The British Museum - Natural History

The British Museum Natural History

Whitehead, Peter & Keates, Colin

Science & Math

Philip Wilson

The French paintings in the Louvre represent well over half the Museum's entire collection; their quality and fame make them by far the most important extant collection of such works. It was therefore decided to divide the Louvre's great paintings into two parts, and that the first of them should be devoted solely to the French School. It should, however, be emphasised that the Museum's other collections, such as the Italian, could well have merited this preeminence, since chronologically the scope of these two parts does not go much beyond the middle of the nineteenth century and, therefore, excludes the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. The second part, European Paintings in the Louvre, covers the Museum's wealth of works from countries other than France and with the first provides for the reader a balanced view of the collection as a whole. In the following pages we shall trace the history of the Louvre itself and of its unique range of French paintings from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Apart from Watteau in the Wallace Collection in London and in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and Bourdon in the Hermitage in St Petersburg, there is scarcely any French artist that can be more fully studied elsewhere than in the Louvre.

French Paintings in the Louvre

Jean-Pierre Cuzin

National Treasures of Georgia

Soltes, Ori Z.

Celebrating the cultural heritage of the countries along the Silk Route, this text explores the ancient trade route between Europe and the Far East, more specifically between Rome and the old Chinese capital of Xian. It examines the beautiful works of art discovered in each country, and sets them in their historical and geographical context. The author provides a comprehensive history of the Silk Road, drawing freely on anecdotes and literary and historical sources he examines the lives of the merchants and other travellers who used this route. Vignettes and poems from the heydey of the great trading route punctuate a lively and colourful text, which also features Antonia Tozer's evocative photographs.

The Silk Road : Art and History

Jonathan Tucker

This is an exploration of the function of photography in Central Africa. It explores and links two related themes: the role of photographic images in constructing and circulating fantasies, ideas and sentiments in Europe and the US relating to peoples of Central Africa; and the role of photography in enabling Africans to project and create images of themselves during encounters with foreign photographers. The publications is devoted to the holdings of the Eliot Eliofson Photographic Archives, a department of the National Museum of African Art, USA, a repository of more than 200, 000 historical and contemporary images from all over Africa.

In and Out of Focus : Images from Central Africa, 1885-1960

Arts & Photography

Christraud M. Geary

History & Criticism

Edge of Desire: Recent Art in India

Exhibition catalog. 2005-2006. Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Asia Society Museum and Queens Museum of Art, New York City; Tamayo Museum, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art (MARCO), Monterrey; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, Mumbai.

Sambrani, Chaitanya

“Wilson has taken a tired old genre, and breathed new life into it by giving what has been a male superhero fantasy to a female, and a desk-bound one at that.” 5/5 Stars - Ron Capshaw for IndieReader Read the full review here (link: https://indiereader.com/2017/07/the-librarian/) A shy librarian accidentally stumbles on a conspiracy by a group of rogue cops. Assaulted, framed and sent to prison to ensure her silence, Sarah discovers a fierce will to live and a startling capacity for violence that enables her to survive the harsh prison environment. On her release, Sarah learns her father died alone and her old life is gone forever. Heartbroken and enraged, Sarah devises a chilling revenge for the men who destroyed her world. As she prepares, she meets Paul Taylor, an ex US navy seal, who teaches her the skills she needs; but also shows her love and the promise of a new life. As Sarah begins her hunt, the cops’ disbelief turns to terror as they realize they are being stalked and killed by a librarian.

The Librarian

Literature & Fiction

Wilson, Philip

Action & Adventure

Wielki Slownik Polsko-Angielski / The Great Polish-English Dictionary

Reference

Jan Stanisławski

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Przepowiednia

Jorge Molist

Hormon Nieszczcia Br

Danuta Noszczyńska

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