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How to See the World

Nicholas Mirzoeff

As Mirzoeff reminds us, this is not the first visual revolution; the 19th century saw the invention of film, photography and x-rays, and the development of maps, microscopes and telescopes made the 17th century an era of visual discovery.

Bodyscape: Art, modernity and the ideal figure

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Mirzoeff's illuminating study engages with artists' work in painting, sculpture, photography and film, showing the centrality of the body in the work of artists ranging from Leonardo, Manet and Poussin, to photographers Julia Margaret ...

Eye contact: paintings

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Guardare la guerra. Immagini del potere globale

Nicholas Mirzoeff

The Right to Look: A Counterhistory of Visuality

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies.

Seinfeld

Nicholas Mirzoeff

This is a reflective, funny account of one of the most popular TV sitcoms ever made: Seinfeld (1990-1998).

Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern ...

Nicholas Mirzoeff

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philosophes to the introduction of the sound motion picture.

An Introduction to Visual Culture

Nicholas Mirzoeff

The author traces the history and theory of visual culture asking how and why visual media have become so central to contemporary everday life.

Feminist Cyberspaces: Pedagogies in Transition

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Minneapolis: University of Minnesota. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. 1999. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London: Routledge. Mort, Graham and Lee Horsley. 2007. “In Virtuality Veritas.” Pedagogy 7, no. 3: 513-525. Parr, Joy, Jessica Van Horssen and ...

Watching Babylon: The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture

Nicholas Mirzoeff

This groundbreaking and compelling book illuminates the Western experience of the Iraqi war and examines the experience of watching the war against Iraq on television, on the internet, in the cinema and in print media.

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

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Shalom and the Ethics of Belief: Nicholas Wolterstorff's ...

Nathan D. Shannon

he central concern of the present study is Nicholas Wolterstorff's theory of situated rationality. In Wolterstorff's view, the ... 1.1 NICHOLAS P. WOLTERSTORFF, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER In 2002, Nicholas P. Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Christian ...

The Journal

American-Irish Historical Society

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The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of ...

Charles Smith

Nicholas Gough. John Core. John White. Nicholas Mulgan. John Rope. Thomas Hull. Nicholas Gough. William Sattadel. Nicholas Mulgan. Nicholas Mulgan. William Corr, William Corr. John Rope. Foulke Commerford. 1449 William A. D. M A Y ...

The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Waterford: ...

Waterford (Ireland)

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The history, topography and antiquities of the county and ...

R H. Ryland

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Introduction to Veterinary Genetics

Frank W. Nicholas

Frank W. Nicholas ... Ben Hayes, John James, Hannah Nicholas, Belinda Norris, Jonathan Usmar, Bethany Wilson, Peter Thomson, Claire Wade, Noelle Cockett, Rob Banks, Mohammad Shariflou, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, and Xuan Zhang.

There Really Is a Santa Claus: The History of St. Nicholas & ...

William J. Federer

Saint Nicholas - Sinter Klaas - Santa Claus Read the story of Nicholas, 3rd Century Bishop of Myra, Asia Minor (present day Turkey) and how over time stories of his holy, generous life were embelished into legend.

Brother Nicholas: A Life of St. Nicholas of Flue

George Robert Lamb

A Day in the Life of Nicholas B

Lauri J. Hart

Nicholas B is a boy everyone can love.

Letters to a Law Student 3rd edn: A guide to studying law at ...

Nicholas J McBride

A guide to studying law at university Nicholas J McBride. 20 Using the Internet From:NicholasJ. McBride ... on 'Useful links'. Happy exploring, and I'll be in touch soon! All best wishes, Nick 21 Your Teachers and You From:Nicholas J. McBride ...

An Architectural and Historical Account of the Church of St. ...

Samuel TYMMS

Mrs. Jane Clugett, wife of Mr. Nicholas Clagett, late Minister of this Parish, died August 23, 1673.1 The said Mr. Nicholas Clagett died in 1662. Mrs. Margaret Clagett, wife of Dr. Nicholas Clagett, Archdeacon of Sudbury, died May 16, 1719, ...

Nicholas II: Last of the Tsars

Marc Ferro

A figure surrounded by myth and speculation, at the center of one of history's most cataclysmic events--the Russian Revolution--Nicholas II remains haunting and enigmatic.

Surveillance and Film

J. Macgregor Wise

Mirzoeff and other scholars, such as Christian Parenti and Simone Browne, each argue that accountings of the slave trade, from organizational diagrams for slave ships to the rules and regulations of the US plantation, originated influential ...