérimental, langue d'enseignement dans une école primiaire de Kolia de la...
BAR Publishing, 1984. — 374 p. — (BAR International Series 206). The Petrified Frontier (c. A.D. 50-138). The System Under Stress (138-196). The Severan Renewal (193-235). Collapse and Reconstruction (235-337). The Last Frontier (337-410).
Ugarit-Verlag, 2021. — 237 p. — (Wiener Offene Orientalistik 13). This volume, entitled Signs – Sounds – Semantics and offered as part of the “Wiener Offene Orientalistik” series, presents eight essays that emerged from talks given at two workshops during the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, which was held 16–20 July 2018 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria....
10. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2019. — 164 S. — (Kauderwelsch 77). Dieser Sprachführer vermittelt schnell und unkompliziert das in Marokko gesprochene Arabisch und stellt typische Redewendungen aus der Umgangssprache vor. Vorkenntnisse des Arabischen sind nicht erforderlich. Die Umschrift in lateinischen Buchstaben ermöglicht es, sofort mit dem Sprechen zu...
13. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2021. — 132 S. — (Kauderwelsch 43). Ein nützlicher Begleiter für alle Dänemark-Reisenden: In diesem Sprachführer werden auf lockere Art die wichtigsten dänischen Grammatikregeln erklärt, ohne allerdings zu sehr ins Detail zu gehen. Vielmehr sollen die Reisenden möglichst schnell dazu im Stande sein, eigenständig Sätze zu bilden...
3. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2011. — 196 S. — (Kauderwelsch 197). Viele Deutsche und Deutschschweizer gehen den Sommer über in Graubünden zur Alp, oft auch im kleinen rätoromanischen Sprachgebiet, und begegnen so dieser eigenständigen, mit dem Italienischen verwandten Sprache, auf die viele Bauern stolz sind: nies bi lungatg, „unsere schöne Sprache“. Auch bei...
2. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2016. — 343 S. — (Kauderwelsch plus 1). Dieser Kauderwelsch Sprachführer mit Wörterbuch bietet einen schnellen Einstieg in die nationale indonesische Sprache Bahasa Indonésia und vermittelt Wissenswertes über Land und Leute. Alle indonesischen Sätze im Buch werden zusätzlich zur sinngemäßen Übersetzung ins Deutsche auch einmal Wort...
19. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2018. — 163 S. — (Kauderwelsch 6). Wer sechs Jahre lang täglich drei Stunden Schriftzeichen (kanji) paukt, so sagt man, kann dann endlich mit Hilfe eines Wörterbuches japanische Tageszeitungen lesen. Wem es aber genügt, Japanisch zu sprechen (!), wird feststellen, dass das mit Hilfe dieses völlig neuen Sprachführers gar nicht so...
3. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2018. — 192 S. — (Kauderwelsch 177). Romani, die Muttersprache der Roma, ist eine indoeuropäische Sprache, die den nordindischen Sprachen (z. B. Hindi) ähnelt. Es stellt heute immer noch die Haupt-Umgangssprache der europäischen Roma dar, von Portugal bis ins Baltikum und ans Schwarze Meer. Dieses Buch will seinen Lesern...
Albiana, 2009. — 224 p. C'est un jeu simple et chacun s'y prête volontiers : retrouver le sens des noms de lieux sur les cartes de Corse. Ses difficultés : multiples, dues aux erreurs, aux graphies, aux interprétations, aux approximations des cartographes. Difficulté supplémentaire : aucun dictionnaire étymologique de langue corse à disposition... Misant sur la méthode -...
10. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2002. — 166 S. — (Kauderwelsch 40). Dieses Kauderwelsch-Buch richtet sich vor allem an Reisende und diejenigen, denen es nicht um perfekte Sprachkenntnisse geht, sondern die Französisch so weit beherrschen wollen, dass sie verstehen und verstanden werden. Alles Komplizierte fällt erst einmal weg, Ausnahmen werden nur in...
7. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2004. — 165 S. — (Kauderwelsch 31). Ihre Besonderheit möglichst viel in einem Wort unterzubringen, hat dem Ungarischen den Ruf eingebracht, eine schwer zu erlernende Sprache zu sein. Dieser Kauderwelsch Sprachführer Ungarisch beweist das Gegenteil und zeigt, mit welch einfachen Prinzipien in Kürze erste Sätze gebildet werden...
Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2017. — 163 S. — (Kauderwelsch 231). In Namibia und im Süden Angolas spricht ein Großteil der Bevölkerung Oshiwambo. Sprachkenntnisse ermöglichen es, sich auch mit Menschen zu unterhalten, die kein Englisch sprechen, und die Vielseitigkeit der Kulturen besser kennen zu lernen. Wer Oshiwambo beherrscht, kann übrigens auch Herero verstehen, da...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 270 p. From Edessa to Urfa: the Fortification of the Citadel is the outcome of an archaeological research project focused on a specific monumental area in the city of Urfa: its citadel. Urfa is better known to the general reader by its ancient name, Edessa. Three seasons of fieldwork were carried out (2014-2016), concentrating on the study of the evidence...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 81 p. — (Shire Library). Designed both to protect the their inhabitants of the towns they towered over and cow them into submission, castles dominated the landscape of Medieval England and Wales. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy of domination in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 81 p. — (Shire Library). Designed both to protect the their inhabitants of the towns they towered over and cow them into submission, castles dominated the landscape of Medieval England and Wales. Though some were built before 1066, the Norman Conquest left a lasting legacy of domination in the form of fortifications ranging from small earthworks...
Dover Publications, 1985. — 256 p. The art of fortification had reached a high state of development even at the dawn of history. Powerful military works, dating from the remotest periods, have been found in Asia Minor, in Greece, and in the basins of the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Nile rivers. The medieval castle, with its strategic, crenellated ramparts and aura of legend...
2. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2018. — 372 S. — (Kauderwelsch plus 7). Dieser Kauderwelsch Sprachführer mit Wörterbuch bietet einen schnellen Einstieg in die russische Sprache und vermittelt Wissenswertes über Land und Leute. Alle russischen Sätze im Buch werden zusätzlich zur sinngemäßen Übersetzung ins Deutsche auch einmal Wort für Wort übersetzt. Dadurch wird...
10. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2018. — 164 S. — (Kauderwelsch 69). Bekanntlich sprechen viele Slowenen ausgezeichnet Deutsch. Doch Reisende, die einige Wörter und Floskeln Slowenisch sprechen, werden durch freudestrahlend überraschte Gesichter der slowenischen Gastgeber belohnt. Zugegeben, Slowenisch ist nicht gerade einfach, aber niemand wird verlangen, dass...
2. Auflage — Reise Know-How Verlag Peter Rump, 2017. — 163 S. — (Kauderwelsch 165). Korsika gehört zwar zu Frankreich, dennoch haben die Korsen einen ganz eigenständigen Charakter und eine unabhängige Kultur, die sich nur durch die korsische Sprache erfahren lässt. Wer also wirklich mit den Menschen in Kontakt treten und das wahre Korsika erfahren will, sollte diesen...
Language Science Press, 2025. — 582 p. — (Contemporary African Linguistics 12). The Bantu language family is spread over a large area of Africa, stretching from Cameroon to Kenya to South Africa, and comprises an estimated 555 languages. The languages show a large amount of small-scale variation while at the same time forming part of one relatively uniform family within...
Archaeopress, 2025. — 314 p. Il ciclo di convegni ‘Landscape: una sintesi di elementi diacronici’ nasce nel 2019 e il volume raccoglie gli atti della sua quarta edizione, intitolata Pianificazione e mondo antico: tra i dogmi del passato e le interpretazioni recenti, tenutasi a Lecce dal 25 al 26 maggio 2023, grazie al supporto dell’Università del Salento e del Laboratorio di...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 254 p. — (BAR International Series 2792). This book is an historical document presenting the author's doctoral thesis on health and disease in the Pacific Islands, completed in 2001. The study was conducted using a sample from the Solomon Islands in Melanesia and another sample from two burial mounds in Tonga, Polynesia. The primary aim of the study was...
BAR Publishing, 2016. — 243 p. — (BAR International Series 2793). La excavación arqueológica de la calle Hospital Viejo de Logroño descubrió un complejo alfarero de dilatada trayectoria. Consiste en tres obradores superpuestos en funcionamiento durante los siglos XIII, XIV y XV, documentándose hornos, basureros, zanjas y canteras de arcilla, una pileta, útiles de alfarero,...