Cezanne: A Life
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Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839-1906), many did not...
Creating and Using Virtual Reality: A Guide for the Arts and Humanities
Katie Fernie and Julian D. Richards
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The essence of virtual reality lies with computer-based three-dimensional environments. Often termed...
Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience
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In Feeling Beauty, G. Gabrielle Starr argues that understanding the neural underpinnings of...
Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
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How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing...
Simon Pearce: Design for Living
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Simon Pearce: Design for Living presents the timeless design and enduring style of the legendary...
The Face of the Buddha
William Empson, Rupert Arrowsmith and Partha Mitter
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Taking up a teaching appointment in Tokyo in 1931, the English poet and literary critic William...
The Politics of Water in the Art and Festivals of Medici Florence: From Neptune Fountain to Naumachia
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The first book to tell the dynamic story of one dynasty's struggle with water, to control its flow...
1915 Diary of S. An-Sky: A Russian Jewish Writer at the Eastern Front
S.A. An-sky and Polly Zavadivker
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S. An-sky was by the time of the First World War a well-known writer, a longtime revolutionary, and...
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Arthur Schopenhauer devoted his adult life to the articulation of a philosophy for the world, a...
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
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Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who...