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The ColosseumByron and Hitler were equally entranced by Rome's most famous monument, the Colosseum. Mid-Victorians admired the hundreds of varieties of flowers in its crannies and occasionally shuddered at its reputation for contagion, danger, and sexual temptation. Today it is the highlight of a tour...
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The Art and Archaeology of Ancient GreeceThe Art and Archeology of Ancient Greece is an introductory-level textbook for students with little or no background in ancient art. Arranged chronologically in broad swathes of time, from the Bronze and Iron Ages through the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and concluding...
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The Art of Fresco Painting: In the Middle Ages and the RenaissanceFresco painting was reintroduced to public attention in this important work by a recognized authority. In addition to translating descriptions of painting methods used by such masters as Alberti, Cennini, Vasari, and Borghini, the author also discusses causes of fresco destruction and how to...
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American Barns and Covered BridgesWhen this book was first published in the mid-1950s, the author was concerned that such functional structures as the American barn and the covered bridge would soon give way to progress and be replaced by modern elements. Today, a number of these sturdy, beautifully...
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Broken PromiseFrom New York Times bestselling author Linwood Barclay comes an explosive novel set in the peaceful small town of Promise Falls, where secrets can always be buried--but never forgotten... After his wife's death and the loss of his job, David Harwood moves back into...
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The DwarfI have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls....
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The Botticelli Secret: A Novel of Renaissance ItalyIn this exhilarating cross between The Da Vinci Code and The Birth of Venus, an irrepressible young woman in 15th-century Italy must flee for her life after stumbling upon a deadly secret when she serves as a model for Botticelli...When part-time model and full-time...
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Flags in the DustThe complete text of Faulkner's third novel, published for the first time in 1973, appeared with his reluctant consent in a much cut version in 1929 as Sartoris.Author: William FaulknerPublisher: VintagePublished: 01/17/2012Pages: 416Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.00dISBN: 9780307946768Accelerated Reader:Reading Level:...
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Words of Life: Celebrating 50 Years of the Hesburgh Library's Message, Mural, and MeaningThis book celebrates the University of Notre Dame's Hesburgh Library and its fifty years as a place of evolving service, powerful symbolism, and collaboration. It tells the history of the Library in terms of its meaning to all those who designed it, helped it...
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Sophocles II: Ajax/The Women of Trachis/Electra/Philoctetes/The TrackersSophocles II contains the plays "Ajax," translated by John Moore; "The Women of Trachis," translated by Michael Jameson; "Electra," translated by David Grene; "Philoctetes," translated by David Grene; and "The Trackers," translated by Mark Griffith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook...
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NotebooksMost of what we know about Leonardo da Vinci, we know because of his notebooks. Some 6,000 sheets of notes and drawings survive, perhaps one-fifth of what he actually produced. With an artist's eye and a scientist's curiosity, he recorded in these pages his...
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The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania: Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385-1569The history of eastern European is dominated by the story of the rise of the Russian empire, yet Russia only emerged as a major power after 1700. For 300 years the greatest power in Eastern Europe was the union between the kingdom of Poland...
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The Castle of OtrantoThe founding work of Gothic fiction On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son's...
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Europe in the High Middle AgesThe Penguin History of Europe series... is one of contemporary publishing's great projects.--New Statesman It was an age of hope and possibility, of accomplishment and expansion. Europe's High Middle Ages spanned the Crusades, the building of Chartres Cathedral, Dante's Inferno, and Thomas Aquinas. Buoyant,...
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Scottish CastlesHistorical background and architectural details are given for each of the nearly 140 Scottish castles. Includes the major sites of Edinburgh and Stirling, and covers from as far north as Shetland to as far south as Dumfries and Galloway, west as far as the...
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Architecture in Mexico, 1900-2010An authoritative, two-volume compendium of 20th- and 21st-century Mexican architectureThis expanded two-volume edition of Arquine's 2013 publication examines the architectural styles that have taken place in Mexico during the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. The book is divided into six periods:...
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Colonial & Antebellum Virginia: Images of Montgomery County's Historical-Cultural LandscapeVirginia has long been regarded as a state with great historical significance. Yet, the noteworthy places and events of the pre-Civil War era in the Commonwealth's southwestern region, Montgomery County in particular, have long been overshadowed by those in other parts of the state....
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Joslyn CastleIn the spring of 1893, media titans George and Sarah Joslyn bought a farm in Omaha, Nebraska, that would prove to be one of the city's most noteworthy real estate transfers. On this land, the Joslyns would construct a transformational home that would become...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Architecture of DefianceThe historic Welsh origins of the architect's creative defiance. The father of modern architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright learned his defiant creativity from the radical politics and work ethic of his Welsh family. Throughout his career, Wright strongly resisted the idea that his accomplishments owed...
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La Abadía de Los Herejes / Abbey of HereticsUn explosivo thriller histórico en la línea de El nombre de la rosa de Umberto Eco. Limoux, año 1379. Tras una enigmática reunión, la Inquisición encarcela sin causa aparente a la familia de un humilde carpintero. El matrimonio es metódicamente interrogado, torturado, procesado y...
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