I hand-copied Buddhist and Taoist classics and treatises on paintings.
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As he stalks his quarry through the wilds of medieval treatises on, for instance, the disputed existence of giants, even readers who share his fascinations — with mammoths or with medieval treatises — may weary of the chase.
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Some were reflective treatises on modern media, others were emotional personal confessions.
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Luther's opponents often answered in kind, publishing tracts and treatises against him.
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Alberti wrote influential treatises on art, architecture, sculpture, and even on the family.
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Anyone looking for Clio's 12 treatises will be let down — they're not real.
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And weren't we able to answer the question without resorting to legal treatises?
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Some resemble lyrical poems or detective stories; others appear as farces or political treatises.
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Bookstore shelves were filling with popular treatises on the culture of food and eating.
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Along the Via Po are Turin's many antiquarian bookshops, hawking old treatises on witchcraft.
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Although he talked a lot (and especially to his friends), he wrote no treatises.
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Over the course of the 1700s and 1800s many treatises were written exploring different possibilities.
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There's something about the tone of this, and other, impassioned treatises that gives her pause.
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He wrote treatises, cranky or inspired, on grading policies, university housing, world federalism, civil rights.
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This book entwines philosophical and religious treatises with courtroom drama and a tortured love triangle.
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Some of these treatises were important turning points in art history; others are nearly forgotten.
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Novelists and poets on the academy argued that most of his dozen books are dry treatises.
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Fruit farming treatises at the beginning of the 19th century noted about 100 varieties of apples.
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One year after the Crafoord Prize, in 2004, he published another of his big, ambitious treatises.
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These people write multi-thousand-word treatises spelling out their ideas and grievances with mainstream conservatism.
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Factum's Web site contains dozens of treatises questioning the aesthetic assumptions behind our disdain for fakes.
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The pain of love, once present in treatises and medical textbooks, has disappeared from the medical vocabulary.
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Aleksandr Dugin, a far-right Russian academic and spinner of bizarre ideological treatises, has endorsed Donald Trump.
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Burglary is an established crime, even where its definition exists only in legal treatises and judicial opinions.
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By then, the collected treatises had become outdated, as McCall explains, and other manuals were readily available.
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Detroit's problems are both legion and legendary, the stuff of books, academic treatises and detailed chart-heavy reports.
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Marketers have long obsessed over each step, and consultants have written treatises on how to nudge people along.
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After unsuccessful attempts to make it as an opera composer, he focused on teaching and writing theoretical treatises.
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At TheScore, he regularly contributes lengthy, fact-based treatises that cut through the semantic guesswork of your average analyst.
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Shakespeare's characters are famously full of levity and laughter to counter the heady treatises on the nature of power.
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Her writing encompassed 26 published novels as well as philosophical treatises, essays and, most time-consumingly, an ocean of letters.
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Monte wrote numerous texts on martial arts and general military strategy, as well as treatises on the benefits of exercise.
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Indeed, the German Masters provided some of the only empty-hand fighting treatises to be published in the Middle Ages.
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In 2202, Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter published one of the quarter century's most influential treatises on economic development.
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His selection includes books written in seven languages, and ranges from religious texts to philosophical treatises, fables, history and fiction.
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" Yet one of the most recognized treatises on friendship is Dale Carnegie's decidedly instrumental "How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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While these images could have been enjoyed purely for their aesthetics, the treatises were likely purchased by specialists in the field.
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It not only served as a touchstone for subsequent treatises, it was used as the basis for how trials were conducted.
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Treatises on diet began popping up here and there, some arguing that indulgence in food was even worse than that of alcohol.
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Some people's fear regarding AI is more abstract, the stuff of philosophical treatises and thought experiments about superintelligent AIs wiping us out.
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He also translated several important scientific treatises into English, like an 1823 taxonomy of shells that young Anna painstakingly illustrated for him.
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That may be a less than scientific form of cognitive manipulation, but it is more efficacious than a dozen well-argued treatises.
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My brain hurts after long days at the firm, poring over documents and law treatises, and being at the wheel releases that stress.
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They contain sketches for sculptures, lines copied down from books she was reading (Wittgenstein, Victorian field guides), notes to herself and private treatises.
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In the early Enlightenment, Montesquieu and other thinkers were regularly composing pamphlets and treatises, an explosion of information similar to today's digital-media deluge.
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In the hands of a lesser writer, this litany of woe might have degenerated into one of the dry treatises on which he draws.
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Mr. Mosler developed some of the ideas underlying M.M.T. from his own observations of financial operations, and has written a couple of short treatises.
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He advised instrument makers, curated a trumpet museum, wrote seminal books, edited historical treatises and taught players who went on to become leading concert artists.
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The book, published in 1970, joined Germaine Greer's "Female Eunuch" and Kate Millett's "Sexual Politics" as among the most important feminist treatises of that time.
