A groundbreaking collaboration between the National Galleries of Scotland, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and the Finnish National Gallery, this catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated to landscapes by the Symbolists, the innovative movement whose artists took a more imaginative and e[...]

Many problems in the sciences and engineering can be rephrased as optimization problems on matrix search spaces endowed with a so-called manifold structure. This book shows how to exploit the special structure of such problems to develop efficient numerical algorithms. It is of interest to applied m[...]

This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasche probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with re[...]

'Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogie[...]

Argues that a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot exists and, in this radical interpretation of it, states that Jesus asked Judas to betray him, which presents Judas as not a betrayer, but the one apostle who truly understood Jesus.[...]

Kenya, 1947. A hunting expedition led by American writer John Remington makes a startling encounter, and then vanishes without a trace. Shortly afterwards, Katherine Austin, agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service, arrives in Mombasa. Her mission: investigate a series of mysterious sighting[...]

As one of the "founding fathers" of American natural history Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-73) made major contributions to 19th-century geology, palaeontology and zoology. "Bibliographia Zoologie" is a monumental study of natural history, edited and added to by Hugh Edwin Stickland (1811-53).[...]

Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-85) was a French draughtsman and engraver, whose fantastical works appealed to writers in the Paris bohemia circle, such as Theodore de Banville, Victor Hugo, and Charles Baudelaire. He was the mentor of Odilon Redon, who signed his work, pupil of Bresdin, and he remained a li[...]

Jatkotason opiskelijiolle suunnattu oppikirja sisältää monipuolisia aineistopohjaisia harjoituksia. Kirjan aihepiirit esittelevät ajankohtaisia teemoja mm. ranskalaisen yhteiskunnan ja kulttuurin saralta.[...]