The development of linear perspective in the 15th century represented a radical transformation in the European's sense of the world, the body and the self. Robert Romanyshyn's latest book examines the claim that the development of linear perspective vision was and is indispensable to the emergence of our technological world. It does so by telling the story of how an artistic technique has become a cultural habit of mind.

An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom. The Wounded Body builds on this recent interest in the body by providing an ambitious interdisciplinary exploration of the wounded body in literature from Homer to Toni Morrison. Guided by insights from phenomenology to Jungian archetypal psychology, Dennis Slattery argues that the body in its scarred, marked, diseased, tattooed, or otherwise afflicted state is not only...

Much in life cannot be rationalized away or intellectualized - Paula Reeves proves that the essence and meaning of each of our lives can only be felt and experienced on a heart level. With so much emphasis on the development of the mind in our culture, the wisdom held in our heart often goes unnoticed and untapped. This work shows us that the heart is home not only to emotions, as is widely believed, but also to information, data and memories.