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The Bundi Wall-Paintings in Rajasthan
Rediscovered Treasures
The royal fort at Bundi, an isolated town in the Indian state of Rajasthan, is home to elaborately decorated palaces that are among India’s most beautiful buildings. That several of the palaces have been closed to visitors until...
The Funk & Wag from A to Z
This striking, oversized book, designed to evoke encyclopedias, is a highly creative amalgam of collage with a political bent and poetry. From 2011 to 2012, American artist Mel Chin (b. 1951) extracted all of the images from a...
Project Puffin
The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
The inspiring story of a young ornithologist who reintroduced puffins where none had been seen for a century Project Puffin is the inspiring story of how a beloved seabird was restored to...
Family in the Picture, 1958–2013
Designed and conceived to complement In the Picture, his 2011 volume of self-portraits, Lee Friedlander’s Family in the Picture is the family album of one of the most restless and inventive figures in the history of...
The Age of Catastrophe
A History of the West 1914–1945
One of Germany’s leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period...
Forbidden Music
The Jewish Composers Banned by the Nazis
A groundbreaking study of the Jewish composers and musicians banned by the Third Reich—and the consequences for music worldwide With National Socialism's arrival in Germany in 1933, Jews dominated music more...
Restless Valley
Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia
A reporter’s vivid account of Central Asia’s wild recent history—violent in the extreme and rife with characters both heroic and corrup It sounds like the stuff of a fiction thriller: two revolutions, a...
Thomas Aquinas
A Portrait
An illuminating introduction to the elusive Thomas Aquinas—the man and the saint"A marvellous introduction to the thought of the most daring and most important thinker of the Christian Middle Ages. . . ....
Silent Poetry
Chinese Paintings from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
This handsome volume offers a fresh, comprehensive look at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s world-renowned collection of Chinese paintings. With in-depth study of more than 100 selected works and more than 400 color...
Saints and Sinners
A History of the Popes
Fourth Edition
This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope. ...