Art is always ambiguous. When it involves the female body it can also be erotic. Erotic Ambiguities is a study of how contemporary women artists have reconceptualised the figure of the female nude. Helen McDonald shows how, over the past thirty years, artists have employed the idea of ambiguity to dismantle the exclusive, classical ideal enshrined ...
First published in 1945 and revised and updated in 1961, "The New Perennials Preferred" is a reference for gardening year-round. In the first part Helen Van Pelt Wilson gives advice on garden maintenance, the principles for designing perennial borders, composts and fertilizers, and more. Organized by season, the second part is a list of the author ...
Now in paperback--a sensitive introduction to the issues and challenges which most lesbians and gay men encounter at every stage of their lives. "Although intended for counselors, this book is written in a style that can be understood by most readers who want to know more about homosexuality. Recommended".-- ALA Booklist.
This text is the first of three volumes on the 1976-93 excavation at Tell Brak in Northeast Syria. In this volume, second-millennia BC material is published, including a detailed account of the monumental palace and temple of Mitanni date and a sequence of second-millennia domestic occupation.
Tell Brak, ancient Nagar, was one of the most important cities in northern Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC and a focus of long-distance trade. It was also, for about a century, a provincial capital of the Akkadian Empire founded by Sargon of Agade. This is the second of three volumes on the 1976-93 excavations at Tell Brak. The construction ...
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