3,236円 Jeremy Paxman's unique portrait of the Victorian age takes readers on an exciting journey through the birth of modern Britain. Using the paintings of the era as a starting point, he tells us stories of urban life, family, faith, industry and empire that helped define the Victorian spirit and imag...

1,617円 Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his fi...

4,085円 Erziehung und Angst – eine Geschichte der elterlichen Verunsicherung Wie viel Nähe braucht ein Kind? Darf ich mein Baby beruhigen, wenn es weint, oder muss es lernen, sich selbst zu beruhigen? Und was muss ich tun, damit mein Kind endlich durchschläft? Nach der Geburt des ersten Kindes stellen si...

845円 Liao-fan Yuan (1535ー1608), Gelehrter während der Ming Dynastie und bekennender Buddhist, widmete sich in seiner Position als Regierungsbeamter zeitlebens dem Wohlergehen seiner Mitmenschen. Sein Alterswerk, Die Vier Lektionen des Lebens, verbindet Elemente des Buddhismus und des Konfuzianismus z...

1,549円 Europäische Kulturgeschichte an der Elbe entlang erzählt Die Elbe ist nicht nur ein großartiger Naturraum, sie ist auch eine europäische Lebensader und lebendige Geschichte im Fluss. Uwe Rada nutzt diesen Strom wie eine Perlenkette, auf die er kleine Geschichten und große Geschichte über außergew...

14,084円 The Garden of Perfect Brightness (Yuanming Yuan) in the western suburbs of the Qing capital, Beijing, was begun by the great Kangxi (r. 1661–1722) and expanded by his son, Yongzheng (r. 1722–1735) and brought to its greatest glory by his grandson, Qianlong (r. 1736–1796). A lover of literature an...

8,185円 Chinese Religious Art is a broad survey of the origins and development of the various forms of artistic expression of Chinese religions. The study begins with an overview of ancient archaeology in order to identify nascent religious ideologies in various Neolithic Cultures and early Chinese histo...

12,038円 Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urba...

25,040円 The archaeological study of the ancient world has become increasingly popular in recent years. A Research Guide to the Ancient World: Print and Electronic Sources, is a partially annotated bibliography. The study of the ancient world is usually, although not exclusively, considered a branch of th...

10,571円 In this important and revelatory book, David Young Kim examines how mobility and travel affected the identities and artistic styles of artists such as Giotto, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Lotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian. It is well known that Italian Renaissance artists traveled; this book c...

13,266円 Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the Italian contribution to the technology and practice of photography, this collection offers essays, i...

6,076円 BY HEINZ VON FOERSTER s a matter of fact, the Heinz von Foer ster who writes these lines and whom one can see or hear among family ther apists on one occasion or another is an invention of Paul Watzlawick. I met my inventor for the first time more than ten years ago in Cali fornia. My services to...