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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
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In this history, novelist Ross King chronicles the career of Filippo Brunelleschi, the 15th-century goldsmith and clockmaker, who designed the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore of Florence. King also considers Brunelleschi's contemporaries and how they were influenced by him.
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Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling
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An acclaimed British novelist turns to real life in the Renaissance in this account of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In realistic detail, King explains how Michelangelo executed his monumental work, exploring not only the difficult process itself but also the cast of characters surrounding the feat, from the pope ...
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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The acclaimed author of "Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" chronicles the decade between two famous exhibitions: the scandalous Salon des Refuss in 1863, and the first Impressionist showing in 1874, set against the dramatic rise and fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire.
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Ex Libris
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Responding to a cryptic summons to a remote country house, London bookseller Isaac Inchbold finds himself responsible for restoring a magnificent library pillaged during the English Civil War, and in the process slipping from the surface of 1660s London into an underworld of spies and smugglers, ciphers and forgeries. As he assembles the fragments ...
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power
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In this latest addition to the Eminent Lives series, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Brunelleschis Dome" offers a striking portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher and the age he embodied.
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Domino
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A young artist in 18th-century London paints the portrait of an aristocratic beauty. His story, and hers, and the stories of various other denizens of London and Milan, are told, making a mosaic of lives and voices that illuminates the period--with cameo appearances by Alexander Pope and Georg Frederic Handel. A New York Times Notable Book for ...
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Brunelleschi's Dome: The Story of the Great Cathedral in Florence
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Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, still retains a rare power to astonish. Yet the elegance of the building belies the tremendous labour, technical ingenuity and bitter personal strife involved in its creation. For over ...
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Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary
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From how to look at works by great masters to explaining key movements, styles, and techniques, this monumental book is the quintessential visual guide to more than 2,500 of the world's most revered paintings and sculptures.DK
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The Judgement of Paris: the Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
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The Judgement of Paris: Manet, Meisonnier and an Artistic Revolution
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It is hard to believe it now, but in 1863, the French painter, Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all-important public exhibition of Art held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors, who ...
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The Last Place
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An acclaimed British novelist turns to real life in the Renaissance in this account of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In realistic detail, King explains how Michelangelo executed his monumental work, exploring not only the difficult process itself but also the cast of characters surrounding the feat, from the pope ...
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Emancipating Space: Geography, Architecture, and Urban Design
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This text argues that those concerned with urban design and social changes should make their contribution to bringing about a more ideal world by designing spaces based on utopian or emancipatory theories.
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Garibaldi: Hero of Italian Unification
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Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as the "Hero of Two Worlds," Garibaldi's military prowess extended to the Americas, where he played a major role in the Brazilian struggle for independence. During his fight for Italian unification Garibaldi personally led an army of local untrained rebels ...
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Elementary Korean
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This new edition of the most comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook available offers beginning learners of Korean everything they need to learn the language effectively. It is perfect for a first-year university-level course use or for the independent language learner. No prior knowledge of the language is necessary. A new format, ...
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In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. The darling of the 'Salon' - that all important public art exhibition held biannually in Paris - he painted historical subjects in meticulous detail and sold his works for astronomical sums to collectors who included Napoleon III himself. Manet, on the ...
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Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya: Negotiating Urban Space in Malaysia
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Arguably Southeast Asia's most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur--widely known as KL--has just celebrated fifty years as the national capital of Malaysia. But KL now has a very different twin in Putrajaya, the country's new administrative capital. Where KL is a diverse, cosmopolitan, multiracial metropolis, Putrajaya fulfills an elitest vision of a ...
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Inductive Logic Programming
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Rui Camacho (Editor), Ross King (Editor), Ashwin Srinivasan (Editor)
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2004, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2004.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers address all current topics in inductive logic programming, ranging ...
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Machiavelli
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'The Prince', Niccolo Machiavelli's handbook on power-how to get it and how to keep it-has been enormously influential in the centuries since it was written, garnering a heady mixture of admiration, fear, and contempt. Its author, born to an established middle-class family, was no prince himself. Machiavelli worked as a courtier and diplomat for ...
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Continuing Korean
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Ross King, Julian Ross Paul King, Jae-Hoon Yeon
This sequel to "Elementary Korean" offers an intermediate-level course in Korean. It is designed for students who have achieved basic proficiency and want to develop a greater mastery of the language. The volume includes dialogues, vocabulary, detailed breakdowns of grammatical structures, and language exercises. It is accompanied by a 74-minute ...
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Description and Explanation in Korean Linguistics
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Elementary Korean: Includes a 74-Minute Audio CD
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Ross King, Jae-Hoon Yeon, Jae-Hoon Lee
A complete first-year course in learning Korean, with updated dialogues and grammar notes, and a transcription of the Han'gul character system. Based on ACTFL Proficiency guidelines, this text is geared toward an Intermediate-Low to Intermediate-Medium proficiency level.
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Primary Partners: Book of Mormon
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Mary Ross, Jennette Guymon-King
Correlates with 2004 Primary classes for ages 8-11
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Crocodiles an action plan for their conservation
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Thorbjarnarson, Messel 1922-, King, Ross, International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Crocodile Specialist Group
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The Judgment of Paris: Manet, Meissonier and the Birth of Impressionism
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While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris. The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. Indeed, no artistic ...
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Faith in God: We Love Activity Days
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Mary Ross, Jennette Guymon-King
Great activities for the new Church program
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