Best Selling Books by Christopher Green

Today, as in the first century, Christians must guard against false guides leading believers astray and causing divisions within the church. Responding to this ever-present danger, 2 Peter and Jude equip readers to discern truth from illusion andexhort them to loyalty, harmony, and spiritual maturity. This revised BST volume offers passage-by-passage exposition of the letters of 2 Peter and Jude.

What was Cubism? How did this strange new way of making paintings and sculptures enable artists so decisively to change the trajectory of ''Modern Art''? In responding to these questions, distinguished art historian Christopher Green presents a bold new interpretation of the movement and three of its key protagonists. Stemming from a critical re-evaluation of the author''s own first responses to Cubist artworks, as a student of the late artist and critic John Golding, Cubism and Reality challenges the commonly-held view of Cubism as either a retreat from reality into abstraction, or an invitation to convert the real into the ''surreal'', arguing instead that Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, and Juan Gris wanted, above all, to find ways of intensifying and expanding painting''s capacity to give viewers more, not less, of their lived experience of the world. Lavishly illustrated and filled with rich new insights and approaches to the artwork that are the product of decades'' worth of research, Green argues that, for the three artists, ''reality'' was not objectively always there, but was created by their own perceptions, and could be transformed by their imaginations. The artwork becomes not merely a dead material fact, but somewhere into which wishes, lived experiences and memories can enter – ours, over a century later, as well as theirs. Green explores how Cubist artworks ask us to reflect in far-reaching ways on visual art''s relationship to everyday visual experience and questions how it is that we still believe that drawings, paintings and sculptures can represent the world as we see and know it. In doing so Cubism and Reality tackles a fundamental issue that has preoccupied artists, critics and art enthusiasts for over a century, well into our present age: the survival of hand-made representational artworks in the epoch of photography, film and, latterly, digital reproduction.

This study sets developments within the frameworks both of their unstable social, political and intellectual world and of the official and independent institutions of art.

El autor aborda la estructura pictórica y escultórica y, sobre todo, la arquitectura del conocimiento y de la sociedad en la obra de Picasso, es decir, las estructuras de la tradición, de las diferencias raciales, sociales y culturales, de la lógica y de la tecnología, proponiendo nuevas vías para apreciar la oscilación entre orden y desorden en la obra de Picasso, así como la confrontación y el reto que su obra supuso respecto a las arquitecturas de la ortodoxia. Tal reto comienza con una serie de intervenciones que el artista protagonizó en la turbulenta historia europea de los primeros años veinte, que revelan su postura respecto a temas vitales como la raza, la diferencia cultural, la modernidad, la sexualidad y el descontento de la civilización.

The Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is arguably the most historically important clause of the most significant part of the US Constitution. Designed to be a central guarantor of civil rights and civil liberties following Reconstruction, this clause could have been at the center of most of the country''s constitutional controversies, not only during Reconstruction, but in the modern period as well; yet for a variety of historical reasons, including precedent-setting narrow interpretations, the Privileges or Immunities Clause has been cast aside by the Supreme Court. This book investigates the Clause in a textualist-originalist manner, an approach increasingly popular among both academics and judges, to examine the meanings actually expressed by the text in its original context. Arguing for a revival of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, author Christopher Green lays the groundwork for assessing the originalist credentials of such areas of law as school segregation, state action, sex discrimination, incorporation of the Bill of Rights against states, the relationship between tradition and policy analysis in assessing fundamental rights, and the Fourteenth Amendment rights of corporations and aliens. Thoroughly argued and historically well-researched, this book demonstrates that the Privileges or Immunities Clause protects liberty and equality, and it will be of interest to legal academics, American legal historians, and anyone interested in American constitutional history.

Conference paper prepared for a meeting to study negative taxation as a means of alleviating poverty in the USA - covers income and social policy, social assistance and welfare programmes, social security plans, family benefits, etc. Conference held in madison 1966 June 8 and 9.

This illustrated book focuses on the aesthetic impact ancient art had on twentieth-century artists Picasso, de Chirico, Léger, and Picabia between 1906 and 1936.

In this groundbreaking new study of the leading artist of the twentieth century, Christopher Green explores Picasso''s fascination with ideas about the living and the dead. He shows how Picasso oscillated between the animate and the inanimate, creating objects that ''live'' and figures that are ''dead'' as objects. Covering the period from the creation of the Demoiselles d''Avignon in 1907 to the artist''s association with the Surrealists in the 1930s, the book offers a journey through Picasso''s imagination and reveals - by way of Freud, André Breton and Guillaume Apollinaire, among theirs - the ideas and reflections associated with life and death in his work. Published in association with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona, the book also includes an essay on Picasso''s biomorphic motifs by the leading Spanish critic J.F. Yvars.

Four decades ago, archetypal psychology offered a different way of viewing all things psychological. As radical and useful as this move was forty years ago, however, it is time to question the sustainability of tenets like these for our contemporary world. As the highly turbulent 21st Century enters its second decade, it is time to ask ourselves "why archetypes?" and "why images?" This book explores these questions through a variety of topics, ranging from clinical psychology, death, cultural colonialism, paranoia, feminism, ecology, education, capitalism to politics. This book is committed to the fact that an archetypal approach should not estrange us from mundane reality; it should facilitate a stronger, more complex, and more active involvement with it. This is what archetypal studies are setting out to do--yes: to do.

Unemployment insurance is the federal government''s largest single social program and its most controversial. This document asks: How do we make unemployment insurance work? Two papers, by Christopher Green and Fred Lazar, give very direct, if also very differenct, answers to that question. Two other papers, by Miles Corak and Dominique Gross, provide background analysis on what economic research has discovered about the workings of Canada''s unemployment insurance program and how other countries handle unemployment insurance.

Second edition of a popular, practical guide for parents about raising children aged between one and four, first published 1984. Provides advice on toilet training, tantrums and feeding. Includes cartoon illustrations, appendices, references and index. Author is a consultant paediatrician and well-known broadcaster. Other works include ''Babies!''.

Fully revised to take account of the latest developments in the treatment and diagnosis of ADHD, this text covers topics such as: the causes; how to help improve behaviour at home and at school; making the diagnosis; medication and alternative therapies; and boosting self esteem.