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Nymphs

Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and Nymphs will engage not only the author's dev...

Hockney's Pictures

The definitive retrospective of one of the world's most popular and acclaimed artists.

Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook

Broadcast News and Writing Stylebook is the go-to resource for writing broadcast news, offering a concise introduction to writing engagin...

Pre-Texts International

Pre-Texts is a methodology developed for education professionals to stimulate close reading and critical-thinking skills by making art ba...

The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk - Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future

What is steampunk and why are people across the globe eagerly embracing its neo-Victorian aesthetic? Old-fashioned eye goggles, lace cors...

The A-B-C of Aesthetics

Leo Stein (1872-1947) was an influential art collector and critic. It has been Stein's ironic fate to be referred to as "Gertrude's broth...

Dance Music Manual

Dance Music Manual - a comprehensive guidebook for novice and seasoned professionals alike - walks readers through the tools and techniqu...

Federico Garcia Lorca

Lauded as one of the most important poets and playwrights of the 20th Century, Federico Garcia Lorca was also an accomplished theatre dir...

Graphic Design for Board Games

With a sense of humor, plenty of examples, and simple tips, this book covers everything from typography to retail presence. Learn how to ...

The WebGPU Sourcebook - High-Performance Graphics and Machine Learning in the Browser

This explains how to code web applications that use WebGPU to access the client's graphics processing unit (GPU). This makes it possible ...

Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers - Drawing, Rendering, Modeling, Drafting, and Presenting

Essential Vectorworks Skills for Scenic and Production Designers is an accessible textbook that covers the digital skills of 2D drawing, ...

Theatre Histories - An Introduction

This updated 4th edition of Theatre Histories offers a critical overview of global theatre, drama, and performance, spanning a broad weal...

Music, Technology, Innovation - Industry and Educational Perspectives

Music, Technology, Innovation: Industry and Educational Perspectives draws upon cutting-edge practice in the use of technology from both ...

I Must Have A Great Inner Life - Hans Hartung in His Own Words

This book will prove an indispensable companion to a major figure in the cultural life of the last century.

Gender Equality and the Cultural Economy - Comparative Perspectives

The status of women in the creative and cultural industries remains precarious. This comparative analysis provides insights from seven ke...

Mandalas - Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet

Exploring the significance of Tibetan mandalas from their ancient origins to the present day, this gorgeously illustrated volume provides...

Game Economy Design - Metagame, Monetization and Live Operations

This book provides a comprehensive overview of game economy design. It begins with a high-level overview, then utilises subsequent chapte...

Warhol After Warhol - Power and Money in the Modern Art World

Long-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world, and its mystifying authentication process Late one...

Transnational Visual Activism for Women's Reproductive Rights - My Body, My Choice

Focusing on art practices that advocate, raise consciousness and educate about the human right to reproductive health, this book analyses...

Understanding Human Life through Psychoanalysis and Ancient Greek Tragedy - Explorations of Euripides, Sophocles and Aeschylus

Made in Puerto Rico - Studies in Popular Music

Made in Puerto Rico: Studies in Popular Music serves as a comprehensive introduction to the history, culture, and musicology of twentieth...

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century

Musical Theatre Education and Training in the 21st Century presents a wide range of viewpoints on the musical theatre profession. It brin...

Farming Simulator Modding with Blender - A Step-by-step Guide to Creating, Optimizing and Publishing Mods

This is a comprehensive guide to creating and customizing mods for the popular video game Farming Simulator within Blender. This book cov...

The Figure of the Monster in Global Theatre - Further Readings on the Aesthetics of Disqualification

Bringing together international perspectives on the figure of the "monster" in performance, this edited collection builds on discussions ...

How and Why We Make Games - The Creative Confusion

This book delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, and, most notably, hum...

Decentralized Music - Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research

This book offers a thorough examination of the potential of blockchain to transform musical practices. Moving beyond blockchain's financi...

Survey of Media - Screens, Sounds, and Synergies

An accessible and exciting new textbook that provides students with an in-depth historical and conceptual understanding of the nature and...

A Gamer's Introduction to Programming in C - Welcome Brave Adventurer!

The first in an ongoing series designed to take readers from zero experience to writing their own video games and interactive digital exp...

Connecting Visual Literacy to Theory - Revisiting the Disruptions of Visual Thinkers in Education and Beyond

This volume seeks to close the gap between education systems across the world that remain systematically devoted to understanding our wor...

Researching the Creative and Cultural Industries - A Guide to Qualitative Research

Research into creative and cultural organisations has proliferated, benefitting from insights from a range of disciplinary perspectives. ...

The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise

This much-needed book introduces readers to the related fields of expertise, creativity, and performance, exploring our understanding of ...

Paper Time Machines - Critical Game Design and Historical Board Games

This book looks at a range of topics and design issues pertinent to the history, current state of design, and to developing trends within...

