The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a Sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at Hindu images with [...]

In "India: A Sacred Geography," renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India's very sense of nation has emerged. [...]

In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally developed for persuasive speech, has always used the visual as an important means of persuasion, and hence offers a number of strategies and concepts for v[...]

"Elements of Garden Design" does what few gardening books do--it addresses the process of conceiving a whole garden, as opposed to a single element like color or a particular class of plant. Joe Eck explores the idea of a garden, and offers a practical approach to translating concepts such as "inten[...]

In this updated edition of his concise biography, Werner Eck tells the extraordinary story of Augustus, Rome's first monarch. * Incorporates literary, archaeological, and legal sources to provide a vivid narrative of Augustus' brutal rise to power * Written by one of the world's leading experts on [...]

I denne boken rettes søkelyset særlig mot familiens, foreldres og søskens, opplevelser av og reaksjoner på vanskeligheter i det funksjonshemmede barnets utvikling. Videre er forfatterne opptatt av hvordan spesialpedagoger og andre profesjonelle faggrupper gjennom familiesamarbeid og familierådg[...]

Diana Eck skildrar på ett både lättillgängligt, fördomsfritt och pregnant sätt en kultur som, trots att den lätt undandrar sig vår förståelse, alltjämt är tillgänglig för våra blickar.





Författaren söker inringa en mångfasetterad religiös tradition, [...]