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Product Description: This splendidly illustrated book brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Though they had no access to the upper echelons of society, ordinary Romans enlivened their world with all manner of artworks...read more

Product Description: Picture a world where good sex is a blessing of the gods, not a cause for guilt, and where acts often considered immoral, even illegal by our standards are instead celebrated. Such a world is no futurist's fantasy but rather the reality of ancient Rome, 100 BC to 250 AD...read more

Product Description: What did sex mean to the ancient Romans? In this lavishly illustrated study, John R. Clarke investigates a rich assortment of Roman erotic art to answer this question--and along the way, he reveals a society quite different from our own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The SBC Collection, formed by SBC Communications, Inc (formerly Southwestern Bell), reflects the intellectual and cultural trends that have influenced artists working in the United States during the 20th century. Works by many of the leading names in American art are illustrated in this book, which also contains 13 essays by scholars, critics and curators to offer an understanding of American art for both the general reader and the student of art history...read more

Product Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this richly illustrated book, art historian John R. Clarke helps us see the ancient Roman house "with Roman eyes." Clarke presents a range of houses, from tenements to villas, and shows us how enduring patterns of Roman wall decoration tellingly bear the cultural, religious, and social imprints of the people who lived with them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Oxford Reviews of Reproductive Biology provide up-to-date and authoritative reviews of clinical mammalian and non-mammalian problems in reproduction, including physiological, cellular, and molecular aspects. Lecturers, researchers, clinicians, and students of reproduction, fertility, and sterility will find these contributions invaluable to their study...read more

Product Description: Oxford Reviews of Reproductive Biology provide up-to-date and authoritative reviews of clinical mammalian and non-mammalian problems in reproduction, including physiological, cellular, and molecular aspects. Lecturers, researchers, clinicians, and students of reproduction, fertility, and sterility will find these contributions invaluable to their study...read more

Product Description: Volume eight continues the annual publication of this series providing up-to-date and authoritative reviews of physiological, cellular, and molecular problems in human and mammalian reproduction.

Product Description: The latest volume in this highly praised series contains authoritative review of research on ultrasound, recombinant DNA technology in prenatal diagnosis, circadian time-keeping processes in mammalian reproduction, and stress and population regulation in small mammals...read more

Product Description: This volume of the College Art Association Monograph series examines Roman figural mosaics.

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