Ashgate 2014 (64 results)

Publisher's hardback. Tables. Royal Musical Association Monographs, 24. Size: 8vo. xiii, 183pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by the author. Very Good, internally clean, solid hard cover First Printing. No dust jacket; probably issued without one. Minor bumping and scuffing to the covers. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. 8vo., pp.xxiv,265, black hardcover, gilt; a fine copy.

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, black & brown lettering to spine, xvi + 260pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light tanning to spine & rear board edges).

Super octavo, illus glossy heavy boards, blue lettering to spine, xvi + 304pp, Near FINE (sl bruising to spine extrems).

Size: 8vo. xiv, 169pp. Publisher's hardback with printed dust-jacket. Music examples.

8vo, 224pp. Black & white illustrations. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket. Inscribed by the authors.

Hardcover. Cloth, dw, VG.

First edition hardback, no dustjacket. Ex. Library with bookplates and stamps on the endpapers and class marks on the spine. The binding is bright and tight. The text is very clean throughout. Illustrated, 333.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His art comments on religion, love, sexuality, fraternity and community. Charting the trajectory of Spencer's painting career in depth, this original publication provides a comprehensive analysis of the artist's oeuvre. Central to understanding Spencer's work is the man himself - deeply subjective, his paintings reflect the ideas and beliefs that motivated him. While he had less emotional attachment with his landscapes, he viewed each figure painting as constituent of a body of work which, viewed as a whole, was representative of his personal and professional evolution. Examining critically the artist's key works from all periods, Andrew Causey places Spencer's art within the wider context of the spiritual, social and even, exceptionally, political values that underpin his work and make him such an outstanding painter. While strong emphasis is placed on Spencer's 'visionary' paintings of the 1910s and1920s and the important crowd scenes and portraiture of the 1930s, Stanley Spencer gives due attention to the works produced later in the artist's career. The result is a well-rounded, original analysis of one of Britain's greatest painters that will enhance the libraries of general and specialist readers alike.…

248pp. roy.8vo. boards. very good.

x,329pp. roy.8vo. purple boards. very good.

Hardcover. Music exs. Rubbing to front cover gilt title, a little pencilling, otherwise good condition. Presentation copy. No dustjacket (as issued?). Part of the Royal Music Association's Monographs series No. 25. Places Mattheson's Pieces de Clavecin ".in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged Germanmusicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expressionism dervied from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations". 117pp. ISBN 9781472438461.…

8vo., ppvii,207, pictorial hardcover; a fresh and near-fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 347p. Photos. Maps. Owner's name. Slightly cocked. Fine/Fine Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Large 8vo HB. pp; xix, 381. Line figures to text. Near-Fine in black cloth, lettered gilt. In a Near-Fine jacket with minimal shelf-wear.

Hardcover. Music exs. Condition vg. No dustjacket (as issued?). Part of the Royal Music Association's Monographs series No. 25. Places Mattheson's Pieces de Clavecin ".in the context of his work as a public intellectual who encouraged Germanmusicians and their musical public to eschew what he saw as the hidebound traditions of the past, and instead embrace a universalism of style and expressionism dervied from contemporary currents in music of the leading European nations". 117pp. ISBN 9781472438461.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. CALIS KURAL, B. DENIZ Sehrengiz, urban rituals and deviant Sufi mysticism in Ottoman Istanbul. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014. 4to., xiii, 276 p., b/w ills. Original binding. Dust wrapper. New ISBN: 9781472427090 CATALOG: Ottoman history KEYWORDS: Ottoman culture Istanbul - Constantinople Tasavvuf - Islamic mysticism - Sufism Sehrengiz is an Ottoman genre of poetry written in honor of various cities and provincial towns of the Ottoman Empire from the early sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century. This book examines urban culture of Ottoman Istanbul through ?ehrengiz, as the Ottoman space culture and traditions have been shaped by a constant struggle between conflicting groups practicing political and religious attitudes at odds. By examining real and imaginary gardens, landscapes and urban spaces and associated ritualized traditions, the book questions the formation of Ottoman space culture in relation to practices of orthodox and heterodox Islamic practices and imperial politics. The study proposes that ?ehrengiz was a subtext for secret rituals, performed in city spaces, carrying dissident ideals of Melami mysticism; following after the ideals of the thirteenth century Sufi philosopher Ibn al-'Arabi who proposed a theory of 'creative imagination' and a three tiered definition of space, the ideal, the real and the intermediary (barzakh). In these rituals, marginal groups of guilds emphasized the autonomy of individual self, and suggested a novel proposition that the city shall become an intermediary space for reconciling the orthodox and heterodox worlds. In the early eighteenth century, liminal expressions of these marginal groups gave rise to new urban rituals, this time adopted by the Ottoman court society and by affluent city dwellers and expressed in the poetry of Nedim. The author traces how a tradition that had its roots in the early sixteenth century as a marginal protest movement evolved until the early eighteenth century as a movement of urban space reform.…

