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My Voice: Danny Herman
Danny's book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Danny Herman was born in East Prussia and escaped to England with his mother 3 days before war was declared in 1939. He moved to Manche...
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Debating medieval Europe
This unique textbook introduces undergraduate students to medieval historiography, providing an entry point for the dense scholarship on the period. Volume I covers the post-Roman world, from 450 to 1050.
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The English manor c.1200–c.1500
This book provides a comprehensive introduction and essential guide to one of the most important institutions in medieval England and to its substantial archive. This is the first book to offer a detailed explanation of the form, structure and evolution of the manor and its records.
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Carbon colonialism
Outsourcing climate breakdown shows how the impact of climate change, including the slow-burn disasters of droughts and floods, is traded out by wealthier countries and imported by less wealthy ones as the price of economic growth.
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Barbara Comyns
This biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose complicated life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs,...
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Crafting crime fiction
Whether you are writing a police procedural or a psychological thriller, a contemporary or historically set novel, this book will help you identify the right beginning, middle and end of your crime novel. It will help you recognise your talent and realise your ambition in practical and realistic ...
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Welcome to the club
Hacienda resident and Manchester legend DJ Paulette celebrates the highs, lows and lessons of a 30-year career at the forefront of UK dance music as a ground-breaking Black female DJ.
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Family Romance
A brilliant new account of John Singer Sargent and his relationship with the Wertheimers, an eminent Jewish family in Edwardian London.
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The Future of Employment in Africa
The Future of Employment in Africa: Demography, Labour Markets and Welfare explores the major socio-economic trends that will define the face of the sub-Saharan continent in the next three decades. It mainly focuses on the need to massively create jobs due to unseen demographic growth. The book c...
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The AI and Data Revolution
Grounded in theory, this book uses real-life case studies to illustrate how the collection, manipulation and application of data are reshaping businesses. It explains what this means for your organisation and strategies for staying ahead of this data and AI revolution.
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World Film Locations: Los Angeles
World Film Locations: Los Angeles Volume 2 is an engaging and highly visual city-wide tour of both well known and slightly lesser known films shot on location in one of the birthplaces of cinema and the ‘screen spectacle’. It pairs 50 synopses of carefully chosen film scenes with evocative full-c...
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Singing for Our Lives
Exploring the role of street choirs in political culture, and based on oral histories from more than 40 members of UK street choirs, this book introduces this neglected world to a wider public, including activists and academics. The title is taken from a song by musician and activist Holly Near, ...
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World Film Locations: Rome
This volume explores the city of Rome, which has served as the setting for countless memorable films, spanning all genres and emotions. Readers are taken on a journey through the city with stops at key locations. A carefully selected compilation of films is complemented by essays that further exa...
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Art as Research
The new practice of art-based research uses art making as a primary mode of enquiry rather than continuing to borrow research methodologies from other disciplines to study artistic processes. Drawing on contributions from arts therapies, education, history, organisational studies and philosophy, ...
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Kurt Kren
Kurt Kren was a vital figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema of the postwar period. His structural films—often shot frame-by-frame following elaborately prescored charts and diagrams—have influenced filmmakers for decades, even as Kren himself remained a nomadic and obscure public figure. Kurt Kre...
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Performance Art in Ireland
This book, the first devoted to the history and contemporary forms of Irish performance art in the north and south of Ireland, brings together contributions by prominent Irish artists and major academics. Co-published with Live Art Development Agency.
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Leonora Carrington
A survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). It provides an overview of this intriguing artist's rich body of work and considers Carrington's preoccupation with alchemy and the occult.
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Suave Mechanicals
This is the ninth and last volume in the series; it was originally published in 2025. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia.
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Books Will Speak Plain
This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings.
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The regeneration of east Manchester
Explores the role of public sector agencies in the regeneration of east Manchester.
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Deir Al-Ganadla: A Unique Coptic Church in Middle Egypt
Deir al-Ganadla stands as one of the most extraordinary Coptic monastic sites of Middle Egypt. The church preserves rare architectural elements and mural paintings dating from the sixth to the twelfth centuries, crowned by a painted ceiling unlike any other in Egypt. This book reveals and documen...
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My Voice: Jacques Weisser
Jacques’s book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Born in Antwerp in 1942 and hidden across orphanages, hospitals and safe houses, Jacques Weisser later rebuilt his life in Belgium, S...
