Compelling Visuality: The Work of Art in and out of History
Typically, art history is an enterprise of recovery-of searching out the provenance, the original intentions, the physical setting, and historical conditions behind a work of art. The essays in Compelling Visuality address some of the "other" questions that are less frequently asked-and, in doing so, show how much is to be learned and gained by going beyond the traditional approaches of art history.
This book called H.G Wells - Complete Works has 4913 pages and it is compilation of these books: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Wheels of Chance, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, When the Sleeper Wakes, The First Men in the Moon, Twelve Stories & A Dream, Tono-Bungay, The War in the Air, Ann Veronica - A Modern Love Story, Door in the Wall and Other Stories, The New Machiavelli, The World Set Free, The Research Magnificent, God The Invisible King, The Soul of a Bishop, War and The Future, The Secret Places of the Heart
The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950-1492
Hebrew culture experienced a renewal in medieval Spain that produced what is arguably the most powerful body of Jewish poetry written since the Bible. Fusing elements of East and West, Arabic and Hebrew, and the particular and the universal, this verse embodies an extraordinary sensuality and intense faith that transcend the limits of language, place, and time.
Peter Cole's translations reveal this remarkable poetic world to English readers in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom.
A new picture of the mind is emerging, and explanations now exist for what has so long seemed mysterious. This real understanding of how the biological brain works -- of how we work -- has generated a mood of excitement that is shared in a half-dozen intersecting disciplines. Philosopher Paul Churchland, who is widely known as a gifted teacher and expository writer, explains these scientific developments in a simple, authoritative, and pictorial fashion.
