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  • Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century

    The Six-Step Plan to Unlock Your Master-Mind

    by Colin Rose ...
    We live in an era when the unprecedented speed of change means: The only certainty is uncertainty; you can't predict what skills will be useful in ten years time; in most professions knowledge is doubling every two or three years; and no job is forever--so being employable means being flexible and retraining regularly.Accelerated Learning into the 21st Century contains a simple but proven plan ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence

    Historical GIS and the Early Modern City

    Edited by Nicholas Terpstra, Colin Rose ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Digital Humanities
    Mapping Space, Sense, and Movement in Florence explores the potential of digital mapping or Historical GIS as a research and teaching tool to enable researchers and students to uncover the spatial, kinetic and sensory dimensions of the early modern city.The exploration focuses on new digital research and mapping projects that engage the rich social, cultural, and artistic life of Florence in ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Renaissance of Violence

    Homicide in Early Modern Italy

    by Colin Rose ...
    Based on a close examination of more than 700 homicide trials, A Renaissance of Violence exposes the deep social instability at the core of the early modern states of North Italy. Following a series of crises in the early seventeenth century, interpersonal violence in the region grew to frightening levels, despite the efforts of courts and governments to reduce social conflict. In this detailed ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    Big Jim and the Figaro Club

    A BBC Radio 4 Sitcom

    by Ted Walker, Colin Rose ...
    Narrated by Bernard Cribbins, Norman Rossington, Roland Curram, Harold Goodwin, Christopher Godwin, Full cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 45 min

    Bernard Cribbins stars in this classic BBC comedy set in a post-war seaside townFeaturing Norman Rossington as Big Jim, listen to these six funny and anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem – you know, before the world turned lax and sour”. Set on the building site of a seaside town in the1950s, and narrated by comedy legend Bernard Cribbins, this is ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    We’re in Business

    Selected Episodes from the Classic BBC Radio Comedy

    by Ted Walker, Colin Rose ...
    Narrated by Peter Jones, Harry Worth, Irene Handl, Wallas Eaton, John Graham, Frederick Treves, Hugh Paddick, Beryl Reid, Paddy Edwards, Dick Emery ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 42 min

    Eight episodes from the vintage radio comedy starring Peter Jones and Harry WorthFirst broadcast on the BBC Home Service, We’re in Business ran for two series between 1959 and 1960. It starred Peter Jones as dodgy small-time businessman Dudley Grosvenor, who’s always looking to make a fast buck with his crooked schemes – usually at the expense of his hapless sidekick, Harry (Harry Worth). Dudley ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Renaissance

    A Short History

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series Book 1 - Modern Library Chronicles
    The Renaissance holds an undying place in the human imagination, and its great heroes remain our own, from Michelangelo and Leonardo to Dante and Montaigne. This period of profound evolution in European thought is credited with transforming the West from medieval to modern; reviving the city as the center of human activity and the acme of civilization; and, of course, producing the most ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • Renaissance Art

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Tom Nichols ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The fifteenth century saw the evolution of a distinct and powerfully influential European artistic culture. But what does the familiar phrase Renaissance Art actually refer to? Through engaging discussion of timeless works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Leonardo da Vinci, and Michelangelo, and supported by illustrations including colour plates, Tom Nichols offers a masterpiece of his own as he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Festival Architecture

    by Sarah Bonnemaison, Christine Macy ...
    Series series The Classical Tradition in Architecture
    With contributions from provocative art and architectural historians, this book is a unique exposition of the temporary architecture erected for festivals and the role it has played in developing Western architectural and urban theory.Festival Architecture is arranged in historical periods – from Antiquity to the modern era – and divided between analyses of specific festivals, set in relation to ... Read more

    $110.99 USD

  • Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history and continue to be of importance today.Examining themes such as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language, they also cover a wide range of authors and works ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

    by Carolyn Springer ...
    During the Italian Wars of 1494 to 1559, with innovations in military technology and tactics, armour began to disappear from the battlefield. Yet as field armour was retired, parade and ceremonial armour grew increasingly flamboyant. Displaced from its utilitarian function of defense but retained for symbolic uses, armour evolved in a new direction as a medium of artistic expression.Luxury armour ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Art & Visual Culture 1100-1600: Medieval to Renaissance

    Edited by Kim W. Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

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