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My Voice: Rachel Levy
Rachel’s book is part of the My Voice Project, a collection of firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in the UK. Born in Czechoslovakia, Rachel Levy was deported to Auschwitz and finally came to Britain as a child refugee, later creating a family ...
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Building Defects Law
As the Grenfell disaster demonstrated, the results of building defects can be catastrophic. While the civil law provides a range of potential remedies to those affected by the consequences of defects – whether they are those who paid for the work, those who occupy the premises or those who have t...
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Living by the Rule
This unique and bold publication vividly stages an encounter between medieval and contemporary art with many unexpected resonances sounding between recent works and much earlier objects and texts. Taking as their focus the Rule of St Benedict, a book written in the sixth century which provided mo...
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Leslie Martin and Sadie Speight
Sir Leslie Martin was a leading post‑war British architect known for the Royal Festival Hall and his Whitehall plan. The book highlights his influence on architectural education and reveals the vital, previously overlooked role of his partner Sadie Speight in their shared work and legacy.
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Waterloo Bridge and London River
As a subject, Waterloo Bridge fascinated writers and artists such as Dickens, Constable, Monet and Derain. This book tells the story of a bridge’s place in the city – its history in use, its inextricable connection with the great river which it crosses, and the character and activities of the two...
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Hendrick ter Brugghen
Hendrick ter Brugghen’s work forms a key chapter in the history of 17th-century Dutch art. A significant follower of Caravaggio, Ter Brugghen was also important in the development of both Rembrandt and Vermeer. Yet until now there has been no accessible survey of his work. This important book pro...
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Streaming privilege
Streaming privilege shows how contemporary serial television helps to legitimate our ‘new Gilded Age’ of extreme inequality. The book exposes television’s obsession with privilege, analysing blockbuster series, which grapple with inherited wealth and power. It urges us to consider the political m...
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A Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones from Archaeological Sites
This reprinted manual shows the main skeletal elements of 32 species of birds, all drawn at 1:1 scale and annotated with notes to aid identification. It is intended as an aid to teaching the identification of bird bones from archaeological sites.
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Once a Mother, Always a Mother
From the author of A Wedding in the Family, Annette Byford continues her examination of how mothers experience life changes in family contexts and how it impacts their sense of who they are. The book picks up the theme of family transitions and moves it to the wider focus of what happens to a fa...
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Asylum Years: Back to the Future?
Has the legacy of the asylum era impacted on the thinking that underpins health policy today? Evidence gathered here from a number of people who worked in an asylum 50 years ago suggests that there is considerable inheritance from the institutional times that reinforce current mental health polic...
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Decolonising International Solidarity
Decolonising International Solidarity explores how differences in natural resources between Europe, Africa and the Middle East contributed to the failure of the colonialists’ attempts at imposing their civilisation onto the colonised. It shows how this colonial attitude persists to this day and a...
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The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry
This sixth edition has been extensively updated to include the latest information on phenomenology, diagnosis, and assessment of late-life mental disorders as well as the most up-to-date research on psychotherapeutic, psychop...
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The Practice of Electroconvulsive Therapy
This third edition captures the body of knowledge accumulated over the past 20 years, citing and explaining the most recent literature on the safety and efficacy of ECT.
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Food, Nutrition, and Mental Health
This book explores the essential relationship between diet and mental health, offering an overview of key topics in a text that is as accessible as it is authoritative. The book delves into the impact of macronutrients and mi...
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AI with Purpose
AI with Purpose is a strategy-first playbook for legal leaders under pressure to "do something with AI" but who don't want to waste money on pilots that never scale.
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Celebrating the city
This book uses a wide range of textual, visual and material evidence to offer the first comparative, interdisciplinary study of festivals in London and Paris. Its unique methodology, combining the tools of design history and the concerns of political history, sheds new light on how political publ...
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Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism
The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy...
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Organised Crime and Migration
Drawing on original interview material with informants, migrants and refugees, this book considers three interconnected ways in which organised crime shapes migration – as a driver of displacement, a threat to migrants in transit, and a facilitator of people-smuggling. It sheds light on the displ...
