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The Painted Panorama

By: William Slattery Lieberman,Bernard Comment

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The Painted Panorama

By: William Slattery Lieberman,Bernard Comment

In the first half of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed centre of the art world. This book showcases 115 works from that period chosen for an exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0810943654

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9780810943650

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

By: William E. Mierse

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Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

By: William E. Mierse

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road explores the interconnectivity of the Eurasian continent from 4000 BCE to 1000 CE. It focuses on the role played by Central Asia through which passed the major trade routes, the Silk Roads. Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road covers life along the Silk Road over 5000 years as it can be understood by considering objects. In this first object-based study to consider all of the peoples involved on the Silk Roads, objects provide the vehicles for explorations of different aspects of life for the various peoples of the Silk Roads, including the sedentary peoples who established urban life on the Silk Roads, the steppe nomads who regularly interacted with the settled peoples, and the peoples at either end of the Silk Roads who drove certain kinds of economic exchanges. The book looks at Central Asia as an international zone during ancient times when multiple religious, political, and technological ideas found acceptance in the region and allows for a better understanding of how some ideas and forms developed in Central Asia while others passed through or were modified.

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460

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1440858292

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9781440858291

Genoa

Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800

By: Carmen Bambach,Nadine Orenstein,William Griswold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Genoa

Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800

By: Carmen Bambach,Nadine Orenstein,William Griswold,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

This publication is a study of technically masterful, even boldly experimental, graphic art that illustrates Genoa's growth by the seventeenth century into an important regional art school. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0870997726

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9780870997723

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Highlights of the Collection

By: Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,,Wolfram Koeppe,William Rieder

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European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Highlights of the Collection

By: Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide,,Wolfram Koeppe,William Rieder

This beautifully produced volume is the first to survey the Metropolitan Museum's world-renowned collection of European furniture. One hundred and three superb examples from the Museum's vast holdings are featured. They originated in workshops in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Russia, or Spain and date from the Renaissance to the late nineteenth century. A number of them belonged to such important historical figures as Pope Urban VIII, Louis XIV, Madame de Pompadour, and Napoleon. The selection includes chairs, tables, beds, cabinets, commodes, settees and sofas, bookcases and standing shelves, desks, fire screens, athéniennes, coffers, chests, mirrors and frames, showcases, and lighting equipment. There is also one purely decorative piece, a superb vase made for a Russian noble family who, according to one awestruck viewer, "owned all the malachite mines in the world." The makers of some of the objects are unknown, but most of the pieces can be identified by label, documentation, or style as the work of an outstanding European designer-craftsman, such as André-Charles Boulle, Thomas Chippendale, David Roentgen, or Karl Friedrich Schinkel.

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300

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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0300104847

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9780300104844

They Believed That?

A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World

By: William E. Burns

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They Believed That?

A Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural around the World

By: William E. Burns

This encyclopedia is the perfect guide to the weird, magical, superstitious, and supernatural beliefs of people from all over the world. This book is devoted to those human beliefs that fall in the "gray zone" between science, religion, and everyday life-call them superstitious, supernatural, magical, or just wrong. In an often incomprehensible world where lightning or plague could end life quickly or drought could condemn a poor family to agonizing death, superstitious beliefs gave people a feeling of understanding or even control. They have continued to shape societies and cultures ever since. This book covers a range of superstitious, supernatural, and otherwise unusual beliefs from the ancient world to the early 19th century. More than 100 entries explain beliefs, discuss historical evidence, and explain how each belief differs across cultures. This book is a perfect gateway for anyone curious about superstitious and magical beliefs, with topics ranging from the everyday, such as dogs and iron, to legendary figures, such as Hermes Trismegistus and the Yellow Emperor.

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323

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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144087848X

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9781440878480

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

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Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

This study traces the development of American architecture from the age of Jefferson to the antebellum era, providing a survey of this important period. W. Barksdale Maynard overturns the long-accepted notions that the chief theme of early 19th-century American architecture was a patriotic desire to escape from European influence and that competing styles chiefly reflected the American struggle for cultural uniqueness. Instead, deep and consistent aesthetic ties, especially with England, shaped American architecture and house designs. Maynard shows that the Greek Revival in particular was an international phenomenon, with American achievements inspired by British example and with taste taking precedence over patriotism.

