The ubiquity of waste paper in early modern England has long been misunderstood. Though insults and modesty tropes that refer to waste paper are widespread, these have often been dismissed as nothing more than rhetorical flourishes. Paired with the common misconception that paper would have been too valuable to 'waste' in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, these tropes have been read as scatological flights of fancy. Waste Paper in Early Modern England argues that such commonplaces are in fact indicative of everyday, material experience - of an author's, reader's, housewife's, or city-dweller's immersion in an environment brimming with repurposed scraps and sheets. It demonstrates that waste paper makes visible a radically different understanding of waste matter in the early modern period than in our own. More than a rhetorical aside, repurposed pages were both materially and figuratively useful. Drawing on a range of literary, pictorial, and bibliographical sources, Waste Paper in Early Modern England reveals how layers of meaning accreted around paper fragments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and how, because of the widespread sensitivity to the life cycle of paper and books, wasted pages prompted meaningful imaginative work. The book's five chapters recount how, in this period, the biography of waste paper provided a thing to think with concerning matter and temporality - a potent and flexible emblem for the troublesome passage of books and all other sorts of bodies through time.

Waste Paper in Early Modern England: Privy Tokens

Literature & Fiction

Reynolds, Anna

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Tightrope: A Matter of Life and Death

Biographies & Memoirs

Pan/Macmillan

New plays on challenging topics for youth theatre. Suitable for use with the 11+ range, these plays will become essential texts for schools, colleges, and youth theatres. Includes: Listen to Your Parents by Benjamin Zephaniah, Gorgeous by Anna Furse, Wise Guys by Philip Osment, Look at Me by Anna Reynolds, Pressure by Angela Turvey, and Souls by Roy Williams.

Theatre Centre: Plays for Young People (Aurora New Plays)

Zephaniah, Benjamin

Furse, Anna

Turvey, Angela

Teen & Young Adult

Aurora Metro Books

BASIC CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES, Sixth Edition demonstrates the techniques involved in basic clinical laboratory procedures, as well as the theories behind them. Performance-based to maximize hands-on learning, this "work-text" includes step-by-step instruction and worksheets to help users understand laboratory tests and procedures, such as specimen collection, types of analysis, laboratory instrumentation, CLIA and OSHA safety protocols, and much more. Learners and working professionals alike will find BASIC CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES an easy-to-understand, reliable resource for developing and refreshing key laboratory skills.

Basic Clinical Laboratory Techniques

Medical Books

Estridge, Barbara

Allied Health Professions

Cengage Learning'

Clean Break is a British theatre company set up in 1979 by two women in prison. It exists to tell the stories of women with experience of the criminal justice system and to transform women's lives through theatre.
Over 40 years, Clean Break has commissioned some of the most progressive and brilliant women writers to write ground-breaking plays, alongside developing the writing skills of the women they work with in its London studios and in prisons. This is a collection of monologues from this canon.
Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women celebrates the opportunities inherent when women represent themselves. Offering female performers a diverse set of monologues reflecting a range of characters in age, ethnicity and lived experience, the material is drawn from a mix of published and unpublished works. 
This book is for any performer who does not see themselves represented in mainstream plays, for lovers of radical women's theatre and for rebels everywhere who believe that the act of speaking and being heard can create change.

Rebel Voices: Monologues for Women by Women: Celebrating 40 Years of Clean Break Theatre Company (Audition Speeches)