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Many of the German treatises required the reader be aware of preexisting techniques and have knowledge of the clunky, if interesting, lexicon used by some masters.
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She agrees to interviews, and posts long, magazine-ready treatises on Facebook, which are read and shared, effusively and often histrionically, by her 100,000-plus followers.
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Unplugging is what any number of treatises will advise you to do, but that isn't exactly helpful: it's more a luxury than a long-term, sustainable strategy.
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As a popular work of fiction by a white woman, it also invited readers to think about race in ways that political treatises or speeches could not.
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Masters of Defence would sometimes write their treatises as if they were an actual training session, providing a dialogue where the pupil would ask questions of the teacher.
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English practitioners were especially invested in learning the 'foreign' fighting methods, and so Masters from Italy, Spain, and Germany had their treatises translated, often rather poorly, into English.
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Abraham Lincoln certainly believed so, embarking on the arduous task of mastering Euclid's treatises on geometry to increase his cognitive capacities, in particular his linguistic and logical abilities.
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He sketches a theological family tree that, while selective, highlights the connections between these individuals across generations: They read one another's metaphysical treatises and visited one another's communes.
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Berke co-authorized think tank treatises in 2017 and 2018 outlining what they see as a case for impeaching or indicting Trump on charges of obstruction of justice.
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He talked with deep passion about space travel, and spoke to kids as if they were grown-ups, offering 8- and 9-year-olds treatises on the nation's debt.
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Crimes derived from the "common law" — the body of law developed from judicial opinions and legal treatises rather than statutes — have been a staple of American law for centuries.
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"The Library of Black Lies" (2016) is a labyrinthine shack outfitted with mirrors and containing phony treatises like Cermano Geleant's Part Povera (a spoof on Germano Celant's Arte Povera).
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Cole was deeply immersed in the new scientific treatises of the day, reflected in the detail and verisimilitude of the plants, clouds and other natural phenomena of his painted world.
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In this mudslinging cultural melee, we need the right words: the stories, jokes, essays, poems, harangues and treatises that paint a compelling vision that we all want to stand for.
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Eisen, Berke and lawyer Noah Bookbinder published think tank treatises in 2017 and 2018 outlining what they see as a case for impeaching or indicting Trump for obstruction of justice.
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Nuclear weapons are so fearsome that only a president can order their use, and deterrence is normally a complicated subject debated in academic treatises and negotiated over years by diplomats.
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The court also chastised the Ninth Circuit for ignoring AEDPA's clear language by relying on circuit precedent, "state-court decisions, treatises, [and] law articles" to determine clearly established federal law.
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In a 1999 case, the court called trials by jury "the grand bulwark" of liberty, quoting William Blackstone, the 18th-century British jurist whose treatises are a foundation of American law.
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The Old Testament as well as treatises by Thucydides, Hippocrates, and Galen all contain suggestions to avoid those afflicted with runny noses, coughs and sneezes, weird rashes, and many other symptoms.
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These aren't treatises on how no one should get to behave this way; they're stories about how even the men who are indulged in this behavior end up the worse for it.
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Islamic State, which has recruited known cyber experts from European countries and published treatises on communications security, is well known for using Twitter and other services to recruit and radicalize new adherents.
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An especially revelatory device in the book is Haslett's use of Michael's own writing — letters to an aunt, medical forms he's filling out, misguided grad student-y treatises on the slave trade.
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Footnoted treatises on the dark side of music are unlikely to sell as well as the cheery pop-science books that tout music's ability to make us smarter, happier, and more productive.
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This season, joining treatises on cod, coal, and kitchen utensils, there is a new work that one British critic called "the definitive cultural history of an indefinable subject": " The Ghost ," by Susan Owens.
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Open Book In our annual Back to School issue this week, you'll find treatises on the value of a liberal arts education, theories of how to "revolutionize" the university experience and much more.
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Klee authored some of the most influential pedagogical and aesthetic treatises of modernism, and at least one of his colleagues at the Bauhaus, Josef Albers, would go on to teach in the United States.
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The woodcut in Fasciculus Medicinae, a compilation of medical treatises first published in 15105 in Venice by the brothers Gregorii and reprinted in 14 editions until 1522, captures the first cut on the corpse.
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Morris, of course, was Bill Clinton's political adviser and chief campaign strategist during the 20043s, and he and McGann, his wife, have written other negative treatises about the Clintons with the zeal of converts.
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In 1999, the Ringelblum archives were assigned "Memory of the World" status by UNESCO, along with such Polish documents as the original manuscripts of composer Frederic Chopin and the treatises of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.
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In Barrie's story this is where Peter reigns, flies through the air, fathers the Lost Boys, fights Captain Hook and provides material for countless hand-wringing treatises about men who refuse to grow up.
