Presents color reproductions of more than 500 works from the vast collection with captions.

Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Visitor Guide

Arts & Photography

Landay, Janet

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

Incorporating the various schools and eras, and presented in a loose chronology, this guide offers concise commentaries on the key works in the National Gallery of Ireland's impressive collections. Founded in 1854, the gallery is Ireland's major national cultural institution devoted to the care and collection of fine art. It houses an impressive collection of European art together with the world's most comprehensive survey of Irish art. The collection, which ranges in date from 1300 to the present day, comprises over 15,000 works including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, icons, miniatures, objets d'art, furniture, books and archives. Also available: National Gallery of Ireland: Essential Guide ISBN 9781857599992

National Gallery of Ireland: Highlights of the Collection

MacNally, Niamh

Where do you find Nabokov's butterflies, George Washington's pheasants, and the only stuffed bird remaining from the Lewis and Clark expedition? The vast collections of animals, minerals, and plants at the Harvard Museum of Natural History are among the oldest in the country, dating back to the 1700s. In the words of Edward O. Wilson, the museum stands as both "cabinet of wonder and temple of science." Its rich and unlikely history involves literary figures, creationists, millionaires, and visionary scientists from Asa Gray to Stephen Jay Gould. Its mastodon skeleton--still on display--is even linked to one of the nineteenth century's most bizarre and notorious murders. The Rarest of the Rare tells the fascinating stories behind the extinct butterflies, rare birds, lost plants, dazzling meteorites, and other scientific and historic specimens that fill the museum's halls. The book describes the painting that catches Audubon in a shameful lie, the sand dollar collected by Darwin during the voyage of the Beagle, and dozens of other treasures in this surprising, informative, and often amusing tour of the natural world.

Rarest of the Rare: The Stories Behind the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Science & Math

WILSON, EDWARD O.

Sloan, Mark

Pick, Nancy

History & Philosophy

This superb and substantial guide, illustrated with a selection of stunning colour photographs, traces the castle's long link with the English Crown

Leeds Castle: Queen of Castles, Castle of Queens

Travel

Europe

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<li>Stylish illustrated book on 'the world's most famous train'</li>
<li>Published in collaboration with the National Railway Museum in York</li>
<li>Includes images not seen in print since the 1930s</li>
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No other train has entered the British national consciousness in the same way as the Flying Scotsman. It has been the star of films, music, dances, literature and even a cocktail - designed at the train's own cocktail bar in the 1930s. 
The Flying Scotsman first ran in 1862; it still runs today, passing through incarnations like stations through the years. In its heyday of the 1920s and '30s it was seen as the pinnacle of modernity: a stylish, glamorous feat of engineering. Now it is viewed through the heady steam of nostalgia; an iconic image of days gone by. 
This book follows the story of the Flying Scotsman in a way that no other history has, expertly weaving together the tale of the locomotive with a wider historical narrative. Furthermore, it delves into the lesser-known stories of the train - such as its sabotage by striking miners in 1926 - and features superb examples of poster art and other publicity materials commissioned by the LNER to promote the service, and documentary photography from the nineteenth century to the present. Written by the current curator of the National Rail Museum, the story of the Flying Scotsman has never been told so well.

The Flying Scotsman: Speed, Style and Service

McLean, Andrew

History

Magdalen College is one of the most beautiful of the Oxford colleges. Founded in 1458, it was built in the extensive grounds of the suppressed Hospital of St John the Baptist (an institution dating from at least 1180), outside the east gate of the medieval city walls. Over the centuries the College has built and rebuilt itself, developing an impressive physical presence, from the Old Kitchen - a remnant of the Hospital - to its late medieval Cloister, Chapel and Hall, the Great Tower, the beautiful eighteenth-century New Building, St Swithun's Quad, up to the new Library in Longwall Quad, finished in 2016. It is unique in possessing a College Deer Park, and its Muniment Room is a very rare example of a late fifteenth-century space still furnished with its original oak furniture and fittings. Magdalen has a rich and complicated academic, architectural and personal history, which is presented here, along with notes on what visitors can see today.

