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Product Description: In Anna Jackson’s fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life closes in on the New Zealand poet. Scenarios from home and work join fairy-tale tropes in these multifaceted poems that preoccupy themselves with thickets of language and other tangles and examine the relationship between “I” and “you...read more
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9781869404826 | Auckland Univ Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In Anna Jackson’s fifth collection of poetry, a rich and leafy life closes in on the New Zealand poet.

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Product Description: The treasures of India are among the great mysteries of the West. With them the culture of the Maharajas is connected, whose incomparable splendor is presented in the catalog for the unique exhibition in Munich. At the same time the fascinating historical development of the role of the Maharajas from the early 18th Century to the last days of the Raj is told...read more
By Anna Jackson (editor), Amin Jaffer (editor) and Christiane Lange (editor)
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9783777424415 | Reprint edition (Hirmer Verlag, August 10, 2010), cover price $59.00 | About this edition: The treasures of India are among the great mysteries of the West.

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9781851776061, titled "V&A Pattern Kimono: Kimono" | Hardcover with CD edition (Victoria & Albert Pubns, June 1, 2010), cover price $12.95

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Product Description: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential...read more
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9780415998314 | Routledge, May 26, 2010, cover price $133.00 | also contains Diary Poetics | About this edition: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self.

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Product Description: This February 2010 release by Ray Comfort is a novel. A worthwhile and unique read, powerful in its content. Ray Comfort and Anna Jackson have crafted a compelling novel of mystery and romance that breathes with suspense and intrigue...read more
By Anna Jackson (contributor)
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9780882700045 | Bridge Logos Pub, February 1, 2010, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This February 2010 release by Ray Comfort is a novel.

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Product Description: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self. Focusing on the diaries of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Antonia White, Joe Orton, John Cheever, and Sylvia Plath, this book looks at how six very different professional writers have approached the diary form with its particular demands and literary potential...read more
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9780415998314, titled "Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers Diaries, 1915-1962" | Routledge, May 26, 2010, cover price $133.00 | also contains Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers Diaries, 1915-1962 | About this edition: The diary is a genre that is often thought of as virtually formless, a "capacious hold-all" for the writer’s thoughts, and as offering unmediated access to the diarist’s true self.

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Product Description: From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers. The last two decades have seen an enormous growth in the critical study of two very different genres, the Gothic and children’s literature...read more
By Anna Jackson (editor) and Roderick McGillis (editor)
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9780415960366 | 1 edition (Routledge, July 30, 2007), cover price $133.00 | About this edition: From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers.

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9780415875745 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 19, 2009), cover price $44.95 | About this edition: From creepy picture books to Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, the Spiderwick Chronicles, and countless vampire series for young adult readers, fear has become a dominant mode of entertainment for young readers.

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Product Description: In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress...read more
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9780203866108 | Routledge, September 21, 2009, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In this study, Charles Ferrall and Anna Jackson argue that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of "storm and stress.

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Presents highlights from the V&A's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress, which is one of the finest in the West. This book explores the various techniques that have been employed by Japanese textile artists in the production of woven, printed and embroidered textiles since the seventeenth century.
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9781851773169 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, January 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This volume presents highlights from the Victoria and Albert Museum's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress.

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9781851773176 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, November 1, 2008, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Presents highlights from the V&A's extensive collection of Japanese textiles and dress, which is one of the finest in the West.

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Product Description: A vibrant and engaging history colorfully illustrated with posters, ephemera, photographs, and catalogs, this book traces the past, present, and future of expositions across the globe, from Europe to Asia to America. From Paris’s Eiffel Tower to Seattle’s Space Needle, some of the world’s most recognizable monuments to innovation have been created for international expositions...read more
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9781851775408 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, September 1, 2008, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A vibrant and engaging history colorfully illustrated with posters, ephemera, photographs, and catalogs, this book traces the past, present, and future of expositions across the globe, from Europe to Asia to America.

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Product Description: This thoughtful, disturbing, and darkly funny new collection explores the theme of uneasy domestic life in poems arranged in three sequences and narrated by a gas fitter, his wife, and their teenage daughter. Without explicit storytelling, the secrets and peculiarities of each character are revealed in technically superb poetry that is deceptively easy to navigate...read more
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9781869403560 | Auckland Univ Pr, May 28, 2006, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This thoughtful, disturbing, and darkly funny new collection explores the theme of uneasy domestic life in poems arranged in three sequences and narrated by a gas fitter, his wife, and their teenage daughter.

