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National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Volume 36, Titian's Painting Technique from 1540
Volume 36 completes the study begun with Volume 34 (in 2013) of the painting materials and technique of the most influential artist of the 16th century, by the National Gallery, a global center for research into Venetian...
Amazing Rare Things
The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
A gorgeously illustrated volume devoted to the natural history drawings and watercolors of Leonardo da Vinci and other outstanding artists of the Age of Discovery From the fifteenth century...
Medieval Christianity
A New History
An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign—an often...
Madness and Memory
The Discovery of Prions--A New Biological Principle of Disease
A first-person account of a revolutionary scientific discovery that is now helping to unravel the mysteries of brain diseases In 1997, Stanley B. Prusiner received a Nobel Prize, the world's most...
The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. history—only to realize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture had just begun
Traces of Survival
Drawings of Refugees in Iraq Selected by Ai Weiwei
This compelling book is the result of a project intended to visually communicate the hardships endured by Iraqi communities. Utilizing art materials donated to camps by the Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq,...
The Wilton Diptych
The Wilton Diptych is a comprehensive account of one of England’s greatest surviving medieval treasures, now in the collection of The National Gallery, London. The painting depicts King Richard II (1367–1400) being...
Fine Lines
Vladimir Nabokov’s Scientific Art
The first comprehensive, interdisciplinary accounting of Nabokov’s scientific work, its significance in his artistry, and his contribution to evolutionary theory This landmark book is the first full...
Black Hole
How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled On by Hawking Became Loved
The contentious history of the idea of the black hole—the most fascinating and bizarre celestial object in the heavens For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over...
One True Life
The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions
In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the...