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  • Animal Spaces, Beastly Placesby Chris Philo; Chris Wilbert

    Routledge 2000; US$ 65.95

    This book explores the variations on the human-animal spatial orderings. It develops new ways of thinking about human animal interactions and encourges us to find new ways for humans and animals to live together. more...

  • Riding costume in Egyptby C. Fluck; G. Vogelsang-Eastwood

    BRILL 2004; US$ 144.00

    This work deals with the evolution and distribution of the oriental riding costume in the Middle and Near East through the ages and the historical background on the find spot. It also focuses on the original costumes in various museum collections including technical researches and reconstructions. more...

  • Middle Eastern careers in contextby Mutafa Ozbilgin; Geraldine Healy

    Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2003; US$ 199.00

    Mainstream work on careers tends to be situated within an individualistic paradigm and against a North American/Western European context (although frequently unacknowledged). This paper throws new conceptual and contextual insights on the career concept through its exploration of careers in the Middle East. It draws on articles included in two special issues on career development in the Middle East published in Career Development International , and demonstrates how careers are intertwined with history, politics, organisational practices and structures as well as the individual self. Importantly it identifies the interconnectedness of the Middle East with the rest of the world and how this impacts on individual careers. Through this regional... more...

  • It's True! Fashion Can Be Fatalby Susan Green

    Allen & Unwin 2004; US$ 10.86

    The history of European fashion and fashion folly, this is the seventh book in the fantastic non-fiction series, It's True! more...

  • Tattoo Machineby Jeff Johnson

    Spiegel & Grau 2009; US$ 11.99

    As the proprietor of the legendary Sea Tramp Tattoo Company, in Portland, Oregon, Jeff Johnson has inked gangbangers, age-defying moms, and sociopaths; he’s defused brawls and tended delicate egos. In  Tattoo Machine,  Johnson illuminates a world where art, drama, and commerce come together in highly entertaining theater. A tattoo shop is no longer a den of outcasts and degenerates, but a place where committed and schooled artists who paint on living canvases develop close bonds and bitter rivalries, where tattoo legends and innovators are equally revered, and where the potential for disaster lurks in every corner. more...

  • Celebrity Tantrums!by Lisa Brandt

    ECW Press 2003; US$ 8.95

    The scandals, cat fights, temper tantrums, and felonies of more than 100 celebrities are revealed in this chronicle of the most notorious faux pas of the rich and famous. All kinds of unflattering provocations and outrageous reactions are detailed, including what pushed Diff’rent Strokes star Gary Coleman over the edge and inspired him to slug a fan more than twice his size; how Mia Farrow found out boyfriend Woody Allen was sleeping with her adopted daughter and what she did to exact revenge; and what single sentence caused Elton John to nearly ruin his lifelong friendship with an equally famous singing star. Humorous and opinionated, this book examines cases of star-struck fits of passion that scuttled movie and music projects, destroyed... more...

  • The 1980s and 1990sby Deirdre Clancy Steer

    Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 42.00

    The last decades of the 20th century saw the fall of communism, the recovery of financial markets thanks to large gains in the technology sector, and fashion that ranged from the "shoulder-pad" 1980s to the grunge 1990s. The 1980s and 1990s will give readers a good background about these decades, the fashions and costumes popular during this time, and how these fashions were inventive or derivative of past decades.: Chapters include:.; Dressing Up and Dressing Down.; Style Icons.; International Fashion Design.; 1980s and 1990s Day Wear.; Sportswear and Leisure Wear.; Extreme Fashion and Style Tribes.; The Media and Celebrity Culture.; Counterculture. more...

  • The Civil Warby Karen Taschek

    Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 42.00

    During the bloodiest conflict the United States has ever known, the clothing of men, women, and children changed little as the country was consumed by war. Complete with ample sidebars, "The Civil War" gives readers the necessary background about this tumultuous time in American history so they can understand how clothing, from hooped skirts to army uniforms, differed by region and by class. Photographs from movies, including "Gone with the Wind", illustrate various popular types of clothing worn.The chapters include: War Begins, Antebellum and Civil War Dress: Women, Antebellum and Civil War Dress: Men and Children, Southern Uniforms, Northern Uniforms, Slaves' Clothes, The Blockade of the South, and The North's... more...

  • Where the Wild Things Are Nowby Rebecca Cassidy; Molly Mullin

    Berg Publishers 2007; US$ 115.95

    An examination of the concept of domestication against the shifting background of relationships among humans, animals and plants. It explores the relevance of domestication for anthropologists and scholars in related fields who are concerned with understanding ongoing change in processes affecting humans as well as other species. Please note that images or diagrams have been excluded from this text due to copyright restrictions. more...

  • The 1980sby Vicky Carnegy; Kathy Elgin

    Infobase Publishing 2007; US$ 42.00

    From the designer suits of yuppie men and women to ripped jeans to the mini-crinoline craze to the eloquent fashion sense of Princess Diana, the 1980s encapsulates a time when it became fashionable to make money and dress well. This work explores the enthralling history of fashion as it recreated itself through the popular trends of the eighties. more...