Collection: Reference

This book ""takes the reader from the earliest days of human settlement to the civilizations of the New World overthrown by the Spanish Conquistadors.

This title looks at the pioneers of the comic book and the comic's founding links with pulp magazines, the campaign for censorship, the fraught relationship between the comic book artists and their publishers, and the comics themselves.

A unique collection of traditional dishes from the Anatolian heartlands and classical recipes from the Palace kitchens of the Ottoman sultans.

This well-illustrated book describes the fundamental principles and various aspects of Classical architecture, including a detailed, illustrated glossary that is almost a dictionary of Classical architecture in itself

Wherever ballet is taught in the world, and in whatever language, it retains one common denominator - the technical terms used are in French, deriving in part from the rules laid down at the time of Louis XIV.

Traces the development of attitudes towards Monet's art, drawing upon contemporary reviews and commentaries of such writers as Proust, Zola, Maupassant and Mallarme and the French statesman Clemenceau.