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Ray Parkin's famous trilogy of wartime experience is published here for the first time in a single paperback volume. These brilliant books hum with action, adventure and courage. Honestly and...

The book titled La Mama Poetica by the author Mal Morgan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Defining the Renaissance "Virtuosa" considers the language of art in relationship to the issues of gender difference through an examination of art criticism written between 1550 and 1800 on approximately...

This book focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the characters, are shown in a single space or setting....

This book is the first to look at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture and thought. Philip Ayres shows how, in the century following the Revolution...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the culture of modern Italy. Specially-commissioned essays by leading specialists focus on a wide range of political, historical and cultural questions. The volume...

The Films of Peter Greenaway is the first critical overview of one of the most controversial contemporary film-makers. Trained as an artist, Greenaway began his career in cinema as an...

The Picturesque (a set of theories, ideas, and conventions which grew up around the question of how we look at landscape) offers a valuable focus for new investigations into the...

An ancient Greek vase is a difficult object for the non-expert to come to terms with. Faced with rows of apparently undifferentiated black, red and buff pots, he or she...

Peter Brook is regarded as one of the most important and influential directors today. In this fascinating study, Albert Hunt and Geoffrey Reeves chronicle Brook's development beginning with his earliest...

This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style...

Known for their remarkable mosaic work, the 'Cosmati' stoneworkers of the 12th and 13th centuries left a legacy of some of the most beautiful ornament in the world, Distinguished by...

Who was Pandora and what was in her famous box? Why is a brand of sportswear named after the goddess Nike? How did Achilles get his Achilles heel? What exactly...

During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fuelled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. This large-format and highly illustrated book provides new...

United in promoting the superiority of 'honest' design and natural materials in an industrial age, the Arts and Crafts movement included architects, artists and designers as stylistically and geographically diverse...

Definitive novel of the "Lost Generation" focuses on the coming of age of Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student. Fitzgerald's first novel and an immediate, spectacular success. Fitzgerald's first...

Of all the trademarks of Venice - and there are many, from the gilded Basilica of San Marco to the melancholy Bridge of Sighs - none is more ubiquitous than...

Paranormal bodyguards Clovache and Batanya venture into Lucifer's realm to encounter his fearsome four-legged pets in The Britlingens Go to Hell. A traitor is being sought out in the midst...

Homosexuality is not what it used to be. When the modern lesbian and gay movements errupted on the world wide cultural and political stage during the early 1970s few could...

This autobiography by veteran theatre director Joan Littlewood, responsible for some of the greatest and most unconventional theatrical successes of the century, such as "Oh What A Lovely War" and...

The new edition of this indispensible reference work includes nearly 10,000 entries in 100 subject areas. All entries have been reviewed and updated by a large team of legal experts...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A stunning "portrait of the enduring grace of friendship" ( NPR ) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for...

A portrait of the sun-drenched volcanic city from an American who has lost his heart to the place and to a beguiling and mysterious Neapolitan woman. Weaving the tale of...

The bestselling, award-winning modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel--adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself and brought to life visually by Eisner Award winner E.M. Carroll. "Speak up...

What can you do with a degree in architecture? Where might it take you? What kind of challenges could you address? Architects After Architecture reframes architecture as a uniquely versatile...

'Magnetic, witty, and expansive. The world is going to fall hard for this deliciously whimsical and captivating story' ALI HAZELWOOD 'Perfect for Emily Henry fans. [This] is the love story...

A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love - with all its complications. Perfect for fans of Alexandria Bellefleur, Casey McQuiston and Rosie Danan. Delilah...

Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most...

In July 1798, a triumphant procession made its way through the streets of Paris. Echoing the parades of Roman emperors many years before, Napoleon Bonaparte was proudly displaying the spoils...

Each of the four stories, markedly different in tone and subject, present a journey: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Hope Springs Eternal) is a tale of an innocent man who...

This text is part of the "Teach Yourself World Faiths" series. The book offers a basis for understanding Hinduism. The series aims to present information for readers with no prior...

The book titled Black Water by the author Joyce Carol Oates. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Murders for the Fireside by the author Maxim Jakubowski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled Exotic Pleasures by the author Peter Carey. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A serial killer is on the loose - a killer of the worst kind. Abducting children and murdering them in an undetectable way that confounds the police, he then returns...

The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged...

Claiming that AIDS never got a chance to be simply a disease, but instead was quickly co-opted as either a scourge from God, a comment on the nation's sexual practices,...

Introduces young children to the people, places, and events within the Bible.

New York Times Bestseller A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the...

Towards the end of the 15th century modern artillery and portable firearms became the signature weapon of the European West. Military leaders were for the first time able to equip...

Lindsay Gordon Anderson was an important figure in the post-war period for British film culture, first as a critic in journals such as "Sequence" and "Sight and Sound", and then...

A revelatory account of the complex and evolving relationship of Renaissance architects to classical antiquity Focusing on the work of architects such as Brunelleschi, Bramante, Raphael, and Michelangelo, this extensively...

Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that...

The most versatile British designer of the 18th century, William Kent (1685-1748) created a style for a new nation and monarchy. The scope of his achievements encompasses architecture, palatial interiors,...

Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with...