Product Description: A cursory glance at the Byzantine world would show women as illiterate, excluded from prominent political roles and second class citizens when compared to the positions and power held by men. Aside from the female members of the aristocracy, ordinary women are often incidental in both the literature and art of the period...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: During the Han (206 B.C.–A.D. 220) and Tang (A.D. 618–907) dynasties, terra cotta sculptures were placed in elaborate tombs to protect and to serve the spirit of the deceased. These fascinating sculptures took the form of soldiers, courtiers, musicians, merchants, attendants, court officials, and guardians...read more

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Product Description: Antoin Sevruguin (late 1830s-1933) was a leading, celebrated photographer of late 19th-century Iran. He had two lifelong obsessions. The first was a cherished desire to record Iran in all its facets on glass plates; the second was to capture light in his photographs the way he so admired in Rembrandt's painting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Buddha's Art of Healing provides a rich introduction to the world of Tibetan medicine, a cultural achievement considered by the Dalai Lama to be one of Tibet's most valuable contributions to the modern world. Illustrated with intricate and vivid scroll paintings based on The Atlas of Tibetan Medicine, a seventeenth-century masterpiece that is the foundation of Tibetan medical education, this volume explores pertinent global concerns and contributes profound insights to enhance rather than supplant Western medical science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Six contributors discuss the state of Japanese arts during the allied occupation after the second World War. Topics include missteps by occupation censors, caution and experimentation on the part of nine artists of the era, the preservation of cultural property, and the conflicted roles of women an...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Filled with frank reviews of the latest dining, shopping, and nightlife spots, this hip guidebook to the nation's second-largest city covers TV tapings, cemetery tours, scenic drives, star-gazing opportunities, celebrity drive-bys, and other L.A. highlights, with side trips to Disneyland, Catalina Island, and the Orange Coast planned out as well. Original.

Shows Persian, Arabic, Turkish, and Indian manuscripts