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Christopher Columbus was a real person. He was not the first to discover America. People already lived there. But he was a great explorer. This is his story.
Contents: Introduction - The paintings - The aesthetic - The genres and periods - The technique - The other schools - The environment - Conclusion - List of colour plates and illustrations - Short bibliography.
"This isn't just about LIPSTICK and EYESHADOW. Read this book and you will never look at MAKEUP in the same way again." Lisa Eldridge
Expert advice for discussing divorce with your children. This book teaches you how to raise a happy, thriving family in a changing environment. Each page offers expert advice for discussing your decision in healthy and effective ways, including breaking the initial news, fostering an open dialogue, and ensuring that your children’s emotional needs are met throughout your separation.
‘Christopher de Hamel’s exploration of medieval manuscripts - a dozen peaks from St Augustine to Chaucer and beyond, gorgeously and copiously illustrated - is itself an extraordinary book, a work of scholarship and history salted with the author’s excitement as he conducts us among the great libraries of Western civilization.’ - TOM STOPPARD
In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks...
EDITED BY WILLIAM KERRIGAN, JOHN RUMRICH, AND STEPHEN M. FALLON. John Miltons Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the clash between God and his fallen angel, Satan, is a profound meditation on fate, free will, and divinity, and one of the most beautiful works in world literature.
In this beautifully written and scrupulously researched history, Gary Giddins and Scott DeVeaux trace the development of jazz from its nineteenth-century roots-folk music and blues, dance music and ragtime, minstrelsy and marching bands-to the vibrant scene that captivates audiences the world over today.
In Cosmos, the late astronomer Carl Sagan cast his gaze over the magnificent mystery of the Universe and made it accessible to millions of people around the world. Now in this stunning sequel, Carl Sagan completes his revolutionary journey through space and time...
Moving from a sweeping overview of history to blow-by-blow accounts of his negotiations with world leaders, Henry Kissinger describes how the art of diplomacy has created the world in which we live, and how America’s approach to foreign affairs has always differed vastly from that of other nations.
Thinking in Systems is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on scales ranging from the personal to the global. This essential primer brings systems thinking out of the realm of computers and equations and into the tangible world, showing readers how to develop the systems-thinking skills that thought leaders across the globe consider critical for 21st-century life.
Fully revised twelfth edition. A yachtman's guide to the coasts and islands of Greece.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afhganistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10,2001. The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeda's evolution.
H-Point: The Fundamentals of Car Design &
Historical Romance. They are masters of seduction, London's greatest lovers... Renowned for his bedchamber prowess, Ransom Seymour, the Duke of Ainsley, owes a debt to a friend. But the payment expected is most shocking, even to an unrepentant rake—for he's being asked to provide his friend's exquisite wife with what she most dearly covets: a child.
The Tarot is steeped in mystery and magic. It’s also an excellent tool for making decisions, forecasting potential outcomes, and even locating lost objects. In Tarot on Earth, Tom Benjamin shakes the dust from these ancient cards and reinvigorates the learning process with a series of activities that connect cards to the issues we face in modern life.
KJV Holy Bible: Beautiful. Trustworthy. Timeless. Featuring the King James Version, the best-selling and most-read English translation of all time, this Bible includes a plan of salvation and other helpful features for those new to reading the Bible.
Herbert von Karajan was one of the twentieth century’s most prodigiously gifted performing artists. Richard Osborne knew him and had many conversations with him. These, however, were only the starting point for a biography which draws on interviews with those who worked with Karajan during his sixty-year career...
Republic, Plato's masterwork, was first enjoyed 2,400 years ago and remains one of the most widely read books in the world: as a foundational work of Western philosophy, and for the richness of its ideas and virtuosity of its writing. Presented as a dialogue between Plato's teacher Socrates and various interlocutors, it is an exhortation to philosophy...
