355 results for '"Norval Morris'

A collection of important essays by a pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology “Brilliant.”—Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero with a Thousand Faces “Varied, imaginative,...

"Remarkable in its early take on the apocalypse." — examiner.comA catastrophe has descended upon England. London is now a pestilent swamp, dotted with the ghostly remains of ancient buildings. A...

A biography of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, the pioneering interpreter of Indian art, philosophy, and mythology “A rounded, gently critical, always interesting portrait of this unique personality...

"The appeal of games and puzzles is timeless and universal. In this unique book, David Wells explores the fascinating connections between games and mathematics, proving that mathematics is not just...

This book is a guide to the editorial procedures suitable for music written from the Middle Ages to about 1830 and replaces the 1963 pamphlet by Thurston Dart, Walter Emery, and Christopher Morris...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!A powerful, vibrantly illustrated story about the first day of school--and two sisters on one's first day of hijab--by Olympic medalist and social justice...

An accurate text of Shamela (Fielding's satire of Samuel Richardson'sPamela, the most popular epistolary novel of the eighteenth century) aswell as An Essay on the Knowledge of the Characters of Men,...

"There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts--the most poetic of us all." — Jan MorrisThe first book in...

the virtual impossibility of extracting the many different species from a habitat with equal efficiency by a single method (e.g. Nef, 1960). 1.1 Population estimates Population estimates can be...

The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion...

Two stars team up--Muriel Spark and Edward Gorey--to bring the charming tale of Ticky the clock to life in this children's classic. Once there was a very fine clock named Ticky, who lived with...

Classical Culture and Society (Series Editors: Joseph A. Farrell, University of Pennsylvania, and Ian Morris, Stanford University) is a new series from Oxford that emphasizes innovative, imaginative...

fresh and eager...rich in character...so infectiously alive to the simple pleasures that even now the senses quicken to read it.' Jan Morris in The Times ...a brilliant picture of traditional English...

Catalogo della mostr, organizzata dalla Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, che presenta la collezione Sonnabend. Opere di: J. Johns, R. Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, C. Oldenburg, A. Warhol, R...

The Bodies of Others explores the politics of gender in motion. From drag ballerinas to faux queens, and from butoh divas to the club mothers of modern dance, the book delves into four decades of...

American life is filled with talk of progress and equality, especially when the issue is that of race. But has the history of race in America really been the continuous march toward equality we'd...

Over the past decade literary critic and editor Jerome McGann has developed a theory of textuality based in writing and production rather than in reading and interpretation. These new essays extend...

Irving Howe. Saul Bellow. Lionel Trilling. These are names that immediately come to mind when one thinks of the New York Jewish intellectuals of the late thirties and forties. And yet the New York...

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth-century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live...

An exploration of the life and work of Walter Crane, the pioneering British socialist artist who transformed the illustration of children’s books.This volume in Thames & Hudson’s The Illustrators...