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This book is the fifth book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This fifth book will teach beginner artists and intermediate artists how to draw still life, landscapes, portraitures and animals using pastels in a logical way and help them transition from drawing to painting through various exercises and assignments. Teaching drawing in this manner will build the artists' technical, compositional and comprehensive drawing skills.

This book is the sixth book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This sixth book reviews principles of design and elements of design that artists must keep in mind when creating artworks. These design principles and design elements help artists to create better artistic and aesthetically pleasing artworks.

This book is the second book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This second book will teach beginner artists and intermediate artists how to draw and shade forms, heads and figures using charcoal in a logical way through various exercises and assignments. Teaching drawing in this manner will build the artists' technical, compositional and comprehensive drawing skills.

This book is the first book of a series of books on the introduction to drawing. This first book will teach beginner artists and intermediate artists how to draw still life using pencils in a logical way through various exercises and assignments. Teaching drawing in this manner will build the artists' technical, compositional and comprehensive drawing skills.

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The focus of this volume is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars. They, by means of daring mystical interpretations of Scripture, entered a Paradise, representing different means of imaginative reading, perception, memory and application of the law.

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This work explores the methodological and theoretical problems faced by creative writers in the Pacific, discussing the native author's dilemma in expressing ideas generally unfamiliar to Westerners, and the problems that foreign critics and readers have when evaluating works by Pacific authors.

This is a book about the way different literary traditions and different kinds of cultural discourse interplay and intersect.

From the moment Alfred Dreyfus was placed under arrest for treason and spionage, his entire world was turned upside down. For the next five years he lived in what he called a phantasmagoria. To keep sane, Dreyfus exchanged letters with his wife Lucie and exercised his intellect through reading the few books and magazines his censors allowed him, writing essays on these and other texts he had read in the past, and working out problems in mat...

In his new book, Norman Simms re-defines the study of two often misunderstood religious groups. The first are Marranos who claim descent from the persecuted Spanish Jews forced to convert to Catholicism, yet who nevertheless continued to practice Jewish rituals secretly. The other group consists of the Penitentes, a Catholic group accused of violent acts of self-flagellation and other forms of masochism. Examining both groups through rabbinics...

This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scie...

Alfred Dreyfus saw himself caught in a phantasmagoria, a great complex enigma that needed to be solved, but all the clues seemed to be an hallucination, a will-o'-th'-wisp or what George Sand called orblutes. This book examines how Dreyfus and his wife found a powerful new kind of love through Jewish themes.

Alfred Dreyfus saw himself caught in a phantasmagoria, a great complex enigma that needed to be solved, but all the clues seemed to be an hallucination. This book examines how Dreyfus and his wife found a powerful new kind of love through Jewish themes at the same time as they were forced to conceal their true identities.

Sephardic Jews who voluntarily or forcibly converted to Catholicism in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries to avoid persecution or expulsion were known as conversos or New Christians. Some tried to live the double life of a Crypto-Jew, outwardly embracing Christianity while secretly maintaining Jewish practices. Others were in a state that was neither Jewish nor Christian, and, as painful and humiliating as it was, these Marranos (a term for...

This book addresses the history of mentalities, psychohistory, and the history of colonialist discourses. For those interested in the development of Third World and of post-colonialist cultures, the book offers a new set of insights and methodologies.

Although the Middle English poem known as 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' is assumed to be a kind of comic or satirical romance deriving from the Christian courts of England in the fourteenth century, several strange features suggest a different origin and generic categorization.