Exceptionally comprehensive, easy-to-use guide surveys the evolution of historic ornament in architecture and the applied arts-from primitive ornaments of Oceania, Egypt, and Assyria to a Gothic doorway in Amiens, the tomb of Lorenzo de Medici, and a classic early-nineteenth-century sofa by Thomas Hope. ...
Offers an analysis of the role that Iran plays in regional and global politics. This book provides a perspective on one of the Middle East's most controversial and mis-understood countries. It presents not only an introduction to the country, but also the ideas to help the reader understand the Middle East.
This work contains two treatises: concerning beauty, order, harmony, design, and concerning moral good and evil. There is no part of philosophy of more importance than a just knowledge of human nature and its various powers and dispositions. The author presents these papers as an inquiry into the various ...
