A blending of vital elements

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams, and exercises he...

Dance Appreciation meets the needs of dance students who are new to dance as well as those who are experienced in the art form. The text helps learners discover more about themselv...

This chapter describes clinical syndromes of various types of abnormalities in Qi and vital substances, such as deficiency of Yuan Qi, Zong Qi, Ying Qi, Wei Qi, Blood, Fluid, and E...

This chapter treats the romance that we know of as Joseph and Aseneth, the earliest parts of which may be Hellenistic. It is an extraordinary sequel to the Potiphar’s wife story, i...

Before the 1920s perfume was strongly encoded. Musky scents and tropical ‘heavy florals’ were associated with prostitution, oriental perfumes with decadence and Catholicism, and li...

The emergence of lesbian film in the first decade of the twenty-first century symbolizes a breakthrough through the creation of new cinema that opens up a space that was not previo...

This is the first text devoted exclusively to women in Britain since 1900 which covers the whole century. The author combines evidence from primary research, with an emphasis on pe...

In the light of the findings of this book, the ‘Hellenocentric’ romances of Chariton and Xenophon look less like a point of origin for the Greek romance and more an exception again...