Written by a team of expert authors, this landmark textbook shows that art is more than European and extends far beyond the traditional canon. The History of Art: A Global View answers the urgent need for a more global, inclusive way to teach the history of the world's art. Led by Jean Robertson and Deborah Hutton, eleven specialists have cohered around the shared goal of bringing multiple perspectives to a worldwide narrative. The resulting survey represents every global region as an important part of an integrated, chronological history that emphasizes cross-cultural connections, contrasts and comparisons. The first major art history textbook of the 21st century, The History of Art: A Global View equips students to understand the history of art in new and revealing ways.

Asserting that written language is on the verge of its greatest change since the advent of the printing press, visual artist Craig McDaniel and art historian Jean Robertson bring us Spellbound - a collection of heavily illustrated essays that interrogate assumptions about language and typography. Rethinking the alphabet, they argue, means rethinking human communication. Looking beyond traditional typography, the authors conceive of new languages in which encoded pictorial images offer an unparalleled fusion of art and language. In a world of constant technological innovation offered by e-books, tablets, cell phones and the Internet, McDaniel and Robertson demonstrate provocatively what it would mean to move beyond the alphabet we know to a wholly new system of written communication.

Ella is woman who has known more than her share of heartaches, rejections and disappointments. Growing up as the great-granddaughter of sharecroppers in Mississippi, she was used to moving. But abandonment and eviction by family members-that was something else. For many years, she searched for a place to finally put down roots-"where nobody could put me out." This is an account of that journey.Jean Robertson is an aspiring writer who has written over twenty articles for The Gospel Journal, a local Bay Area Christian newspaper. She is also the writer and editor of her church newsletter, NRS Views and News. Currently serving as the Ministry leader for Women of Purpose, the women's ministry at her church, she resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband.