Illustrations, photographs, maps, and text introduce the history, culture, religions, and peoples of Israel.

A native of Nashville and the son of former slaves, William Edmondson (1872 - 1951) was the first African American artist to be featured in a solo show at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1937). For this exhibition MoMA director Alfred Barr remarked, 'Usually the naïve artist works in the easier medium of painting. Edmondson, however, has chosen to work in limestone, which he attacks with extraordinary courage and directness, to carve out simple, emphatic forms.' Robert Bishop, the late director of the Museum of American Folk Art, declared Edmondson to be 'one of the outstanding folk carvers--if not the outstanding one--of the twentieth century.'

Edmondson's first works were memorial gravestones. Later he created animal, human, and celestial figures. His carvings were inspired by his faith, community, and culture. He told the story of how God spoke to him. 'I was out in the driveway with some old pieces of stone when I heard a voice telling me to pick up my tools and start to work on a tombstone. I looked up in the sky and right there in the noon daylight He hung a tombstone out for me to make.'

Showcasing Edmondson's sculpture and placing it in the mainstream of American art for the first time, this lavishly illustrated volume accompanies a traveling exhibition organized by the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville. In new interpretations that challenge long-held views about Edmondson's artistic naieveté, the essays emphasize his profound and intimate connection to his community and its traditions. Adding immeasurably to the understanding of Edmondson's art are photographs by Edward Weston, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, and Consuelo Kanaga that show the artist in his community and his workplace.

The vitality of our culture is still often measured by the status Shakespeare has within it. Contemporary readers and writers continue to exploit Shakespeare's cultural afterlife in a vivid and creative way. This fascinating collection of original essays shows how writers' efforts to imitate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.
The essays:
* analyze the methods and motives of Shakespearean appropriation
* investigate theoretically the return of the repressed author in discussions of Shakespeare's cultural function
* put into dialogue theoretical and literary responses to Shakespeare's cultural authority
* analyze works ranging from nineteenth century to the present, and genres ranging from poetry and the novel to Disney movies.

Mass market edition of this classic thriller, which has sold over 170,000 copies in hardcover. Fluke Kelso is in Moscow attending a conference on newly-opened Soviet archives. A visit from a old man claiming to have been there on the night Stal

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worldly success, Walser wrote a range of short stories, essays, as well as four novels, of which Jakob von Gunten is widely recognized as the finest. The book is a young man's inquisitive and irreverent account of life in what turns out to be the most uncanny of schools. It is the work of an outsider artist, a writer of uncompromising originality and disconcerting humor, whose beautiful sentences have the simplicity and strangeness of a painting by Henri Rousseau.

Designers of high-speed integrated circuits face a bewildering array of choices and too often spend frustrating days tweaking gates to meet speed targets. Logical Effort: Designing Fast CMOS Circuits makes high speed design easier and more methodical, providing a simple and broadly applicable method for estimating the delay resulting from factors such as topology, capacitance, and gate sizes.

The brainchild of circuit and computer graphics pioneers Ivan Sutherland and Bob Sproull, 'logical effort' will change the way you approach design challenges. This book begins by equipping you with a sound understanding of the method's essential procedures and concepts-so you can start using it immediately. Later chapters explore the theory and finer points of the method and detail its specialized applications.

* Explains the method and how to apply it in two practically focused chapters.
* Improves circuit design intuition by teaching simple ways to discern the consequences of topology and gate size decisions.
* Offers easy ways to choose the fastest circuit from among an array of potential circuit designs.
* Reduces the time spent on tweaking and simulations-so you can rapidly settle on a good design.
* Offers in-depth coverage of specialized areas of application for logical effort: skewed or unbalanced gates, other circuit families (including pseudo-NMOS and domino), wide structures such as decoders, and irregularly forking circuits.
* Presents a complete derivation of the method-so you see how and why it works.

'Important volume attempts to lay to rest doubts about authorship of Carolina's best-selling Quarto de despejo, translated as Child of the dark. Diary entries cover years 1958-66. Translations aim to reproduce tone and register of the original, without embellishment or correction, and are followed by a fascinating discussion of Carolina's significance'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Il libro è il catalogo della mostra di Arles, Chapelle des Jésuites (5 luglio - 16 agosto 1998). Viaggio nel mondo dell'alta tecnologia: l'autore segnala preoccupato l'alto rischio che l'uomo corre con la crescente disumanizzazione del lavoro. Moreno Gentili ha vinto nel 1986 il premio 'Vincenzo Carrese' e nel 1991 il 'Franco Pinna', entrambi per il fotogiornalismo; ha iniziato questa ricerca nel 1991 nei settori dell'alimentazione, della medicina nucleare, della produzione di tecnologie necessarie a combattere patologie come il cancro o l'AIDS, la produzione di armi, di studi biomolecolari sul corpo umano.

The core of William Blake's vision, his greatness as one of the British Romantics, is most fully expressed in his Illuminated Books, masterworks of art and text intertwined and mutually enriching. Made possible by recent advances in printing and reproduction technology, the publication of new editions of Jerusalem and Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1991 was a major publishing event. Now these two volumes are followed by The Early Illuminated Books and Milton, A Poem. The books in both volumes are reproduced from the best available copies of Blake's originals and in faithfulness and accuracy match the acclaimed standards set by Jerusalem and Songs. These two volumes are uniform in format and binding with the first two volumes.The Early Illuminated Books comprises All Religions Are One and There Is No Natural Religion; Thel; Marriage of Heaven and Hell; and Visions of the Daughters of Albion. Milton, A Poem, second only to Jerusalem in extent and ambition, is accompanied by Laocoön, The Ghost of Abel, and On Homer's Poetry.

L'idea di rendere possibile la rappresentazione del dramma che accompagna l'individuo con una malattia psichica nei suoi contesti relazionali, ha stimolato il cammino di un'esperienza clinica e di ricerca in una struttura psichiatrica riabilitativa del Servizio di salute mentale dell'Ausl di Modena. L'Arte del Corago è 'quella facoltà mediante la quale l'uomo sa prescrivere tutti quei mezzi e modi che sono necessari acciò che una azione drammatica già composta dal poeta sia portata in scena'. Questa metafora ha segnato le tappe di un percorso che ha condotto all'elaborazione di un modello in cui la riabilitazione psichiatrica si proponga in chiave ecosistemica ed evolutiva.

This book focuses on how to put muscle size onto your physique as opposed to just body size.

When a crate full of yellow plastic ducks is washed overboard on its journey to America, the ducks are rescued a few at a time until only Dexter remains, waiting to be found.