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The Crafts in Britain in the Twentieth Century
From ceramics to silversmithing, calligraphy to textiles, hot glass to bookbinding, crafts have played a rich and complex role in the social, cultural, and artistic history of twentieth-century Britain. This all-encompassing...
Parrots
A Guide to Parrots of the World
This is the first book created primarily for the field identification of parrots, one of the most familiar and colorful groups of birds. From the mighty macaws to the diminutive pygmy parrots, the 350 species of parrots...
Love and Its Place in Nature
A Philosophical Interpretation of Freudian Psychoanalysis
"Jonathan Lear has shown us both Freud`s texts and his subject matter from a new angle of vision, one that renders much recent controversy about psychoanalytic theory irrelevant. For any student of those texts this book is...
This Other Eden
Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art
In 1966, American collector and philanthropist Paul Mellon presented to Yale University a glorious collection of British paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and rare books. Subsequently he provided funds for the...
The Selected Papers of Charles Willson Peale and His Family
Volume 5: The Autobiography of Charles Willson Peale
This autobiography, written by Peale when he was in his eighties, spans American history from the 1740s to the 1820s, an era in which Peale was a primary actor in many of the young nation’s significant cultural and...
Japanese: The Spoken Language CD-ROM for Part 1
Upgraded CD-ROM for PC
This interactive CD-ROM program is a powerful tool for beginning learners of Japanese. It is based on the first part of the popular Japanese: The Spoken Language textbook series by Eleanor Harz Jorden with Mari...
The British School
The National Gallery's collection of British paintings contains some of the most famous and best-loved pictures in the country: Hogarth's Marriage a-la Mode series, Gainsborough's Mr and Mrs Andrews, both The...
On Toleration
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the...
The Great Experiment
George Washington and the American Republic
To most Americans, George Washington is a remote figure encased in myth, more a monument than a man. This new book brings him vividly to life once again, a man who was born a loyal subject of the British crown and became the...
Copper into Gold
Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812)
A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time. Smith not only produced nearly 400 prints—about 130 of his own design and...