Explores sixty-six paintings from around the world, providing the story behind each painting, an analysis of techniques and compositions, historical features, and brief artists' biographies.
Provides historical context for approximately eighty paintings and other works of art spanning pre-fifteenth century through the mid-twentieth century; includes color reproductions of the works and analysis of several individual sections of each work.
Presents Jane Austen's "Northanger Abbey", which collects her reflections on the nature of novels, their heroines, and their readers, with biographical commentary, selections from other writers, and critical essays.
Examines short stories, poems, plays, and novels by literary greats such as Shakespeare, Keats, Austen, Whitman, and Hemingway to show twenty-first-century readers the pleasure and power of reading.
Provides reproductions, brief descriptions, and locations of 1,001 paintings created from 4,000 BC to the early twenty-first century. Arranged chronologically.
On cover: A guide to the art, technology, language, and appreciation of film. Analyzes the elements of the production process separately, then brings them together to show how a film's impact is created.
Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Winslow Homer, Diego Rivera, and many others are used to trace the history of transportation from horses and sailing ships to trains, planes, and automobiles.
Diana Lively and her husband Ted's lives are turned upside down after they move to Arizona for Diana's latest job and discover that it is possible to find lost love and that justice always comes to those who deserve it.
