Author: N. S. Ramaswami
Publisher: Orient Book Distributors
Keywords: monuments, indian
Published: 1971-12
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0896840913
ISBN-13: 9780896840911
Author: Ross Bur
Publisher: I. B. Tauri
Keywords: guide, syria, monuments
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-07-15
List price: $31.00
ISBN-10: 1845119479
ISBN-13: 9781845119478
Syria is home to some of the world’s richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Age through biblical and Byzantine times to the early Islamic and Ottoman periods. Yet even in an age of mass tourism these magnificent monuments are little known and rarely visited--in other words, ripe for discovery by independent-minded and adventurous travellers. The Monuments of Syria is organized as a gazetteer of all Syria’s historical sites, with complementary sections on history and architectural influences and comprehensive chronologies and glossaries. This fully revised edit
Author: P.H. Liotta
Publisher: Quale Pre
Keywords: monuments, fallen, graveyard
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0974450383
ISBN-13: 9780974450384
Poetry. THE GRAVEYARD OF FALLEN MONUMENTS is a personal history of the author’s humanity. Comprising over a quarter century’s work of poems, from a memoir-in-verse of a near fatal ascent of Iran’s mythic Mount Damavand to reflections on the current disasters in the Middle East and Southwest Asia, this book is both a personal and a political statement. While the focus is often on personal, often incredible experience, Liotta never moves far from the issue of family--especially concerns for the future of his daughter, Gaia. In a larger sense, of course, this book is finally an
Author: Laurie Schneider Adams
Publisher: Basic Books
Keywords: baroque, monuments, key
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2000-03-23
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0813334276
ISBN-13: 9780813334271
A respected art historian examines over thirty key monuments of the Baroque period, from stylistic, biographical, social, and culturalpoints of view The most important works of art and the artists who created them of the Baroque period and style from about 1600 to 1750 are described and analyzed clearly and thoroughly from various points of view. The book covers Mannerist precursors, Baroque painting, sculpture and architecture in Rome, Velázquez in Spain, French Baroque, Flemish Baroque, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, and Late Baroque and Rococo. Artists included are C
Author: Julia Hargrove
Publisher: Teaching and Learning Company
Keywords: alamo, monuments, historic
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2001-04
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 1573102814
ISBN-13: 9781573102810
This book marks the debut of an important new series designed to bring America’s national monuments to life for your students. Topics were chosen not only for their historical importance, but also to honor the people of many cultures who have built our nation. Included in this series are the contributions made by Mexican Americans, Native Americans, African Americans and Americans of European descent. Original documents, time lines and letters present the facts about the battles, heroes and causes surrounding the fight for Texas independence. Children will also study the reasons
Author: Ippolito Rosellini
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Keywords: nubia, egypt, monuments
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2003-05
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 9774247892
ISBN-13: 9789774247897
Following the Napolenoic military campaign in Egypt (1798-1801), Europe rediscovered the ancient Egyptian civilization, and later expeditions deppened and amplified knowledge of the country’s archaeological momuments, giving birth to a new science - Egyptology.This volume recounts the era of early Egyptology at the start of the nineteenth century, and presents the ,ost beautiful plates from Rosellini’s original work made following the long expedition.
Author: Tamara L. Britto
Publisher: Checkerboard Book
Keywords: monuments, landmarks, symbols, alamo
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $25.65
ISBN-10: 1591975182
ISBN-13: 9781591975182
