Suitable for the classical scholars, this title explores an aspect of Greek military practice.…

Suitable for the classical scholars, this title explores an aspect of Greek military practice.…

Kroeber's intellectual robustness is all the more refreshing when viewed against the background of the narrowness and…

This is a translation into English of the complete "Yin-Hai Jing-Wei", a classic 15th-century text on Chinese ophthalmology.…

Produkt Essentials of Modern Literary Tibetan - Goldstein, Melvyn C. a Rimpoche, Gelek a Phuntshog, Lobsang zakoupíte na…

This work provides a systematic and comprehensive reconstruction of proto-Afroasiatic. The book applies throughout the…

Presenting substantive social science knowledge and indicating its relevance and applicability to decision-making,…

Explores the profound relationship between science and government to present an understanding of modern state formation.…

Setting the saga of human relations with the environment in the broad context of scientific, social, and cultural history,…

Presents a study of the two important artists of the twentieth century that links the art practices of Allan Kaprow and…

Examines how nineteenth and twentieth-century American believers rejected older, evangelical, theological traditions and…

A study of the cultural transformations arrived at by Spanish colonists, native-born creoles, mestizos (Chinese and…

Drawing on political and social history as well as art history, this book includes essays that take a cultural measure of…

Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) produced an unparalleled body of work, including the iconic "The Artist in His Museum". He…

Identifies the early Russian avant-garde (1910-1918) as a distinctive movement in its own right and not a preliminary stage…

Feminist historians of science and philosophy have shown that during the Italian Renaissance, the profound shift in the…

Offers a novel retelling of the emergence of the Western concept of "modern self," demonstrating how the struggle to forge a…

Presents a volume of 453 letters written by and to composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). This book provides insight into one of…

Offers a comprehensive empirical framework for discovering and deciphering the patterns and processes of the distribution of…

Rarely has an artist been so closely associated with a single work as is Jay Defeo with her painting "The Rose". In this…

A comprehensive study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship and the state in Germany, this text stitches…

This work considers several texts, cultural practices and intellectual processes to chart the emergence of a new…

Offers descriptions, photographs, and an analysis of the fossil vertebrates - from elephants and hyenas to humans - from the…

Though known chiefly as a writer of novels and stories, Paul Bowles (1910-99) thought of himself first and foremost as a…

In the voluminous scholarship that's been written on Paul Cezanne, little has been said about the 24 portraits in oil that…

This work provides a reassessment of the emergence and nature of Christian sexual morality, the dominant moral paradigm in…

Brings fresh theoretical perspectives to the study of the 'propagandistic' art and architecture of the Jesuit order as…

A comprehensive, English-language study of early twentieth-century Japanese modern art. It constructs a critical theory of…

Western philosophers have traditionally concentrated on theory as the means for expressing knowledge about a variety of…

Offers an original approach to early French modernism, one informed by the art's unprecedented psychological intensity.…

Written as a response to the economic crisis of the 1840s - closure of factories, loss of jobs, the growth of slums in…

Explores the female roles in Mozart's four most frequently performed operas, "Le nozze di Figaro", "Don Giovanni", "Cosi fan…

Demonstrates that Polybius' work performs a literary and political balancing act of heretofore unappreciated subtlety and…

Helps in our understanding of Vergil's "Georgics", a vibrant work written by Rome's premier epic poet shortly before he…

Reflects on the nature of the university from the perspective of research institutions. This title examines the ideas of…

Presents an assessment of the state of American liberalism which begins with the political turbulence of 1968 and culminates…

A biographical dictionary which offers short, information-packed entries for approximately 1,800 Chinese artists of the…

Traces the phenomenon of the 'odyssey' experience as it shapes, informs, and defines our lives. Drawing on a range of…

Taking a fresh look at the epigraphical evidence for Greek ritual practice in the context of studies of landscape and…

A cultural history set in Punjab that examines a body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a…

Relates Wagner's works to the philosophical and cultural ideas of his time, centering on the four music dramas he created in…

Introduces and investigates the novel concept of doulology, the discourse of slavery, in the homilies of John Chrysostom,…

Presents a description of the author's methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a…

The three plays in this volume, composed between 1672 or 1673 and 1675, demonstrate Dryden's versatility and inventiveness…

Since the earliest development of states, groups of people escaped or were exiled. This book gives voice to three…

Aims to introduce a new generation of students to a wide-ranging set of essays that helps them gain a truer understanding of…

The grammarian was a pivotal figure in the lives of the educated upper classes of late antiquity. This profession…

An ethnography that examines the hopes, frustrations, and activist strategies of American evangelical Christians. It reaches…