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Reflects forty years of the author's research, including correspondence and interviews with relicarieros, art historians, curators, collectors, silversmiths, anticuarios, and clergy as well as the author's collection of several hundred examples.

Traces the history of the Sephardic and converso (converted) Jews from their Golden Age to the twenty-first century, in both the land they left behind and in the lands they later settled. Documents, maps, paintings, and objects illuminate the history of Sephardic Jews from Spain to Mexico to New Mexico.

This final volume in Professor Pietroni's impressive collection explores the concept of leadership. In developing its theme, the book introduces the myth of the great leader and details the attributes of the compassionate leader.

Explores the poetry of economics and politics using the metaphor of the Greek god Atlas, who carries Earth on his shoulders as punishment for being unhospitable to Perseus. In developing this metaphor, Pietroni stresses the need to introduce and understand the gods and goddesses of compassion.

Focuses on why the concept of compassion is so important in our health-care system and what can be done to restore its centrality in the doctor/patient encounter.

One of a series of short volumes that has a specific focus. The accompanying poems and images offer an aesthetic and emotional experience. This particular volume focuses on the emergence of the major religions in human societies and explores how these religions agree that compassion is among the highest of human virtues.

One of a series of short volumes that has a specific focus. The accompanying poems and images offer an aesthetic and emotional experience. This particular volume focuses on the evolution of compassion and tries to bring together two of the most contested subjects in academia.

Throughout his thirty-five-year career, Patrick Mehaffy has approached his art from the perspective of the unconscious. His work is informed by his education and training in anthropology and museology as well as his experiences in the wilderness and, ultimately, as an artist.

In this fifth volume of his series of poems on compassion, Professor Patrick Pietroni outlines how the more modern study of the brain using MRI scanning and neuroimagining has enhanced our understanding of the psychology of compassion.

In this fourth volume of his series of poems on compassion, Professor Patrick Pietroni focuses specifically on the education of compassion. He asks, "Can we create an educational system that can include a compassionate curriculum?" and, if so, "What does such a curriculum include and how should it be delivered?"

In the third volume of his series of poems on compassion, Professor Pietroni focuses specifically on the concept of global compassion. Contributions include poems by Ronald Higgins, Ann Selby, Ernest Haekel, Naomi Klein, and numerous others.

Jane Culp's muscular paintings and drawings make palpable the rush she feels when on location interacting with nature. From her modernist perspective she conveys a powerful sense of the moment using surface tension and movement.

Follows Professor Patrick Pietroni's successful first small publication, The Poetry of Compassion, again using a modest selection of poems. Professor Pietroni outlines how science, especially neuroscience, has allowed us to begin to understand the biological, chemical, and physical nature of compassion.

Offers an unusual combination of fine art and documentation. Requiring a balance of intuition and technique, it will appeal to both aficionados of fine art photography and those enthralled by the beautiful rock art scattered across America's western states.

Offers the reader a poetic entrance into or reintroduction to the recognition and practice of compassion on all levels: to humans, to the largest or smallest of the animal kingdom, and to our beloved Earth. The poets collected here include Warsan Shire, William Wordsworth, Mary Oliver, Stanley Cooper, and Maya Angelou, among others.

Timothy Hearsum sees the world around him from the perspective of a visual anthropologist as well as a photographer. Over time, certain images begin to communicate with each other, even though they are made miles, days, or even years apart. Affinities is a multilayered exploration of the similarities and contrasts he finds in his subjects.

Since 1969 Mark Spencer has been producing drawings and paintings that are compelling, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing. His work implies that reality is not what our culture has led us to believe, and it carries a consistent main narrative of "nature versus human nature".

The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects. In this way she gives her subjects an expanded identity, pairing each with an animal that, to one extent or another, explains or parallels their behaviour.

Joan Brooks Baker grew up privileged in the New York City of post-World War II America. It was a world shaped by an unwritten code of conduct - the Magnolia Code - that paralyzed her mother and threatened to do the same to her. In this memoir, she shares how she navigated her bifurcated world, finding role models in rebellious women.

The majesty of Earth's most magnificent features was the domain of Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). Written for appreciators, collectors, and working artists, Hurley's goals and procedures - from thumbnails to plein air field studies and finished studio paintings - are explained in depth in this volume.

Nature provides the subject for the beautifully intricate patterns and graceful lines of the art of Charlie Burk. His subject is clearly grass, with a horizon line or a slice of sky visible in many of his works as he moves in his world of sumptuous colors and delicate patterns.

A groundbreaking series of forty-eight acrylic paintings on unstretched Belgian linen made from 1970 to 1977 by Ciel Bergman. Ranging from a starkly minimal aesthetic to representations that explore ideas of philosophy, The Linens began as a meditative practice to eradicate symbolic representation from Bergman's art.

Artist Robert Gratiot refers to his work as "painterly photo-realism", and he readily reveals his complete commitment to this reference by rendering his subjects with photographic accuracy. His mastery of painterly methods and of various drawing techniques highlights his astounding eye-to-hand coordination.

In the vernacular of the American west, the term pure quill means "authentic; real, through and through". Barbara Van Cleve's gripping black-and-white photographs of the west she knows and loves give vision to that term. Through riveting compositions, subtle values, and captivating textures her photographs dispel the myths associated with the West while conveying its compelling drama.

Throughout his four-decade career as a plein-air painter, Gregory I. McHuron (1945-2012) worked outdoors on almost a daily basis. The true artist, he said, must "live his art and paint from the heart". This retrospective of McHuron's life in art is a story of living in the now, as well as a guide to finding what McHuron called the "WOW" that serenades your soul.

This book contains a collection of risqué drawings that document the intimate relationship Beatrice Wood enjoyed with Jack and Rhea Case in Ojai, California, during the 1950s and 1960s.

SLMM founder Mary Carroll Nelson spent years discovering how her fellow artists created art through their perception of an interconnectedness to all life, physical as well as metaphysical, that bridged the visible and invisible. Unique Insights is a stepping stone in SLMM's continued evolution toward increased awareness of its mission as creative artists and members with holistic intent.

Relational Undercurrents accompanies an exhibition by the same name that opens at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California in September, 2017. The exhibition and edited volume call attention to the artistic production of the Caribbean islands and their diasporas, challenging the conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America.

Relational Undercurrents accompanies an exhibition by the same name that opens at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, California in September, 2017. The exhibition and edited volume call attention to the artistic production of the Caribbean islands and their diasporas, challenging the conventional geographic and conceptual boundaries of Latin America.