Collection: Reference

This unique new reference book is the first English-language biographical dictionary on the prominent and significant political leaders in Weimar Germany during this dramatic era in modern German and European history.

Gives an overview of each theory, its history and application. Outlines the philosophy and discusses its main tenets with examples and explanations. Analyses strengths and weaknesses and offers insight as to its success or failure.

Analyses government structures, functions, processes and personnel from 1842 to 1900. Drawing on parliamentary papers, politicians' private correspondence and surviving government records in an account of administrative challenges in a growing colony.

Joint catalog of two concurrent exhibitions, held Mar. 23-June 30, 2002: Jackson Pollock in Venice, held at the Museo Correr, Venice, and The irascibles and the New York school, held at the Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre.

The magnificent contents of these sumptuously appointed villas and town houses are the subject, and with them the breadth and richness of cultural and artistic life that thrived around the Bay of Naples before the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

Offers a radically new perspective on the so-called 'Pop Art' creative dynamic that has been around since the 1950s. Enhances the term 'Pop Art' which has always been recognised as a misnomer, for it obscures more than it clarifies.

Catalin radios, chromium cocktail shakers, mixmasters, toasters, waffle irons, Fiestaware, Depression glass and other manufactured objects have exploded into the arena of high-end collectibles. Indeed, these increasingly sought-after artifacts from the Machine Age have become icons of an importan...