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Klimt
\"Gustav Klimt was a major influence on Viennese Art Nouveau. He developed a Modernist notion of the relation between image and reality. His ornamental works--such as 'The kiss' or 'Cottage garden with sunflowers'--have inscribed themselves into our collective visual memory. Until today, Klimt still enjoys international fame. Presentations of his paintings and drawings attract and delight audiences the world over.\"-- Back cover.
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A history of Jewish-muslim relations
This is the first encyclopedic guide to the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to today. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, the book features more than 150 authoritative and accessible articles by an international team of leading experts in history, politics, literature, anthropology, and philosophy. Organized thematically and chronologically, this indispensable reference provides critical facts and balanced context for greater historical understanding and a more informed dialogue between Jews and Muslims.
Part I covers the medieval period; Part II, the early modern period through the nineteenth century, in the Ottoman Empire, Africa, Asia, and Europe; Part III, the twentieth century, including the exile of Jews from the Muslim world, Jews and Muslims in Israel, and Jewish-Muslim politics; and Part IV, intersections between Jewish and Muslim origins, philosophy, scholarship, art, ritual, and beliefs. The main articles address major topics such as the Jews of Arabia at the origin of Islam; special profiles cover important individuals and places; and excerpts from primary sources provide contemporary views on historical events.
Contributors include Mark R. Cohen, Alain Dieckhoff, Michael Laskier, Vera Moreen, Gordon D. Newby, Marina Rustow, Daniel Schroeter, Kirsten Schulze, Mark Tessler, John Tolan, Gilles Veinstein, and many more.
Covers the history of relations between Jews and Muslims around the world from the birth of Islam to todayWritten by an international team of leading scholarsFeatures in-depth articles on social, political, and cultural historyIncludes profiles of important people (Eliyahu Capsali, Joseph Nasi, Mohammed V, Martin Buber, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin, Edward Said, Messali Hadj, Mahmoud Darwish) and places (Jerusalem, Alexandria, Baghdad)Presents passages from essential documents of each historical period, such as the Cairo Geniza, Al-Sira, and Judeo-Persian illuminated manuscriptsRichly illustrated with more than 250 images, including maps and color photographsIncludes extensive cross-references, bibliographies, and an index
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The buildings that revolutionized architecture
Why do some buildings stand the test of time? What makes a building unique, or groundbreaking? How do function, environment, and technology impact an architect's vision? These questions and more are addressed in this tour of 100 of the world's most important human-made structures.
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CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Unfortunately, [Malcolm Bosse] has given his readers a recognizable version of us, rather than a 14th-century otherness, in his new novel, ''Captives of Time.'' This world is not an alien one shaped by the teachings of a universal church, or imbued with a sacred sense of history, but a more familiar post-Enlightenment one driven by a mechanistic conception: ''The world we live in is nothing less than a great clock set in motion by God.'' The important question is not how did God create this clock, but how to make it run by itself, driven by springs rather than by weights. Given the title and the plot about the construction of tower clocks in the late Middle Ages, the book could be self-consciously querying notions of chronological periods -how we are all prisoners of our historical moments. But rather than posing questions about the contrast between medieval and modern values, their extratemporal transcendence vs. our everyday carnality, Mr. Bosse has simply got some details mixed up and misemphasized so they don't quite fit into his 14th-century European setting. The uncle of his intrepid heroine, for instance, is at first called a ''gunsmith'' but actually turns out to be a rather more acceptably medieval armorer. While gunpowder came to Europe from China in the 13th century and ''ordnance'' was known in the 14th century, gunsmithing was not an ordinary trade. Also, on the way to her uncle, she meets a number of people who smoke tobacco in clay pipes. Again, while Turkish tobacco was known in the 14th century, smoking was not introduced to Western Europe on a scale that would bring it the status of anything like the unexotic until Sir Walter Raleigh imported it from Virginia. The clay pipes seem to have strayed into the book from colonial America.
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Into the light
Since earliest times the colour white has exerted a powerful fascination on Man for its purity, glistening brightness, magic and symbolism. Fascinated by the power of the colour white, Tom Jacobi travelled seven continents and photographed breathtaking landscapes which reveal a timeless power and offer space for contemplation.
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