Choice

Choice
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2001
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN:

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540

Music in the Art of Renaissance Italy, 1420-1540
Author: Tim Shephard
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Art, Italian
ISBN: 9781912554027

The first detailed survey of the representation of music in the art of Renaissance Italy, opening up new vistas within the social and culture history of Italian music and art in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas

An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2010-11-29
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393340902

"What pleasure to see the dishonest, the inept, and the misguided deftly given their due, while praise is lavished on the deserving—for reasons well and truly stated."—Kirkus Reviews Ranging as far as the fox and as deep as the hedgehog (the urchin of his title), Stephen Jay Gould expands on geology, biological determinism, "cardboard Darwinism," and evolutionary theory in this sparkling collection.

Finders, Keepers

Finders, Keepers
Author: Rosamond Wolff Purcell
Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Total Pages: 155
Release: 1992
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780393030549

A noted paleontologist provides the text for this photographic study of eight different collections--from a collection of human artifacts belonging to Peter the Great to Agassy's fish collection--exploring what collections say about collectors.

The Acharnians

The Acharnians
Author: Aristophanes
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1625580681

Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta.

Adonais

Adonais
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1821
Genre: Laudatory poetry
ISBN: