Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape, Paperback - Christopher S. Wood

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subs...

Reducere. An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicaments In this authoritative book, the first of its kind in E...

Caspar David Friedrich (1774 1840), the greatest painter of the Romantic movement in Germany, was perhaps Europe's first truly modern artist. This ...

Reducere. The world is hungry to have an awakening. Hope and purpose are just waiting to be discovered. This is my guidebook.In 1938, a three-year-old Bavari...

Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

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Reducere. The contemporary and mythological worlds collide in this 4th thrilling Pegasus adventure with a feisty female heroine. A deadly plague has struck O...

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Accompanied by an introduction by John Dixon Hunt, this facsimile fully reproduces the 1948 edition of Gardens in the Modern Landscape, a manifesto...

Reducere. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"?Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?Th...

Reducere. Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post col...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Kojin KarataniTranslator: Joseph a. MurphyIn Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy--published originally in Japanese and n...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): David WhitehouseIllustration(s): Ill.Number of pages: 182Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 154 x 228...

Reducere. The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has l...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Minimal Selfhood and the Origins of Consciousness, R.D.V. Glasgow seeks to ground the logical roots of consciousness in what he has p...

Reducere. Pharaoh Akhenaten, who reigned for seventeen years in the fourteenth century B.C.E, is one of the most intriguing rulers of ancient Egypt. His odd ...

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In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Eike ExnerIllustration(s): 10 colour, 50 black & white imagesNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 20...

In the sixth century BC, Anaximander of Miletus, an associate of Thales, initiated Western philosophy and science with a theory of how the world or...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Claudia LosiIllustration(s): 72 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 152Publication date: 2021Dimension...

The first general account of Italian poet Francesco Petrarca in over thirty years.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Christopher S. CelenzaIllustr...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Elisabeth AndersonIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 384Collection: Princeto...

Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the Believers' movement begun by th...

Reducere. In this wide-ranging yet concise study, Alain de Benoist brings his incisive intelligence and wide erudition to bear on the fiercely debated subjec...

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political orga...

The first book to document the origins and early history of environmentalism, especially its colonial and global aspects, Green Imperialism highlig...

Reducere. Ancient Rome is a concise, comprehensive political and military history of the Roman Republic and Empire, from the origins of the city in the Itali...

This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

Reducere. In the quiet town of Seneca Falls, New York, over the course of two days in July, 1848, a small group of women and men, led by Elizabeth Cady Stant...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...