Magdalen College Oxford: A Brief History and Guide

Ferdinand, Christine

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<li>Includes photography by award-winning photographer Gus Powell, and scholarship on Safdie's work by leading scholars</li>
<li>Explores the buildings of a renowned architect and the philosophy that shapes them</li>
<li>The book accompanies a touring show, going to two US venues: September 10, 2015 January 10, 2016, National Academy Museum, New York, New York, and February 15, 2016 - May 13, 2016, BSA Space, Boston Society of Architects, Boston, Massachusetts</li>
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Today, as architecture is reasserting its role in popular culture, the architect Moshe Safdie's buildings are exemplars of what has been be termed 'progressive contextualism' - an important way of thinking globally about building.
Accompanying a traveling exhibition, Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie explores this renowned architect's buildings and the philosophy that shapes them. Safdie's canonical works combine the social activism and advanced technologies of modernism, with profound respect for historical and regional context. This elegantly designed book features stunning photography and essays examining Safdie's role in the move toward architectural globalization, as well as his use of architecture as a medium for political, religious and cultural agendas. The catalogue also features a unique illustrated essay by Safdie examining the architect's thoughts on the future of the global city at the start of the 21st century.
Contents: America's Unquietest Library: Salt Lake City Public Library Gus Powell; Creating a Sense of Place Robert Workman; An Extraordinary Journey Uri D. Herscher; Creating a Humanist Architecture Donald Albrecht; Portfolio: Selected Buildings 1967-2009 44; Architecture As Vocation Sarah Williams Goldhagen; Habitat of the Future Moshe Safdie; An Experience of Serenity and Calm: Skirball Cultural Center.
Also available: Safdie ISBN 9781864705591 $150.00 For Everyone a Garden ISBN 9781864706383 $38.00 Building Crystal Bridges ISBN 9781785510140 $9.95 Moshe Safdie 1 ISBN 9781864701623 $85.00 Moshe Safdie 2 ISBN 9781864701630 $85.00

Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie

ALBRECHT, Donald

Goldhagen, Sarah Williams

Architecture

The stunning seventeenth-century 'Old Ashmolean Building' on Broad Street in Oxford houses one of the finest collections of early instruments from Europe and the Islamic world. Together with a fascinating range of material from the eighteenth century to the present day, these artifacts offer an intriguing insight into ingenuity and creativity, and tell amazing stories of human scientific endeavor in a wider cultural and social context. The Director, Silke Ackermann, hand-picks her favorite items and provides an intimate, idiosyncratic guide to a remarkable collection.

Museum of the History of Science, Oxford: Director's Choice

Ackermann, Silke

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<li>Examines Pablo Picasso's use of both Cubist and classical styles in his art during the tumultuous years of World War I</li>
<li>Accompanies a major exhibition opening at the Barnes Foundation (February 21 to May 9, 2016) and the Columbus Museum of Art (June 10 to September 11, 2016)</li>
<li>Features new scholarship from leading experts from around the world</li>
<li>Includes images and discussion of costumes by Picasso for the ballet Parade (1917), and photographs by Jean Cocteau showing the artist and friends in Paris (1916)</li>
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Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation, and Change examines the work that Pablo Picasso made in Paris during the tumultuous years of World War I. Focusing on Picasso's oeuvre from 1912 to 1924, when he utilised both Cubist and classical modes in his art, this fully illustrated catalogue highlights one of the most important periods in the history of modern art. Picasso's shifts in style became a means of not repeating, in his words, 'the same vision, the same technique, the same formula.' With that approach in mind, the book also includes the work of Picasso's peers and friends, artists who were also exploring themes relevant to the difficult times in which they lived. Published to accompany a major exhibition of the same name at the Barnes Foundation and the Columbus Museum of Art, this elegantly designed book is essential reading for all those interested in Picasso's work and the dramatic and innovative period of art history during the Great War.

Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation, and Change

Cowling, Elizabeth

Silver, Kenneth

Fraquelli, Simonetta

Vasseur, Dominique H.

Bremner, Ann

History & Criticism

Set in the quintessentially English manor house that once belonged to Jane Austen's brother Edward, Chawton House Library is an internationally respected research and learning center for the study of women's writing from 1600 to 1820. Visitors can wander around the beautiful gardens - hazy with bees and pollen in the summer - and explore the house; they may access the unique collection of women's writing to study the electric history of women's penmanship or explore the fascinating, flawlessly restored house. This book will be a valuable guide, providing an historical tour of the house, including information about the portraits on display and rare books from the collection.

Chawton House Library

Dow, Gillian

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