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Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women by Silvia Federici
epub |eng | 2018-10-25 | Author:Silvia Federici

Witch-Hunting and Globalization in Africa from the 1980s to the Present Although the fear of witchcraft is often described as a deep-seated feature of Africa’s belief systems,4 assaults on ‘witches’ ...
( Category: Women's Studies October 26,2018 )
The Spirit of Indian Painting by B N Goswamy
epub |eng | 2014-10-28 | Author:B N Goswamy

The Devi Diagram Isolated folio Thinly laid opaque watercolour on paper Pahari, from the family workshop of Nainsukh of Guler; c. 1780 51.5 cm × 60 mm Present whereabouts unknown ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 24,2018 )
The Wall of Birds by Jane Kim
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Jane Kim

Our story of evolution begins on a small corner wall at the east end of the first floor, with a nine-foot Tiktaalik roseae swimming toward its descendants. The ancient fish ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 23,2018 )
Night Soil by Dale Peck
epub |eng | 2018-06-28 | Author:Dale Peck

from — nothing take — nothing make — nothing Marcus’s valet records the hoarse rasp of the master chanting these words in his bedroom, alone at first, then gradually joined ...
( Category: Genre Fiction October 23,2018 )
The Illustrated History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Eckstein

Prince Wilhelm and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1913). Kansas, ca. 1970s. COURTESY OF GRAY JUSTIS 1931 photograph. Mary, however, had one of the first small cameras with short exposure, ...
( Category: Americas October 21,2018 )
Frank Lloyd Wright by Donald Leslie Johnson
epub |eng | 2016-09-09 | Author:Donald Leslie Johnson

5 Architectural synthesis During the first decade of professional independence, Wright’s architectural designs were overtly contrived, no doubt in a frantic effort to find his own stylizations. Buildings were at ...
( Category: Architecture October 20,2018 )
The How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci Workbook: Your Personal Companion to How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci by Michael J. Gelb
azw3 |eng | 1999-06-14 | Author:Michael J. Gelb

As you awaken your powers of Curiosità, probe the depths of experience, and sharpen your senses, you come face to face with the unknown. Keeping your mind open in the ...
( Category: Creativity October 20,2018 )
Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll by David Carrier
epub |eng | | Author:David Carrier

Figure 8 Untitled, Insert Painting (1985). Let’s start our discussion by looking at titles of artworks, for often titles of abstractions are revealing. Almost inevitably identifying the subject matter of ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 18,2018 )
Chalk by Joshua Rivkin
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Joshua Rivkin

* * * — In the late summer of 2012, more than five years since I lived in Houston and taught at the Menil, I returned. The sky was washed-out ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 16,2018 )
The Story of the Jews, Volume 2 by Simon Schama
epub |eng | 2017-09-14 | Author:Simon Schama

III. The Democracy of Death The revolution gave and the revolution took away. Total immersion in the new world of citizens and unprotected exposure to its politics carried risks as ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations October 15,2018 )
Siting Michelangelo by Peter Gillgren
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Peter Gillgren

CHAPTER 15 The Last Judgement The Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel is the concluding statement and climax of Michelangelo’s biblical history. This is where the world of mankind comes ...
( Category: Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions October 15,2018 )
Flowers, Butterflies and Insects by Maria Sibylla Merian
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Maria Sibylla Merian

Note: In this volume the frontispiece to Erucarum Ortus (not by Merian) appears on the facing page, followed by the wreaths that Merian designed to enclose the short titles of ...
( Category: Graphic Design October 15,2018 )
Rock Art by Stewart M. Green
epub |eng | 2018-07-19 | Author:Stewart M. Green [Green, Stewart M.]

A large rattlesnake petroglyph uncoils on a boulder below Molen Reef at San Rafael Swell in Utah. Do Not Physically Enhance Rock Art Besides the look-but-do-not-touch rule, it is important ...
( Category: Nature & Ecology October 12,2018 )
Noa Noa by Paul Gauguin
epub |eng | 2012-10-10 | Author:Paul Gauguin

Ornamental person. I am no longer conscious of days and hours, of good and evil. The happiness is so strange at times that it suppresses the very conception of it. ...
( Category: History & Criticism October 12,2018 )
Versailles: A Biography of a Palace by Tony Spawforth
epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Tony Spawforth [Spawforth, Tony]

( Category: Europe October 12,2018 )

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