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Discover the best books on history, including world, American, and ancient European history. Find top-selling history books and must-reads at our online bookstore.
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An N Introduction to the Study of Classical ArmenianThe author is particularly interested in comparative and historical research on Armenian as an Indo-European language. This Introduction consists of two parts. The first one describes the phonological and morphological system of Classical Armenian with the purpose of setting off its characteristic features, not...
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Creative DaoismJust as Christianity has its Vatican in Rome, modern Daoism boasts of a unique center of religious authority and administration: the Temple of the White Clouds (Baiyun guan) in Beijing, seat of the general headquarters of the Chinese Daoist Association. This temple complex in...
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Swissness in a NutshellWhat is Switzerland? With more than two hundred full-colour cartoons, photos, and works of art this accessible guide illuminates the unique alpine nation. From William Tell to Heidi, Swiss Army Knives to cheese, litter-free streets to punctual trains. Winner of the 2013 Albert Oeri...
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The New Traditional: Heritage, Craftsmanship and Local IdentityImmerse yourself in the traditions that have defined our cultures and reveal our connection to what make us human. A new generation wants to lead a more meaningful and sustainable life by reconnecting with heritage and traditions. They are looking to the craftsmanship, lifestyle,...
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Andalusian Morocco: A Discovery in Living ArtA Discovery in Living Art tells the story of the exchanges between the furthest frontier of the Maghreb and Al-Andalus for more than five centuries. Political and social circumstances gave birth to a crossroad of cultures, techniques and artistic styles revealed by the splendour...
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Gustav Klimt: Life and WorkUp until today, Gustav Klimt has been labelled variously: revolutionary and modernist pioneer, compulsive pornographer, ladies' man, enfant terrible for the conservative educated middle-class, and overrated painter of golden kitsch. For a number of years he has also been a significant protagonist in the...
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Max NeumannGerman painter Max Neumann (born 1949) turns the human figure into a symbol, abstracting his subjects into outlines and silhouettes. Splashes of color suggest the preoccupations of these somber characters: a red bird, a yellow dot, a green wash of pooling water. This monograph...
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Elizabeth Peyton: Here She Comes NowElizabeth Peyton rose to fame in the early 1990s as a painter energetically renewing portraiture's relationship to popular culture. Consciously locating her work in the tradition of nineteenth-century painters of society and celebrity such as Manet, Peyton uses a loose, sensuous figuration to portray...
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The Giedion World: Sigfried Giedion and Carola Giedion-Welcker in DialogueSigfried 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 connecting leading protagonists of modernism in architecture, art, and literature, such as Alvar Aalto,...
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Stepan Bandera: The Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist: Fascism, Genocide, and CultThe Life and Afterlife of a Ukrainian Nationalist is the first comprehensive and scholarly biography of the Ukrainian far-right leader Stepan Bandera and the first in-depth study of his political cult. In this fascinating book, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe illuminates the life of a mythologized personality...
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Vienna 1900Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna Secession preached: "To every age its art -- to every art its freedom;" and tremors warned of looming...
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Prefab HousesA prefab is a mass-produced house, constructed in a factory and assembled on-site in a few days or weeks. Once regarded as a cheap, easy solution for urgent housing problems, the prefab has evolved to become a synonym for ambitious design and sophisticated detailing...
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James Lovelock Et Al. the Earth and I"We are buried beneath mountains of fast-accumulating data. In such circumstances, this book, rather than adding to the data load, aims to offer real understanding." --James LovelockHuman beings are extraordinary creatures. Intelligent, agile, and curious, we have adapted and invented our way to becoming...
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CabinsEver since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade,...
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Arts & Architecture 1945-49From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design and low-cost materials. The trend was most notably embodied in the famous Case Study...
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MalevitchAprès avoir flirté avec le réalisme, l'impressionnisme et le symbolisme, Kasimir Malevitch (1878-1935), né à Kiev, trouve sa voie dans la dissolution des figures et des paysages représentés littéralement en une abstraction pure et chargée d'émotion. En 1915, il crée ce que bon nombre...
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PalladioAndrea Palladio (1508-1580) is widely considered the father of Western architecture. Strongly influenced by formal temple designs in Ancient Greece and Rome, he pioneered a revival of Classical symmetry and perspective, and with it created a universal architectural language.From his humble beginning as a...
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Histoire de la Photographie. de 1839 À Nos JoursLa carrière de George Eastman pourrait être l'illustration parfaite du rêve américain. Le fondateur de Kodak a en effet commencé comme livreur avant de devenir l'un des plus gros industriels de l'histoire des États-Unis et un innovateur majeur dans l'histoire de la photographie.Le fondateur...
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Michel-Ange. l'Oeuvre Peint, Sculpté Et Architectural CompletAvant d'atteindre le jeune âge de 30 ans, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) avait déjà sculpté la Pietà et David, deux des oeuvres les plus célèbres de toute l'histoire de l'art. Sculpteur, mais aussi peintre, dessinateur et architecte, les créations de ce maître absolu de la...
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Renoir. Painter of Happiness"Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world." --Pierre-Auguste RenoirPierre-Auguste Renoir's timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. TASCHEN's Renoir: Painter of Happiness, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work yet published, examines the...
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