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Future Finance
A systematic rethinking of financialization, which explores how financial capitalism – especially the asset management industry – is organised, how the locus of power has shifted from public to private authority, and how its consequences have defined finance’s societal purpose.
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British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery
This book looks beyond the British Empire and the Slavery Abolition Act to focus on Brazil as the final frontier of Britain’s centuries-long involvement with transatlantic slavery.
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Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I
Wittgenstein and AI (Volume I): Mind and Language. This is the first of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on mind and language.
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The Gothic Literature and History of New England
The Gothic Literature and History of New England surveys the origin, nature and future of the Gothic mode in New England’s history and literature, from the Puritans to the present, showing how the legacy of religious intolerance, racism and misogyny haunts fiction, film and popular culture.
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Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance
“Science Advice and Global Environmental Governance” examines expert committees advising multilateral environmental agreements on ozone layer depletion, persistent organic pollutants and land degradation. This work argues the co-production arising in these committees warrants recognizing their co...
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Forever
The idea of transferring humans into humanoid bodies has been the theme for many eminent titles. This book’s unique contribution is its exploration of the legal questions and embedded philosophical issues that flow from being able to transfer a copy of a person’s mind into a synthetic body that l...
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Becoming an Environmental Psychologist
This book explores the interdisciplinary pathways that environmental psychologists have taken to become educators, researchers, and consultants in this highly applied and growing field. Individuals with backgrounds in architecture, urban planning, and geography, as well as in the health sciences ...
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The Constitution
The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts provides students with a road map through the evolution of the Supreme Court and its decisions involving criminal justice, civil liberties, social justice and federalism, and the balance of powers between the three branches of government placed in a his...
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Elementary SCAT Practice Tests
This book contains three full-length verbal and quantitative practice tests to prepare students in grades 2 and 3 to take the Elementary School and College Ability Test (SCAT) administered by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY), an above-grade level test designed at grades 4 and 5 t...
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Personal Data Collection Risks in a Post-Vaccine World
The editors observe that in key texts written to teach international relations less mention is made of personal data collection risks in countries around the globe.
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Border abolitionism
This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.
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Tainted tools
Tainted Tools addresses the tension between new materialisms’ decolonial ambitions and its perception as a White discourse. Framing the new materialist method as ‘decolonising from within’, the book examines its benefits and dangers. Rather than pointing to failures of decolonial allyship, the bo...
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Gendered urban violence among Brazilians
Understanding and theorising the translocational, multiscalar, intersectional nature of urban gendered violence and resistance to it in Rio de Janeiro and London.
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A neoliberal revolution?
A neoliberal revolution? examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to privatise and individualise Britain’s pension system, thereby transforming workers into risk-taking savers with a stake in capitalism. The book explains why this revolution failed and charts the malign legacy left by the evolu...
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Hariulf’s History of St Riquier
A new translation of an important source for medieval monastic history that provides interesting insights the background to the Norman Conquest of England.
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The promise of violence
The promise of violence inspires revolutionaries in Iran to see themselves as the hegemony and inflict violence against their compatriots when the Islamic Republic calls for it. The book is a political anthropology of the Islamic Republic of Iran utilising the ‘collective’ memory of Iran-Iraq War...
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Gestures
This cross-disciplinary collection of feminist approaches to gesture offers new explorations of how gesture/s and feminism/s have animated one another in feminist and interdisciplinary artistic practice from the 1960s onwards.
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Flappers and the Jazz Age
This book offers fascinating new insights into women’s leisure in 1920s-30s Ireland and Northern Ireland. Using a feminist, intersectional lens, it challenges stereotypes of these women's lives as insular and passive, instead presenting more complex images of agentic, pleasure-seeking subjects wh...
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Translating hell
A groundbreaking comparative study of the weird apocryphal hells found in the vernaculars of medieval Ireland, England, Wales, and Iceland. This book explores how apocrypha about hell encouraged early vernacular literary experiments with hefty theological and local implications, as writers harnes...
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Democratizing AI
Democratizing AI argues that AI deployment is a political act requiring democratic control. Zimmermann offers a practical playbook for reclaiming public power from tech elites and shaping AI’s future through civic participation, regulation, and justice.
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The construction of public opinion in a digital age
This book presents a new conceptual model for understanding the role of the media in the construction of public knowledge, belief and opinion in the context of a radically changed communications infrastructure.