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Product Description: Vasco da Gama set sail in 1497 on a quest for highly prized spices from the East. His discovery of the sea route to India established, for the first time, direct relations between Europe and East Asia, ushering in a period of rich commercial and artistic exchange...read more
By Anna Jackson (editor) and Amin Jaffer (editor)
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9781851774326 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, September 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Vasco da Gama set sail in 1497 on a quest for highly prized spices from the East.

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Product Description: Some 150 pieces, from the tropics to the Arctic circle, from the plains of India to the mountains of Montenegro, have been chosen to illustrate how different cultures create their regional and national costume. The garments range from the ceremonial to the everyday, and display a breathtaking richness of detail: rows of ornamental buttons, embroidered patterns, intricate pleating and stitching, flamboyant fringes and tassels that define and decorate at one and the same time...read more
By Rosemary Crill, Leonie Davis (illustrator), Richard Davis (photographer), Charlotte Horlyck (contributor), Anna Jackson (contributor), Jennifer Wearden and Verity Wilson
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9780810965553 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: An illustrated journey through the intricate details of ethnic dress, this sumptuous volume showcases an extraordinary range of traditional clothing from Central Europe, India, and the Far East.

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9781851773787, titled "Dress In Detail From Around The World" | Victoria & Albert Pubns, November 1, 2004, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Some 150 pieces, from the tropics to the Arctic circle, from the plains of India to the mountains of Montenegro, have been chosen to illustrate how different cultures create their regional and national costume.

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Product Description: The verse of Latin poet Catullus is reinterpreted for the modern world in this collection of poetry that incorporates classical ideas through domestic and maternal themes. With wit, originality, and tenderness, famous poetry from Catullus is adapted to the playground, the home, and the family to capture the fear, anxiety, and delight of childhood...read more
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9781869403089 | Auckland Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The verse of Latin poet Catullus is reinterpreted for the modern world in this collection of poetry that incorporates classical ideas through domestic and maternal themes.

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Product Description: This richly illustrated book presents the Jeffrey Montgomery collection of traditional Japanese art, one of the foremost collections of this art in the world.Superb examples of lacquerware and metalwork, basketry, textiles, furniture, masks, sculpture, paintings, toys and ceramics, are organized by medium in five sections...read more
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9788884910882 | Skira, January 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This richly illustrated book presents the Jeffrey Montgomery collection of traditional Japanese art, one of the foremost collections of this art in the world.

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Product Description: In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment. Her ideas often assume unexpected forms, appearing as hens, vending machines, or grass within her poetry. Also addressed in these poems is the fate of today's animals in their restricted habitats, which is dealt with in poems such as "Dodo," "Butterflies," and "The Pastoral Elephant...read more
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9781869402617 | Auckland Univ Pr, September 1, 2002, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment.

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Product Description: Indispensable for collectors, decorators, dealers, and anyone interested in antiques or architecture, this concise, beautifully illustrated, and fact-filled book identifies and explains 23 major stylistic movements in British decorative arts from 1500 to 1900...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780810965904 | Victoria & Albert Pubns, April 1, 2002, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Indispensable for collectors, decorators, dealers, and anyone interested in antiques or architecture, this concise, beautifully illustrated, and fact-filled book identifies and explains 23 major stylistic movements in British decorative arts from 1500 to 1900.

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9781869402235 | Auckland Univ Pr, October 1, 2000, cover price $14.95

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Product Description: The first in a new occasional series introducing fresh voices in contemporary New Zealand poetry. Sara Quigley is also know for her short stories and Raewyn Alexander has published two novels. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781869401979 | Auckland Univ Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The first in a new occasional series introducing fresh voices in contemporary New Zealand poetry.

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Product Description: This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).
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9781874780014 | Kibo Fndtn, June 1, 1998, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: This collection of essays by an international team of scholars provides essential background on the administrative, social, and economic, as well as the artistic, history of the Meiji period in Japan (1868-1912).

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Product Description: This is a study of Japanese country textiles, covering design, techniques and the social context, taking examples from the V&A Museum's varied collection. The book examines the way in which country textiles have been categorized in the 20th century...read more
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9780834803961 | Shambhala Pubns, October 1, 1997, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This is a study of Japanese country textiles, covering design, techniques and the social context, taking examples from the V&A Museum's varied collection.

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Illustrations of and historical comments on quality pottery pieces accompany a detailed instructive guide to the handbuilding, throwing, decorating, glazing, and firing of such creations
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9780812020281 | Barrons Educational Series Inc, March 1, 1978, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Illustrations of and historical comments on quality pottery pieces accompany a detailed instructive guide to the handbuilding, throwing, decorating, glazing, and firing of such creations

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