Including an Illustrated Dictionary of Ukiyo-e (Images from the Floating World: Japanese Print)

Lane, Richard

Reference

Oxford University Press

The Big Humanities: Digital Humanities/Digital Laboratories

This book provides an accessible introduction to, and overview of, the digital humanities, one of the fastest growing areas of literary studies. Lane takes a unique approach by focusing on the technologies and the new environment in which the digital humanities largely takes place: the digital laboratory. The book provides a brief history of DH, explores and explains the methodologies of past and current DH projects, and offers resources such as detailed case studies and bibliographies. Further, the focus on the digital laboratory space reveals affiliations with the types of research that have traditionally taken place in the sciences, as well as convergences with other fast-growing research spaces, namely innovation labs, fabrication labs, maker spaces, digital media labs, and change labs. The volume highlights the profound transformation of literary studies that is underway, one in which the adoption of powerful technology – and concomitantly being situated within a laboratory environment – is leading to an important re-engagement in the arts and humanities, and a renewed understanding of literary studies in the digital age, as well as a return to large-scale financial investment in humanistic research. It will be useful to students and teachers, as well as administrators and managers in charge of research infrastructure and funding decisions who need an accessible overview of this technological transformation in the humanities. Combining useful detail and an overview of the field, the book will offers accessible entry into this rapidly growing field.

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Computers & Technology

Networking & Cloud Computing

Hokusai

History

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Reading Walter Benjamin' explores the persistence of absolute in Benjamin's work by sketching-out the relationship between philosphy and theology apparent in his diverse writings, from the early youth-movement essays to the later books, essays and fragments. The book examines Benjamin from two main perspectives: a history-of-ideas approach situating Benjamin in relation to the new German-Jewish thinking at the turn of the twentieth-century, as well as the German youth movements, Surrealism and the 'Georgekreis'; and a conceptual approach examining more critical issues in relation to Benjamin and Kant, modern aesthetics and narrative order. Chapters cover: 'Kulturpessimismus' and the new thinking; metaphysics of youth: Wyneken and 'Rausch'; history: surreal Messianism; Goethe and the 'Georgekreis'; Kant's experience; casting the work of art; disrupting textual order; and exile and the time of crisis. The book uses new translations of Benjamin's essays, fragments and his 'Arcades Project', and makes substantial reference to previously untranslated material. Lane’s text allows the non-specialist entry into complex areas of critical theory, simultaneously offering original readings of Benjamin and twentieth-century arts and literature.

Reading Walter Benjamin: Writing through the catastrophe

Arts & Photography

Manchester University Press

A concise introduction to a core and popular area of literary studies.Provides extended case studies which survey and summarise key critical debates and as such are invaluable for teaching.Places the emphasis on the text first and theory second, thus providing a unique and much needed approach to postcolonial literature, which in the past has been maligned for being theory driven.Takes an historical approach, thus covering a good range of texts that have generated lots of critical discussion and evaluative materials.Written clearly for an undergraduate reader, with introductory overviews at the start of each chapter.

The Postcolonial Novel

British & Irish

Polity

Fun Songs for Children

Music

Music Sales Corp

From DJ flap - For more than a century, Basque sheepherders have been an integral part of the development of the American West. Leading a near solitary and nomadic existence in the region's vast deserts and mountains, the Basque herder was both pioneer and backbone of a frail human presence in an otherwise undisturbed natural setting. 
 While Basque sheepherders were once ubiquitous on the open range of the thirteen western states, today they numbers have declined greatly. Each aspect of the sheepherder's work is surveyed in this study, including lambing, trailing, shearing, docking, shipping and winter and summer herding. The sheepherder's personal life is also explored, from the lonely sheep cams o the Basque boarding house to the colorful festivals held in the West during the summer. (Description by http-mart)

Basque Sheepherders of the American West: A Photographic Documentary (Basque Series)

Science & Math

Technology

Univ of Nevada Pr

The ultimate guide to stage fighting technique and basic swordplay, this book covers everything an actor must do to give a dynamic and convincing performance as a stage combatant. “âThis bookã is more than a manual... A necessity! Richard Lane's concepts are vital...'Why' and 'When' are explained and make 'How' easier to understand and execute...Read this, pay heed and you will avoid sin and suffering...I raise my sword on high and salute you, Richard. Well done!” –Oscar F. Kolombatovich, former Fencing Master, Metropolitan Opera, New York, and Executive Secretary, Historical Fencing Society

Swashbuckling: A Step-by-Step Guide to the Art of Stage Combat & Theatrical Swordplay (Limelight)

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Limelight

From DJ Flap: Book is a history of the development of ukiyo-e in its sociological context and of the lives of its masters with emphasis on innovation in style and techniques. The work takes into account the followers and schools, a comprehensive view of one of the most important epochs in Japanese art, illustrated by over 900 drawings. (Description by http-mart)

Images from the Floating World

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