Product Description: Combining approaches from art history, museum studies, and contemporary curating, this collection focuses on the artist's studio and its legacies. An international group of contributors including experts from major museums examine, through a series of case studies on some of the major figures of modern art, how artists' studios have been exhibited in the art gallery and museum...read more

Looking across a number of societies, Eric Carlton investigates why men and women go to war and how they are able to commit atrocities against their enemy. He believes that central to these issues is the perception of the enemy and the ways in which this is "converted" - consciously or unconsciously - into an ideology of aggression. Military training and ideology are based upon the definition of the enemy as "the other", and studies in the text reveal the importance of the stereotyped image of the enemy when soldiers carry out atrocities. Dr Carlton explores the underlying problem of how and why societies resort to war, by analyzing the motivations, usually religious and ideological, which legitimize war-like policies and activities. A wide range of case studies consider the ways in which the enemy has been seen in various historical and comparative contexts: for instance, to ancient Egyptians the enemy were non-people, to Romans uncouth barbarians, to Maoists class antagonists. These studies underline the single fact that perceptions of the adversary determine the nature of warfare more than any single factor.

Product Description: At first it sounds a simple question to answer, but the reasons why a man stands by water and tries his luck to catch a creature of lower intelligence are at the same time both complex and primeval. In Why Men Fish, the author unravels the mystery behind the problem, not just by tracing the origins of the sport and man's affinity with nature, water and his evolutionary relationship with our finned cousins, but also by explaining why men are so competitive, their need to escape and their frequent preference for the company of a trout over that of a woman...read more

Product Description: This book features an old man and his promise. It is a remarkable story of inspiration, interpretation, and promise. It goes beyond the universal definition for a promise by explaining how to create an environment for keeping promises, acknowledging that life has its own set of God created promises, and by using a metaphor to help demonstrate the ease of making a promise in contrast to keeping the same...read more

An examination of the work of one of the twentieth century's most important sculptors presents forty of his most essential works, complete with photographs of his studio and essays that dissect the importance and influence of his craft.