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Portraits of the Hazleton Public Schools
Acclaimed for the emotional acuity of her portraits, Judith Joy Ross is an accomplished photographer whose work is found in the collections of America’s major museums. This exquisitely produced book focuses on one of Ross’s...
The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit
At the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt
The Coptic Monastery of St. Paul by the Red Sea grew up around the cave where Paul, the first Christian hermit, lived in solitude. The cave served as a shrine in late antiquity, became a church in the middle ages, and...
Art for Art's Sake
Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
In the London circles of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederic Leighton, the notion of “art for art's sake” became a shared concern: if art is not created for the sake of preaching a moral lesson, or supporting a political...
Space, Hope, and Brutalism
English Architecture, 1945–1975
This is the first major book to study English architecture between 1945 and 1975 in its entirety. Challenging previous scholarship on the subject and uncovering vast amounts of new material at the boundaries between architectural...
Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica
This handsome volume presents the creations of Mesoamerica’s most ancient societies in their archaeological contexts. The Olmec—best known for a unique style of monumental stone head and jade were-jaguar—were based along...
Circa 1700
Architecture in Europe and the Americas
The years around 1700 were marked by transformations in European and colonial capital cities. This era saw the creation not only of palatial complexes and urban spaces appropriate to autocratic power, but also of essential...
Ancient Greek Athletics
A comprehensive survey of sports in ancient Greece, available just in time for the Summer Olympics in Athens The earliest Olympic games began more than twenty-five-hundred years ago. What were they like,...
Building a New Europe
Portraits of Modern Architects, Essays by George Nelson, 1935-1936
Fascinating profiles of the leading architects of the 1930s during a crucial period in the evolution of modernism Architect, designer, and architectural critic, George Nelson (1908–1986) was a...
The Jewish Political Tradition
Volume II: Membership
“The series to which this book belongs is unprecedented. . . . Every one of the chapters enacts a debate that should have a living resonance, not just for Jews, although obviously for them, but for everyone with a...
A Field Guide to Birds of The Gambia and Senegal
This comprehensive book is the first field guide to the birds of The Gambia and Senegal, an area of West Africa popular with birders for its many tropical African birds. The guide provides full accounts of over 660 bird...