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Ross King
The epic story of one of the world's most enduring civilisations and empires.
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Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history
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Kate Simpson
It was 1914 when Sister Alice Ross-King left Australia for the war. Nursing was her passion - all she had ever wanted to do. But Alice couldn’t have imagined what…
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Ian Ross
Adam de Norton faces his greatest trial in one of the most epic sieges in English history.
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The calendar. The Senate. The university. The piano, the heliocentric model, and the pizzeria. It's hard to imagine a world without Italian influence--and easy to assume that inventions like these…
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Dr Ross King
Before long, with the enterprising nuns working tirelessly as typesetters, the Ripoli Press began printing a series of books and pamphlets that triggered an explosion of ideas in politics, philosophy…
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Ross King,Anja Grebe
The most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence - with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city’s great museums and churches - is now available in…
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Vincent Pomarede
The most complete collection available, the New York Times bestselling book The Louvre: All the Paintings includes all 3,022 paintings from the permanent collection of the world’s most popular museum…
Andrew Graham Dixon,DK
Provides a guided tour around 2,500 of the world’s most influential painting and sculptures, from cave paintings to modern masterpieces.
In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. Manet was known only as the sloppy painter of a few much-derided canvases…
In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast…
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, retains a rare power to…
Dave is sad as he is the only dragon in his class who cannot fly, but he and his classmates learn that Dave has a different talent. Something that makes…
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From the author of the bestselling Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling comes the story of the artistic civil war that raged in Paris in the 1860s–the birth…
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From the internationally best-selling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Ex-Libris, Domino is a Rabelaisian journey into the hurly-burly world of 1770s London. Domino is the story of the mysterious and…
This volumes explore Sheldon Pollock's exciting ideas about historical processes of vernacularization and interactions between cosmopolitan and vernacular languages in the history of premodern literary cultures, with a focus on…
Using Thailand as a case study, Ross King examines the role of place in the formation of identity through memory. Employing the idea of French historian Pierre Nora that because…
Arguably Southeast Asia’s most spectacular city, Kuala Lumpur has just celebrated 50 years as the national capital of Malaysia. This book draws on postcolonial studies, media studies and critical social…
This volume brings together fifteen new papers on Korean linguistics originally presented at the Ninth International Conference on Korean Linguistics, 1994. Contributions range from phonetics and phonology, to syntax and…
King’s literary thriller combines the layered, multifaceted narrative style of Iain Pears’ Instance of the Fingerpost with Dorothy Dunnett’s broad-canvas grasp of English history. The story, set in 1660s London…
From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.
The Last Supper is an image familiar to everyone, the story of its execution is not. In Leonardo and the Last Supper, the best-selling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome tells that…
Interrogates the contested history and physical remnants of Seoul, tacking between the city’s historiography and architecture, with attention to monuments, streets, and other urban spaces. The book’s structuring device is…
The riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
The bestselling author of Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance in this chronicle of the life and work of the…
Ross King’s award-winning book on the construction of the fabled dome of Florence’s Santa Maria del Fiore, a feat of architecture that astonishes us even in the age of skyscrapers…
The fascinating, behind-the-scenes story of one of history’s greatest masterpieces–A gripping account (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
An alternative portrait of the revolutionary political philosopher challenges popular beliefs about the cruelty of his character to reveal the complexities and sympathetic nature of his personality.
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A Globe 100 Book of the Year for 2010. A Governor General’s Award - winning author recounts the turbulent years during which a group of young Canadian painters went from…
William Eilliot Griffis
William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) graduated from Rutgers College in 1869 and taught four years in Fukui and Tokyo. After his return to the U.S., he devoted himself to his research…
Elizabeth Ross King
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
William Ross King
Campaigning In Kaffirland: Or Scenes And Adventures In The Kaffir War Of 1851-1852 is a historical book written by William Ross King and published in 1853. The book is a…
Campaigning In Kaffirland: Or Scenes And Adventures In The Kaffir War Of 1851-1852 is a historical account written by William Ross King, published in 1853. The book describes the Kaffir…
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Title: The sportsman and naturalist in Canada, or, Notes on the natural history of the game, game birds, and fish of that country.Author: William Ross KingPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description…
Title: The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri Hills … A paper read before the Anthropological Society of London, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library…
