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Pesticide analytical methodology : symposium at the 178th meeting of the American chemical society, Washington, 9-14.9.1979
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ISBN: 0841205817 Year: 1980 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): American chemical society


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Restoring period gardens : from the Middle Ages to Georgian times
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ISBN: 085263952X 9780852639528 Year: 1988 Publisher: Aylesbury, Bucks, UK : Shire Publications,

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Photography and spirit
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ISBN: 1282265199 9786612265198 1861896107 Year: 2007 Publisher: London : Reaktion Books,

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Photography and Spirit examines mesmerizing images of phantoms, psychical emanations, and religious apparitions.


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Mediaeval gardens.
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ISBN: 071342396X Year: 1990 Publisher: London Batsford


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The Plantagenets
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ISBN: 0006329497 Year: 1978 Publisher: Place of publication unknown Fontana/Collins

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Men in black
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ISBN: 0948462736 9780948462733 0948462744 9786613588852 1280493623 1780230044 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Reaktion Books

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Mr. Pink:&#13;"Why can’t we pick out our own color?"&#13;&#13;Joe:&#13;"I tried that once, it don’t work. You get four guys fighting over who’s gonna be Mr. Black."&#13;&#13;—Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs&#13;&#13;Men’s clothes went black in the nineteenth century. Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in an age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. The answer is in this history of the color black. Over the last 1000 years there have been successive expansions in the wearing of black—from the Church to the Court, from the Court to the merchant class. Though black as fashion was often smart and elegant, its growth as a cultural marker was fed by several currents in Europe’s history—in politics, asceticism, religious warfare. Only in the nineteenth century, however, did black fully come into its own as fashion, the most telling witnesses constantly saw connections between the taste for black and the forms of constraint with which European society regimented itself.&#13;&#13;Concentrating on the general shift away from color that began around 1800, Harvey traces the transition to black from the court of Burgundy in the 15th century, through 16th-century Venice, 17th-century Spain and the Netherlands. He uses paintings from Van Eyck and Degas to Francis Bacon, religious art, period lithographs, wood engravings, costume books, newsphotos, movie stills and related sources in his compelling study of the meaning of color and clothes.&#13;&#13;Although in the twentieth century tastes have moved toward new colors, black has retained its authority as well as its associations with strength and cruelty. At the same time black is still smart, and fashion keeps returning to black. It is, perhaps, the color that has come to acquire the greatest, most significant range of meaning in history.


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Clothes
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ISBN: 1317488725 1315710366 1282947370 9786612947377 1844654192 9781317488729 9781844651504 1844651509 9781315710365 9781317488705 9781317488712 9781138158283 1317488717 Year: 2008 Publisher: Stocksfield Acumen

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Clothes protect our vulnerable skin and they keep us warm or cool. They help us show that we are young or old, rich or poor, at work or play, and whether we may be good to know. But though they are basic, much as food and shelter are – and also may be beautiful – they have long had a bad press in serious, moral and philosophical writing. The main reason for this is that they are external to us, a cover we may hide behind, and one on which some people spend too much money, perfecting a pompous plumage of vanity: also they, and the fashions for them, may not last long. Nonetheless, when we choose our own clothes, we know the choice is a sensitive matter and far from being merely superficial. John Harvey considers the overlapping values that clothes have for us. Clothes both cover and advertise the bodies within them. They help make us the men and women we are, and help us to attract each other. They enroll us in groups, from our own circle to our generation worldwide; and they show just how, as individuals, we want to be noticed. Clothes, like their wearers, may compete in claiming power. They may also, on and off the catwalk, compete to claim the spotlight. In sum they show how we think we matter – and they can matter themselves in ways that may be intimate and even crucial to us. At all times clothes have demanded attention, even when they have been castigated for their vanity, and contemporary opinion is still divided. Are clothes the most frivolous of consumer disposables – or are they, however extravagant, art? Though we wear and see them every day, the value that they have for us is multiple and fugitive and hard to catch exactly. Clothes attempts to sort the many-coloured wardrobe which marks off mankind from other creatures.

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