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Art and Life in Renaissance Venice
• Patricia Brown
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 176 PAGES
With a strong focus on art, the author evokes the guilds, nobility and spirit of the Renaissance in her discussion of painting, sculpture and architecture. With 120 full-color illustrations. A volume in the Prentice Hall Perspectives series. Also in this same series is "Renaissance Florence." Second edition.
(ITL57, $42.20) |
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The Bridge on the Drina
• Ivo Andric
• Lovette F. Edwards
LITERATURE •
1977 •
PAPER
• 318 PAGES
This historical novel, originally published in 1945, traces the Ottoman period in the Central Balkans from the 16th-century to World War I. Andric takes as his metaphor the location of the ancient bridge on the Drina, dividing East and West, Europe and Orient, Christian and Muslim. Born in Travnik, Bosnia, Andric won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1961. The Bridge on the Drina is part of a trilogy that includes Bosnian Story and The Woman from Sarajevo.
(BLK59, $15.00) |
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The Colossus of Maroussi
• Henry Miller
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 223 PAGES
• FAVORITE
The soul of Greece circa 1939. Miller captures the spirit and warmth of the resilient Greek people in this tale of a wartime journey from Athens to Crete, Corfu and Delphi with his friend Lawrence Durrell. Miller at his most inspired.
(GRE05, $12.95) |
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Crete
• Barry Unsworth
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2007 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A travel memoir from the Booker prize-winning novelist, richly detailed and seeped in the millennia-old traditions, myths, literature and history of the island.
(GRE303, $10.95) |
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Croatia, Through Writers' Eyes
• Barnaby Rogerson
ANTHOLOGY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
This collection of stories, tales, and travel narratives, illuminates the history and culture of Croatia. Including contributions by Rebecca West, Lawrence Durrell and Fitzroy MacLean.
(BLK95, $33.95) |
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The Cross and the Crescent, Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation
• Richard Fletcher
HISTORY •
2005 •
PAPER
• 183 PAGES
Fletcher brings balance, insight and style to this concise history of the large, intricate and longstanding relationship between Christianity and Islam in the Middle Ages. The book is a good introduction to commerce, coexistence and conflict in Medieval Spain and the Mediterranean.
(MED84, $17.75) |
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Early Christian and Byzantine Art
• John Lowden
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
An illustrated guide to the architectural heritage of the early Christian period (860-1453), including a survey of the philosophy, ideas and intellectual climate of the time. With hundreds of photographs of Byzantine art, decorated churches and illuminated manuscripts.
(EUR23, $27.95) |
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Greece, A Traveler's Literary Companion
• Artemis Leontis
ANTHOLOGY •
1997 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
A collection of 24 stories by modern Greek writers, organized geographically -- and a wonderful introduction to Greek people, culture and landscapes. Editor Artemis Leontis is an adjunct professor of modern Greek at the University of Michigan. She includes stories by Odysseus Elytis, George Seferis, Nikos Kazantzakis and Vassilis Vassilikos.
(GRE190, $14.95) |
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Ironfire, A Novel of the Knights of Malta and the Last Battle of the Crusades
• David Ball
LITERATURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 688 PAGES
In this rousing historical novel the fates of a young boy, his sister, one of the Knights of Malta and an inquisitor play out against the backdrop of the 16th-century Ottoman assault on Malta, the formidable citadel of the Knights of St. John.
(MLT18, $15.00) |
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Islam, A Short History
• Karen Armstrong
HISTORY •
2002 •
PAPER
• 230 PAGES
Armstrong brings authority and experience to this vivid, clear-headed survey of the history and impact of Islam from the birth of Muhammad to present-day challenges. With timeline, glossary, biographies of major figures and bibliography. A Modern Library Chronicles book.
(ISL15, $15.95) |
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Mediterranean by Cruise Ship
• Anne Vipond
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
The best-selling, compact guide, featuring excellent local maps, hundreds of color photographs, concise background information and recommended excursions for ports-of-call throughout Greece, Italy and the Mediterranean. Useful introductory chapters cover cruising, history, art & architecture and nature of the Mediterranean. With a pull-out map and hundreds of color photographs.
(MED34, $21.95) |
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Pawn in Frankincense
• Dorothy Dunnett
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 512 PAGES
In the fourth volume of the Chronicles of Lymond, the exiled Scottish nobleman Francis Crawford, under the guise of a mission for the Sultan, searches for his son in the Ottoman Empire.
(SCT97, $17.00) |
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A Peace to End All Peace
• David Fromkin
HISTORY •
2009 •
PAPER
• 688 PAGES
The 20th anniversary edition of David Fromkin's vivid tale of the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the making of the modern Middle East -- indispensable to understanding current tensions, shifting alliances and the colonial legacy of the region. Frompkin illuminates the personalities, politics and, above all, the decisions by Britain, France and allies that divvied up the scraps of the Ottoman Empire into modern nations in the wake of WWI. This book has been called the best survey of the early 20th-century background to modern day realities in the region. A new edition.
(ARB13, $22.00) |
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Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, Why the Greeks Matter
• Thomas Cahill
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
A marvelous writer, Cahill sketches the civilization of ancient Greece through the lives and words of politicians, playwrights, a poet, philosopher and artist. He gives pride of place to Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripides and Sappho. A third book in Cahill's popular, eloquent Hinges of History series -- and a superb introduction to the Greeks. The third book in the Hinges of History series.
(GRE182, $16.00) |
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