This beautifully illustrated graphic novel tells the history of contemporary Thailand through the life of a blind man who walks on the streets of the capital for the last time.

Narratology in Practice draws on various cultural domains to explain the ways in which theory illuminates the presence of narrative.

Bringing together themes in the history of art, punishment, religion, and the history of medicine, Picturing Punishment provides new insights into the wider importance of the criminal to civic life.

This fascinating collection explores America’s appropriations and fabrications of the Middle Ages, revealing the nation’s complicated love affair with a past it never had, but has created from history and imagination.

Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.

By exposing the separation of art and labour, Art Work provides a valuable, historical perspective on the present-day struggle for artists’ rights.

This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.

By helping individuals deal effectively with risks, failures and successes, Artistry stimulates great performance and innovation in the workplace.

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gérin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, the circus, theatre, and cinema under Lenin and Stalin.

Painting Place is an introduction to David B. Milne – the man, the painter, the printmaker, and the writer – and a tribute to his splendid gifts.

This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth century

This bilingual photography book investigates the complexities of today’s war on drugs by examining the art and architecture of Guatemala City’s Pentecostal drug rehabilitation centers.

At once historical and allegorical, Light in Dark Times is an illustrated ride crossing time, space, and place as the characters walk a difficult path while grasping a lifeline of hope on a journey through knowledge.

In this collection of ethnographic short stories spanning thirty years of fieldwork, an anthropologist narrates events that have shaped the lives of artisans in a famous heritage crafts village in Odisha, India.

This book chronicles the Amsterdam’s 17^th-century Canal District District’s origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future prospects under pressures of global tourism, gentrification, and rapid economic change.

The Persistence of Presence analyzes the relationship between emblem books, containing combinations of pictures and texts, and Spanish literature in the early modern period.