Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw. Review of "Cutting a Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture" by Richard J. Powell.

J. E. Shaw

1866 he used to get up every morning at six in order to get from Bath to his classes in Bristol punctually. In 1869 he went to Edinburgh to complete his course, and qualified there in 1872. He was House Physician at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a Fellow of the Edinburgh Botanical Society and President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. In 1875 he returned to Clifton and two years late...

Richard J Durling

Richard Durling's early and tragic death on 5 June 1999 came as a deep shock to his family, his many friends and past and present colleagues. The history of medicine and science during the medieval period has lost a fine and devoted scholar. A Devonian in origin, he was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, before proceeding to Cambridge as a Scholar of King's College for training in Classics. ...

J. Richard Ciccone, MD: a visionary leader.

When other children in post-World War II Brooklyn were dreaming about growing up to be fire fighters, police officers, or baseball players, the future forensic psychiatrist J. Richard Ciccone was planning to be a lawyer. “My father taught me that the law is a noble profession, and it represents an important part of civilization,” Dr. Ciccone reflected in our conversation in his office at the Un...

Review of “Economic Analysis of Law,” By Richard A. Posner

from prohibition of portraiture to naked pictography* a brief review of the evolution of human figure representation in the history of art especially iran

abstract throughout history, art in its many existing applications has been a receptacle for the expression of religious believes and rituals.  the various religions’ approach, since the most ancient ages of human civilization, has been one of portraiture and human figure representation has sometimes been regarded as instruments of propaganda of religion and at times inhibiting. the perceptions...