A fascinating and rigorous guide to deciphering Hindu symbolism, this book will help you understand and appreciate religious art in India. Despite its scholarly paraphernalia and language, the book (whose title translates as "seeing") is tremendously useful for the traveler. It's an eye-opening book for the intellectually curious. With a useful glossary and some not-very-good p...(展开全部)

This exciting addition to a highly acclaimed series of art titles focuses on how artists use light in their paintings. Showcasing some of the most famous and best-loved artists of all time, the book shows how their paintings use dramatic light, mysterious light, cold light, hot light, dappled light, rainy light, and other forms of light. Gillian Wolfe's interactive technique en...(展开全部)

杨腓力（Philip Yancey） 美国当代作家、编辑。三十多年来，凭借纯熟的文字和过人的洞察力，诚恳深入地探讨信仰和生活中的艰难和困惑，影响了超过1500万读者。他的作品曾12次获得美国ECPA年度图书金奖，并被翻译成25种文字，流传到世界各国。代表作有《无语问上帝》、《有话问苍天》、《恩典多奇异》等。杨腓力是Christianity Today杂志的主编。 保罗•班德（Paul Brand,1914-2003） 世界著名的手部外科医生和痳风病专家，他在印度投身痳风病的治疗和康复工作达十八年之久，赢得无数奖项和荣誉，其中包括素负盛名的阿伯特•拉斯卡奖、美国达米恩-杜顿痳风奖，并受英国伊丽莎白女王封为爵士。随后在担任路易斯安那州卡维尔痳疯中心的康复主任时，获得美国公共卫生部杰出服务奖。晚年半退休的他，曾任华盛顿大学骨科系退休名誉临床教授，以及世界卫...(展开全部)

杨腓力（Philip Yancey） 美国当代作家、编辑。三十多年来，凭借纯熟的文字和过人的洞察力，诚恳深入地探讨信仰和生活中的艰难和困惑，影响了超过1500万读者。他的作品曾12次获得美国ECPA年度图书金奖，并被翻译成25种文字，流传到世界各国。代表作有《无语问上帝》、《有话问苍天》、《恩典多奇异》等。杨腓力是Christianity Today杂志的主编。 保罗•班德（Paul Brand,1914-2003） 世界著名的手部外科医生和痳风病专家，他在印度投身痳风病的治疗和康复工作达十八年之久，赢得无数奖项和荣誉，其中包括素负盛名的阿伯特•拉斯卡奖、美国达米恩-杜顿痳风奖，并受英国伊丽莎白女王封为爵士。随后在担任路易斯安那州卡维尔痳疯中心的康复主任时，获得美国公共卫生部杰出服务奖。晚年半退休的他，曾任华盛顿大学骨科系退休名誉临床教授，以及世界卫...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

The Life Divine is a major philosophical work of Sri Aurobindo.Sri Aurobindo presents a theory of evolution,which will culminate in the transformation of the human being and the advent of a divine life upon earth. The Life Divine first appeared serially in the monthly review Arya.The first edition and the first Volume of this monumental work was published in 1939.New Editions i...(展开全部)

Sri Aurobindo's principal philosophic work, a theory of spiritual evolution culminating in the transformation of man from a mental into a supramental being and the advent of a divine life upon earth.

Guided by Aristotelian theories, medieval philosophers believed that nature abhors a vacuum. Medieval art, according to modern scholars, abhors the same. The notion of horror vacui—the fear of empty space—is thus often construed as a definitive feature of Gothic material culture. In The Absent Image, Elina Gertsman argues that Gothic art, in its attempts to grapple with the unr...(展开全部)