Andrew Costen (13 results)

Condition: Good. Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).…

Condition: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).…

Hardback. Condition: Good. In Every Step a Lotus, Dorothy Ko embarks on a fascinating exploration of the practice of footbinding in China, explaining its origins, purpose, and spread before the nineteenth century. She uses women's own voices to reconstruct the inner chambers of a Chinese house where women with bound feet lived and worked. Focusing on the material aspects of footbinding and shoemaking--the tools needed, the procedures, the wealth of symbolism in the shoes, and the amazing regional variations in style--she contends that footbinding was a reasonable course of action for a woman who lived in a Confucian culture that placed the highest moral value on domesticity, motherhood, and handwork. Her absorbing, superbly detailed, and beautifully written book demonstrates that in the women's eyes, footbinding had less to do with the exotic or the sublime than with the mundane business of having to live in a woman's body in a man's world.Footbinding was likely to have started in the tenth century among palace dancers. Ironically, it was meant not to cripple but to enhance their grace. Its meaning shifted dramatically as it became domesticated in the subsequent centuries, though the original hint of sensuality did not entirely disappear. This contradictory image of footbinding as at once degenerate and virtuous, grotesque and refined, is embodied in the key symbol for the practice--the lotus blossom, being both a Buddhist sign of piety and a poetic allusion to sensory pleasures.Every Step a Lotus includes almost one hundred illustrations of shoes from different regions of China, material paraphernalia associated with the customs and rituals of footbinding, and historical images that contextualize the narrative. Most of the shoes, from the collection of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, have not been exhibited before. Readers will come away from the book with a richer understanding of why footbinding carries such force as a symbol and why, long after its demise, it continues to exercise a powerful grip on our imaginations. A Copublication with the Bata Shoe Museum. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Costen, Andrew (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Hardcover. pp. 293. 8vo. Few black, blue, and white images. Light shelfwear, sticker ex-libris bookplate to front pastedown; very good+. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Condition: Good. No Jacket. No Jacket. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Minor wear only. The pages are clean and crisp with no highlighting or writing detected. The cover is clean with minor shelf wear only. Ships from Canada. Satisfaction guaranteed with 30-day return policy. ; 157 X 23 X 203 millimeters; 292 pages; R6 999k/1.5m s4. Costen, Andrew (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 292 pages. 8.40x6.40x1.00 inches. In Stock. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal shelfwear; appears unread; "Over 50 Canadian Christmas tales from across the country-each anchored by spirited memories of family, love and generosity. From such legends as Nellie McClung, Emily Carr and Margaret Laurence, these stories travel from century to century from coast to coast. " . Costen, Andrew (illustrator).…

Condition: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. Costen, Andrew (illustrator).