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Snuff Bottles from China: The Victoria and Albert Museum Collection

This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant,...

The Altering Eye marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the National Gallery of Art's photography collection, celebrating the vitality, breadth and history of its holdings. In 1949 Georgia...

This groundbreaking book reconceptualizes slavery through the voices of enslaved persons themselves, voices that have remained silent in the narratives of conventional history. Focusing in particular on the Islamic Middle...

The year is 1814. The Allies have driven Napoleon's once-mighty qrmies back to PAris. Trapped, forced to abdicate after two decades of triumphant rule, the Emperor takes leave of his...

For centuries, the planet Mars has captivated astronomers and inspired writers of all genres. Whether imagined as the symbol of the bloody god of war, the cradle of an alien...

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in...

'Pierre Gouthiere: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court' celebrates the life of Pierre Gouthiere (1732-1813), considered to be one of the best Parisian bronze chasers and gilders of the 18th...

Andy Warhol's The Chelsea Girls had its premiere at the Film-Maker's Cinematheque on 15 September 1966. It sold out a 200-seat theatre and went on to become the first film...

Jean-Pierre Vorlet's images are everywhere, taken all over the world but establishing common ground, transferable and translatable. In spite of a snatch of Italian or a word or two in...

Following nearly two years of planning and exacting preparation, Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of the Nazi-dominated European continent, was mounted in the early hours of 6th June, 1944. It...

At the start of the Spanish Civil War the nationalists sought help for their cause from Germany, following which volunteers from the German Air Force and Army formed what was...

Germany in the Great War Illustrated - Mobilisation and the Western Advance is the first volume of a projected six-part series that details, graphically, the Central Powers - Germany and...

In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who...

This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise's extensive study of 145 Hebrew,...

AUSTRALIAN AUTHORS 'Pioneers of Armour in the Great War' tells the story of the only Australian mechanised units of the Great War. The 1st Australian Armoured Car Section, later the...

Rudyard Kipling was one of the most versatile writers of the Victorian age a journalist, storyteller, historian and poet. One of the major subjects of his poetry was the British...

Richard Gabriel has been studying and writing about ancient warfare for nearly half a century. He has written fifty-five books on the subject (before this one) and over three hundred...

Napoleonic artillery can usually be divided into two types: field, or light artillery which was employed by the armies on campaign and in the field and siege, or heavy artillery,...

Based upon the author's large personal collection of beautiful fashion postcards from Edwardian times, this book takes the reader on a journey through that era covering the hat fashions and...

Post Privatisation Diesels and Electrics is an album of photographs taken by David Cable, a well-regarded author of several books covering trains throughout much of the world. This book looks...

Viking Slave's Saga (Jan Fridegard's Trilogy of Novels about the

For Armin Mueller-Stahl (* 1930) the time that he can spend alone in his studio is liberating: "When I am drawing, time slips out of my body." Born into an...

One of the most important art works produced in late fifteenth-century Spain is the group of twenty-six panels from the altarpiece of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile. The panels...

Small China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the fifteenth century. The pocketsized representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian...

The Dakota is arguably the best-known residential address in the world, home to dozens of New York City's most famous artists, performers and successful executives. The rare sale of an...

Presents 110 Danish chairs and charts their success at home and abroad from the mid-20th century until the present day In the mid-20th century design became a cultural phenomenon that...

This generously illustrated volume looks at Pop art from an international perspective from its beginnings in the 1950s to its revitalization in the 1980s. Lichtenstein, Warhol, Hamilton, and Hockney are...

"Danny's photos are a treasured artistic record of the people who initiated a movement from within their own neighborhood and this work links that exuberant time to the larger history...

A richly illustrated exploration of Ai Weiwei's installation and architecture projects, focusing on the artist's use of space.Outspoken, provocative, and prolific, the artist Ai Weiwei is an international phenomenon. In...

A richly illustrated, comprehensive study of fashion under socialism, from state-sponsored prototypes to unofficial imitations of Paris fashion.The idea of fashion under socialism conjures up images of babushka headscarves and...

This book, which accompanied a groundbreaking exhibition, presents a multilayered picture of influence and experimentation between a family of artists. A few years before his death in 1984, the conceptual...

Prestigious monograph on sculptor Julio Gonzalez and his important friendship with Pablo Picasso. Spanish artist Julio Gonzalez (1876-1942) ranks alongside Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) as one of...

Six men made major scientific breakthroughs during the First World War and in doing so altered its course. Lawrence Bragg pinpointed the position of enemy artillery pieces with sound ranging,...

The 'Montfortian' civil wars in England lasted from 1259-67, though the death of Simon de Montfort and so many of his followers at the battle of Evesham in 1265 ought...

Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp...

From film-maker Bertrand Tavernier's first feature Watchmaker of Saint-Paul to his acclaimed It All Starts Today, released in Britain in 1999, his work, for all its unique variety, has maintained...

A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language,...

In 1795 the year Napoleon Bonaparte was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French army in Italy the seventeen-year-old Jean-Nicolas-Auguste Noel entered the Artillery School at Chalons. A year later, with Napoleon...

Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...

The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa. In September 1927, a 30-year-old man was taken from his village in the French...

A moving portrait of the lives of six poor city-dwellers, set in early twentieth century colonial Saigon Historian Haydon Cherry offers the first comprehensive social history of the urban poor...

Across the world, animals are being domesticated at an unprecedented rate and scale. But what exactly is domestication, and what does it tell us about ourselves? In this book, Marcus...

A cultural and ecological history of the Mediterranean region and humankind's broken covenant with nature The garden was the cultural foundation of the early Mediterranean peoples; they acknowledged their reliance...

Paul Chrystal has written the first full length study of women and warfare in the Graeco Roman world. Although the conduct of war was generally monopolised by men, there were...

In the late 3rd century BC, while Rome struggled for her very survival against the Carthaginians in the Second Punic War, Philip V of Macedon allied with Hannibal in pursuit...

In eighteenth-century China, a remarkable intellectual transformation took place, centered on the ascendance of philology. Its practitioners were preoccupied with the reliability of sources as evidence for restoring ancient texts...