Books in category of Art

For four hundred years-from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. …

Chang'an was the most important city in early imperial China, yet this is the first comprehensive study of the Sui-Tang …

This is one of the most painful self-help books I've trudged through because page after page contains nothing but heady …

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How Jews think about and work with objects is the subject of this fascinating study of the interplay between material …

Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of …

From electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing and prisons have rapidly …

Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World Series, 2012. — 836 p.Introduction The Greeks and their Art (Tyler Jo Smith and …

This full-color catalog explores the interrelationships between the East and West during the first millennium. This was the first time …

London: The Medici Society, 1915. — 270 p. — (Handbooks to Ancient Civilizations Series)In this book I have endeavoured to …

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people …

This easy to read text provides a broad introduction to the fundamental concepts of modeling and simulation (M&S) and systems …

Recent years have seen a rapid growth in neuroscientific research, and an expansion beyond basic research to incorporate elements of …

The present volume is part of a general renaissance in the study of rhetoric and bears testimony to a discipline …

Bailey describes how the Sea of Okhotsk area became integrated into a world system of economic and cultural ties between …

"John Gardner was famous for his generosity to young writers, and (this book) is his . . . gift to …

The book depicts a unique historical and cultural phenomenon, the philosophy of Chinese moral education, in an attempt to capture …

The standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. Now newly expanded with more material. Presents personal documents, social records, …

Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. …

First published in 1998 and updated with a new preface by the author, The Art of Pilgrimage is a sacred …

Sacred gaze denotes any way of seeing that invests its object--an image, a person, a time, a place--with spiritual significance. …

This book presents a polemical account of the historical development of the neoliberal imagination. Inspired by the thought of Frederic …

Glencoe Art in Focus - the premier high school art history text! This integrated, chronological approach to the study of …

De Las Casas has adapted 25 folktales from across Asia for whole classroom use, borrowing a Japanese method of storytelling …

This book by artist, diver, and editor-in-chief of an underwater magazine Jürgen Claus is a milestone among the books dedicated …

The National Curriculum places strong emphasis on experimenting with and applying the visual elements. This book systematically explores the basic …

"There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea," wrote Joseph Conrad. And there is certainly …