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The ArtsDecember 2024Becoming couture
The Italian fashion industry after the Second World War
by Chiara Faggella
Becoming couture is the first book to examine the history of the Italian fashion industry during the global transition brought about by the Second World War. It draws on a wide range of primary sources, some of them newly unearthed, to demonstrate that the Italian fashion industry in the Republican era continued to rely on business practices and professionals established during Fascism. Analysing changes in promotional discourses and press coverage, the book traces the shift that occurred when manufacturers were encouraged to expand their exports of accessories to include sportswear, knitwear and moda boutique. This ultimately led to the legitimisation of Italian dressmaking as creatively independent of French influences and therefore worthy of the label 'couture'.
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February 2019Tourism Information Technology
by Pierre J Benckendorff, Zheng Xiang, Pauline J Sheldon
This third edition of 'Tourism Information Technology' provides a contemporary update on the complexities of using information technology in the tourism industry. It examines IT applications in all sectors including airlines, travel intermediaries, accommodation, foodservice, destinations, attractions, events and entertainment. Fully updated throughout and organised around the stages of the visitor journey, the book reviews how tourists are using technologies to support decision making before their trip, during their travels and at the destination. It: · Provides comprehensive and up to date coverage of all key topics in tourism information technologies · Covers new areas such as (among others) augmented and virtual reality, robotics, smart destinations, disruptive innovation and the collaborative economy, crowdsourcing for sustainability, online reputation management and big data · Incorporates a wealth of pedagogic features to aid student learning, including key models and concepts, research and industry insights, case studies, key terms, discussion questions, and links to useful websites. Accompanied online by instructor PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions and further case studies, this book provides a comprehensive and learning-focused text for students of tourism and related subjects.
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December 2009The Go-Between
Roman
by L. P. Hartley, Maria Wolff
Während der Sommerferien auf dem Landgut der Eltern seines Schulfreundes wird der dreizehnjährige Leo zum Überbringer heimlicher Liebesbotschaften zwischen Ted, dem Pächter und Marian, der schönen Tochter des Schloßherrn, deren Verlobung mit Lord Trimingham kurz bevorsteht. Doch gegen seinen Willen zieht es Leo immer tiefer in den Strudel des gefährlichen Spiels von Verlangen und Verrat, von versprochener und verbotener Liebe und schließlich steht er vor der ersten großen Gewissensentscheidung seines jungen Lebens. The Go-Between ist ein raffiniert konstruierter Roman über die Strapazen des Erwachsenwerdens und die Gefühlsverwirrungen der Jugend, eine fein beobachtete Gesellschaftsanalyse und eine wunderbare Liebesgeschichte.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Knowledge, mediation and empire
James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.
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Material cultureMarch 1995The culture of fashion
A New History of Fashionable Dress
by Christopher Breward
This illustrated survey of 600 years of fashion investigates its cultural and social meanings from medieval Europe to 20th-century America. It provides a guide to the changes in style and taste, and challenges existing fashion histories, showing that clothes have always played a pivotal role in defining a sense of identity and society, especially when concerned with sexual and body politics. With a chronological structure, each chapter focuses on both male and female fashion of a specific period, covering its fascinating developments. It discusses: androgynous dressing; body piercing; fabrics, clothing and the rise of city life; dress, and the changing shape of the human body; controversies surrounding trousers and leg wear for both men and women; exposure of flesh; fashion and social status; and the dissemination of fashion through travel, film, magazines and catwalk shows. ;
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The ArtsJanuary 2025Refashioning the Renaissance
Everyday dress in Europe, 1500–1650
by Paula Hohti
How did ordinary men and women dress in early modern Europe? What fabrics and garments formed the essential elements of fashion for artisans and shopkeepers? Did they rely on affordable alternatives to the silks, jewellery, and decorations favoured by the wealthy elite? Or did those with modest means find innovative ways to express their fashion sense? This book provides new perspectives on early modern clothing and fashion history byinvestigating the consumption and meaning of fashionable clothing and accessories among the 'popular' classes. Through a close examination of the materials, craftsmanship and cultural significance of fashion items owned by and available to a broad group of consumers, it challenges conventional assumptions that the everyday dress of ordinary families was limited to a narrow selection of garments made of coarse textiles, often produced at home and resistant to change.
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Tourism industrySeptember 2014Tourism Information Technology
by Pierre J Benckendorff, Pauline J Sheldon, Daniel R Fesenmaier
This second edition of 'Tourism Information Technology' continues to cover the complexities of how information technology is being used in the tourism industry. Fully updated, it covers IT applications in all sectors of the industry including airlines, travel intermediaries, accommodation, foodservice, destinations, attractions, events and entertainment. Organised around the stages of the visitor journey, it covers how tourists are using technologies to support decision making before their trip, during their travels and upon their return. This revised edition also includes the various social media that are impacting the travel industry and consider the increasing number of networks in tourism. View the free online resources for this book.
