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Traditional medical practice has seen a dynamic revival in China and throughout many countries in the Western world. This book provides the historical and philosophical foundations of this Chinese...

This book is a survey of Polish letters and culture from its beginnings to modern times. Czeslaw Milosz updated this edition in 1983 and added an epilogue to bring the discussion up to date.

This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work aby one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight...

Over one million copies sold. The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. For more than forty years, Theodora...

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and...

Provides a look at religious violence and the attitudes that drove it in the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries. The author asks what religious conflict meant to those...

Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword aby...

First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded by Kristine Stiles to represent thirty countries and more than one hundred new artists. Stiles has...

Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed,...

Subtitled }A Psychology Of The Creative Eye{. A classic text since its first publication fifty years ago.

'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide...

Why would anybody believe that God could sanction terrorism$636 Why has the rediscovery of religion's power in recent years manifested in such a bloody way$637 What, if anything, can be done...

Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. This book provides a...

Describes The Acceleration, Deceleration, And Inertial Movement; Fluid Dynamics; And The Motions Of The Earth, Moon, Planets, And Comets. This Title Deals With The Fundamental Three Laws Of Motion...

Subtitled, }Individualism & Commitment In American Life{. New edition, first published in 1985.

Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki is considered a key figure in the introduction of Buddhism to the non-Asian world. Many in the West encountered Buddhism for the very first time through his writings and...

First published in 1973 - and followed żeby Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of...

30th anniversary edition.

Allan Kaprow's 'happenings' and 'environments' were the precursors to contemporary performance art, and his essays are some of the most thoughtful, provocative, and influential...

Is terroir primarily a marketing ploy that obscures our understanding of which environments really produce the best wine$564 Can high-yielding vines generate wines of high quality$565 This title...

In the fall of 1957 the University of California Press expanded Arnheim's 1933 book "Film" aby four essays and brought that landmark work back into print as "Film as Art". Now...

Studies the life and career of the Austrian composer, providing a critical analysis of his contributions to the music world.

First published in 1973 - and followed żeby Volume II in 1976 and Volume III in 1980 - this anthology has assumed classic status in the field of Egyptology and portrays the remarkable evolution of...

A history of the American West through more than 600 original full colour maps and captions.