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Art and Activism
Projects of John and Dominique de Menil
This lavishly illustrated book is the first to examine the significant contributions of John and Dominique de Menil to art, architecture, film, and the civil and human rights movements. The de Menils, who moved to Houston from...
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prophetic Witness
This is the first volume of the first biography of Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of the outstanding Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. Edward K. Kaplan and Samuel H. Dresner trace Heschel’s life from his birth in Warsaw...
The Cartoons That Shook the World
On September 30, 2005, the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published twelve cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. Five months later, thousands of Muslims inundated the newspaper with outpourings of anger and...
Anna Gaskell
half life
Anna Gaskell is prominent among a generation of artists who emerged in the late 1990s and have redefined the landscape of contemporary art, building upon cinematic strategies pioneered a decade earlier by artists such as...
The Cosmopolitan Interior
Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914
Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women’s magazines...
A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840
This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects who practiced in England, Scotland, and Wales from the time of Inigo Jones ...
George Stubbs, Painter
Catalogue Raisonné
George Stubbs (1724-1806), now recognized as one of the greatest and most original artists of the eighteenth century, stands out from other practitioners in the field of animal painting. His most frequent commissions were...
The Heart
A vivid picture of the human heart and its place in culture and medicine Published upon the opening of the Wellcome Collection, the Wellcome Trust's new public venue in London, this book examines the...
Wild Caribbean
The Hidden Wonders of the World's Most Famous Islands
A guided voyage to the Caribbean’s spectacular wild places, where exotic creatures dwell and fabulous flora thrive In our minds the Caribbean is the embodiment of Paradise. We need only close our eyes to...
Mammals of Madagascar
A Complete Guide
The mammals that inhabit Madagascar are among the most extraordinary in the world. This portable guide offers a full survey and classification of all the Malagasy mammals, both endemic and introduced, including many new...