Appearance and Essence

Appearance and EssenceProceedings of the second Williams Symposium look at the secrets of classical refinement, particularly curvature. International experts discuss these architectural subtleties, from technical observations to perception and art theory. Illustrated and comprehensive, it explores why classical architecture is considered perfect since the Renaissance.

Free sample: Introduction - The Changed and Changing Field of ‘Islamic Architecture’

This book explores the Arab Uprisings and the instability that engulfed the region in the following years

A new edition of Kaplan’s landmark study on eighteenth-century French political economy

The book also contains a chapter sketching the fortunes of the Latin paratexts and editions up to 1650

wartime public relations and information warfare

the research topics and the main archaeological issues

Traditionally portrayed as either a well-trod highway linking southwest Asia and the Eurasian Steppe or an isolated periphery of the ancient world

debate and devotion amongst critics and his many fans

The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry is the first book-length study of the contemporary poetry industry

corporations and non-governmental organisations draw upon their expert advice to advance their causes in the battle of ideas

and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920

from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography