Art and the Senses

By Francesca Bacci, David Melcher

The senses play a vital role in our health, our social interactions, and in enjoying food, music and the arts. The book provides an interdisciplinary overview of the senses, ranging from the neuros...

Tan men pale women

By Mary Ann Eaverly

"One of the most obvious stylistic features of Athenian black-figure vase painting is the use of color to differentiate women from men. By comparing ancient art in Egypt and Greece, Tan Man/Pale Wo...

The whales companion

By Ariana Klepac

"The Whales Companion is an anthology of writings and images from ancient times to the modern day, which captures the idea of the whale in the human imagination. The whale as revealed in legend, ar...

Gunther von Hagens Body worlds

By Gunther Von Hagens

Antikken i ettertiden

By Gjert Vestrheim, Mathilde Skoie

"Denne antologien tar for seg noen viktige møter mellom antikkens kultur og dens senere fortolkere. Boken beveger seg fra litteratur via skulptur til teater, film og såpeopera, og videre til politi...

Na szczescie to Zyd

By Erica T. Lehrer, Joanna Warchol

Karin Larsson och blommorna i Sundborn

By Christina Hogardh Ihr

Reforming reformation

By Mayer Thomas F.

The Reformation used to be singular: a unique event that happened within a tidily circumscribed period of time, in a tightly constrained area and largely because of a single individual. Few student...

The never ending feast

By Kaori O Connor

"Human life is a never-ending feast. Throughout history, and in all parts of the world, feasts have been the primary arena for displays of hierarchy, status and power; a stage upon which loyalties...

Burning issues

By Alan Krell

"From the Greek myth of Prometheus to the counter-cultural Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, fire has always sparked our imagination. Like knowledge in the Garden of Eden, fire...