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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611803877Author Konchog LhadrepaFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Secrets of the Sacred illuminates the role of icons and relics in Buddhist writing and practice, with particular attention to the transformation of inanimate material images into potent icons animated by the divine. The earliest canonical scriptures...

Korea's transformation over the last thirty years has been unique in the world and this is the most comprehensive English language survey of contemporary art from Korea ever published120 artists, museum and gallery directors, curators and collectors are...

A sweeping exploration of animals in Japanese art and culture across sixteen centuriesFew countries have devoted as much artistic energy to the depiction of animal life as Japan. Drawing upon the country's unique spiritual heritage, rich literary...

Multiple Impressions examines works by 40 leading printmakers from contemporary China, highlighting the extraordinary innovations, in both technique and conception, which have transformed this long-established art form in recent years. It includes works...

Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting accompanies the first comprehensive exhibition of artwork by Xu Beihong hown outside Asia. It highlights a selection of 61 Chinese ink paintings, oil paintings, drawings, and pastels from the Xu Beihong...

The MFA's holdings of Japanese art make up the finest and most comprehensive collection outside of Japan. This stunning overview features many of the collection's best-known and most beloved works, including such rare paintings as the eighth-century...

Founded in 1933, the Seattle Art Museum is home to a premier collection of Chinese art. This book is the first to chronicle and analyze the growth of the collection, which was largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century. Reviewing...

The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of...

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This...

"The anthology edited by Nora Taylor and Boreth Ly emerges at a time when Southeast Asian contemporary art is gaining increasing visibility on the global art stage.... This volume serves as a reflective and critical body of essays that illuminates ways...

Art in Zion deals with the link between art and national ideology and specifically between the artistic activity that emerged in Jewish Palestine in the first decades of the twentieth century and the Zionist movement. In order to examine the development...

The city of Baroda, with its vibrant history of art and architecture, is a much-sought-after destination for art education. This is due in large part to Sayajirao Gaekwad III, the maharaja of the erstwhile princely state of Baroda. His art-collecting...

Punjab, and especially Sikh art, has taken multiple forms ranging from scriptural manuscripts, floral adornments to illustrations and illuminations. This family collection showcases varied forms of jewellery, textiles, arms, coinage, along with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139149Author Ananda K. CoomaraswamyFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media-from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo...

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is home to an important collection of artworks from South Asia that spans a large geographical area - comprising India and the countries that surround it - and more than four millennia. Among these objects are expressive...

Winner of the R. L. Shep Ethnic Textiles Award sponsored by the Textile Society of AmericaAsia is renowned for the production of fine handwoven cottons and luxurious silks -- important items of trade for centuries. In addition to these celebrated...

Taking an approach that is equal parts anthropological and art historical, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a rare look at the art, artifacts, and culture of the Naga people, an ethnic group spanning several tribes native to northeastern India and...

Chris Hart's latest entry in his blockbuster series explodes with girl power! From fighters and princesses to magical characters and ordinary schoolgirls; manga features an array of female types and Hart goes step-by-step through the techniques for...

Showcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this generously illustrated book offers a compelling overview of the beauty of Chinese bronzes and the fascinating traditions surrounding them. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781840683080Author Jack HunterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint ShinbakuPublisher Creation BooksWeight(grams) 602g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960987536Author Jane DebevoiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig,GermanyPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung...

Drawing from Life explores revolutionary drawing and sketching in the early People's Republic of China (1949-1965) in order to discover how artists created a national form of socialist realism. Tracing the development of seminal works by the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780747200987Author Jessica SuttonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Headline Book PublishingPublisher Headline Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 140g

Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame. By hard work, limitless curiosity, native intelligence, and luck (what he called "providence"), Franklin became one of Philadelphia's most...

Many people are fascinated with tales of lost civilizations such as Atlantis, Camelot, El Dorado and Lemuria because they believe they may have been real places. There is documented evidence that suggests some ancient stories of lost worlds are grounded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981619880Author Michael FancelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976498612Author Matthew StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Paraview, Inc.Publisher Paraview, Inc.Weight(grams) 240g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983585428Author Chakita Shante HargroveFormat PaperbackImprint Heart.Ink PressPublisher Heart.Ink PressWeight(grams) 64g

The Library of Doom's greatest foe, the Eraser, has caught the Librarian in a lethal trap. Now the hero is chained down and a giant super-eraser swings above him, getting closer with every swipe. Can the Librarian escape the doom device, or will he be...

Evil Cynthia Cyber is robbing banks with her latest creation, a villain named Currency. The stolen money will go toward building a machine that can capture people in a simulation program. There she could control every victim's life. It's up to the Gamer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780745682617Author Mark WebberFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Polity PressPublisher Polity PressWeight(grams) 138g

The world's tropical rainforests are being destroyed. But you can help! Navigate through three different stories in this rainforest rescue mission. With dozens of possible story outcomes, it is up to you to save the rainforests before they disappear...

Far off Neptune holds many mysteries! Its great distance from the sun makes it the coldest planet in the solar system. Discover the secrets of this chilly, blue ice giant that was named after the sea.Book InformationISBN 9781398205239Author Steve...

Far in the future, Earth's oceans have risen. Coastlines have changed to create new islands far from shore. Even worse, Earth has been invaded by aliens known as the Hunters. They are masters of camouflage and enjoy hunting down humans and other...

Students at a secret school are training to become Pages, helpers in the dangerous Library of Doom. But an enemy has snuck into the class with a wicked assignment: Destroy the school and all its knowledge. Will help from the powerful Librarian and some...

This new edition is a refreshed and updated version of the popular Nelson Science course. Fully aligned to UK and International curricula, it offers a straightforward, step-by-step teaching approach in accessible language suitable where English is not...

After a warning from Alfred to keep a low profile, Robin sets off to make an important delivery to Batman on the other side of Gotham City. But on the way, Robin has a run-in with the big bad Catwoman! She's very interested in the package he's so...