A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem looks critically at the century-old connections between alchemy, the Jewish Kabbalah; its Christianized varieties, such as the gold- and rosicrucian mysticisms, and the myth-based psychology of C. G. Jung, and uncovers forgotten alchemical roots of embedded in the Kabbalah.

The Human Argument is the first publication of Agnes Denes's Collected writings. Denes--an early pioneer of both the environmental art movement and conceptual art--has investigated the physical and social sciences, philosophy, linguistics, psychology, art history, poetry and music and transformed her explorations into unique works of visual art. Her work involves ecological, cultural, and social issues, and are often monumental in scale. She is perhaps best known for Wheatfield -- A Confrontation (1982), a two-acre wheat field she planted and harvested in down-town Manhattan, a work that addresses human values and misplaced priorities.