Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image, Hardcover - Christopher P. Heuer

Reducere. DescriptionHow the far North offered a different kind of terra incognita for the Renaissance imagination.European narratives of the Atlantic New Wo...

Reducere. New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, spells out the profound political and cu...

Isabella de' Medici was the hostess of a glittering circle in Renaissance Florence. It was this affair - and her very success as First Lady of Flor...

This comprehensive, highly illustrated new study examines Titian's long career and varied output. Tom Nichols argues that Titian's works were self-...

Reducere. In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities--assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole fi...

DescriptionLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the preeminent figures of the Italian Renaissance. He was also one of the most paradoxical. He ...

Reducere. Prologue: Is the color of the Arctic white? (p. 1-2) The Arctic is not just white; it is multi-colored. (Fig. 1. The green Arctic) I. Arctic Tundra...

Drawing on extensive archival evidence, unpublished personal memoirs, and interviews with former employees, The Joint Arctic Weather Stations analy...

Reducere. From haunted Civil War battlefields to a severed ear discovered on a nightly run; from lab-grown dinosaurs to forest creatures that steal away chil...

Reducere. Fresco painting was reintroduced to public attention in this important work by a recognized authority. In addition to translating descriptions of p...

Reducere. How did the ancient Greeks and Romans envision the end of the world? What is the long-term future of the human race? Will the world always remain a...

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient images of Pharaohs create...

In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350-1525. ...

DescriptionA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsThe essayist, Jonathan Franzen ...

WHERE HIS STORY ENDED... HER STORY BEGINS Everyone knows the story of how ADVENTUREMAN, the greatest pulp hero of ended in a heartbreaking CLIFFHAN...

Reducere. The End of the Third Age is comprised of the first section of the hardcover volume published as Sauron Defeated, the ninth volume of The History of...

Contributor(s): Author: Jonathan FranzenA sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The CorrectionsIn...

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxAuthor(s): Jonathan FranzenNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 139 x 210 x 14Cover type: Pape...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Julian SanctonNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 232 x 29Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature - C. S. Lewis

As natural disasters begin to befall them the closer they become, Milo and Marcos soon begin to wonder if the universe itself is plotting against t...

Publisher: Image ComicsAuthor(s): Dan WattersNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 168 x 259 x 13Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Katherine Eggert explores the crumbling state of humanistic learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the benefits of relying on alch...

Titian, one of the most successful painters of the Italian Renaissance, was credited by his contemporaries with painting a miracle-working image, t...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Photographer: Craig VarjabedianContribution by: Jeanetta Calhoun MishContribution by: Dennis DitmansonAward-winning photographer Cr...

Reducere. Much has been written about whether end-of-life law should change and what that law should be. However, the barriers and facilitators of such chang...

Reducere. True To The End is a unique offering that invites readers into the world of end-of-life decisions and the execution of a last will and testament.Ge...

A beautiful, lively tour through the portraits of one of the most celebrated painters of 17th century Europe

Reducere. Traces the evolution of racial caricatures in American cartoons during the first half of the twentieth centuryAbout the AuthorChristopher P. Lehman...

It is a widespread prejudice of modern, scientific society that "magic" is merely a ludicrous amalgam of recipes and methods derived from primitive...

Reducere. History remembers Attila, the leader of the Huns, as the Romans perceived him: a savage barbarian brutally inflicting terror on whoever crossed his...

Reducere. A New York Times Best Seller Merging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and le...

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...

Reducere. Russian North is an unfathomable, mysterious and harsh land. Only specially set romantic souls can understand and appreciate the beauty of this are...

Reducere. Since its original publication in 1849, Mrs. Merrifield's two-volume work on the technology of medieval and Renaissance oil painting has been one o...

The Book of Baphomet is one of 616's gems. It deals with all things Satanically goatish, includes a received text called Mandate VII: The Black One...

A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. A HARROWING JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF WHITE SUPREMACY Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbi...

DescriptionUnedited and raw, End of the Thin Blue Line will grab you by the hand and walk you right up to the edge of a very dangerous and often co...

The Arctic is warming faster than any other region on earth. This rapid climate change has had a devastating effect on the region's ecology and, co...