Product Description: English summary: While Antoine Galland (1646-1715) must be entered into posterity for his "translation" of the Arabian Nights, he was nonetheless primarily a scholar who shed light on Orientalist numismatics. To support his memory, he took notes of daily events both near and far of things which concerned him...read more

Product Description: For the Russian nonconformist artists of the 1960s through the 1980s, a room or an apartment—whether one's own or someone else's—was a departure point into the world of art, a world free of limitations. An apartment, while limited in space, opened up a world of infinite space—the entire cosmos...read more

Product Description: The first book on Japanese calligraphy from the significant Momoyama and Edo periods (1568–1868), 77 Dances examines the art of writing at a time when it was undergoing a remarkable flowering, as illustrated by over one hundred sumptuous illustrations...read more

Product Description: Many of the people who identify themselves as Maasai, or who speak the Maa language, are not pastoralist at all, but framers and hunters. Over time many people have 'become' something else, adn what it means to be Maasai has changed radically over the past several centuries and is still changing today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)