Author: Edwin Avery Park
Publisher: Lindemann Press
Keywords: new, backgrounds
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-10-27
List price: $29.45
ISBN-10: 1443775975
ISBN-13: 9781443775977

CHAPTER CONTENTS I. THE MEANING OF STYLE 11. DECORATIVE ART IN EUROPE-WIELIAM MORRIS TO 1926 ItI. AMERICAN ESTHETICS TODAY W. INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY AND ART V. THE TEMPO OF MODERN ART VI. EDUCATION VII. DISCOVERING THE NEW BEAUTY VIU. STEEL, CONCRETE, AND mRRA COTIA IX. MODERN AMERICAN DECORATORS AND CRAFTS- MEN-I X. MODERN AMERICAN DECORATORS AND CRAFTS- MEN-I1 XI. POSSIBILITIES IN DECORATION XII. THE FUTWKE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS A SMALL ROOM Frontispiece DECOR AT ART NEAR ITS SOWRCE 6 GOTHIC ART 7 DECORATION OF THE LOUIS XV. ERA I4 ITALIAN FURNITURE OF THE SECESSIONIST PERIOD I S I c LES COURS

Author: Edith Wharton
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: backgrounds, italian
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 1110486081
ISBN-13: 9781110486083

Author: J. Julius Jr. Scott
Publisher: Baker Academic
Keywords: testament, new, backgrounds, jewish
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2000-08-01
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0801022401
ISBN-13: 9780801022401

This survey of intertestamental Judaism illuminates the customs and controversies that provide essential background for understanding the New Testament. Helpful charts, maps, and diagrams are incorporated throughout the text.

Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Keywords: christianity, backgrounds
Number of Pages: 648
Published: 2003-09
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 0802822215
ISBN-13: 9780802822215

Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson’s "Backgrounds of Early Christianity" has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds necessary for a good historical understanding of the New Testament and the early church. New to this edition are revisions of Ferguson’s original material, updated bibliographies, and fresh discussions of first-century social life, of Gnosticism, and of the Dead Sea Scrolls and ot

Author: Aidan Cruttenden
Publisher: Evans Brothers Ltd
Keywords: literature, english, backgrounds, victorians
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2002-11-21
List price: $15.42
ISBN-10: 023752256X
ISBN-13: 9780237522568

A discussion of the Victorians and their literature. It sets out the political, social and economic framework of the period, and then goes on to study the various influences on the novel, addresses the forms and styles of poetry and, finally, provides an overview of Victorian drama. Each chapter features a further reading list and there is a comparative time-line, a biographical glossary and a list of websites. The volume is part of a series which sets writers and literary works of different types and periods in their historical, social and cultural context and provides an introduction to vari

Authors:C.A. Patrides, Raymond B. Waddington,
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Keywords: literature, century, seventeenth, backgrounds, milton
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1980
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719008166
ISBN-13: 9780719008160

Author: Isidore Okpewho
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: character, continuity, backgrounds, literature, oral, african
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1992-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 025320710X
ISBN-13: 9780253207104

"... its pages come alive with wonderful illustrative material coupled with sensitve and insightful commentary." -- Reviews in Anthropology"... the scope, breadth, and lucidity of this excellent study confirm that Okpewho is undoubtedly the most important authority writing on African oral literature right now... "  -- Research in African Literatures"Truly a tour de force of individual scholarship... "  -- World Literature Today"... excellent... " -- African Affairs"... a thorough synthesis of the main issues of oral literature criticism, as well as a grounding in experienced fieldwork, a wid