Thursday, August 26th, 2010 at
7:37 pm
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A visual history of fonts and graphic styles: volume 2
This book offers a connoisseur’s overview of typeface design, exploring the most elegant fonts from the history of publishing. Taken from a distinguished Dutch collection, this exuberant two-volume edition traces the evolution of the printed letter via exquisitely designed catalogs, showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Borders, orname… More >>
Type. A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles, 1901-1938
Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 at
7:38 pm
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A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces is a comprehensive narrative conceived and developed after the collapse of the former Soviet Union. Informed by the burgeoning historiography of the 1990s, the text balances political and economic explorations of everyday life, social roles, cultural dynamics, and gender issues.Socio-political changes in Russia have changed the way Russian history is taught, and most texts currently available are written from a p… More >>
A History of Russia: Peoples, Legends, Events, Forces
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at
7:39 pm
- ISBN13: 9780794528331
- Condition: New
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Tracing the history from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century, this comprehensive encyclopedia includes all the major civilizations, rulers and events in world history, and paints a picture of everyday life over thousands of years. Fabulous illustrations, photos, maps and a 12,000 year timechart and over 200 links to recommended websites this a valuable resource tool that is guaranteed to add an extra dimension to school work…. More >>
The Usborne Encyclopedia of World History
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 at
7:38 pm
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Looking back on his confinement to Bethlem, Restoration playwright Nathaniel Lee declared: “”They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.”" As Roy Porter shows in Madness: A Brief History, thinking about who qualifies as insane, what causes mental illness, and how such illness should be treated has varied wildly throughout recorded history, sometimes veering dangerously close to the arbitrariness Lee describes and often encompassing cu… More >>
Madness: A Brief History
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 at
7:39 pm
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This compelling text explores the development of Japan through its art, religion, literature, and thought as well as through its economic, political, and social history. This author team combines strong research with extensive classroom teaching experience to offer a clear, consistent, and highly readable text that is accessible to students with no previous knowledge of the history of Japan…. More >>
A Brief History of Japanese Civilization
Saturday, August 21st, 2010 at
7:39 pm
- ISBN13: 9780812097665
- Condition: New
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Volume II opens with major world events between 1500 and 1789, and considers the development of shipbuilding that sent European explorers around the world. Following topics include the Ottoman Empire, Mughal India, Manchu China, Spanish conquests in the Americas, European world colonialism, the French Revolution, Napoleonic Europe, British imperial expansion, the revolutions in the Americas, the United States and Canada as world powers, World War I and II, postwar E… More >>
World History the Easy Way Volume Two
