Chronological Period/15th Century
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The History of the Renaissance World: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Conquest of Constantinople
$39.99 Add to cartBeginning in the heady days just after the First Crusade, this volume–the third in the series that began with The History of the Ancient World and The History of the Medieval World–chronicles the co… [more below]
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: September 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0393059766
- Language: English
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Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
$28.95 Read moreSome five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Me
- Author: Luzzi, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004010
- Language: English
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Follow the Dream: [The Story of Christopher Columbus]
$19.99 Add to cartIllus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. “The illustrations, executed in a variety of media, show scenes from the explore… [more below]
- Author: Sis, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0679806288
- Language: English
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A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age
$19.99 Add to cartUpdated with a new foreword by Tom Hanks: acclaimed historian William Manchester A World Lit Only by Fire is a “captivating and marvelously vivid” popular history of the Middle Ages (Publishers Weekly… [more below]
- Author: Manchester, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0316545562
- Language: English
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Leonardo. the Complete Paintings and Drawings
$70.00 Add to cartUnmatched in his ingenuity, technical prowess, and curiosity, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) epitomizes the humanistic ideal of the Renaissance man: a peerless master of painting, sculpture, cartograph
- Author: Zöllner, Frank
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: April 11 2019
- ISBN10: 3836576252
- Language: English
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The Kite Fighters
$9.99 Read moreIt’s like the kite is part of him–the part that wants to fly.
In a riveting novel set in fifteenth-century Korea, two brothers discover a shared passion for kites. Kee-sup can craft a kite unequaled i
- Author: Park, Linda Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 07, 2010
- ISBN10: 054732863X
- Language: English
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Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious F
$19.00 Add to cartIn this lively debut work of history, Edward Kritzler tells the tale of an unlikely group of swashbuckling Jews who ransacked the high seas in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition. At the end of t… [more below]
- Author: Kritzler, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0767919521
- Language: English
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The Story of the Jews Volume One: Finding the Words 1000 Bc-1492 AD
$25.00 Add to cartIn this magnificently illustrated cultural history–the tie-in to the PBS and BBC series The Story of the Jews–Simon Schama details the story of the Jewish experience, tracing it across three millenn
- Series: Story of the Jews #1
- Author: Schama, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 0060539208
- Language: English
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The White Queen
$19.99 Add to cartThe inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen, #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life the extraordinary story of Elizabeth Woodville, a wo
- Series: Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
- Author: Gregory, Philippa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 06, 2010
- ISBN10: 1416563695
- Language: English
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The Prince: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition
The original blueprint for realpolitik, The Prince shocked sixteenth-century Europe with its advocacy of ruthless t- Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0143105868
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1501139150
- Language: English
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
$22.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A deeply engaging history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world–from the highly acclaimed author of 1491. – “Fascinating…Lively…A convi
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24, 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278247
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc
$19.95 Add to cartVery few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve year… [more below]
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 455
- Publish Date: October 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0898702682
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
$12.95 Add to cartThese biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term “Renaissance,” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Vasari, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537194
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$23.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1501139169
- Language: English
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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
$21.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492–from “a remarkably enga
- Author: Mann, Charles C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 10 2006
- ISBN10: 1400032059
- Language: English
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Saarinen
$23.33 Add to cartThe creator of the ubiquitous Knoll “Tulip” chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century’s most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Serraino, Pierluigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836544318
- Language: English
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The Voynich Manuscript
$55.00 Add to cartThe first authorized copy of this mysterious, much-speculated-upon, one-of-a-kind, centuries-old puzzle
“For the first time, a complete reproduction [of] The Voynich Manuscript, has been published, fe- Author: Clemens, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0300217234
- Language: English
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Henry V
$9.99 Add to cartThe authoritative edition of William Shakespeare’s historic play Henry V from the Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for both students and general readers.Henry
- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 04, 2020
- ISBN10: 1982109416
- Language: English
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Who Was Leonardo Da Vinci?
$6.99 Add to cartLeonardo da Vinci was a gifted painter, talented musician, and dedicated scientist and inventor, designing flying machines, submarines, and even helicopters. Yet he had a hard time finishing things, a… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Edwards, Roberta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01, 2005
- ISBN10: 0448443015
- Language: English
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