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250 Objects of Fashion & Desire
From purses to parasols, spectacles to slippers, wigs to walking sticks, the Rijksmuseum has a superb collection of fashion accessories that also includes a rich array of more familiar items: hats, gloves, and shoes for both...
Building Seagram
A personal, authoritative history of one of the 20th century’s most influential buildings The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of...
Plumes
Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce
An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of...
The Making of Americans
Democracy and Our Schools
From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children"Ought to be read by anyone interested in the education and training...
The Virgin Warrior
The Life and Death of Joan of Arc
France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that...
Art of Empire
The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple
The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site’s...
An Ethical Compass
Coming of Age in the 21st Century
In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over “the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world.” Soon after, he and his wife, Marion,...
A Field Guide to the Ants of New England
This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as...
The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu
Metal Artifacts; Vol. #91
This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian...
The Italian Paintings Before 1400
The National Gallery in London houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. This completely updated catalogue of...