Ross King: 17 books
Das Labyrinth der Welt
Roman
Language: German
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Ein sagenumwobenes Buch und eine lebensgefährliche Suche: 'Das Labyrinth der Welt' von Ross King jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. London, im 17. Jahrhundert. Ein mysteriöser Auftrag ereilt den Buchhändler Isaac Inchbold: Die geheimnisvolle Lady Aletha bittet ihn, ein überaus wertvolles Manuskript...
Mad Enchantment
Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous....
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era...
Dühödt ámulat
Monet és a vízililiomok
Language: Hungarian
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Ross King a rá jellemző alapossággal, levelek és visszaemlékezések ismeretében ábrázolja a legendás festő portréját, és meséli el legemlékezetesebb művészi vállalkozásának történetét.
Claude Monet vízililiomos képei a múlt század legismertebb és legnépszerűbb...
The Judgment of Paris
The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.
The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions-the...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope...
Brunelleschi's Dome
How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore--already under construction for more than a century--was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month...
Machiavelli
Philosopher of Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
The author of The Prince—his controversial handbook on power, which is one of the most influential books ever written—Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) was no prince himself. Born to an established middle-class family, Machiavelli worked as a courtier and diplomat for the Republic of Florence and...
Elementary Korean Second Edition
(Downloadable Audio Included)
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
This is a comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook and language learning package.
Korean is now the 15th most popular language taught at American universities. This new edition of Elementary Korean, the most comprehensive and detailed introductory Korean textbook available, offers...
Defiant Spirits
The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2010
Beginning in 1912, Defiant Spirits traces the artistic development of Tom Thomson and the future members of the Group of Seven, Franklin Carmichael, Lawren Harris, A. Y. Jackson, Franz Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J. E. H. MacDonald, and Frederick Varley, over a dozen years in Canadian history. Working...
Continuing Korean
Second Edition (Includes Downloadable Audio)
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
This is a complete and effective intermediate–level Korean textbook and Korean language learning package
It is the next book in the Elementary Korean series and takes student's abilities to read comprehend Korean, speak Korean, read Korean, and write Korean to the next level. Continuing Korean...
Advanced Korean
Includes Downloadable Sino-Korean Companion Workbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Advanced Korean offers a complete, systematic, and streamlined third-year course in Korean.
It is ideal for university students and adult learners with plentiful reading texts and written exercises, all in Korean Hangul. Concise Korean grammar notes in English, extensive glossaries, and an...
by Andrew Peterson, Ian Davies, Terrie Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
'Globalization' and 'the Nation' provide significant contexts for examining past educational thinking and practice and to identify how education has been influenced today. This book, written collaboratively, explores country case studies - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the UK and USA as well as discussing the transnational European Union.
by Gary L. Kreps, Allan D. Peterkin, Karina Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
This co-edited volume addresses a population of people whose lack of health care access, mistreatment in health care settings, and refusal of health care services are often omitted from discussions about health care disparities and insurance reform. The perspectives and needs of LGBT people should...
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