"Architecture: Classic and Early Christian" by John Slater and T. Roger Smith explores the evolution of architectural styles from classical antiquity to the early Christian period. The authors delve into the principles and aesthetics that defined ancient Greek and Roman architecture, highlighting iconic structures and their cultural significance. Through detailed analysis, the book illustrates how these classical forms laid the groundwork for early Christian architecture, showcasing the tr...

Architecture: Classic And Early Christian by T. Roger Smith & John Slater.

Zen poems of everyday awakening.A fresh translation of short poems by the Japanese Zen poet Ryokan that reads well as modern American poetry, accompanied by an introduction and commentaries on the poems from the translators. Most of the existing translations are stiff, or sentimental, or awkward as poems in English. This effort is comparable to Gary Snyder’s Han-Shan poems, or Thomas Merton’s Chuang-Tzu.One of the greatest poets of the Edo period a...

I bought this book as I was starting into book collecting. Is is very well written and engaging. If you are starting at a slower pace than I did or if you are just thinking about becoming a book collector this is a fine place to start. It has chapter-length overviews of all the important realms and activities of book-collecting.Overall a useful starting resource.I started to become interested in book collecting about 2 years ago and this was one of the first books that I pu...

Exploring the architectural treasures from antiquity to the dawn of Christianity, 'Architecture: Classic and Early Christian' assembles an extraordinary range of essays that traverse the historical and stylistic evolution of architectural design. This collection encapsulates the grandeur of classical architecture alongside the emergent intricacies of early Christian constructions. The anthology is a meticulous curation of diverse perspectives, where each essay intertwines the enduring lega...

This handbook is intended to give such an outline of the Architecture of the Ancient World, and of that of Christendom down to the period of the Crusades, as, without attempting to supply the minute information required by the professional student, may give a general idea of the works of the great building nations of Antiquity and the Early Christian times. Its chief object has been to place information on the subject within the reach of those persons of literary or artistic education who ...

Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local cultures. This volume tells the story of encounters among medical cultures in the early modern Spanish empire. Th...

This volume collects together Russell's philosophical writings during the period from 1947-68. For about half of this period Russell worked steadily at philosophy but after the publication of My Philosophical Development in 1959 he retired from academic philosophy for the second time. After that date, only the occasional philosophical piece appeared, as he was preoccupied with political writings. In this volume there are a handful of papers dated later than 1959, and all of these were cert...

The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career. In addition to the papers reprinted here, he bought Principia Mathematica to its finished form and wrote The Problems of Philosophy, Theory of Knowledge and Knowledge of the External World. In October 1910 he began teaching at Cambridge, having accepted an appointment as lecturer in logic and the principles of mathematics at Trin...

This volume collects together all of Russell's philosophical papers inspired by his work with Whitehead on 'Principia Mathematica'.

During the period covered by this volume, Bertrand Russell first retired from and then resumed his philosophical career. In 1927 he published two philosophy books, The Analysis of Matter and An Outline of Philosophy. His next book in academic philosophy, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, was not published until 1940.Yet, Russell published a significant amount of essays and popular books between 1927 and 1946, mostly to finance the running of Beacon Hill School, and his growing family. Tho...

This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.