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Syrians in the Shadow of War
Gripping, on-the-ground accounts of how ordinary Syrians survived the hardships and social and economic decay that preceded the Assad regime's collapse, based on 3,500 interviews carried out between 2017 and 2024.
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The anthropology of ambiguity
This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.
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Anti-colonial research praxis
This book centres the perspectives of First Nations and majority-world researchers and provides insightful descriptions of anti-colonial research praxis from around the world. By engaging with the diverse examples, reflections, and methodological knowledge in this collection, readers will change ...
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Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship tackles what failure – in all its messy but immensely valuable complexity – means for the digital humanities community. Through a series of reflections on failed, broken or challenging aspects of digital scholarship and practice, the book normalises failur...
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Pandemic culture
Based on the findings of a 15-month study led by the Centre for Cultural Value, this book offers a comprehensive overview of the impacts of Covid-19 on the UK’s cultural sector. Based on a mixed-methods analysis, it highlights implications for the sector’s future direction and for research in the...
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Paper and Water
This volume (published by Siegl, Munich) is a revised and expanded edition of the book first published in 2011 by Elsevier-Butterworth-Heinemann. The text and many illustrations are reworked and the contents of all the chapters revised and expanded to reflect recent research and developments. Imp...
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Christ’s war
Christ’s war examines Carolingian holy war from the forging of their empire in the eighth century to its dissolution in the following century during the Northmen’s attacks. The book offers important insights into the religious nature of Frankish warfare, while also contributing a fresh and innova...
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English Panel Paintings 1400-1558
This is a landmark study of East Anglia’s fifteenth-century rood-screen paintings—the largest surviving body of late medieval painting in England. Based on Audrey Baker’s 1937 PhD thesis and newly expanded by conservators Ann Ballantyne and Pauline Plummer, it catalogues over a thousand painted p...
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Tempera Painting 1800 - 1950
These texts explore the revival of tempera painting between 1800 and 1950 from the perspectives of art history, technical art history, conservation and scientific analysis.
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Unravelling Textiles
This comprehensive handbook offers essential guidance for the care and preservation of textile collections. Aimed at curators, conservators, collection managers, and students, it covers textile fibres, production and decoration techniques, and the impact of environmental factors on textile degrad...
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Artists' Pigments
This is the fourth volume in the series Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics published by National Gallery of Art in association with Archetype Publications Ltd.
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Arab Paper
This revised edition of Das Arabische Papier offers an English translation of J. von Karabacek’s seminal study on Arab paper, essential for students, historians, conservators, and anyone interested in the historical development of papermaking.
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Changing Pictures
Changing Pictures is the first major study of the discoloration of 15th–17th-century oil paintings. Combining historical texts, technical research, and reconstructed paints, it reveals how ageing pigments and media have altered the original colours, modelling, and illusions intended by old masters.
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Turquoise in Mexico and North America
An exploration of the rich history, cultural significance, and enduring appeal of turquoise across regions and time periods. Featuring new scientific research on sourcing, mining, and distribution, the volume also delves into pre-Hispanic mosaics, Aztec symbolism, and the poetic and philosophical...
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Paintings in the Laboratory
This is a celebration of the life and work of Karin Groen (1941–2013), a pioneer in the scientific examination of paintings. Featuring a selection of her most influential articles, it highlights her collaborative approach with conservators and her focus on understanding artists' techniques.
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Coinage and History in the Seventh Century Near East No 4
Proceedings of the 14th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at The Hive, Worcester, on 28th and 29th September 2013
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Volatile Organic Compounds and the Conservation of Inorganic Materials
Alice Boccia Paterakis investigates the impact of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in museums and galleries, focusing on acetic and formic acids emitted by materials like wood, adhesives, and sealants.
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A Perfect Ground
Maartje Stols-Witlox offers the first in-depth study of historical recipes for preparatory ground layers used by painters in North West Europe between 1550 and 1900.
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Colour Change in Paintings
This collection of papers from the ICON Paintings Group conference Appearance and Reality, explores how colour change affects our perception, interpretation, and conservation of paintings.
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Trading Paintings and Painters’ Materials 1550–1800
An investigation into the international trade in paintings and artists’ materials during the early-modern period, exploring how imported goods shaped local production, taste, and theory. Contributors examine regional preferences, trade conditions, and the movement of materials and artworks across...
