Most Popular Books by George Hart

In ''The Violin: Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators'', author George Hart delves into the early history, construction, and Italian school of the iconic instrument. Beginning with the instrument''s mysterious origins in the annals of history and early evidence of bowed instruments in northern Europe, Hart provides detailed analyses of the components of the violin and the methods used by the great makers of Cremona and Brescia. He also explores the importance of strings and Italian varnish, delving into the work of individual Italian makers such as Andrea Amati, Niccolò Amati, and Stradivari. For anyone seeking a comprehensive history of the violin and its makers, ''The Violin'' is an essential read.

A dictionary of Egyptian Gods.

Introduces and retells Egyptian creation legends, myths, and fables, and illustrates their importance in understanding the imagination and world view of the ancient Egyptians

An alphabetical encyclopedia of the deities of ancient Egypt

"A critical study of the poetry of Larry Eigner through the lens of both disability studies and ecopoetics, forming the basis of an "ecrippoetics.""--

From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on the natural world was Robinson Jeffers’s obsession. Understanding and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers’s poetic experiment is an important contribution to American literary history—no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough engagement with a crucial scientific problem. Jeffers invented a sacramental poetics that accommodates a modern scientific account of consciousness, thereby integrating an essentially religious sensibility with science in order to discover the sacramentality of natural process and reveal a divine cosmos. There is no other study of Jeffers or sacramental nature poetry like this one. It proposes that Jeffers’s sacramentalism emerged out of his scientifically informed understanding of material nature. Drawing on ecocriticism, religious studies, and neuroscience, Inventing the Language to Tell It shows how Jeffers produced the most compelling sacramental nature poetry of the twentieth century.

"Get to know the great gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt in this handy illustrated dictionary... Every entry is illustrated with colour photographs and with the hieroglyphs of the deity''s name"--from front jacket flap.

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