THOMAS HATCH HATCHFIELD is an artist derailed by the Vietnam War. Beginning with crayons as a child, he honed his love for drawing as an art major in college and…

Through a wide range of ethnographic contexts this book explores how practices and moralities of thrift are intertwined with austerity, debt, welfare, and patronage across various social and temporal scales…

This book traces the life of Alexander Graham Bell, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the invention for which…

Addresses common concerns, such as concentration, relaxation, discipline-specific techniques: warm-ups, performer/audience relationships, stage fright, and critical responses, and explores the role of the senses, emotions, learned behavior, human consciousness studies…

A detailed genealogy of the Robinson family, tracing their lineage from the 17th century through to the present day. Along the way, Robinson provides fascinating glimpses into the family's history…

This collection considers the characteristics, excitement and unique qualities of Shakespeare’s language, the relationship between language and event, and the social, theatrical and literary functions of language. A new introduction…

Using a classic microhistorical approach, this book presents and translates a 1605 Inquisition trial from Malta, before providing in-depth studies of various related aspects in order to contextualise the events…

For every child practising their new instrument and the parents and teachers helping them along the way, this book celebrates the joy of unexpected friendship through music. Young readers will…