Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
"Icon and Devotion" presents a historical survey in English of the making and meaning of Russian icons. The craft of icon-making is set into the context of forms of worship that emerged in the Russian Orthodox Church from the mid-17th century on. The text shows how icons have held a special place in Russian consciousness because they represented idealized images of Holy Russia, and also looks closely at a range of issues, from the sacred meanings of icon images to how and why they were made.
The Atlas of Gastroenterology is a gold-standard tool that provides specialists with an outstanding array of images covering all facets of the field. With endoscopic ultrasonographs, computed tomography scans, magnetic resonance images, radionuclide images, and angiograms demonstrating every clinical condition from liver abscess, to endocrine neoplasms of the pancreas, to motility disorders of the esophagus, this atlas is simply a must-own resource for all gastroenterologists.
"Professor Madden's magisterial survey of ancient law going forward is exquisitely written and a real delight for historians of tort law...This quality collection is first-rate torts scholarship which will be of great interest to tort scholars, law students, and graduate students in sociology as well as philosophy." Bi-Monthly Review of Law Books
This unique book is invaluable for all students of language. By exploring examples from magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Men's Health, Diva and many more, readers will learn how magazines: - use linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions to capture the reader's attention - combine image and text to produce meaning - convey ideological messages - construct images of the sexes through language.
This second edition of the landmark book Reading Images builds on its reputation as the first systematic and comprehensive account of the grammar of visual design. Drawing on an enormous range of examples from children's drawings to textbook illustrations, photo-journalism to fine art, as well as three-dimensional forms such as sculpture and toys, the authors examine the ways in which images communicate meaning.
"Professor Madden's magisterial survey of ancient law going forward is exquisitely written and a real delight for historians of tort law...This quality collection is first-rate torts scholarship which will be of great interest to tort scholars, law students, and graduate students in sociology as well as philosophy." 
