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This guide includes explanations of how exactly the body works, problems that may arise and comprehensive solutions for women of all ages who are concerned with their reproductive health.

A foremost critic of the English language here reflects on beauty and the language that it inspires in authors from Kant to Keats, Hawthorne to Housman.

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first in-depth biography of Watts, sheds new light on the pioneering spirit and breadth of mind of the artist.Drawing on Watts's abundant personal correspondence and diaries and an array of other contemporary documents, the book chronicles the artist's career and personal life, including his friendships with Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, William Gladstone, and Alfred Tennyson and his relationships with a series of singular women. The book also examines Watts's wide reforming zeal and political agenda as well as his role and dealings in the Victorian art world.

In this volume, Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust.

This title book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the turbulent period following the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and explains how the legacy of this period continues to influence events in Cambodia today.

Late nineteenth-century Britain experienced an explosion of interest in sculpture. Sculptors of the "New Sculpture" movement sought a new direction and a modern idiom for their art. This book analyzes for the first time the art-theoretical concerns of the late-Victorian sculptors, focusing on their attitudes toward representation of the human body. David J. Getsy uncovers a previously unrecognized sophistication in the New Sculpture through close study of works by key figures in the movement: Frederic Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Hamo Thornycroft, Edward Onslow Ford, and James Havard Thomas.These artists sought to activate and animate the conventional format of the ideal statue so that it would convincingly stand in for both a living body and an ideal image. Getsy demonstrates the conceptual complexity of the New Sculptors and places their concerns within the larger framework of modern sculpture.

A detailed textual and thematic study of one of Neitzsche's most important but least understood works: "Zarathustra". In this work Nietzsche was laying groundwork for a philosophical and political revolution on a global scale.

This monographic study is an elegant and eloquent account of the power, character and mentalite of the French church under Louis XIV and of its relationship to the crown and other elite institutions, and to its critics and other congregations.

Drawing on a rich array of primary documents, including Malinowski's letters and unpublished diaries and manuscripts, Michael Young provides new information about the anthropologist's personality, private life and career.

Chetham's School and Library is an exceptional example of 15th century collegiate architecture. First built as a lodge for the clergy serving Manchester cathedral, it survived the turbulence of the Reformation and eventually became Humphrey Chetham's charity school and free public library.

An anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the 20th century, this text includes 50 seminal essays and documents - including statements, interviews, and manifestos by artists - that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field.

William Holman Hunt was one of the major artistic talents of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, founded in 1848. Hunt's work was always characterised by great seriousness of purpose and his paintings include many of its most beautiful and powerful images. This two volume set takes an in-depth look at his work.

The Wadsworth Atheneum's remarkable collection of 20th-century art is due to a succession of adventurous directors and curators. This volume showcases the museum's holdings and provides details about their acquisition.

Drawing on previously untapped material from Polish and German archives, as well as memoirs and oral testimony from German women who were sent to wartime Poland, Elizabeth Harvey analyses such things as the function of female activism within Nazi imperialism, its significance and more.

This title offers minibiographies of 15 figures from the jazz world - some of them jazz greats, some lesser-known figures, and some up-and-comers. Combining conversations and memoirs with critical commentary, Lees's profiles should captivate jazz fans, performers and historians alike.

George Stauffer explores the music and complex history of Bach's last and possibly greatest masterpiece. Stauffer demonstrates Bach's reliance on contemporary models from the Dresden mass repertory and his brilliantly innovative methods of unifying his immense composition.

The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. This illustrated documentary volume tells the story of the genesis of the lectureship, featuring essays by a variety of scholars.

In his prose works, Marvell established himself as a model of liberal thought for the 18th century and an irresistible new voice in political polemic. This is a modern edition of all Marvell's prose pamphlets, complete with introductions and annotation explaining the historical context.

A comprehensive history of antiquity collecting in Great Britain. Jonathan Scott gives portraits of the principal collectors, describes the mechanics of the art trade and collecting, and takes us to beautiful sculpture galleries that were created by such distinguished architects as Robert Adam.

A survey of the history of Irish painting, encompassing the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Ireland, and major foreign artists who worked in Ireland.

Janusz Korczak devoted himself to the care of orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto after the Nazi occupation of Poland. This volume constitutes his grimly inspiring ghetto diary, and is accompanied by a new introduction by Betty Jean Lifton, the author of a biography of Korczak.

One of the founders of existentialism, the eminent philosopher Karl Jaspers, here presents for the general reader an introduction to philosophy. In doing so, he also offers a lucid summary of his own philosophical thought. The foreword provides a brief overview of Jaspers' life and achievement.

Clarence H. Miller's translation of "The Praise of Folly", based on the definitive Latin text, seeks to echo Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian.

Historian William J. Bouwsma here examines the conventional view of the European Renaissance as the root and foundation of modern culture, arguing instead that while it had a beginning and a climax, the Renaissance also had an ending.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge set out on a tour of Scotland with William and Dorothy Wordsworth in the summer of 1803. This volume draws on Coleridge's letters and notebooks to look at his travels with the Wordsworths and to record and photograph the journey he experienced after he parted from them.

A study of David Octavius Hill (1802-70), pioneer photographer, painter and lithographer. It analyzes his photographic partnership with Robert Adamson, offering an understanding of its remarkable success, and explains the purpose and intelligence of this work in the context of Hill's life.

The fourth and final part of a four-volume set of art criticism by Richard Cork, written over a 30-year period. It offers a chronicle of a turbulent period as well as an overview and survey of British art and its reception at this time. This particular work addresses the art of the year 2000.