Daniels, Sarah

Wallace, Naomi

Lavery, Bryony

Kirkwood, Lucy

Hims, Katie

Franzmann, Vivienne

Birch, Alice

Mahfouz, Sabrina

Bruce, Deborah

King, Daisy

Pinnock, Winsome

Lomas, Laura

Caulfield, Annie

Sarma, Ursula Rani

Lenkiewicz, Rebecca

Silas, Shelley

Coghlan, Lin

Ikoko, Theresa

Moss, Chlöe

Prichard, Rebecca

Marshall, Natasha

El-Bushra, Suhayla

Brogan, Linda

Seaton, Somalia

Chandler, Katherine

Hale, Sonya

Odimba, Chinoyerem

Brown, Danni

Dunne, Raina

Holborough, Jacqueline

Lloyd-Malcolm, Morgan

Owen, Rena

Uwayo, Sandrine

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

From an iconic portrait of a young Elizabeth I to the many paintings of Charles I by Flemish master Anthony Van Dyck and the glamorous “Windsor Beauties” of the court of Charles II, sixteenth- and seventeenth-century portraiture has long been a source of great interest to costume historians. Given the scarcity of surviving garments, it also tells us most of what we know about Tudor and Stuart dress. We’re all familiar with the stockings, voluminous breeches, and elaborate lace ruffs, but did you know that the clothing seen in many of these paintings cost more than the paintings themselves? For In Fine Style, Anna Reynolds, curator of paintings at the Royal Collection, has drawn on the art of the period, as well as wardrobe inventories, literary references, contemporary accounts, and surviving garments to offer a fascinating account of the elite fashions of the day and the ways in which they were recreated in paint. The gold threads seen throughout the forepart of Elizabeth’s gown were costly, while the red dye that colored it came from crushed beetles and would have had to have been imported from Spain. Other works show their subjects with intricate ruffs, bright stockings, or broad farthingales, each item extravagantly adorned. Indeed, the main focus of Tudor and Stuart clothing was on rich materials that communicated the ability of the wearer to afford them, and, with the rise of the moneyed merchant class, sumptuary laws were established to limit their use to the nobility. Other forms of attire, including ornate hairdos held in place with wire and pleats that had to be set each time the garment was worn left absolutely no doubt as to the fact that the wearer had an army of servants and a wealth of spare time with which to attend to appearance. Published to accompany an exhibition that will open at Buckingham Palace in May, In Fine Style features works by, among many others, Rembrandt, Rubens, Lely, and Holbein, and is the first book to examine Tudor and Stuart fashion through the use of art.

In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion

Reference

Royal Collection Trust

One of the world’s few remaining working palaces, Buckingham Palace has also been home throughout its history to many royal families. What might it be like to not just visit these beautiful and historic rooms, but live amid them and pass one’s childhood there? Published on the occasion of the annual summer opening of Buckingham Palace, Royal Childhood takes a look back at the pint-sized princes and princesses who have called the palace home. From the time of the palace's purchase as a comfortable family home by George III in 1761 to the recent happy birth of Prince George of Cambridge, the book covers all aspects of childhood, from playtime and hobbies to birthdays, school days, and public outings. Among the items used to illustrate these tales of royal childhood are many matchless treasures. But for every silver-gilt rattle and finely detailed christening gowns, there are also the childish stories written in notebooks, the birthday party menus and elaborately conceived cakes that will be familiar to any parent, and the well-loved toys that have been passed down from generation to generation. Drawing on paintings and photographs from the Royal Collection, the Royal Archives, and numerous royal toyboxes, Royal Childhood provides a fascinating look at what it’s like to grow up in a palace.

Royal Childhood

Peter, Lucy

Historical

Buckingham Palace is the backdrop for many magnificent royal occasions, from state banquets to glorious garden parties and grand private audiences. Guests of The Queen are dazzled without fail by the first-rate style and elegance on display at Buckingham Palace, where each tiny detail is perfectly considered to create a truly resplendent royal welcome. A Royal Welcome offers a rare, beautifully illustrated look behind the scenes at Buckingham Palace, exploring the magic behind the majesty. From footmen, housemaids, and private secretaries to royal chefs, gardeners, sommeliers, and seamstresses on the Dressers’ Floor, the preparations behind many royal occasions are revealed. Published to commemorate the Palace’s 2015 Summer Opening, the book also features a wealth of photographs of events hosted by The Queen and will make the perfect gift for anyone with an interest in the British royal family.

A Royal Welcome

Arts & Photography

Themes

Dürer’s Self-Portrait at Age Twenty-Eight. Hockney’s Self-Portrait with Cigarette. Melzi’s drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, widely regarded as the most reliable surviving likeness of this most famous Old Master. Throughout history, many of the world’s most renowned artists have made portraits to represent themselves and others. The first book to focus on images of artists from within the Royal Collection, Portrait of the Artist brings together paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs by artists from across the centuries, including works by Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens, David Hockney, and Lucian Freud. While some of the portraits included in this book were created to showcase the artist’s talent, others were motivated by more personal reasons, to preserve the images of cherished friends. Anna Reynolds, Lucy Peter, and Martin Clayton explore the miscellany of themes running throughout the discipline of portraiture, from the rich symbolism found in images of the artist’s studio to the transformation of styles with which artists depictedthemselves, changing their portrayals to align with their changing status. They also explore the relationships between artists and patrons, including the important role of the monarchy in commissioning and collecting portraits of artists. Published to accompany a major exhibition opening in the fall at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, Portrait of the Artist provides a fascinating new perspective on this tradition, with lavish color illustrations of works from the fifteenth century to the present.

Portrait of the Artist

Clayton, Martin

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians reveals what we can learn about society in Georgian Britain through the sumptuous fashionable dress of the era. Explore the history of Georgian clothing through the unique holdings of the Royal Collection, from masterpieces by such artists as Gainsborough and Hogarth, drawings, miniatures, fashion periodicals, swords and jewellery to surviving examples of carefully preserved garments and accessories. As well as the world of high fashion, including clothing commissioned, worn and collected by the royal family and their circle, discover nonelite dress and a surprising abundance of objects that tell a story of revolution: Queen Charlotte adopting the aprons traditionally associated with working-class dress and the Prince of Wales wearing Whig buff and blue inspired by American Revolutionary ideals. From textiles and techniques of production, cleaning and dyeing to the Georgian shopping experience, enter the world of fashion for Georgian men, women and children, cosmetics and hairstyles, court ceremony and ritual, clothing worn in battle and influences from Europe and afar, including Britain's love-hate relationship with France and materials imported from China and beyond. Published to accompany an exhibition opening in March 2023 at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, this book also serves as a standalone guide to the dress of the Georgian period.

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

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