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The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious CultureThe most striking feature o..

California’s Fading Wildflowers: Lost Legacy and Biological InvasionsEarly Spanish explorers in the ..

Himalayas: An Aesthetic AdventureThis sweeping survey of the artistic achievements of Himalayan cult..

The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of A..

Hagiography, or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative are..

The Gardens of Gertrude JekyllThe English gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) have influenced goo..

James Rosenquist's paintings, with their billboard-sized images of commercial subjects, are utterly ..

Deadliest Enemies: Law and the Making of Race Relations on and off Rosebud ReservationRacial tension..

King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball RevolutionBill Russell was not the first African ..

Theory of Harmony (California Library Reprint Series)A new critical foreword by Walter Frisch, H. Ha..

This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to vol..

Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when..

Serial Composition and Atonality: An Introduction to the Music of Schoenberg, Berg, and WebernWidely..

People live in cities and experience them firsthand, while urban designers explain cities conceptual..

Sanctuaries of Spanish New MexicoAmong the oldest buildings in the United States, the churches of Sp..

A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her..

Rich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy, and PerformanceIn this landmark work, the culmin..

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Search for a Science of Clinical Care (California/Milbank Books on H..

The Sinister Way: The Divine and the Demonic in Chinese Religious CultureThe most striking feature o..

Features ofThe Art of Richard DiebenkornbookartSpecification of The Art of Richard Diebenkorn GENER..

Renaissance Paris: Architecture and Growth, 1475-1600In the modern literature on Renaissance art and..

Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art under Late SocialismThe Berlin Wall w..

The meeting of Eastern and Western art is always more than a synthesis; it offers creative possibili..

From the simple assertion that words matter in the study of visual art, this comprehensive but emine..

Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in ..

The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.- A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and DecorationIn this richly illustrat..

Garrett Eckbo: Modern Landscapes for LivingOne of the central figures in modern landscape architectu..

When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence a..

From tiny to gigantic, from drab to remarkably beautiful, from harmless to venomous, lizards are spe..

Pineapple Culture: A History of the Tropical and Temperate ZonesPlucked from tropical America, the p..