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The new fifth edition of this classic guide to clothing throughout history now extends into the second decade of the 21st century. James Laver's classic study of clothing, from the invention of the needle to the dawn of denim, neolithic weavers to catwalk creations, has been updated once again to cover the latest trends, from vintage to high street chic and the spectacular reinvention of haute couture. Featuring designers such as Alexander McQueen and Marc Jacobs, and style leaders Kate Moss and the Duchess of Cambridge, a new final chapter explains the forces shaping fashion today, including Internet technology, celebrity influence, 'fast fashion', the recession and global markets. With eight new pages, six new illustrations and an entirely new final chapter, this book reclaims its position as the definitive concise history of the subject, and remains essential reading for all students of art, costume and fashion.

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James Laver, the 20th century's leading authority in Britain on the history of costume and fashion, was Keeper of the Department of Prints and Drawings and of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, from 1938 until 1959. Professor Amy de la Haye is Rootstein Hopkins Chair of Dress History & Curatorship at London College of Fashion. She was formerly Curator of Twentieth-Century Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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This expanded and fully revised fifth edition of Mary Ellen Millers classic book features a completely new chapter on Teotihuacan discussing the rulership and ethnicity of that powerful yet enigmatic city. Exciting new discoveries and ongoing research help clarify the links between the Olmecs and the Maya, while newly revealed paintings at Calakmul show Maya artists to have been both masters of convention and ready innovators. Vital new finds at the heart of the Aztec capital are still astounding students of Mexico, even as the meaning of works from the Early Colonial period continue to reveal the complexity of the first decades under Spanish rule. With many new illustrations and analysis of recent discoveries, The Art of Mesoamerica remains an ideal companion for the art historian, student and traveller.

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Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the authors own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture.
 
Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic. 
 

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A full colour textbook covering the entire Junior Certificate course, including the core and key options.

Support Studies are an integral part of the text

Packed with full-colour illustrations.

Assignments and projects suggested throughout.

Illustrations include students' own work.

Major artists, including many Irish ones, are highlighted in relevant sections.

Written by two experienced teachers.

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Clodagh Holahan, ANCAD, Dip ASEd., was formerly head of the Art Department in St Brigid's College, Callan, Co Kilkenny. She has held prominent positions in the Art Teachers' Association and has exhibited her own paintings and sculpture in the RHA, RUA and Oireachtas art exhibitions.

Maureen Roche , ATC, is head of Art at Scoil Aireagail, Ballyhale, Co Kilkenny. She is a former President of the Art Teachers' Association and has exhibited her prints and wall hangings at numerous venues.

Clodagh Holahan and Maureen Roche also wrote Shortcuts to Success Art, Craft, Design Project Guide Junior Certificate.

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Stanislavski's simple exercises fire the imagination, and help readers not only discover their own conception of reality but how to reproduce it as well.

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Living Modern Tropical is the ultimate visual resource for contemporary tropical living, featuring scores of glorious interiors from tropical regions where the expression of modern living has found its natural home. With ten sections divided by themed subsections that focus on the attributes most enjoyed in tropical spaces, this is an easy-to-use sourcebook for designers and anyone seeking interiors inspiration. Stunning photographs by renowned photographer Richard Powers have been expertly selected from hundreds of global interiors to provide inspiration in any context, while a comprehensive index of designers and architects and a directory of stockists make it invaluable for those wishing to recreate these spectacular spaces. Regardless of where you live, Living Modern Tropical offers hundreds of design ideas that will provide inspiration for every room in the house.

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Richard Powers specializes in interiors, architecture and the built environment. His books include The Iconic House, Beyond Bawa and New Natural Home, all published by Thames & Hudson.

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If Jamaica were an actor she would have appeared in more than one hundred and forty-one films. The list of movies where the name Jamaica plays a prominent part is probably closer to two hundred.This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors. As such, Jamaica, the Land of Film provides a comprehensive history which will be of great interest to all cinema aficionados and fans of Caribbean history.

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Peter Polack is a graduate of the Norman Manley Law School and the University of the West Indies, where he was co-founder of the Amnesty International campus group. He has previously served as a rapporteur of the International Bar Association and was Co-Founder and first Treasurer of the Caymanian Bar Association. He has practised criminal law in the Cayman Islands for over 30 years. His book The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War was published in 2013, and he was a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His article ""Syria: The Evolution Revolution"" was published in the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center magazine in June 2014. His work as an artist, entitled The Confinement Assemblage, inspired by his experience with youthful offenders, is on permanent display at Northward Prison in the Cayman Islands. Polack has also worked as a part-time reporter for Reuters News Agency in the Cayman Islands since 2014, reporting mostly on the Cuban migrant crisis in the Caribbean.