Fifteen years after Rome's invasion of Britannia, centurion Marco is back. The island is settled now, bustling with commerce. Macro's goal is to help run his mother's Londinium inn, and exploit his land grant. He's prepared for the dismal weather and the barbaric ways of the people. But far worse...
The Christian Travelers Guides deal directly with what even the best general travel guides only touch on: Christianity’s enormous influence on Europe--and, through its history and culture, Europe’s influence on Christianity. This unique series guides you on a pilgrimage to the heart of...
A lavishly illustrated history of coca wine and the revolutionary advertising methods that made it a world-wide success
One of the oldest and most potent natural stimulants, the leaves of the coca plant are the organic source from which cocaine is synthesized. Fresh coca leaves and products made...
Ange Mlinko alchemizes art and life into a dazzling collection of poetry in Venice
In Venice, Ange Mlinko dissolves the boundaries between the sublime and the ordinary, the mythic and the rational, the past and the present. She sees a Roman tablet, scratched with Greek script, in the waxen wings...
Dans les brumes de décembre, les cloches de San Zanipolo chassent les âmes en peine. A l'aube du carnaval, la cité des Doges s'éveille sur des cris : tordu dans une affreuse posture, une salive noirâtre aux commissures des lèvres, le corps dans vie d'un...
Depuis notre petite enfance, nous jouons à cache-cache, aux devinettes, nous aimons élucider les mystères, nous déguiser, nous cherchons à nous faire peur, à nous surprendre, à être étonné et illusionné. Adulte, nous...
What a shock it must have been for the Utrecht painters Hendrick ter Brugghen, Gerard van Honthorst and Dirck van Baburen when they first encountered the breathtaking and unconventional paintings of Caravaggio in Rome. This volume shows impressively how t he young artists individually explored this...
Anna Dello Russo is a fashion journalist and stylist mostly known for her work as editor of Vogue Italia, L'Uomo Vogue, and Vogue Japan. Described by Helmut Newton as a "fashion maniac," Dello Russo studied history and Italian literature at the Domus Academy in Milan. Following a brief...
Limited first edition of 1,000. Unique handbound construction. Gomorrah Girl tells two stories in one, the problems of growing up in a crime-ridden area and the murder of Annalisa Durante, a young woman caught in the crossfire of a Mafia shootout. The stories are brought together through innovative,...
Ideal painting in the Renaissance was an art of illusionism that eliminated for the viewer any overt sense of its making. Titian’s paintings, in contrast, with their roughly worked and “open” surfaces, unexpected glazes, and thick impasto brushstrokes, made the fact of the paint...
