Product Description: More than a hundred years before Japanese comics swept the globe, the master engraver Hokusai was producing beautiful, surreal, and often downright wacky sketches and drawings, filled with many of the characters and themes found in modern manga...read more

Product Description: This book examines the ways in which Attic painted vases were interpreted by Edmond Pottier (1855-1934), founder of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, and John Beazley (1885-1970), the master of attributions in the twentieth century. The comparison shows two markedly different approaches, one primarily archaeological, the other centered on the history of ancient art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Historical Fiction. Translated from the French by Liz Nash. Fifteen years in the writing, this archetypal novel has been a major critical success in Europe and bears comparison with David Madsen's MEMOIRS OF A GNOSTIC DWARF. The story takes place in Rome in the year 1600, where the poet-philospher Giordano Bruno -- condemned by the Inquisition for his 'heretical' beliefs -- will burn at the stake in seven days time...read more

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