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An unprecedented look at the wide-ranging artistic work of one of the 20th century's most significant landscape architects

The first in-depth exploration of the rise and evolution of abstract, symbolic, and conceptual portraiture in American art

A long-awaited survey of female Abstract Expressionist artists revealing the richness and lasting influence of their work

A landmark retrospective that examines William Merritt Chase and his lasting contribution to the history of modern art

Maintaining that Joyce is the greatest modern "interpreter" of Vico, Verene demonstrates how images from Joyce's work offer keys to Vico's philosophy. Verene presents Vico's philosophical thought as it develops in his major works, with Joyce's words and insights serving as a guide.

The author, a German living in the USA, analyzes the guilt, anger, embarrassment, shame and anxiety experienced by third-generation Jews and Germans, and attempts to describe the processes by which these grandchildren of the Holocaust have moved towards a better relationship.

This exposition offers a re-evaluation of "Walden" and a critical analysis of "The Journal", ties both to the issues of loss and remembrance in "A Week" and offers an exploration of the ways in which Thoreau anticipated 20th century objective philosphical thought.

A central feature of traditional Japanese poetry is the use of "utamakura", a category of poetic words, to cultivate allusion and intertextuality between individual poems. This text analyzes a wide selection of poems to show how "utamakura" came to wield special powers within Japanese poetry.

Holmes investigates scientific creativity, following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, to find common features in their careers and their landmark discoveries, and shed light on the nature of long-term experimental research.

This work seeks to shed light on efforts to understand and conserve the African rain forest, an area in need of urgent action to save its biological wealth, cultural heritage and economic potential. Written by conservation scientists and practitioners, it offers a multidisciplinary perspective.

In this text an international banking expert grapples with issues that surround the trend toward financial globalization and its potential impact on financial fragility. He analyzes four major crisis experiences: Latin America, 1982-3; Mexico, 1994-5; East Asia, 1997-8; and Russia since 1998.

In this volume, Faragher introduces and comments on ten of Frederick Jackson Turner's most significant essays, concluding with a comment on the debate over Turner's legacy and his effect on Americans' understanding of their national character.

This memoir tells of the Jewish resistance fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto who defied the Nazis against impossible odds. Kazik and his fellow Jews smuggled in arms and explosives, performed acts of resistance, held off the Nazi army, and rescued surviving Jews after the Ghetto was destroyed.

For much of the past two centuries, religion has been understood as a universal phenomenon, a part of the "natural" human experience that is essentially the same across cultures and throughout history. Individual religions may vary through time and geographically, but there is an element, religion, that is to be found in all cultures during all time periods. Taking apart this assumption, Brent Nongbri shows that the idea of religion as a sphere of life distinct from politics, economics, or science is a recent development in European history--a development that has been projected outward in space and backward in time with the result that religion now appears to be a natural and necessary part of our world.Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Nongbri demonstrates that in antiquity, there was no conceptual arena that could be designated as "religious" as opposed to "secular." Surveying representative episodes from a two-thousand-year period, while constantly attending to the concrete social, political, and colonial contexts that shaped relevant works of philosophers, legal theorists, missionaries, and others, Nongbri offers a concise and readable account of the emergence of the concept of religion.

A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolors of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the Age of Discovery

Includes essays that examine sequentiality and serialism in the practice of photography from the medium's earliest years. This title explores nuances of syntax and sense raised by works like photographic albums, books, thematic portfolios, journalistic photo features, and documentations of performance art.

A description of history of the human rights movement since World War II and the obstacles it faces today. It seeks to discuss every important human rights issue, including the performance of the USA and the United Nations, and how leaders and individuals can mobilize for a more just future.

Since the Voting Rights Act of 1965, while Republican candidates have carried the South in presidential elections, the Democratic Party has persisted in winning southern congressional elections. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this text examines this political phenomenon.

This text argues that 20th-century women of letters have found themselves on a confusing cultural front and that most, aware of the artifice of gender, have dispatched "missives" recording some form of the "future shock" related with profound changes in the roles and rules governing sexuality.

Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-seven of the greatest minds in scientific communication, this invaluable handbook targets the specific questions and concerns of the scientific community, offering help in a wide range of digital areas, including blogging, creating podcasts, tweeting, and more. With step-by-step guidance and one-stop expertise, this is the book every scientist, science writer, and practitioner needs to approach the Wild West of the Web with knowledge and confidence.