The World Heritage Convention, Twenty Years Later
Author : Léon Pressouyre
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9789231028939
Author : Léon Pressouyre
Publisher :
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Conservation of natural resources
ISBN : 9789231028939
Author : Abdelwahab Meddeb
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2003-07-02
Category : History
ISBN :
A defense of Islam, and an indictment of religious fundamentalism, addressed to Islamic and Western readers.
Author : Fethi Benslama
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0816648883
In this title, the author demythifies both Islamic and western ideas of Islam by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world's clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism. It reveals an alternate history of Islam and looks at its future development.
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Publisher :
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 13,39 MB
Release : 1932
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Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher :
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 9780300164145
Blaise Cendrars' narrative about his life-changing journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway is a poem of memory and movement. Sonia Delaunay's designs create a parallel path as the reader slips down the palette while swimming through a river of words.
Author : George Lyman Kittredge
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 23,20 MB
Release : 2018-10-12
Category :
ISBN : 9780342616770
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jan Fontein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 18,76 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004211225
New identifications of the 460 bas-reliefs of Borobudur illustrating the Gandavy?ha, based upon a comparison with the contents of three early Chinese translations of Sanskrit manuscripts of the text of Central Asian or Indian provenance.
Author : 國立故宮博物院
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 37,35 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0810964945
A major scholarly work, published in conjunction with the exhibition titled "Splendors of Imperial China: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei" (on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during 1996, and scheduled for several other American cities during 1996-1997). Written by scholars of both Chinese and Western cultural backgrounds and conceived as a cultural history, the book synthesizes scholarship of the past three decades to present the historical and cultural significance of individual works of art and analyses of their aesthetic content, as well as reevaluation of the cultural dynamics of Chinese history. Includes some 600 illustrations, 436 in color. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Nathan Chaïkin
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Art, Chinese
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Author : Jan Fontein
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Shows bells, lamps, vases, statuettes, and water vessels created between the eighth and fifteenth centuries.