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Throughout history, perhaps no other single writing has provoked as much discussion and disagreement as that found in Holy Scripture in the Book of Revelation. In fact, just the mere mention of the name Revelation can result in a wide (and often wild) array of potential > Many Christians are confused by it... others are afraid. Some non-believers respond with intrigue... most dismiss it as nothing but myth and mysticism. Too many pastors avoid...

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2013 is officially Frans Hals Year, marking exactly 100 years since the Frans Hals Museum opened its doors. The most important exhibition in this jubilee year is 'Frans Hals: Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian', in which key works by Frans Hals are presented amid paintings by such famed colleagues as Titian, Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Jordaens and Rubens. In this eponymous publication, all the works in the exhibition are presented side by ...

Al 25 jaar vormt het jaarboek Architectuur in Nederland het internationale visitekaartje voor de Nederlandse bouwkunst. Vorig jaar werd de dubbeldikke jubileumeditie gepubliceerd, die lovend en uitgebreid in de pers besproken werd. Voor de 26e editie, die in april 2013 verschijnt, is een nieuwe redactie aangetreden, bestaande uit Tom Avermaete (universitair hoofddocent faculteit bouwkunde, TU Delft), Hans van der Heijden (architect, medeoprich...

With an average of over nine children per family, older cohorts of Bedouin in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon have one of the highest fertility rates in the world. Anthropological demographer Suzanne Joseph shows that in this particular group, prolific birth rates coincide with moderate death rates and high levels of nutrition. Despite differences in gender, class, and occupation, members of Bekaa Bedouin society rely heavily on kinship ties, shar...

Despite its longevity as a tradition stretching back to at least the eighteenth century, the Grotesque has only recently become a non-pejorative term in art and academia. The Grotesque Factor takes a close look at the evolution of the Grotesque, examining early caricature (Hogarth, Goya), abject, scatological and black humor, nineteenth-century French art and literature (Grandville, Baudelaire, Jarry), Jame Ensor, the grotesque in early film a...

Charles Derber introduces and vividly explains the idea of a sociopathic society and why the idea has become necessary to understand today s world

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Over the last five decades, the gap between the haves and have-nots has consistently increased in the realm of access to healthcare services among different sectors of society: from quality of healthcare services, access to health supplies, technologies, and usage of health information and health prevention services, to vulnerability to certain types of diseases and health outcomes. Against this backdrop this edited collection - the first of i...

Originally published in 1921, this book presents the text of the Talmud, Tractate Berakhot in an English translation.

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As Egypt retreats from its newly elected government and Syria moves from one crisis to another, this book's reflection on the Arab Spring could not be more timely. Monshipouri's account of the role of emotion, solidarity, and online activism is informed by several trips to the region that continue to this day. Modern technologies and social media, organization on the ground, and challenges to shaping a country's political future after conflict...

Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) became Boston's favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new building's grand staircase and rotunda resulted in one of Sargent's last and most ambitious works. Sargent regarded the entire space as a giant canvas and brought together all the pictorial, decorative and architectural elements with a ...

Drawn from a variety of antique sources, these 19 black-and-white stickers of grinning skulls, dancing skeletons, and other cheerfully macabre images include drawings by famed artists Jorge Posada and Julio Ruelas.

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