Corcoran Gallery of Art

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of Art
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Painting
ISBN: 9781555953614

This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.

Daughters of Queen Victoria

Daughters of Queen Victoria
Author: E. F. Benson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2014-04-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781473314962

This book's pages contains the classic account of Queen Victoria's daughters by E. F. Benson. Using sources such letters and other writings Benson provides an immensely interesting insight into each of Victoria's daughters and their relationships with their mother and their royalty. Ben was a prolific writer of his time producing over 90 works. Queen Victoria's Daughters was first published in 1938 and is here republished with an introductory biography of the author.

The Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript
Author: M. E. D'Imperio
Publisher:
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1978
Genre: Ciphers
ISBN:

In spite of all the papers that others have written about the manuscript, there is no complete survey of all the approaches, ideas, background information and analytic studies that have accumulated over the nearly fifty-five years since the manuscript was discovered by Wilfrid M. Voynich in 1912. This report pulls together all the information the author could obtain from all the sources she has examined, and to present it in an orderly fashion. The resulting survey will provide a firm basis upon which other students may build their work, whether they seek to decipher the text or simply to learn more about the problem.

The End of an Era

The End of an Era
Author: John Sergeant Wise
Publisher: Boston New York, Houghton, Mifflin
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1899
Genre: History
ISBN:

Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving

Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving
Author: Candida Castro
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2008-11-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 142005533X

Human error is involved in more than 90 percent of traffic accidents, and of those accidents, most are associated with visual distractions, or looking-but-failing-to-see errors. Human Factors of Visual and Cognitive Performance in Driving gathers knowledge from a human factors psychology standpoint and provides deeper insight into traffic -user beh

The Life and Times of Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky

The Life and Times of Colonel Richard M. Johnson of Kentucky
Author: Leland Winfield Meyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1932
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Follows the life of Richard M. Johnson from his early life through his political career, service in the War of 1812, and his service as Vice President of the United States.