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Research on Early Chinese Lacquer Buddhas
The first holistic study of Buddhist lacquer sculptures, drawing on scientific, historical, and art historical research. Featuring contributions from diverse disciplines, it explores the techniques, context, and cultural significance of these rare works, dating back to the sixth-century Sui dynasty.
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Preparation for Painting
This volume explores the vital role of ground layers in shaping a painting’s texture, luminosity, and longevity. Topics include materials and techniques, optical properties, terminology, and their impact on conservation decisions.
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On the Ethics of Cultural Heritage Conservation
A collection of previously published papers, original texts based on lectures delivered by the author and several pieces written solely for this publication. Each analyses one of the core notions that shape the traditional conservation discourse (minimal intervention, artist's intent etc.).
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Coinage and History in the Seventh Century Near East 7
Proceedings of the 17th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table The Syrian Arab-Byzantine coinage has been intensively studied over the last 30 years, perhaps more so than any other Islamic coin series. However, this volume contains more than previous volumes on the Byzantine coinage of th...
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Practical Gilding
A clear, practical guide to traditional oil and water gilding methods, Practical Gilding explains materials, equipment, and techniques for craftspeople, conservators, gilders, decorative artists, antique dealers, and collectors. This Archetype edition is a facsimile of the original publication.
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Cultural Heritage Microbiology
Leading scientists examine microbial impacts on materials including parchment, stained glass, stone, wood, and paintings. Topics range from third-generation sequencing and ecological studies to the use of bacteria in conservation.
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Coinage and History in the Seventh Century Near East No 6
The Syrian Arab-Byzantine coinage has been intensively studied over the last 25 years, perhaps more so than any other Islamic coin series. However, this volume demonstrates new research, new discoveries and new questions.
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Mediaeval Painters' Materials and Techniques
We present the first English translation of the Liber diversarum arcium, a 14th-century manuscript offering the most comprehensive surviving guide to medieval painting techniques. Covering tempera, oil, fresco, manuscript illumination, glass, and ceramics, it includes nearly 600 detailed recipes—...
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Early Painting in the Northern Netherlands
This volume, published in association with the Rijksmuseum, investigates the materials and techniques of early Northern Netherlandish paintings in the museum’s collection. Scientists, conservators, and art historians examine 14 works to uncover details about panels, pigments, oils, and methods, l...
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European Paintings 15th-18th Century
This richly illustrated volume brings together papers from the international conference Copying, Replicating & Emulating Paintings in the 15th–18th Century, inspired by the Bosch & Bruegel: Four Paintings Magnified project. Hosted by CATS in Copenhagen, the conference featured contributio...
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Blue Pigments
Traces the remarkable history of blue pigments, from rare natural sources like lapis lazuli and azurite to ingenious synthetic creations such as Egyptian blue, Maya blue, Prussian blue, and artificial ultramarine.
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The Invention of Pastel Painting
The Invention of Pastel Painting explores the sudden emergence of pastel as a painting medium in the late seventeenth century, firmly situating its development within a social and cultural context.
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The Renaissance Workshop
Through detailed studies, the papers reveal the organisation of studios, material choices, and the balance between innovation and market demands. They also trace the movement of ideas and techniques across regions and generations, showing how artists navigated practical, economic, and creative ch...
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Drawing Archaeological Finds
This popular, practical guide offers step-by-step instruction in archaeological artefact illustration, covering tools, techniques, and methods for accurately drawing objects in two dimensions. Ideal for students and beginners, it includes expert advice on depicting metal, ceramics, flint, bone, a...
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Biodeterioration and Preservation
This volume explores the vital role of microorganisms in both the deterioration and preservation of cultural heritage. Contributors examine how microbial activity, climate change, pollution, and tourism impact monuments, artworks, and archaeological sites.
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Conservation Mounting for Prints and Drawings
This detailed and practical handbook offers a rare insight into the British Museum’s methods for mounting prints and drawings, tracing the history of conservation mounting from the 1850s to today.
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Big Pictures
This volume explores the unique challenges posed by large-scale paintings, from oversized portrait miniatures to vast panoramas, friezes, theatre cloths, and ceiling paintings. It details practical solutions for moving, conserving, displaying, and storing works too large for standard transport an...
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