Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-795-7
EAN 9781848857957
The image of the visionary Celt has captured the modern imagination. Whether it be the woad-painted pagan warrior fighting for his freedom against distant rulers (be they Roman, English or French), or the fanatical druid harrying Roman legionaries through the treacherous and mist-drenched forests of north Wales, the Celtic idea represents a proud and fierce ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-861-9
EAN 9781848858619
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history Trudi Tate ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-512-9
EAN 9781780765129
Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics. Deborah Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 34,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-467-2
EAN 9781780764672
The mendicant friars of the Franciscan and Dominican orders played a unique and important role in medieval society. In the early thirteenth century, the Church was being challenged by a confident new secular culture, associated with the growth of towns, the rise of literature and articulate laity, the development of new sciences and the creation ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 21,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-360-6
EAN 9781780763606
Ibn Battuta was, without doubt, one of the world's truly great travellers. Born in 14th century Morocco, and a contemporary of Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta has left us an account in his own words of his remarkable journeys throughout the Islamic world and beyond: journeys punctuated by adventure and peril, and stretching from his home ...
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One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of ...
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- IBTauris, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-048-3
EAN 9781780760483
Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and ...
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- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,35 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-914-2
EAN 9781848859142
'I've just given myself an airplane and I want you to fly us to all the outlandish places in the world, Turkey, Persia, Paris and - Pasadena. We're going to fly across deserts, over mountains, rescue imprisoned princesses and fight dragons. We must have the world.We can have the world!' Thirsting for a new adventure ...
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- IBTauris, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 20,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-984-3
EAN 9781845119843
The groundbreaking new concept that reveals the true and hazardous extent of our everyday water consumption. How much water does it take to make a cup of coffee? The answer may shock you: 140 litres! That's the true amount of water used in growing, producing, packaging and shipping the beans you use to make your ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-765-8
EAN 9781845117658
'The present state of the old world is running up like parchment in the fire.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civil wars divided and slaughtered families and communities, as failing harvests and ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-678-1
EAN 9781845116781
Jean Baudrillard has been a unique intellectual voice in many of the key debates and issues facing an increasingly globalised, media-driven world. Baudrillard Reframed offers the arts student and others working with Baudrillard's ideas an accessible overview of his better known arguments, as well as extending beyond them to critically engage with his radical notions ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-679-8
EAN 9781845116798
It is frequently commented that Heidegger writes impenetrable texts that are difficult to read and comprehend, but he also, as Barbara Bolt demonstrates in this clear, original guide to his oeuvre, provides an "artists' guide to the world". 'Heidegger Reframed' grounds Heidegger's writings in the critical questions confronting contemporary visual artists and students of art. ...
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- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-660-6
EAN 9781845116606
For Kristeva, in a world immersed in readymade images, art or aesthetic experience is a practice that constitutes both a subject (a sense of self) and an object that is able to transform meaning and consciousness. 'Kristeva Reframed' examines key ideas in Kristeva's work to show how they are most relevant to artists, and how ...
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Reset Middle East
Old Friends and New Alliances: Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, Iran
- IBTauris, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-765-0
EAN 9781848857650
Peace and democracy in the Middle East have been the aim of world leaders for generations, yet the US, UK or their closest allies in the region have been behind nearly every war in the Middle East in the last century. How did the West get everything so wrong? In this concise and readable book ...
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- IBTauris, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 32,30 €
ISBN 978-1-85043-416-0
EAN 9781850434160
In this detailed history of the Kurds from the 19th century to the present day, McDowall examines the interplay of old and new aspects of the struggle, the importance of local rivalries within Kurdish society, the enduring authority of certain forms of leadership and the failure of modern states to respond to the challenge of ...
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- IBTauris, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-547-0
EAN 9781845115470
Are your students baffled by Baudrillard? Dazed by Deleuze? Confused by Kristeva? Other beginners' guides can feel as impenetrable as the original texts to students who 'think in images'. "Contemporary Thinkers Reframed" instead uses the language of the arts to explore the usefulness in practice of complex ideas.Short, contemporary and accessible, these lively books utilise ...
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- IBTauris, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 22,60 €
ISBN 978-1-86064-675-1
EAN 9781860646751
Of all the great civilizations of the ancient world, that of Persia is one of the most remarkable but least understood. This is a study of the country's origins and why it collapsed so dramatically with the Arab invasions of the seventh century. Josef Wiesehofer, provides a comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under the ...
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