575 results for '"Gupta, Ashin Das'

Artist, architect, poet and philosopher, Leon Battista Alberti revolutionized the history of art with his theories of perspective in On Painting (1435). Inspired by the order and beauty inherent in...

Libri che «non hanno finito mai di dire quel che hanno da dire», i classici sono davvero «infinitamente futuri». Qui Piero Boitani ci consegna pagine acuminate in cui interroga fra l'altro l'Iliade,...

Art & Beauty Magazine is at once a satirical take on aesthetics and a continued exploration of Crumb's subversion of sexuality and mainstream values. Drawings of women in positions ranging from...

Martin Heidegger und Ernst Jünger zählen noch immer zu den meist diskutierten deutschen Intellektuellen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Daniel Morat untersucht erstmals detailliert und auf umfangreicher...

Eine transnationale Diskursgeschichte des völkerstrafrechtlichen Umgangs mit staatlich organisierter Gewalt im 20. Jahrhundert. Mit dem Aufkommen des modernen Kriegsvölkerrechts im letzten Drittel...

Tutta l'Asia si muove per partecipare alla spedizione che il re di Persia, Serse, organizza contro Atene e la Grecia al fine di vendicare la sconfitta patita dal padre Dario. Del viaggio e dei popoli...

The definitive biography of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and how his ideas still resonate in the world today from the bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs.By the time Henry...

THE LADIES REIGN. THE PALACE ROTS. THE BEAST RISES.Five starred reviews from Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage, Library Journal, and Shelf Awareness.“The West Passage is a dangerous book of secrets.”...

Als monographische Darstellung zur impressionistischen Buchillustration ist Langs Versuch seit Karl Scheffler (1931) hierzulande der erste, worauf der Verfasser im Vorwort ausdrücklich abhebt. Lang...

“One part The Da Vinci Code, one part The Name of the Rose and one part A Separate Peace . . . a smart, swift, multitextured tale that both entertains and informs.”—San Francisco Chronicle   NEW YORK...

David Harvey tackles Marx's notebooks that have spawned wide-ranging and raging controversiesWhen leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx’s...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The world's most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet--a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking...

A landmark anthology celebrating twenty-one Native poets first published in the twenty-first centuryNew Poets of Native Nations gathers poets of diverse ages, styles, languages, and tribal...

,Tristrant und Isalde' - eine tragische Liebesgeschichte, die in einer Prosaversion im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert eine vergleichsweise breite Rezeption im Buchdruck erfuhr. Die Überlieferung der...

This comprehensive survey traces the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. These two regions developed their own...

Known in the English-speaking world mainly as the author of Main Currents of Marxism (1976), and in France as the author of the monumental study Chrétiens sans Eglise (1966), in his Two Eyes of...

In the first decades of the sixteenth century, the pictorial arts arrived at an unprecedented level of perfection. That, at least, was a widespread perception among artists and their audiences in...

In Mecklenburg haben sich viele bis heute häufig unbeachtet gebliebene Flügelretabel erhalten, die in den Jahrzehnten bis zur Einführung der Reformation in hoher Anzahl gestiftet wurden. Dieser...

In the 1960s, Americans combined psychedelics with Buddhist meditation to achieve direct experience through altered states of consciousness. As some practitioners became more committed to Buddhism,...

Der zweite Band von Heinrich August Winklers deutscher Geschichte behandelt die zwölf Jahre der nationalsozialistischen Diktatur, die über vier Jahrzehnte, in denen Deutschland in zwei Staaten...