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This book, an introduction to the history of art that features excellent scholarship, takes a global approach with an emphasis on the Western tradition in art. It reflects new interests and issues, expanding the topic to include women and minorities, and showing media and techniques other than painting, sculpture, and architecture. Written in clear, standard English without art historical or aesthetic jargon, Art: A Brief History is visually appealing as well as intellectually stimulating. This comprehensive survey of world art is based on the most recent scholarship, and includes coverage of arts inspired by all the major religions, the contribution of women and minorities, and contains discussions of all the arts, including ceramics, glass, metal, enamel, and the fiber arts. This book serves as an introduction to the history of art and a ready reference for people working in the arts, including museum docents, and art gallery employees, owners, and managers.

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Now substantially revised and updated, the Twelfth Edition of de Blij and Muller's Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts continues to deliver the authors' authoritative content, outstanding cartography, currency, and comprehensive coverage, in a technology-rich package. The text reflects major developments in the world as well as in the discipline, ranging from the collapse of Russia's Post-Soviet transformation to the impact of globalization and from the rise of Asia's Pacific Rim to the war in Iraq..
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When the late Spiro Kostof's A History of Architecture appeared in 1985, it was universally hailed as a masterpiece--one of the finest books on architecture ever written Now, updated and expanded, this classic reference continues to bring to readers the full array of civilization's architectural achievements.
Insightful, engagingly written and graced with close to a thousand superb illustrations, the Second Edition of this extraordinary volume offers a sweeping narrative that examines architecture as it reflects the social, economic, and technological aspects of human history. The scope of the book is astonishing. Kostof examines a surprisingly wide variety of man-made structures: prehistoric huts and the TVA, the pyramids of Giza and the Rome railway station, the ziggurat and the department store. Kostof considered every building worthy of attention, every structure a potential source of insight, whether it be prehistoric hunting camps at Terra Amata, or the caves at Lascaux with their magnificent paintings, or a twenty-story hotel on the Las Vegas Strip..
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A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians

Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question throughout: How does history help us understand the vast changes we are now experiencing in the landscape of knowledge?

Beginning in Alexandria and its great center of Hellenistic learning and imperial power, we then see the monastery in the wilderness of a collapsed civilization, the rambunctious universities of the late medieval cities, and the thick social networks of the Enlightenment republic of letters. The development of science and the laboratory as a dominant knowledge institution brings us to the present, seeking patterns in the new digital networks of knowledge.

Full of memorable characters, this fresh history succeeds in restoring the strangeness and the significance of the past..
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With annual visitor totals over 14 million strong and climbing, Washington, D.C. continues to attract travelers in record numbers And no wonder: from the posh to the poignant to the political, there’s something for everyone in D.C. Revamped with an innovative, more browsable, photo-rich interior, Fodor’s Washington, D.C. 2008 will help travelers plan the perfect trip to our nation’s capital, whether it’s for their first visit or their tenth.

·Illustrated, magazine-style features include the National Mall; Arlington National Cemetary; the White House, Supreme Court, and U.S. Congress; Washington’s scandalous past (and present); and “The Red State/Blue State Guide to D.C. Nightlife”

·New “Experience D.C.” section highlights D.C.’s top sights and off the beaten path attractions, smart itineraries, and best bets for families

·Neighborhoods chapter quickly orients readers to the city and its unique areas

·Easy-to-reference “Museums,” “Monuments & Memorials,” and “Official Washington” chapters guide visitors to the exact sites they want to see

·Reorganized restaurant and hotel reviews make it a snap to find any listing by price, neighborhood, or category

·Tips from clever, opinionated local writers help travelers plan ahead, save money, bypass lines, and avoid common pitfalls

·8-page color insert

·Pullout map

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Designed for students preparing for a career in business, economics, psychology, sociology, architecture, environmental sciences, biology, or other areas of the life sciences and who have completed a high school algebra course. Each new concept the student learns is applied to a wide variety of practical and real-life applications. Many applications utilize real data and include referenced footnotes. Techniques and strategies students need to solve applied problems are stressed. The applications are drawn from the social, managerial, and life sciences, with special emphasis on business and economics. The text is compactly reorganized into nine chapters and includes the additional topic of asymptotes..
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