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July 2018Die schönsten georgischen Märchen
by Heinz Fähnrich, Heinz Fähnrich, Heinz Fähnrich, Heinz Mode, Heinz Fähnrich
Georgien ist das Land der Märchen und Legenden, die Georgier sind für ihre Erzählfreudigkeit bekannt. Die Märchen, die durch die Verbindung von europäischen und orientalischen Motiven faszinieren, erzählen von der Sehnsucht des Volkes nach einem glücklichen Leben in Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. Wir begegnen Helden von größter Kühnheit: Sie geben Tote dem Leben zurück, bezwingen grausame Drachen, wissen die Geliebte in fernsten landen zu finden, und der Tschonspieler betört, Orpheus gleich, mit zauberischen Melodien selbst den Herrscher über Leben und Tod, den schrecklichen Wächter des Baumes der Unsterblichkeit ... Dieser Band stellt die schönsten georgischen Märchen vor.
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The ArtsJune 2020European fashion
by Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Véronique Pouillard, Christopher Breward
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The ArtsJanuary 2019Joseph Losey
by Colin Gardner
The career of Wisconsin-born Joseph Losey spanned over four decades and several countries. A self-proclaimed Marxist and veteran of the 1930s Soviet agit-prop theater, he collaborated with Bertholt Brecht before directing noir B-pictures in Hollywood. A victim of McCarthyism, he later crossed the Atlantic to direct a series of seminal British films such as "Time Without Pity," "Eve," "The Servant," and "The Go-Between," which mark him as one of the cinema's greatest baroque stylists. His British films reflect on exile and the outsider's view of a class-bound society in crisis through a style rooted in the European art house tradition of Resnais and Godard. Gardner employs recent methodologies from cultural studies and poststructural theory, exploring and clarifying the films' uneasy tension between class and gender, and their explorations of fractured temporality.
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August 1992Bengalische Märchen
by Arun Ray, Heinz Mode, Heinz Mode, Heinz Mode
Die überwiegende Mehrzahl der hier vereinigten 56 Geschichten bilden die Zaubermärchen, die novellenartigen und die Schwankmärchen, nicht zu vergessen die in Bengalen beliebten Schwanjungfraumärchen.
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March 2005Die Schiller-Chronik
by Karin Wais, Rose Unterberger
Die Schiller-Chronik ist ein praktisches Hilfsmittel für jeden Schiller-Leser. Wer etwa wissen will, wo sich Schiller zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt aufhielt, oder in umgekehrter Richtung fragt, wann er seiner zukünftigen Frau zum ersten Mal begegnete oder wann Die Räuber in Hamburg aufgeführt wurden – die Schiller-Chronik erteilt zuverlässig Auskunft und lädt zum Blättern und Eintauchen in seine Welt ein. übersichtlich gegliedert in parallele Rubriken zu Ort und Zeit – Leben – Werk, enthält die Chronik alle wichtigen Daten zur Lebens- und Werkgeschichte, dazu auch Angaben zum Zeitgeschehen und zu Publikationen der Zeitgenossen. Durch die synoptische Darstellung werden die Entstehungszusammenhänge von Schillers Œuvre unmittelbar deutlich, wobei nicht nur die ausgereiften, kanonischen Texte Berücksichtigung finden, sondern auch Pläne, Gelegenheitsgedichte und verschiedene Fassungen, etwa die einzelnen Bühnenbearbeitungen seiner Dramen. Ein erklärendes Personenregister sowie ein Orts- und ein Werkregister vervollständigen den Band und machen ihn zu einem unentbehrlichen Nachschlagewerk.
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Food & DrinkTea Book
by Studio of Fashion and Life
This book is a tea encyclopedia for those who are new to tea. It includes detailed explanations of 67 kinds of famous teas, 37 practical tea brewing exercises, and 33 tea therapeutic methods and prescriptions. Adopting a large number of exquisite pictures and easy-to-understand words, Tea Book allows readers to receive a complete and clear knowledge of tea from the growing environment, quality characteristics to purchasing criteria, and obtain a profound understanding and appreciation of Chinese tea culture.
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FictionNovember 2022WAY WAY OUT THERE
by Cat S.
Are you going somewhere, Big Bear? Way Way Out There is where big things reside. They're so big - they cast shadows impossible to ignore. It's a long way away, but sometime big things come to shore on White Cliff to watch fascinating little things. Jules is an aspiring Big Bear born in White Cliff. He's been dreaming big from an early age, but has yet to figure it out. How does one grow Big? Where does one find directions? Who do you listen to? Can one so small really get There? To take one giant's advice--you'd have to see it for yourself. Way Way Out There.A wonderful fable told from the point of view of a small mind mapping out a path that would lead to something beautiful, good and true.
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May 2004Werke
Werke 6: Die Stücke 4. Bearbeitungen für Theater, Film und Rundfunk
by Heiner Müller, Frank Hörnigk, Kristin Schulz, Christian Hippe, Ludwig Haugk, Ingo Way
Heiner Müllers Theaterarbeit hat immer auch die Auseinandersetzung mit vorliegenden Stücken anderer Autoren eingeschlossen, die er als Material betrachtete, um aktuelle Fragen vor großer Folie zu diskutieren. Außerdem enthält dieser Band die wesentlichen Gemeinschaftsarbeiten mit Robert Wilson. Besonders in seinen frühen Jahren als Autor bearbeitete Heiner Müller literarische Stoffe für den Rundfunk, sicher nicht zuletzt aus pekuniären Gründen, aber dennoch werden diese Hörspiele sogar manchen Kenner überraschen. Gleiches gilt für die Szenen, die nach Vorlagen für ein Fernsehspiel oder einen speziellen Anlaß geschrieben wurden und im vorliegenden Band erstmals gedruckt werden.
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