Modern Art in Detail: 75 Masterpieces
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Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. This is perhaps even truer for...
Mona Lisa: A Life Discovered
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A genius immortalized her. A French king paid a fortune for her. An emperor coveted her. Every year...
Portrayal: and the Search for Identity
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We are surrounded by portraits: from the cipher-like portrait of a queen on a bank note to security...
Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region
Larissa Hjorth, Sarah Pink, Kristen Sharp and Linda Williams
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Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This...
Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself
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Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence...
The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
Claudia Brittenham and Maria Teresa Uriarte
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Between AD 650 and 950, artists at the small Central Mexican city-state of Cacaxtla covered the...
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab: Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863-1948
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"Memoirs of a Life in Punjab" is the autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni which offers a rich tapestry...
An Autobiography: And Other Writings
Anthony Trollope and Nicholas Shrimpton
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This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of...
States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic
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Beginning in the 1860s, the Russian Empire replaced a poll tax system that originated with Peter the...
The China Boom: Why China Will Not Rule the World
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Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other...