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Discoveries: Images of the Body
Examining art, science, literature, semiotics, psychology and archaeology, this multidisciplinary study looks at how culture has represented the human body throughout history, from Masaccio's Adam and Eve to an MRI bodyscan.
Discoveries: Human Origins
What is the origin of the human species? This clear, exciting book explains both the earliest and most recent theories and describes thinking based on the bible as well as that grounded in scientific observation. In these pages you'll see the fossil record, learn what it contains, - and what it, tantalizingly, doesn't - and meet the researchers who interpret it.
Discoveries: North Pole, South Pole
Discusses the North Pole and Antarctica how they were explored and how today nations are banding together to protect them.
Discoveries: Prehistoric Art and Civilization
Discusses prehistoric civilization as represented by art and artifacts of the period, including weapons and tools, architecture, cave paintings, engravings, and statues.
The Pyramids of Giza
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Lewis Carroll and Alice
One golden summer afternoon in 1862, the young Oxford mathematics don Charles Dodgson shared a picnic with three little girls in a boat on the River Thames. One of the sisters, Alice Liddell, asked for a story with plenty of nonsense in it. The adventure he created for her under the pen name Lewis Carroll and the unforgettable characters he invented - the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, amongst others - have enchanted generations of readers thoughout the world. The world of Lewis Carroll, whose powerful imagination gave us the timeless magic of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, is here vividly brought to life.
Discoveries: Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, perhaps the last of the great painters of the human figure, portrayed the world as a place of theatrical drama in which the body took center stage, sensuous and terrible. A lifelong student of color, form, and brushwork, he created an art at once classical and modern, ordered and chaotic, in which human emotions and passions are imbedded within the harsh realities of the flesh. Who was Bacon? What in his life gave rise to his grand guignol vision of the world? Through photographs, interviews, the artist's own statements, and a multitude of paintings (including six gatefolds), this book offers a rich portrait of a modern master.
Discoveries: Birth of the Motion Picture
Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each Discoveries RM volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed, affordably priced, compact paperbacks bring ideas to life and amplify our understanding of civilization in a new way.
Discoveries: Art and Culture of Japan
Text and many color photos profile several strains of historical Japanese art and culture, covering the "kami," the Buddhist tradition, the court, the warrior, Zen, and the Edo period; also includes a section of related documents, a chronology, and a bibliography.
Wu Guanzhong
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