The Arts: art forms

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, and its appreciation.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Chinese embroidery, including its history, styles in different regions, patterns, techniques, and its appreciation.

A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Disciple-Making in Any ChurchOver the last few decades American churches have produced plenty of converts but not as many mature believers.

Learn how to draw all kinds of farm animals using this fun and easy step-by-step method.

- Este libro va dirigido a cualquiera que quiera mejorar en el dibujo del rostro humano, ya sea si empieza desde cero o es un artista más experimentado.

The Human Touch is a book focused on the creative processes at work in British contemporary improvisational theatre and how these processes draw on the humanity of the participants: their cognitive abilities, their lives, and their relationships to each other.

This fully revised and updated second edition of Photography as Activism is both a study of activist photography, and a call to action.

Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination.

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens.

Immersive Storytelling and Spectatorship in Theatre, Museums, and Video Games is the first volume to explore immersion as it is experienced in all three of these storytelling forms: the theatre, museums and historic sites, and video games.

This book brings together a range of arts and development scholars and practitioners to explore the unique ways in which arts-based research methods can make a unique positive contribution to effective global development practice.

Using a simple four-stage process, the world-renowned artist shows how to build a portrait, from the basic shape right to finished faces.

Arriving in India, Amy Carmichael sees little children married to pagan priests for temple prostitution.

What sort of relationship do artists want with their audience?

Estética y neuroestética intermedial: semióticas interartísticas muestra que la intermedialidad no se limita a la interacción entre medios y la variabilidad de soportes, ya sean biológicos (como los mecanismos físicos para emitir sonidos y lenguaje) o tecnológicos.

Growing Up Stories brings together beloved Disney characters and a ton of fun, providing a new way to teach kids about positive traits.

Growing Up Stories brings together beloved Disney characters and a ton of fun, providing a new way to teach kids about positive traits.

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This fun collection of stories about Winnie the Pooh and his friends will make bedtime enjoyable for little ones.

Essays on the nature, production, and presentation of art, craft, and architecture in Japan, inspired by the authors experiences in Kyoto.

Tizian, einer der bedeutendsten Maler der europäischen Kunstgeschichte, prägte die venezianische Renaissance wie kein anderer.

Showcasing the Optimal, Maximal, Incremental, and Threshold (OMIT) and Accelerate The Curve (ATC) models, this book offers a solid understanding of high performance and how to improve it.

What are the characteristics of contemporary circus?

Transcultural things examines four sets of artefacts from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: maps pointing to Poland-Lithuania's roots in the supposedly 'Oriental' land of Sarmatia, portrayals of fashions that purport to trace Polish culture back to a distant and revered past, Ottomanesque costumes worn by Polish ambassadors and carpets labelled as Polish despite their foreign provenance.

Investigating the representation of artefacts, objects and 'things' in a range of predominantly Western archaeological fiction from the late Victorian period to the modern day, this book examines the narratives through which humanity represents its own material heritage in relation to notions of enchantment, exhibition, estrangement, adventure, tourism and waste.

This book explores historical, socio-political, and metatheatrical readings of a whole host of dying bodies and risen corpses, each part of a long tradition of living death on stage.