This book is about the most famous architect of all time, and certainly the most well known American architect, and he has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy

Accompanying the much-publicized travelling exhibition African American Masters, this book highlights influential and important African American 20th-century artists, from those of the early part of the century to important participants in the Harlem Renaissance, from self-taught and folk artists to urbane modernists, right up to the vigorous contemporary art scene. The text also includes sidebars highlighting individual pictures and creators, completing a wonderful chapter in the history of American art and in African American life and achievement

Jazzlife book contains a unique collection of photographs and records of jazz legends 1960 and street talents of the USA of the time

Good Green Homes is the guide to creating better homes that are healthier to live in, easier on the environment, more valuable over the long-term, and more delightful to come home to

The book was published on the occasion of the Exhibition of Ancient Coins from the Alpha Bank Collection at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. The book includes photographs of 171 coins and analytic explanatory texts and invites you to take an enchanting and highly instructive journey into the past and to contemplate the wisdom enshrined in the coinage of another age which, at the same time, was one of the most glorious periods of Greek history

This memoir and autobiography of the legendary mountaineer Bradford Washburn is a great story and was completed before his death in 2007. He was one of the last great explorers and adventureers of the twentieth century. Drawing from decades of memories, journals, and an exquisite photographic collection, Washburn completes the self-portrait of a man drawn to altitude, from his first great climb of Mount Washington at age eleven, through numerous first ascents of peaks all over the world

В книге автор дает историю западно-европейского драматического театра нового времени, устанавливая органическую зависимость развития театра от общественно-политической жизни страны, отмечая связь и взаимоотношение между театрами отдельных стран

"Жизнеописания" Джорджо Вазари, итальянского художника XVI века - книга, с которой начинается история искусства в Европе. По содержанию и по форме она давно стала классической. На ярком примере Италии вся книга показывает связь искусства с бытом, с жизнью, с социальными отношениями