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Santa vs. Satan
The Official Compendium of Imaginary Fights
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2008
“Who would win between . . .” has through the ages been one of man’s most fundamental questions. Sadly, adult responsibilities like “earning a living” and “having a girlfriend” have conspired to make it impossible for men to devote to this issue the scholarship it so deeply deserves....
by Dina Del Bucchia, Daniel Zomparelli
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
At precisely the cultural moment you were hoping for, a dream team of smart, sexy, brunette, West Coast poets of Italian descent has passionately co-authored an intelligent collection of poetry that both celebrates and capsizes the romantic comedy.From the origin of the genre (It Happened One Night)...
by Julian Bell
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Julian Bell’s incisive, fully updated study of modern art and the nature of painting, which daringly tries to explain it
“Yes, but is it art?” This lucid book by Julian Bell, himself a painter, confronts the uncertainty many people feel about art today and challenges generally accepted...
The Inhabited Ruins of Central Europe
Re-imagining Space, History, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Focusing on Central Europe, the volume proposes a new paradigm of how culture works, based on a model of "inhabited ruins" as a space where contradictory elements come together into continually renewed and frequently paradoxical configurations. Examines art, architecture, literature and music.
The Art of Setting Stones
& Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002
In Japanese gardens, composition follows from placement of the first stone; all elements and plantings become interconnected. These eight essays on Kyoto gardens similarly begin with keen description and build into richly meditative excursions into art, Buddhism, nature, and science. Landscape architect...
Birds and Frogs
Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 19902014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014.
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The Cosmic Code
Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
"The Cosmic Code can be read by anyone. I heartily recommend it!" — The New York Times Book Review
"A reliable guide for the nonmathematical reader across the highest ridges of physical theory. Pagels is unfailingly lighthearted and confident." — Scientific American
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2008
The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault,...
Social History of Art, Volume 1
From Prehistoric Times to the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1999
Richard Popkin has assembled 63 leading scholars to forge a highly approachable chronological account of the development of Western philosophical traditions. From Plato to Wittgenstein and from Aquinas to Heidegger, this volume provides lively, in-depth, and up-to-date historical analysis of all the...
Encyclopedia of Time
Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
"With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment than Taylor and Francis's 1994 Encyclopedia...
by Saint Bonaventure
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
the author is Saint Bonaventure, O.F.M., (Italian: San Bonaventura; 1221 – 15 July 1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also a Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonized...
by Timothy Finn
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
Timothy Finns Three Men (Not) in a Boat is a stylish update of a humorous classic. With echoes of Jerome K. Jeromes masterpiece Three Men in a Boat Timothy has introduced new characters, a new plot, new paths to be trodden by fearless men in search of a holiday. But still the hazards that face our modern...
Educating Artists for the Future
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific...