Collection: Reference

With more than 100 carefully selected panels from the largest stained glass collection in the world, this selection represents a treasury of medieval and Renaissance imagery. Each plate is supported by an explanatory commentary and bibliography.

For over four thousand years the Mediterranean was the centre of Western civilization. Covers all of recorded history, and fully reflects the findings of recent research, using tools ranging from linguistics to underwater archaeology.

This is a book about why medieval manuscripts matter. Coming face to face with an important illuminated manuscript in the original is like meeting a very famous person. We may all pretend that a well-known celebrity is no different from anyone else, and yet there is an undeniable thrill in actual...

Australia's experience of war helped shape our sense of ourselves as a nation and as a community with a distinctive ethos & way of life. This book looks at our war experiences, how we can recognise these experiences, and how we can preserve our resources.

This originality guide covers the Mercedes SL sports cars from the W113 'Pagoda' of 1963 to the R129 which ended production in 2003. Model-by-model, with hundreds of pictures, it gives you all the details of correct factory specifications and equipment