`Religion and politics are necessarily related', declared Ronald Reagan, while addressing an ecumenical prayer breakfast of 17,000 people in Dallas. But how are they connected? Many popular images of God - King, Lord, and Judge - are essentially...

This collection of the most brilliant and characteristic letters of Niccolò Machiavelli displays the vital and penetrating mind of the man who wrote the first work of modern political science. These letters, which reveal Machiavelli's critical...

University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (July 1988)

In considering how anthropologists have chosen to look at and write about politics, Joan Vincent contends that the anthropological study of politics is itself a historical process. Intended not only as a representation but also as a reinterpretation, her...

By R.f. Stalley. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [198]-203.

Book by Antony Cutler, Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst, Athar Hussain

This volume is concerned with the re-evaluation and criticism of Capital itself. It is in three parts, each covering a specific area of Marxist theory. The first part contains an investigation into Marx's theory of value and considers the types of...

American artists in the early decades of the twentieth century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theaters, and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such...

A prominent Polish émigré artist of the 1910s and `20s, Elie Nadelman brought continental wit and style to American sculpture in an improbable way--by combining elements of ancient Greek sculpture and folk art. In Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life,...

David Hockney: The East Yorkshire Landscape illustrates an extraordinary body of painting by the artist, who in recent years, has returned to the pastoral landscape of his youth, in order to capture the vistas and changing seasons of his surrounding...

Beautiful catalogue containing full page color photographs of abstract expressionist paintings by San Francisco artists.

Accompanying an exhibition which moved from the Louvre to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in February 1998, this is a study of the work of the French Neo-classical sculptor, Augustin Pajou (1730-1809). His sculpture is discussed and illustrated...