Performance Making - a pedagogy for precarious times

Surveying how Performance as a form has evolved as a distinct artistic sector to where it is today, Performance Making provides a compreh...

The Metaverse - A Critical Introduction

The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction provides a clear, concise and well-grounded introduction to the concept of the Metaverse, its hist...

The Performance Studies Reader

Now in its fourth edition, The Performance Studies Reader continues to offer an unparalleled selection of work by the foremost scholars i...

TV Writing On Demand - What's Now + What's Next.

This book takes a deep dive into writing for today's audiences, against the backdrop of a constantly evolving TV ecosystem. The aim of th...

Designing Games Meant for Sharing

This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved across time to accommodate new technolo...

Color Science and Digital Imaging - An Essential Guide for Filmmakers, Photographers, and Visual Effects Artists

This book, written by a leading expert in the field of visual effects, demystifies the complex subject of color science and how it should...

Recreating Historic Dress - Clothing Gems from the Hereford Museum Clothing Collection, with Patterns

Recreating Historic Dress: Clothing Gems from the Hereford Museum Clothing Collection, with Patterns compiles patterns and information fo...

Introducing Autodesk Maya

Introducing Autodesk Maya is your perfect hands-on guide to start animating quickly. Using approachable, real-world exercises, you'll mas...

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre

Opera, a History of the Impossible Genre offers an accessible and chronological survey of opera. Beginning in the 16th century, each chap...

Game Design Deep Dive - Shooters

For this entry in the Game Design Deep Dive series, it's a look at the shooter genre to discuss its history, design, and immense populari...

Rural Arts Management

This book combines insights from research and practice to help readers understand arts administration in rural communities.

Dramatic Storytelling and Narrative Design - A Writer's Guide to Video Games and Transmedia

This book provides an industry professional's first-hand perspective on narrative design's practical usage, day-to-day roles and responsi...

Global Popular Music - A Research and Information Guide, 2-Volume Set

Global Popular Music: A Research and Information Guide, offers an essential annotated bibliography of scholarship on popular music around...

Through the Eyes of Children - Quotes from Childhood Interrupted by War in Ukraine, Illustrated by Artists

A heartrending and beautiful trilingual book that gives voice to the children of war-torn Ukraine, interspersed with moving works of art....

The Boston Raphael - A Mysterious Painting, an Embattled Museum in an Era of Change & a Daughter's Search for the Truth

The full, inside story of how the discovery of a previously unknown painting by Raphael, the Italian Renaissance master, went from media ...

Create Stunning Renders Using Corona in 3ds Max - Guiding the Next Generation of 3D Renderers

Create Stunning Renders Using Corona in 3ds Max is a comprehensive step-by-step guide tailored for designers seeking to elevate their vis...

The Metaverse for Learning and Education

Accompanying The Metaverse: A Critical Introduction in CRC Press' new The Metaverse Series, this book explores the ways in which the Meta...

Representing Hip Hop Histories, Politics and Practices in Australia

This long-awaited volume is the first to focus entirely on Hip Hop in Australia. Bringing together both scholarly and practitioner perspe...

Transforming PR - Public Relations to People Relations

This book introduces the concept of Picnic Society - a society which we all belong to today because social media has given us unlimited o...

The Evolution of Computation in Architecture

This book is the first comprehensive overview of the pioneering works and people that have contributed to the paradigm shift defined by t...

Art Education in Canadian Museums - Practices in Action

This collection considers how Canadian art educators are engaging with a new range of approaches to museum education, and why educators a...

Anatomy of Game Design

Anatomy of Game Design takes some of the most popular and beloved games of all time and dissects them to see what makes them tick. Each g...

Beyond Powerful Radio - An Audio Communicator's Guide to the Digital World - News, Talk, Information, & Personality for Podcasting & Broadcasting

A complete guide to becoming a successful communicator, Beyond Powerful Radio teaches time-tested techniques that work in any format - ra...

Learning Video Game Design on the Tabletop

Presented in a step-by-step format, this book helps the reader understand how the game design skills that are acquired through creating t...

Pierre Soulages: From Midnight to Twilight

A heartfelt dedication to the creator of Outrenoir and his experiments with light reflected from black Dedicated to Colette Soulages, Fro...

Cecilia Vicuña: Dreaming Water - A Retrospective of the Future (1964-...)

An edifying immersion into Vicuña's creative wellspring as well as her decolonization and ecofeminist ideals Beautifully designed, with a...

Jenna Gribbon: The Honeymoon Show!

Tender portraiture of the artist's wife and muse set against the backdrop of their honeymoon in Thailand American painter Jenna Gribbon (...

Chuck Close: Red, Yellow, and Blue - The Last Paintings

The final works of the photorealist pioneer, made with a palette of only three colors Since the 1970s, Chuck Close (1940-2021) has been k...