Decoration and Display in Rome's Imperial Thermae: Messages of Power and their Popular Reception at the Baths of Caracalla 9780190902612, 0190902612

Baths and Bathing: The culture of bathing and the baths and thermae in Palestine from the Hasmoneans to the Moslem Conquest: With an appendix on Jewish Ritual baths (miqva'ot) 9781841716923, 9781407327754

In this volume the author studies Roman baths in Israel, including a section on the miqveh (ritual Jewish bath), which f

140 43 54MB Read more

The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath

210 117 1MB Read more

Musician in the Museum: Display and Power in Neoliberal Popular Culture 9781501368882, 9781501368899, 9781501368929, 9781501368912

In recent years, popular music museums have been established in high profile locations in many of the presumed “musical

142 57 21MB Read more

The Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s 9780520955059

How can we account for the persistent appeal of glossy commercial pop music? Why do certain performers have such emotion

121 77 965KB Read more

A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa

This book tells the story of the murder of heavy metal guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and three men, Erin

149 7 315KB Read more

Show Time: The Logic and Power of Violent Display 9781501758560

Tracing the ways in which public displays of violence unfold, Show Time reveals how the perpetrators exploit the fluidit

105 44 3MB Read more

The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art 0262194023, 9780262194020

Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored what Mary Anne Staniszew

420 35 45MB Read more

The History of Interior Decoration

When this book was first published in 1983 there was no other study of its kind, and to my astonishment this is still th

534 17 3KB Read more

Democratic Biopolitics: Popular Sovereignty and the Power of Life 9781474449366

Develops the first positive synthesis of democracy and biopolitics Contemporary studies of biopolitics assume that the

109 101 1MB Read more

Women and Power in Imperial China 9781495170638

Women and Power in Imperial China focuses on the status and roles of women in China, especially those who had a signific

587 21 1MB Read more