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Advanced Korean by Ross King; Jaehoon Yeon; Chungsook Kim
Category: Travel
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 answer key m ...Show more
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King
Category: Architecture
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 of Septem ...Show more
Elementary Korean: 2nd Edition + Free MP3 Audio CD inclulded by Ross King Ph.D
Category: Non-Fiction
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 beginnin ...Show more
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743 by Ross King
Category: Art
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThis is the most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence ever undertaken, with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches-produced in the same manner as BD&L's The Louvre and The Vatican. Every painted work th ...Show more
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Category: Non-Fiction
For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keystone of European art', and for a century after its creation it was regarded as nothing less than a miraculous image. And yet there is a very human story behi ...Show more
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King
Category: Art
Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment ...Show more
Stephen King's the Dark Tower: the Gunslinger - The Complete Graphic Novel Series by Stephen King; Dean White (Illustrator); Robin Furth; Peter David; Richard Isanove (Illustrator); Sean Phillips (Illustrator); Luke Ross (Illustrator); Michael Lark (Illustrator); Laurence Campbell (Illustrator); Alex Maleev (Illustrator)
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Stephen King's the Dark Tower: the Gunslinger Ser.
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain--and the world of the Dark Tower...now presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephe ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano Da Bisticci and the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
Category: History
An exhilarating and untold account of a Florentine bookseller working at the frontiers of human knowledge, and the epochal shift from script to print that defined the Renaissance The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city' ...Show more
The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance by Ross King
Category: History
A gripping story of ancient wisdom, new technology and 'the king of the world's booksellers', set in Renaissance Florence'A marvel of storytelling and a masterclass in the history of the book' WALL STREET JOURNALThe Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - th ...Show more
The Little Sisters of Eluria by Stephen King; Robin Furth; Peter David; Richard Isanove (Illustrator); Luke Ross (Illustrator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Stephen King's the Dark Tower: the Gunslinger Ser.
Enter once more the world of Roland Deschain--and the world of the Dark Tower...presented in a stunning graphic novel form that will unlock the doorways to terrifying secrets and bold storytelling as part of the dark fantasy masterwork and magnum opus from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen Ki ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
Category: History
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more