The World of Ornament

Adapted from historical items dating from antiquity, including jewelry, tiles, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, textiles and ceramics, these...

This volume collects Yasser Tabbaa's investigative and interpretive articles on medieval Islamic architecture, ornament and gardens in Syria and Ir...

Reducere. Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry In this debut collection, Anna Lena Phillips Bell explores the foothills of the Eastern U.S., and the old-tim...

Reducere. This beautiful, highly influential book, long a classic in its field, remains today one of the most comprehensive and best-organized presentations ...

This beautiful, highly influential book, long a classic in its field, remains today one of the most comprehensive and best-organized presentations ...

Reducere. A brilliantly inventive novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thi...

If postmodernism is indeed 'the cultural logic of late capitalism', why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identit...

Reducere. 1986 Caldecott Medal Winner A young boy, lying awake one Christmas Eve, is welcomed aboard a magical trip to the North Pole . . . Through dark fore...

Who knew the best friend you will ever have would be a tree? Meet Stubs - a talking, walking Christmas tree - and his family.He is fun, lovable, ki...

Reducere. Who knew the best friend you will ever have would be a tree? Meet Stubs - a talking, walking Christmas tree - and his family.He is fun, lovable, ki...

Fresh insights into the thought and work of the modernist architect, from Loos expert Christopher LongIn this collection of essays, noted architect...

Reducere. NOSTRADAMUS The code Revealed Quatrain 3-94 For five hundred years more they will take notice of him, Who was the ornament of his time: Then sudden...

Reducere. The tenth and youngest son of a poor Boston soapmaker, Benjamin Franklin would rise to become, in Thomas Jefferson's words, the greatest man and or...

Reducere. While the world knows Matthew Henry best for his time-enduring Exposition of the Old and New Testaments, the cultivation of personal piety in himse...

Global Luxury in Renaissance Venice offers an unprecedented exploration of Venetian maiolica pottery set in a vibrant context of hybridity and exch...

Reducere. The decorative art of the Indians of the American Southwest has long been recognized as one of the most beautiful art traditions in the primitive w...

Reducere. Ernest Hemingway's classic novel of love during wartime. Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel t...

Reducere. Islam's unknown tradition of figurationMany people believe that it is not permitted to depict human figures in Islamic art, but the Quran does not ...

Reducere. This complete edition of Caesar's Commentaries contains all eight of Caesar's books on the Gallic War as well as all three of his books on the Civi...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

Reducere. Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks. How do you feel about your b...

Reducere. "An indispensable resource for women of all ages, this is a guide to help us better connect to ourselves, to value ourselves, to love ourselves, an...

Reducere. Barbara Park s New York Times bestselling chapter book series, Junie B. Jones, is a classroom favorite and has been keeping kids laughing and readi...