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Riding costume in Egyptby C. Fluck; G. Vogelsang-Eastwood
BRILL 2004; US$ 144.00This 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$ 199.00Mainstream 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$ 10.86The history of European fashion and fashion folly, this is the seventh book in the fantastic non-fiction series, It's True! more...
Greek and Roman Dress from A to Zby Liza Cleland; Glenys Davies; Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 130.00How did the ancient Greeks make blusher from seaweed? Just how does one wear a toga? This work presents an alphabetized compendium of styles and accessories that form the classical image. The entries cover individual aspects of dress alongside surveys of topics and socio-cultural analysis, drawn from ancient art, literature and archaeology. more...
Celebrity Tantrums!by Lisa Brandt
ECW Press 2003; US$ 8.95The 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 Dressed Societyby Peter Corrigan
Sage Publications Ltd. 2008; US$ 40.00It was traditionally said that 'clothes maketh the man'. But what codes and meanings are associated with dress in a society that consists of divisions between class, race, gender, family status and religion? Is social and cultural life still fundamentally themed by the clothes that we wear? If so, how should we read these codes and themes in order to decipher their relation to power and meaning? This exhaustive book demonstrates how dress shapes and is shaped by social processes and phenomena such as beauty, time, the body, the gift exchange, class, gender and religion. It does this through an analysis of topics like the Islamic clothing controversy in state schools, the multitude of identities associated with dress, the Dress Reform... more...
The Early Stuart Masqueby Barbara Ravelhofer
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 55.00The Early Stuart Masque studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. It will be a valuable resource for all who are interested in English drama, dance, and music of the early modern period, including scholars and students within English literature, as well as modern artists, directors, and producers. - ;The Early Stuart Masque: Dance, Costume, and Music studies the complex impact of movements, costumes, words, scenes, music, and special effects in English illusionistic theatre of the Renaissance. Drawing on a massive amount of documentary evidence relating to English productions as well as spectacle in France, Italy, Germany, and the Ottoman... more...
The 1980s and 1990sby Deirdre Clancy Steer
Infobase Publishing 2009; US$ 42.00The 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...
Where the Wild Things Are Nowby Rebecca Cassidy; Molly Mullin
Berg Publishers 2007; US$ 115.95An 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$ 42.00From 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...









