The Fireless Cook BookA Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for …

The Fireless Cook Book: A Manual of the Construction and Use of Appliances for Cooking by Retained Heat, with 250 Recipes, by Margaret J. Mitchell, is a comprehensive guide to the innovative method of fireless cooking, a technique that revolutionized early 20th-century kitchens by allowing meals to be prepared with minimal fuel and effort. This detailed manual provides step-by-step instructions…

A Revolution in MovementDancers, Painters, and the Image of Modern Mexico

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities How collaborations between dancers and painters shaped cultural identity in Mexico A Revolution in Movementis the first book to illuminate how collaborations between dancers and painters shaped Mexicos postrevolutionary cultural identity. K. Mitchell Snow traces this relationship throughout…

What Art DoesUsing Philosophy of Technology to Talk about Art

We derive a great deal of cognitive pleasure from asking what artworks mean. And yet, despite the seriousness with which we approach these questions, they all too often rely on theories of art that fail to adequately explain how art conveys meaning. This book proposes a new theory. In contrast to more conventional definitions of art, What Art Does defends the claim that artworks constitute a c…

Taste the State GeorgiaDistinctive Foods and Stories from Where Eating Local …

2025 Gourmand International Cookbook Award Finalist Ingredient by ingredient, dish by dish, take a tantalizing tour of Georgia's signature foods "Taste the State Georgia and the regional foods within it can be a source of pride for people and communities.... This book will prepare you for your next Georgian culinary adventure and give you a bit of history on why southerners eat what they eat.…

A Bite-Sized History of FranceGastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlig…

A "delicious" (Dorie Greenspan), "genial" (Kirkus Reviews), "very cool book about the intersections of food and history" (Michael Pollan)—as featured in the New York Times "The complex political, historical, religious and social factors that shaped some of [France's] . . . most iconic dishes and culinary products are explored in a way that will make you rethink every sprinkling of fleur de s…

Killing Women - Gender, Sorcery, and Violence in Late Medieval Germany

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Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday LifeCritical Intersections and…

This collection explores critical and visual practices through the lens of interactions and intersections between pattern and chaos. The dynamic of the inter-relationship between pattern and chaos is such as to challenge disciplinary boundaries, critical frameworks and modes of understanding, perception and communication, often referencing the in-between territory of art and science through exp…

The Met and the Masses in Postwar AmericaA Study of the Museum and Popular Ar…

This book explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Book-of-the-Month Club. Between 1948 and 1962 the two institutions collaborated on three book projects- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures (1948-1957), The Metropolitan Seminars in Art (1958-60), and a print reproduction of Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Hom…

Applied Arts and HealthBuilding Bridges across Arts, Therapy, Health, Educati…

This collection documents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, building metaphoric bridges across the field with an emphasis on creativity and well-being in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, the book advances integrative and multimodal art-based processes. This …

Flying HighPioneer Women in American Aviation

In the beginning of the twentieth century, women were demanding more freedom. What could bring more freedom than a chance to fly? Women went up in those early wire-and-fabric contraptions to gain independence, to make money, or to make their names as pilots. They sought to prove that women pilots could do just as well as menand some did far better. Flying High: Pioneer Women in American Aviatio…