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348

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Yale University Press

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0300093837

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9780300093834

Old Testament Survey

The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament

By: William Sanford La Sor,David Allan Hubbard,Frederic William Bush

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Old Testament Survey

The Message, Form, and Background of the Old Testament

By: William Sanford La Sor,David Allan Hubbard,Frederic William Bush

McKenna, and William B. Nelson Jr.".

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886

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802837883

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9780802837882

A World Lit Only by Fire

The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

By: William Manchester

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A World Lit Only by Fire

The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

By: William Manchester

A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune

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367

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Back Bay Books

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0316082791

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9780316082792

Technology and the Picturesque

The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

By: William Harvey Pierson

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Technology and the Picturesque

The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

By: William Harvey Pierson

Beginning with a description of Gothic, Classical, and Baroque architecture, Pierson explores how American architects used these traditions to develop a uniquely American style. He examines the works of the early masters, including Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Latrobe's Capitol Building in Washington, Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Mills's buildings in South Carolina, as well as Thomas Jefferson's house in Monticello, which represents the clearest expression of the new American architectural vision.

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0385120737

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9780385120739

Beyond Adversity

U' Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942

By: William Park

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Beyond Adversity

U' Company, 15th Battalion 1941-1942

By: William Park

In November 1941, about 100 university students began their short-term compulsory military training with the 15th Infantry Battalion. Most were aged 19-22, had daytime jobs and were evening or external students from the arts, commerce and law faculties. They were ambitious, hard-working young men anxious to make their way in the world. Their compulsory military training was due to end on 4 February 1942 and the students would then be released to return to their jobs and continue their part-time studies. The outbreak of the Pacific War on 7 December changed everything. In April 1942, the 15th Battalion was given 24 hours' notice to move from Caloundra to Townsville. In January 1943 the Battalion went to New Guinea to take part in the Salamaua and Lae campaigns and did not return to Brisbane until July 1944. In November it was sent to fight in Bougainville. The Battalion finally returned home in January 1946 and most returned to resume their studies and jobs within the community. This book tells the story of those Queensland University students of `U' Company, 15th Battalion during its brief existence. It covers their wartime service in all its tragedy and triumph and how they resumed their lives, studies and careers once the war was over. Most regard themselves as being very fortunate - to have survived the war, to have learned to cope with adversity, to have learned the importance of getting on with life in spite of insurmountable obstacles and in having been able to make the most of opportunities that arose. They have been fortunate to find a life beyond adversity.

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Simon and Schuster

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192194126X

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9781921941269

The Bravest Man

Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang

By: William Tuohy

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The Bravest Man

Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang

By: William Tuohy

“There’s no margin for mistakes in submarines. You’re either alive or dead.” –Richard O’Kane Hailed as the ace of aces, captain Richard O’Kane, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his consummate skill and heroism as a submarine skipper, sank more enemy ships and saved more downed fliers than anyone else. Now Pulitzer Prize—winning author William Tuohy captures all the danger, the terror, and the pulse-pounding action of undersea combat as he chronicles O’Kane’s wartime career–from his valiant service as executive officer under Wahoo skipper Dudley “Mush” Morton to his electrifying patrols as commander of the USS Tang and his incredible escape, with eight other survivors, after Tang was sunk by its own defective torpedo. Above all, The Bravest Man is the dramatic story of mavericks who broke the rules and set the pace to become a new breed of hunter/killer submariners who waged a unique brand of warfare. These undersea warriors would blaze their own path to victory–and transform the “Silent Service” into the deadliest fighting force in the Pacific.

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Presidio Press

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0307554872

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9780307554871

The American Vignola

A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture

By: William R. Ware

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The American Vignola

A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture

By: William R. Ware

This includes tables of the Classical Orders, measured drawings of monuments, and practical instruction on classical design. 304 illustrations.

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Courier Corporation

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0486137694

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9780486137698

Book's by William Brisbane Dick

The Painted Panorama

The Painted Panorama

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

Artifacts from the Ancient Silk Road

Genoa

Genoa

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

European Furniture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

They Believed That?

They Believed That?

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

Old Testament Survey

Old Testament Survey

A World Lit Only by Fire

A World Lit Only by Fire

Technology and the Picturesque

Technology and the Picturesque

Beyond Adversity

Beyond Adversity

The Bravest Man

The Bravest Man

The American Vignola

The American Vignola

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