""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope ...
The first volume of "The Humanistic Tradition" guides students from the paleolithic through classical Greek culture and through the art and music of Han China. It is an exciting introduction to any humanities course but it can also serve as a colorful and informative supplement in courses on prehistory, classical history, or Greek and Roman ...
The Humanistic Tradition features a flexible, topical approach that helps students understand humankind's creative legacy as a continuum rather than as a series of isolated events. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary survey offers a global perspective, countless illustrations, and more than 150 literary sources. Available in multiple formats, ...
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope ...
The Humanistic Tradition features a flexible, topical approach that helps students understand humankind's creative legacy as a continuum rather than as a series of isolated events. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary survey offers a global perspective, countless illustrations, and more than 150 literary sources. Available in multiple formats, ...
"Landmarks in Humanities" is a single-volume survey of global culture designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence, "Landmarks" highlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination - those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost ...
This text is part of a six-volume work which offers an overview of art, music, literature, history and philosophy. Book 3 explores the European Renaissance, the reformation and the global encounter. It looks at the 14th-century transitions, classical humanism, Renaissance artists, reforms and cross-cultural encounters in Africa and the Americas. ...
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope ...
""The Humanistic Tradition" is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful. Our professors praise its accuracy and scope ...
Beginning with the birth of Christianity and of Buddhism, the second book of "The Humanistic Tradition" offers a wide-ranging look at the period from 0-1300 C.E. The book addresses the interaction between religion and culture in emerging Islamic societies while also drawing on art, music, literature, and architecture to draw a vivid portrait of ...
Designed for the Introduction to Humanities curriculum, this first volume of "The Humanistic Tradition" guides students from the from Paleolithic through Greco-Roman culture and the arts of India and China. It is a brief, exciting text that can also serve as a colorful and informative supplement in courses on prehistory, classical history, or ...
Beginning with the startling twentieth century developments in physics and the Freudian revolution, this book of "The Humanistic Tradition" addresses 100 years of precipitous change. The exciting conclusion to the six-book series, "Modernism", "Globalism", and the "Information Age" can also be used as a literary or cultural supplement to courses ...
The penultimate volume in this series chronicles the move towards modernism, covering the arts, politics, and philosophy from the end of the 1700s to the dawn of the twentieth century. Using literary and musical excerpts to illuminate discussions, Fiero addresses important events and discoveries of the nineteenth century world. Volume five begins ...
Beginning with the startling twentieth century developments in physics and the Freudian revolution, this book of The Humanistic Tradition addresses 100 years of precipitous change. The exciting conclusion to the six-book series, Modernism, Globalism, and the Information Age can also be used as a literary or cultural supplement to courses on ...
The Humanistic Tradition features a flexible, topical approach that helps students understand humankind's creative legacy as a continuum rather than as a series of isolated events. This widely acclaimed interdisciplinary survey offers a global perspective, countless illustrations, and more than 150 literary sources. Available in multiple formats, ...
Designed for Introduction to Humanities courses, Gloria Fiero's "The Humanistic Tradition" is, "the only completely successful integration of non-western and western cultures, achieved by the appropriate placement of non-western elements at points in the text where they influence and complement their western counterparts. But there is more: The ...
"Landmarks in Humanities" is a single-volume survey of global culture designed for students of humanities, cultural history, and history of the arts. In chronological sequence, "Landmarks" highlights the most notable monuments of the human imagination - those works of art and architecture, literature, philosophy, and music that have been foremost ...
Designed for Introduction to Humanities courses, "the Humanistic Tradition is quite simply the finest book of its type. Fiero manages to integrate the political, cultural, and social history of the world into one coherent and fascinating whole. It is a masterpiece of scholarship . . . balanced, interesting, easy to read, and consummately beautiful ...
This text is part of a six-volume work which offers an overview of art, music, literature, history and philosophy. Book 6 explores the global village of the 20th century. It looks at the Freudian revolution, total war, the postmodern turn and the arts in the information age. The text focuses on the Western tradition, but also includes strong ...
This bilingual edition of three lively and amusing French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The verses, translated here into English for the first time, provide significant insights into the role of women in the Middle Ages ...
The first volume of "The Humanistic Tradition" guides students from the paleolithic through classical Greek culture and through the art and music of Han China. It is an exciting introduction to any humanities course but it can also serve as a colorful and informative supplement in courses on prehistory, classical history, or Greek and Roman ...
The explosion of creativity that marked the European Renaissance provoked an unprecedented age of exploration and of cross-cultural encounter. From the depths of the "Black Plague" to the heights of Shakespeare's sonnets, book three of "The Humanistic Tradition" provides an exciting portrait of this period. In a compelling counterpoint to her ...
This text is part of a six-volume set of books which provides a global approach to the humanities survey covering art, history, literature, philosophy, music and dance.
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