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On her shelf are feminist texts, books on mysticism, on every kind of psychology, the history of religion, on physics, and Emma Goldman and Walter Benjamin, self-help books, treatises on alchemy and magic.
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It would appear that more than 200 years of British prudishness had erased an ample history of erotic pleasure in Indian art, as found in temple architecture, ancient Hindu treatises, and even Mughal miniatures.
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But in the dankness of the Middle Ages, as disease and filth ran rampant, fighting literature moved away from the large military treatises and became focused, instead, on the individual's attainment of fighting mastery.
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When it comes to his craft, he is more the pedant than boastful trader, carefully posting snapshots of his trades on his Twitter feed and churning out dense treatises and videos laying out his methods.
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Although Inspector Frey is inclined to follow conventional police procedures, Nine-Nails prefers to consult the "treatises on the occult, crazy pharmacopoeias, witchcraft reports, zoology compendiums" and other oddities he keeps in his basement headquarters.
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It's an echo of the spirit of openness that she most remembers from her days in Mr. Christie's class, reading historical treatises on declamation and trying out new forms of expression in front of her fellow students.
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Intimidated by the scale of David Graeber's massive history, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011), I decided to work my way up to it by reading Maurizio Lazzarato's two compact treatises, of which this is the earlier.
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There were rare first editions of classics like "The Scarlet Letter," political treatises and hand-scribbled family histories, all stored within easy reach in seven football-field-size floors of stacks just below the main reading room.
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Savonarola was amongst the first to tap into the information revolution of the time, and while others produced long sermons and treatises, Savonarola disseminated short pamphlets, in what may be thought of as the equivalent of political tweets.
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A copy of her "secret diary" became a New York Times best-seller—and was recently reissued in paperback—and dozens of books, including coffee-table homages, novelizations, and academic treatises, have been published about Laura and her world.
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"What we call the alt-right today could never have had any connection to the mainstream and to a new generation of young people if it only came in the form of lengthy treatises on obscure blogs," Nagle explains.
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There is a place and a time in a democracy for long speeches and treatises, but in a political system based on the participation of all citizens, it's more often the case that brevity is the soul of wisdom.
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The recipes and photography are inspirational but not at all intimidating, and while there are new ideas and fun flavor combinations, absent are the 16-page treatises on how to construct a towering croquembouche or make croissants from scratch.
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The series, with its intricately constructed "Buffyverse" and fearlessness in tackling substantive issues, spawned academic treatises, seminars and cultural-studies courses that looked at its feminism, its diversity, its place in the long literary tradition of vampires and ghouls.
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Others focus on the multiethnic Kingdom of Sicily, where Norman kings employed Arab and Jewish administrators, or Christine de Pizan, who wrote treatises on military science in the 15th century, when the field was even more male-dominated than today.
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You can read endless treatises by food science wonks about precisely how low-temperature cooking takes meat from tough to tender and back again, not to mention the roles played by plasma, muscle fibrils and collagen in how it tastes.
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Scholars have determined that the document, now held by the University of Georgia and loaned this summer to the Smithsonian in Washington, is Muhammad's rehashing of Islamic legal treatises that were taught in West Africa at the time of his boyhood.
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In addition to punditry on topics ranging from fifth-dimensional chess analyses proclaiming Donald Trump a genius Pavlovian manipulator to tortured theological treatises, to questioning the specifics of the Holocaust's atrocities, Adams is the co-founder of app company WhenHub.
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Since Anastasia Romanov and her family perished in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917, her story has been told on Broadway and in Hollywood, by the Royal Ballet and Disney, in books ranging from scholarly treatises to romantic potboilers.
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It arrives not in 48-minute treatises but in flashes of impossibility—those moments when Durant wriggles away from the normal scrum of the game, gets in the air, and makes shapes that nobody else has ever been able to make.
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Both of the texts Schneemann inscribed on her scrolls are drawn from other artworks she'd been working on at the time, but they also function as feminist treatises; both offer sharp commentary on the way women's work is often belittled.
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It was where the great Persian poets Ferdowsi and Rudaki composed their most important works, and where Avicenna, the so-called father of modern medicine, wrote the treatises that would imprint centuries of scientists and philosophers from Cairo to Brussels.
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Internet memes are, by and large, the currency in which these young nationalists trade, eschewing the stuffy, articulated treatises of Mein Kampf in favor of more virality-friendly catchphrases and image macros to be proliferated around image boards and subreddits.
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A rudimentary search for any of these ships will turn up dozens of blogs with fan-made art, slash fiction, treatises explaining the story logic and emotional resonance behind each pair, and GIF sets from the series that prove the couple's undeniable chemistry.
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In fact, Manifesto presents 13 contradictory treatises, performed by a broker, a mother, a manager, a woman at a funeral, an eyelinered punk, a choreographer, a teacher, a factory worker, a newsreader, a reporter, a puppeteer, a scientist, and a homeless man.
