In Love with A Hillside Garden
Ann, Daniel, and Benjamin Streissguth"In this richly illustrated book, the couple explain how developing a site along a public stairway gave them the opportunity to share their garden with neighbors and passersby." -
"[This] book is one of the fruits of the city's greenscape movement . . . and it instructs and delights along the way. The Streissguth's labor of love over the years reminds us there are no accidental gardeners. Their admirable story should be better known hereabouts. -
Kids Design Glass
Essays by Benjamin W. Cobb and Susan Linn"The catalog is as sumptuous as any pretentious museum publication, with one great exception. It'll make you smile as you encounter 'Coyote in Socks,' designed by Marion Emme, or 'Green Guy,' designed by Duncan Noah, or one of my favorites, 'Dino Fish,' designed by Emily Gouveia." -
Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian Peoples
Emma I. Hansen"This publication - based on the award-winning reinterpretation and reinstallation in 2000 of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming - is much more than a catalog of that institution's collections. . . . Illustrated with color photographs of objects and archival images and illuminated by quotes from interviews, ethnographies, and oral histories, Hansen's volume surveys the cultures of Plains people in six thematic chapters with brief interchapter essays by contemporary Plains scholars and artists Beatrice Medicine, Gerard Baker, Joseph Medicine Crow, Arthur Amiotte, and Bentley Spang." -
Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
Jin Jiang"The transformation of a rural, male dramatic form into an urban, female phenomenon lies at the heart of this stimulating study of 20th-century Shanghai culture. . . . Recommended." -
Body and Spirit: Tibetan Medical Paintings
Edited by Laila Williamson and Serinity Young"This new rendering of the subject has the distinct advantage of being affordable and accessible for a wider audience, including students. The subject is eclectic, and the curious - from medical professionals to scholars of art, culture, and religion - will benefit from exploring this new treatment." -
Stories to Awaken the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3
Compiled by Feng Menglong. Translated by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang"Joining Stories Old and New, and Stories to Caution the World, both also masterfully translated by S. Yang and Y. Yang, this volume completes the full translation of Feng Menglong's sanyan, a three volume- collection of vernacular hauben short stories. . . . This three-volume set is invaluable. Highly recommended." -
Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan
Paul Berry and Michiyo Morioka"A solid contribution to the later history of Japanese art. Highly recommended." -
The Interweaving of Rituals: Funerals in the Cultural Exchange between China and Europe
Nicolas Standaert"Standaert's topic is an inspired choice, and the result is a readable and thought-provoking study with relevance well beyond the study of Christianity in China." -
Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall: Ten Versions of a Chinese Legend
Translation and Introduction by Wilt L. Idema with an Essay by Haiyan Lee"Idema's beautiful, small anthology is a splendid tribute. . . . It is at the same time a highly commendable introduction of the richeness and complexity of Chinese oral traditions." -
The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China
Robert E. Harrist Jr."One of the most important books on traditional China published in recent years." -
Legends of the Building of Old Peking
Hok-Lam Chan"A meticulous study . . . Legends of the Building of Old Peking throws significant light on the cultural, the religious, and the ethnic richness of one of the world's greatest cities." -
Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style
David P. Jackson"Strongly recommended for academic and research libraries with a focus on the fields of Asian art, religion, history, and culture." -
The Pacific Muse: Exotic Femininity and the Colonial Pacific
Patty O'Brien"Patty O'Brien's study offers readers an examination of the role of the feminine in the construction of the Pacific in the western imagination. . . [a] rich and detailed book." -
"The Pacific Muse reaches beyond the words and images that Europeans, particularly European men, painted about women in the Pacific. O'Brien explores the relationship between images of Pacific womanhood and different configurations of imperialism around the region." -
Reinventing the Wheel: Paintings of Rebirth in Medieval Buddhist Temples
Stephen F. Teiser"[This book] succeeds through an earnest engaging style and promises to garner in an exquisitely crafted production a wider audience for its subject." -
A Pocketful of Voices / Un bolsillo de voces
Edited by Maria Gould, Anita Sagastegui, and John Oliver Simon"This collection of poems, presented in a unique form and style, invites the reader to a better understanding of young voices in their creative process. . . . A book to be enjoyed, especially by young people and writers, this can be a great educational resource for language development and creative writing in a bilingual classroom for children and young adults. It belongs in all libraries." -
Koizumi Diplomacy: Japan's Kantei Approach to Foreign and Defense Affairs
Tomohito Shinoda"A valuable contribution to the growing literature on Japanese defense and foreign policy making. It is sure to be read with interest by professional analysts as well as general readers interested in East Asian affairs." -
Being and Place among the Tlingit
Thomas F. Thornton"This book is about the meaning of place among the Tlingit, but it is also a comprehensive, scholarly essay on the ideal of place in Western philosophy and social science theory." -
Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Exhibition of Japanese Art Crafts
Edited by Nicole Rousmaniere"Rather than being just another attractive exhibition catalogue, Crafting Beauty combines gorgeous photographs with informative commentary by both Japanese and Western experts on the trajectory of art craft production in Japan. For this reason, Crafting Beauty makes for an interesting and aesthetically satisfying read and will constitute a welcome addition to any coffee table or bookshelf." -