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Museum Impossible chronicles the extraordinary expansion of museum contruction over the last few decades. This richly illustrated volume surveys the full breadth of late 20th-century museum design by presenting examples of the best of recent museum architecture in a fashion both challenging and revealing. 197 illustrations.

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The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble, " yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peop...

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“This is a book to be read, not just consulted. Jack Davis is a masterly raconteur whose story simultaneously provides a wide-ranging and accessible guide to what archaeology is all about, a broad account of the Greek Bronze Age, and a detailed evocation of Bronze Age Pylos.”—Robin Osborne, Professor of Ancient History, University of Cambridge   “Accessibly written, this book will appeal to scholars of the ancient world and those with an inter...

The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you're not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as "majestic" and "noble, " yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation's founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peop...

55% OFF FOR BOOKSTORES! Your Customers Will Never Stop to Use this Awesome BookDogs are an integral part of human society on every inhabited continent on Earth. They drive livestock and protect it, police property, scent and detect illicit substances, haul sleds, retrieve game, guide the blind, search for and rescue the lost and injured, comfort the lonely, hear for the deaf, or add a sparkling natural reality to the lives of hundreds of milli...

55% OFF FOR BOOKSTORES!Your Customers Will Never Stop to Use this Awesome BookDogs are an integral part of human society on every inhabited continent on Earth. They drive livestock and protect it, police property, scent and detect illicit substances, haul sleds, retrieve game, guide the blind, search for and rescue the lost and injured, comfort the lonely, hear for the deaf, or add a sparkling natural reality to the lives of hundreds of millio...

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Nei suoi 50 anni di ininterrotta pubblicazione, la rivista MAD è diventata uno dei pilastri della cultura popolare, intrattenendo e ispirando generazioni di lettori e ricevendo innumerevoli elogi e riconoscimenti. Ma prima della rivista MAD, esisteva il MAD originale... 23 numeri di un comic book che reinventarono le regole della satira negli Stati Uniti. Concepiti e scritti da Harvey Kurtzman, pubblicati da William M. Gaines e illustrati da a...

Nei suoi 50 anni di ininterrotta pubblicazione, la rivista MAD è diventata uno dei pilastri della cultura popolare, intrattenendo e ispirando generazioni di lettori e ricevendo innumerevoli elogi e riconoscimenti. Ma prima della rivista MAD, esisteva il MAD originale... 23 numeri di un comic book che reinventarono le regole della satira negli Stati Uniti. Concepiti e scritti da Harvey Kurtzman, pubblicati da William M. Gaines e illustrati da a...

In the years 2004-2006 excavations were conducted in the plain west of the walls of the ancient Greek colony of Apollonia, southwest of the modern village of Pojan, Albania. The site lies within a complex of farm buildings known locally as Bonjaket. This volume represents the publication of the results of three campaigns of excavation at the site.

This volume represents the product of 25 years of study conducted by the Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, a multidisciplinary, diachronic archaeological expedition formally organized in 1990 to investigate the history of prehistoric and historic settlement in western Messenia in Greece. An introduction, setting the project in context, and an extensive gazetteer of sites precede a collection of eight previously published articles, which a...

The cartoonist with one of the most recognizable styles in the 20th century pairs with one of the most innovative to take on war comics.

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Hailed as a "nonfiction epic . . . in the tradition of Jared Diamond's best-seller Collapse, and Simon Winchester's Atlantic" (Dallas Morning News), Jack E. Davis's The Gulf is "by turns informative, lyrical, inspiring and chilling for anyone who cares about the future of 'America's Sea' " (Wall Street Journal). Illuminating America's political and economic relationship with the environment from the age of the conquistadors to the present, Dav...

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Here, one of the most respected otoplasty surgeons has written the definitive book on the latest techniques. Jack Davis brings the plastic surgeon and the otolaryngologist up to date with the newest concepts and methods for reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgery of the ear. The volume contains such hot topics as secondary otoplasty, "eplasty", "sandwich" methods, radical auriculoplasty and stereotaxic surgery, but also covers histogenesi...

Carl Blegen is the most famous American archaeologist ever to work in Greece. Here is presented his biography, detailing his multifaceted life as an instrumental element in creating the field of Aegean prehistory and his role in the social and intellectual community of Athens.

When painter Winslow Homer first sailed into the Gulf of Mexico, he was struck by its "special kind of providence." Indeed, the Gulf presented itself as America's sea-bound by geography, culture, and tradition to the national experience-and yet, there has never been a comprehensive history of the Gulf until now. And so, in this rich and original work that explores the Gulf through our human connection with the sea, environmental historian Jack...