conservation and restoration

Presents an illustrated encyclopedia of scrapbook tools and techniques including stenciling, embossing, collages, stickers, and much more.

Discusses the history of the Acropolis, a large fortified hill in the center of Athens, and the uses to which it and the structures built upon it have been put throughout the ages.

Explains how to choose a car for restoration, and how to dismantle, reassemble, and show the automobile. Includes a section on restoration as a career.

Tells about lowriders--automobiles that have been restored and customized.

Discusses the history of the Sistine Chapel, including the frescoes, Michelangelo's influence, the Last Judgment, and modern day restoration.

Explains basic book repair techniques useful to libraries with limited budgets, as well as alternative, more ambitious conservation treatments, covering paper cleaning and mending, water damage, mold and mildew, hinge and spine repair, and protective enclosures.

Examines the techniques used to restore centuries-old masterpieces such as Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, as well as efforts to preserve public art treasures.

In 1996, Hanna Heath, a young Australian book conservator is called to analyze the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, a priceless six-hundred-year-old Jewish prayer book that has been salvaged from a destroyed Bosnian library. When Hanna discovers a series of artifacts in the centuries' old binding, she unwittingly exposes an international cover up.