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World Heritage Sites  •  UNESCO Publishing ARCHAEOLOGY •  2011 •  PAPER  • 856 PAGES • NEW From the Galapagos and Mesa Verde to China's Mount Sanqingshan National Park and Al-Hijar in Saudi Arabia, this beautifully illustrated compendium includes color photographs, a map and succinct description of each archaeological site, monument, city or park. Organized by date of inscription from 1978 to 2011, the book also includes regional locator maps and a country-by-country index. (CON53, $29.95)
Lost Worlds, Ruins of the Americas  •  Arthur Drooker EXPLORATION •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES Suger Mill ruins in St. John, the Brimstone Hill Fortress of St. Kitts, Mitla, Teotihuacan, Chichen-Itza, Palenque, Tikal, Antigua, Copan Tiwanaku, Chan Chan, Ollantaytambo, Sacsayhuaman and Machu Picchu are all included in this arresting visual survey of 33 monuments and archaeological sites in Mexico and the Caribbean, Central and South America. With 125 black-and-white images. (NAM68, $49.95)
World Architecture, The Masterworks  •  Will Pryce ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 320 PAGES This beautifully photographed survey of architectural masterpieces includes over 80 buildings, half of which are presented through in-depth photo essays, with accompanying texts. IHagia Sophia, Islamic masterworks at Isfahan, Reims Cathedral, Angor Wat, the Taj Mahal, Philip Johnson's Glass House and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao are all included in this audacious -- and beautifully illustrated -- survey of great buildings across the world and through history. Architect and photographer Will Pryce readily acknowledges his biases, and the remarkable achievements of certain periods, including the great Gothic cathedrals of Ile-de-France, Mughal palaces of Northern India and Turkey's Ottoman mosques. (WLD222, $40.00)
The Alhambra  •  Robert Irwin ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2004 •  PAPER  • 213 PAGES In this brief, indispensable guide, Irwin introduces the stunning Moorish palace and fortress complex, revealing its mysteries, myths and significance with wit and insight. He opens with a romantic description of the fairytale structure, which he then deliciously demolishes. Includes a detailed floor plan, sketches and aerial photographs. A volume in the Harvard University Press series, Wonders of the World. Irwin is a British novelist and Islamic scholar. (SPN226, $14.95)
Temples of Cambodia, The Heart of Angkor  •  Helen Ibbitson Jessup  •  Barry Brukoff ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2011 •  HARD COVER  • 256 PAGES With 210 color and 20 sepia photographs, plus plans, maps, and elevations. Organized chronologically, the book opens with the modestly scaled brick structures of the seventh and eighth centuries and goes on to explore the first monumental temple mountains of the ninth century, the technical advances enabling the fulfillment of a unique Khmer architectural vision in the tenth, and the erection of the ambitious Baphuon temple mountain, among others, in the eleventh, all setting the stage for the apogee of the Khmer empire in the twelfth century, and with it, the construction of three massive temple complexes: Beng Mealea, Bakan, and the supreme architectural creation of Cambodia, Angkor Wat. (CBD73, $65.00)
Taj Mahal  •  Giles Tillotson  •  Mary Beard ART & ARCHITECTURE •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 190 PAGES This pocket book in Harvard's Wonders of the World series is a guide and witty meditation on the place of the Taj Mahal in the cultural imagination of India and the wider world. An art historian, Tillotson demolishes myths about the structure ("the queen of architecture"), its history and meaning. (IDA528, $19.95)

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