Spectacles and the Victorians Surgical techniques

Spectacles and the Victorians Surgical techniquesThis book explores how the Victorians standardised vision and transformed spectacle use. It offers new insights into how technology and its adoption in medical and non medical contexts shaped, and continues to shape, our understanding of sensory perception and the assimilation of assistive devices.

In memory of Douglas L

By tracing the history of the high-profile series World in Action across four decades it charts the interwoven processes of media practice and social change in a manner unrivalled in its depth and detail

and will be essential reading for all those interested in

the traditional centrepiece of the German tradition

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its inhabitants and of the furnishings

‘Rainbow’ presents a series of magical adventures that lead the heroine and us to a greater sense of wonder about the living world

This publication uses a new system of organizing the pottery by petrography-sorting it by materials and workshop practices

Ranging from eighteenth-century Ottoman tents to Islamic motifs in 1960s Hawaii

It investigates the empathy and mediation migratory aesthetics provide

conveying their flavour with contemporary quotations

By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and their antecedents