ISBN10: 1409461971 / ISBN13: 9781409461975 First edition, in original illustrated glazed boards. as issued. Very near Fine showing slightest signs or reading and bumping. There are NO ink marks or writing. An excellent example. 16396.

Hardcover. Cloth, dw. NOBLE, Thomas F X.

Hardcover. Cloth, dw; VG.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book contributes to, and refocuses, public debates about the incorporation of plural approaches into the English legal system by examining a secular method of dispute resolution practised by the Kurdish Peace Committee in London. The pluralistic approach is seen by Kurdish communities in the UK as widely applicable elsewhere.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the multiple resonances and representations of the Arma Christi, the 'instruments of the Passion,' in medieval and early modern culture. From the weapons used to torment and sacrifice the body of Christ sprang a reliquary tradition that produced active and contemplative devotional practices, complex literary narratives, intense lyric poems, striking visual images, and innovative architecture. The verbal and visual representations that accrued from these holiest of relics, and the practices they in turn inspired, are relevant to a wide variety of critical fields and theoretical approaches. This collection capitalizes on recent work on these most central of medieval 'objects,' and produces, through its interdisciplinary and intergenerational scholarly collaboration, a fresh view of the multiple intersections of the spiritual and the material in the Middle Ages. It also includes a new edition of the English Arma Christi poem known as 'O Vernicle' from previously unpublished manuscripts.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This book doesn't offer overrated success stories which in most cases cannot be imitated. It contains no check lists or recipes for success and it presents no theoretically-based models. The meta-competencies discussed in this refreshing book are timeless virtues of which effective leaders seem to possess, but which are rarely if ever included in lists of competencies in the vast business leadership literature. They include: Existential intelligence - distinct from the much discussed emotional intelligence, is about the ability to pose questions and reflect on fundamental issues in ways that develop a mature ability to interpret the world and better understand other people. Phronesis - is the ability to exercise sound judgement based on skilful application of moral and political rationality. Solitude - is a voluntary state achieved when an individual has the ability to momentarily withdraw and be free of external pressures and demands in order to concentrate on desired mental-cognitive activities. Trust building - is more often discussed in leadership literature. As a leadership competence it is about the ability to be credible, show trust in and respect for other people and inspire trust. For the curious business practitioner, business student, or business educator wishing to consider aspects of leadership competence that have to some extent been hidden or forgotten, this book introduces the notion of meta-competences and deals in detail with them.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Reflecting on two decades of 'competitiveness-oriented' urban policies in Europe this book investigates the current challenges cities face to sustain their economic position and how this can be balanced with social progress and environmental improvements.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Utilizing global barometer data, Tiffiany Howard examines the underpinnings of individual support for political violence and argues that an insidious pattern of deprivation within failed states drives ordinary citizens to engage in and support extreme acts of political violence.…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The emblem was big business in early-modern Europe, used extensively not only in printed books and broadsheets, but also to decorate pottery, metalware, furniture, glass and windows and numerous other domestic, devotional and political objects. At its most basic level simply a combination of symbolic visual image and texts.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Kay Bea Jones' illuminating study of selected works by Studio Albini will reintroduce his contributions to one of the most productive periods in Italian design. Suspending Modernity follows the evolution of Albini's most important buildings and projects, even as they reveal his apprehensive attitudes about the modern condition.…