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Reading Poetry
'Reading Poetry' provides a structured introduction to ideas and techniques which will enable students to produce informed and exciting readings of poetry.
Emblems for a Queen
"The many pieces of embroidery by Mary Queen of Scots or by Elizabeth Countess of Shrewsbury ('Bess of Hardwick') are among the best-known and most fascinating examples of historical embroidery. However, many questions surrounding their meaning and purpose - and, above all, the sources and patterns used for their imagery (including birds, fish, flowers, monograms, emblems and other devices) - remain unanswered." "In 1548, the five-year-old Queen of Scots left her native Scotland to begin her French upbringing as the future Queen of France and it was here that she learned the art of decorative needlework, continuing with the craft during the last twenty years of her exile and confinement in E...
Bath Curiosities
Lurking beneath Bath's genteel spa town facade is a tangle of hidden quirky lives and unusual events. Take Lola Montez, siren, harpy, courtesan, Royal mistress and Spanish dancer, born in County Sligo as Eliza Rosanna Gilbert. Her flamboyant lifestyle and turbulent private life had their roots in her time at a demure finishing school in Bath. Then there's the eerie tale of 'Lady Betty Cobbe's ghost', a bizarre Regency fable surrounding a spirit, a mysterious black ribbon, and accurate premonitions of death. A host of other strange people, such as Dr James Graham, who practised electrotherapy and advocated earth baths, and William Oliver the Viper Catcher, make up Bath's colourful cast of characters.Delving into Bath's peculiar history, Michael Raffael has gathered together a rich collection of stories about these weird individuals and their duels, telescopes, cakes, fizzy drinks, Bath Buns, Sally Lunns and plasticene. The result is a highly readable, eclectic compendium of curiosities that will appeal to Bath residents and visitors alike.
Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland
This stunning book reveals in depth the variety and development of decorative paintings in Scottish buildings of the 16th and 17th centuries, as important as any in Europe. Most have never before been seen in one place or described. The result of 10 years of research, Renaissance Decorative Painting in Scotland contains 100 examples from ceilings, moldings, plaster, stonework, walls, window embrasures, overmantels and vaulting--from the palaces of royalty to the castles of noblemen to modest burgess houses. The imagery ranges from religious and classical, to emblematic and grotesque pictures that are full of meaning, to the antique, to tromp I'oeil. The author has managed to catalogue all known examples and has also included valuable information on different types of painting, on materials and processes.
Reading Poetry
Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Discussing more than 200 poems by more than 100 writers, the book introduces readers to the skills and the critical and theoretical awareness that enable them to read poetry with enjoyment and insight.
Operations Strategy
This new book provides a comprehensive and refreshing insight into the more advanced topic of operations strategy. It builds on concepts from strategic management, operations management, marketing, and human resources. A three-part organization covers the nature, content, and process of operations strategy. For practicing managers.
Emblems in Scotland
Emblems in the visual arts use motifs which have meanings, and in Emblems in Scotland Michael Bath, leading authority on Renaissance emblem books, shows how such symbolic motifs address major historical issues of Anglo-Scottish relations, the Reformation of the Church and the Union of the Crowns. Emblems are enigmas, and successive chapters ask for instance: Why does a late-medieval rood-screen show a jester at the Crucifixion? Why did Elizabeth I send Mary Queen of Scots tapestries showing the power of women to build a feminist City of God? Why did a presbyterian minister of Stirling decorate his manse with hieroglyphics? And why in the twentieth-century did Ian Hamilton Finlay publish a collection of Heroic Emblems?
On My Way to the Bath
A humorous picture book about the ups and downs of bathtime, now available as a board book
Pig Takes a Bath
Little Pig makes a mess then has lots of fun cleaning up in the bathtub.
