Art and Place brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten year, with the intention of offering a personal chronicle of the Hong Kong art world during a time of great change. Many of the essays concern themselves with the work of local arti…
Art and Place brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten year, with the intention of offering a personal chronicle of the Hong Kong art world during a time of great change. Many of the essays concern themselves with the work of local arti…
The Western musical tradition has produced not only music, but also countless writings about music that remain in continuousand enormously influentialdialogue with their subject. With sweeping scope and philosophical depth, A Language of Its Own traces the past millennium of thi…
Who are our public intellectuals? Are they needed in a democracy? Should the state underwrite their activities even if they end up, like Socrates, being gadflies? Shouldn't they refrain from public debates so as to retain their critical vantage point? These and other questions a…
Points out the concentration of economic, political, and military power that flows from the oil wells of the Middle East. That is the reason why the Bible points to that area as the stage for final battle.
"This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the extent that no politician or political party can exist today without claiming to be speaking on their behalf, and no politician can …
Ottoman Dress and Design in the West is a richly illustrated exploration of the relationship between West and Near East through the visual culture of dress. Charlotte Jirousek examines the history of dress and fashion in the broader context of western relationships with the Medi…
Before the Ottoman era, east and west -- The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries : emergence of the Ottomans -- The sixteenth century : reaching for the east -- The seventeenth century : shifting power, emerging modernities -- The eighteenth century : an expanding world -- The ni…
