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City of Light The Reinvention of Paris by Rupert Christiansen
$35.00 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: The\Landmark Library
In 1853 the French emperor Louis Napoleon inaugurated a vast and ambitious programme of public works, directed by Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the prefect of the Seine. Haussmann's renovation of Paris would transform the old medieval city of squalid slums and disease-ridden alleyways into a 'City of Light' ...Show more
Guernica - Painting the End of the World by James Attlee
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: The\Landmark Library
A brilliant, concise account of the painting often described as the most important work of art produced in the twentieth century, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilionat the Paris Worl ...Show more
Guernica: The Life and Travels of a Painting by James Attlee
$35.00 AUD
Category: Art/Decorative arts/Graphics | Series: The Landmark Library
Pablo Picasso had already accepted a commission in 1937 to create a work for the Spanish Republican Pavilion at the Paris World Fair when news arrived of the assault by the German Condor Legion on the undefended Basque town of Guernica, in which hundreds of civilians died. James Attlee offers an illumi ...Show more
Magna Carta - The Making and Legacy of the Great Charter by Dan Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully produced account of the signing, impact and legacy of Magna Carta, a document that became one of the most influential statements in the history of democracy, as part of the stunning landmark library series. On a summer's day in 1215 a beleaguered English monarch met a group of disgruntled ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Theatre of Our World by Peter Conrad
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction | Series: The\Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
In 1623 the actors John Heminges and Henry Condell assembled and published one of the most influential books ever published in the English language: Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies- better known to posterity as The First Folio. In doing so they preserved literature's most ...Show more
Skyscraper by Dan Cruickshank
$34.99 AUD
Category: Architecture/Home Design | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
Chicago's beautiful Reliance Building, sixteen storeys tall, was designed in 1890 by John Root and completed in 1895 by Charles B. Atwood. In its construction - metal frame, large areas of plate glass, fire-proof brick and terracotta cladding - it pioneers all the key elements of twentieth-century high- ...Show more
Stonehenge by Francis Pryor
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: The\Landmark Library
A beautifully illustrated account of the history and archaeology of an iconic feature of the English landscape, as part of the stunning Landmark Library series. Perched on the chalk uplands of Salisbury Plain, the megaliths of Stonehenge offer one of the most recognizable outlines of any ancient struct ...Show more
The Royal Society & the Invention of Modern Science by Adrian Tinniswood
$35.00 AUD
Category: Popular Science/Environment | Series: The Landmark Library | Reading Level: near fine
The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge has been at the forefront of scientific endeavour for more than 350 years, since receiving its royal charter from Charles II in 1662. Philosophical Transactions, published in 1665, established the concepts of scientific priority and peer review ...Show more
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