Founded by a band of young iconoclasts, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood stunned Victorian England with its revaluation of culture and lifestyle. With Pre-Raphaelitism ascendant in the 1850s and canonical by the 1880s, the movement's refractory reception history is an object lesson in how avant-gardes[...]

"The Pre-Platonic Philosophers" supplies English-language readers with a crucial missing link in Nietzsche's development by reproducing the text of a lecture series delivered by the young philosopher (then a philologist) at the University of Basel between 1872 and 1876. In these lectures, Nietzsche [...]

By enabling the spiritual or ineffable to register as visible and palpable, ceremonies perform the essential cultural work of ensuring continuity of belief and practice across generations. In the process, each ceremony becomes a visual drama with highly scripted acts, movements, and rhythms. Unlike [...]

This book, the first comprehensive reader of Arabic literature from pre-Islamic times to the present, is an essential work for advanced students of the Arabic language. Presenting seventy works by seventy authors, it includes pre-Islamic poetry and prose; selections from the Qur'an; the Prophet Muha[...]

A guide to John Brett (1831-1902) that investigates the painter who was seen as the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite landscape school. It offers information on his early works, including "The Val d'Aosta" and "The Stonebreaker", and on his later, coastal and marine paintings. It discusses Brett's friend[...]

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Effectively Britain's first modern art movement, the Brotherhood combined rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision, and imaginative grandeur. Today, the works of the Pre-Raphaelites are among the best known of all English pai[...]

This revelatory book traces how the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and their close associates put scientific principles into practice across their painting, poetry, sculpture, and architecture. In their manifesto, The Germ, the Pre-Raphaelites committed themselves to creating a new kind of art modeled o[...]

Getting comfortable with the alphabet is a big step towards learning to read. These brand new flashcards are designed to help children get ahead, prepare for kindergarten, and develop a love of learning--and best of all, to have fun doing it The box contains 230 flashcards with colorful illustratio[...]

Church history is the story of the greatest community the word has known and the greatest movement in world history. Yet, just as the biblical record of the people of God is the story of a mixed people with great acts of faith and great failures in sin and unfaithfulness, so is the history of the pe[...]

In the pre-Code Hollywood era, between 1929 and 1934, women in American cinema took lovers, had babies out of wedlock, got rid of cheating husbands, enjoyed their sexuality, led unapologetic careers, and, in general, acted the way many think women only acted after 1968. Before then, women on screen [...]

This text is an anthology containing stories by writers such as Defoe, Swift, Dickens, Gaskell and Hardy. The book provides opportunities for comparisons between texts and should stimulate coursework.[...]

Much has been written about preparation for childbirth. Josleen Wilson's guide is unique in covering the preceding step -- preparation for pregnancy itself. Covering a wide range of concerns that are best resolved before conception, Wilson discusses parenthood decisions, diet and exercise, financial[...]

The Pre-Raphaelite poets were part of an innovative revolt that shattered the literary placidity of mid-nineteenth century England. Their ideas, poetic techniques, and choice of life styles radically altered previous definitions of art and artist.[...]