Gold Brocade and Renaissance Painting

Gold Brocade and Renaissance PaintingConsiders the representation of Italian Renaissance patterned silks in paintings from the 14th to the 16th century. Explores why luxury textiles became popular in art, how artists accommodated the audience's desire for opulent fabrics, and how this contributed to the social status of painting.

The world's most skillful stone architecture is found at Tiahuanaco at the southern end of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia

The book argues that this expertise helps explain the probematic common sense that sees cybersecurity conflated with national security

‘The Content Machine’ outlines a theory of publishing that allows publishers to focus on their core competencies in times of crisis

this brand new edition enables LIS managers to get to grips with the slippery concept of service impact and to address their own impact questions in their planning

and the relevance of gender to the process of textual retrieval and preservation

and Asia in comparative development and sectoral perspectives

social and economic forces which influence how states manage their hydrocarbons - factors which the book uses as the basis for a rigorous critique of the Irish model

and current concepts and their creators

This collection brings together leading writers and emerging researchers to demonstrate how work in media and cultural studies can contribute to debates around the meanings of money

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including media ownership structures

and developments in the history of violence per se