Dosso's Fate

Dosso's Fate
Author: Dosso Dossi
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 436
Release: 1998
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780892365050

Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.

Dosso Dossi

Dosso Dossi
Author: Peter Humfrey
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1998
Genre: Painting, Italian
ISBN: 0870998757

Dosso's rich color schemes are akin to those of his fellow North Italian Titian; he learned something about innovative composition from Raphael and about the force of the body from Michelangelo. But his paintings have a very individual appeal. In leafy natural surroundings containing an array of animals and heavenly bodies, events unfold that are often enigmatic, enacted by characters whose interrelationships elude definition.

America's National Game

America's National Game
Author: Albert Goodwill Spalding
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1911
Genre: Baseball
ISBN:

This book is Albert Spaldings work of "historic facts concerning the beginning, evolution, development and popularity of base ball, with personal reminiscences of its vicissitudes, its victories and its votaries." It is one of the defining books in the early formative years of modern baseball.

Galactic Pot-healer

Galactic Pot-healer
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 204
Release: 1994
Genre: Life on other planets
ISBN: 0679752978

What could an omnipresent and seemingly omnipotent entity want with a humble pot-healer? Or with the dozens of other odd creatures it has lured to Plowman's Planet? And if the Glimmung is a god, are its ends positive or malign? Combining quixotic adventure, spine-chilling horror, and deliriously paranoid theology, Galactic Pot-Healer is a uniquely Dickian voyage to alternate worlds of the imagination.

Ptolemy's Almagest

Ptolemy's Almagest
Author: Ptolemy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 712
Release: 1998-11-08
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0691002606

Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.

Weapons and Armor

Weapons and Armor
Author: Harold H. Hart
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 193
Release: 1982-02
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0486242420

Pictorial arsenal of war-making instruments offers over 1,400 royalty-free illustrations of battle-axes, bows & arrows, cannons, catapults, clubs, daggers, handguns, tanks, suits of armor, helmets, and much more.

Radio Free Albemuth

Radio Free Albemuth
Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Voyager
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1999
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 9780006482857

As America gasps in a stranglehold of a skull-crushing totalitarian regime, a supernatural intelligence speaks from the stars. Will the agents of ominiscent Valis succeed in their mission of liberation? Or will the tactics of President Freemont extend the grip?