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Alongside Turkmenbashi's sui generis "masterpiece" Kalder considers the dense treatises of Lenin, the aphorisms of Chairman Mao, and the romances of Saddam Hussein, which he was still writing and rushing to print even as U.S. forces were invading his country in 2003.
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On the deserted island, Hopkins came up with the social-contract theory of government about 40 years before Thomas Hobbes would write "Leviathan," almost 80 years before John Locke wrote his "Two Treatises of Government" and 166 years before Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence.
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He carried out a stack of books from his bedroom to show me: treatises by Sigmund Freud, novels by Henry Miller, histories of science and psychology and religion and mythology and cooking, a book on radical theater by the American drama critic Robert Brustein.
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Rather than return to that well for more treatises on why millennials are entitled for not gleefully accepting 80-hour work weeks, we asked people from Generation Z (20 years old and younger, for the purposes of this article) for their thoughts on the much-maligned demographic.
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"Analyzing the text of the Second Amendment and reviewing the relevant history, including founding-era treatises and nineteenth century case law, the panel stated that it was unpersuaded by the county's and the state's argument that the Second Amendment only has force within the home," the ruling states .
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One of the earliest law professors, Joseph Story, simultaneously taught at Harvard, served as a justice on the Supreme Court, wrote treatises instructing judges and lawyers on the law and ran a bank (which may have been perceived at the time as an added benefit rather than a conflict of interest).
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Ideally, one should train martial arts under the direct tutelage of a legitimate Master of Defence, but if there was no nearby instructor to be found, or if one wanted to study the works of a Master in another land, written treatises were available for the avid pupil willing to learn via text.
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It opens with a display of treatises and often exquisite drawings by other Tuscan artist-engineers, including Francesco di Giorgio Martini, that show da Vinci was far from unique in combining technology with painting—and that some of his peers managed to get a lot more built or printed than he did.
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FLORENCE, Italy — As fascinating as Leonardo da Vinci's musings on the nature of the world and what makes it tick are, the intellectual and visual denseness of his treatises — which embrace a wide array of his interests, from mechanics to botany, engineering, mathematics, architecture and more — don't always translate into captivating shows.
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To document the era's Sade-induced fever, the exhibition's vitrines contain archival publications that reflect the Marquis's newfound relevance – glosses, poems, manifestos, and treatises by a Who's Who of French Modernism, from poets René Char and Paul Éluard to public intellectuals as divergent as Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, and Simone de Beauvoir.
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Through the 20th century and into this one, those fleeing political persecution or war have produced important works that we think of now as at least partly American, from fiction about the harrowing experiences of exile and dislocation to political treatises by thinkers who want to understand why their homelands fell apart.
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Philosophers like Locke and Rousseau published treatises on childhood education, but it was only toward the end of the 19th century — when children became, in the sociologist Viviana Zelizer's memorable phrase, "economically worthless but emotionally priceless" — that parents began to see themselves as wholly responsible for cultivating a child's intellectual and emotional life.
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Spinoza was the subject of a cherem, the equivalent of excommunication from the Amsterdam Sephardic synagogue; Locke disguised his authorship of "Two Treatises of Government", and spent a number of years in self-imposed exile; Hume chose to publish his "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion" posthumously; and Rousseau fled to England when persecuted in mainland Europe.
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Thousands of papers have been published, from workmanlike investigations of the role of certain brain regions in, say, recalling directions or reading the emotions of others, to spectacular treatises extolling the use of fMRI to detect lies, to work out what people are dreaming about or even to deduce whether someone truly believes in God.
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He took pieces recorded by jazz ensembles like the Count Basie Orchestra and the Horace Silver Quintet and, using their titles as points of departure, created intricate narratives and tongue-in-cheek philosophical treatises that matched both the melody lines and the serpentine contours of the instrumental solos, note for note and inflection for inflection.
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Roy hasn't been reclusive since then — she's protested against the Indian state and written a number of political treatises — but as the years stretched into decades with no second novel in sight, readers could be forgiven for wondering if she was going to be, like Margaret Mitchell or Ralph Ellison, a one-hit wonder.
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Smith name-checks others, including Angela Davis, bell hooks, Assata Shakur, Professor Lloren Foster at Hampton, Dave Chappelle, Kanye West, Tupac and Malcolm X. Throughout, Smith attempts to speak through hip-hop's urgent lyricism, draw analytical force from black satire and comedy, improvise on the black literary canon's rhetorical practices, and emulate the treatises of black feminism and black power.
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A sense of the seriousness with which Aristotle performed his duties can be gleaned from the fact that he composed two treatises in honor of Alexander, "On Kingship" and "On Colonies," as guidebooks for the prince, as well as editing a copy of Homer's "Iliad" specifically for Alexander's use — the so-called "casket copy" (presumably because it was kept in a casket).
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