Renaissance
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The Clown of God
$19.99 Add to cartThis beautiful new edition of Tomie dePaola’s 1978 classic retelling of a French legend stars a little juggler whose unique talent leads him to what might be a Christmas miracle.
Little Giovanni is po- Author: dePaola, Tomie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1534414274
- Language: English
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The Renaissance Inventors: With History Projects for Kids
$14.95 Add to cartWhy was the Renaissance such an important period of time in Western history? Who were the innovators who thought of the inventions we still use today?
In The Renaissance Inventors with History Project
- Series: Renaissance for Kids
- Author: Klepeis, Alicia Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1619306859
- Language: English
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The Man Who Laid the Egg
$15.99 Add to cart“Erasmus laid the egg that Luther hatched,” is what the people said. And that made Gerhard Koestler smile. He knew that Erasmus had influenced Luther’s thinking. He also believed both men were trying
- Series: Louise A. Vernon Religious Heritage
- Author: Vernon, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: May 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0836118286
- Language: English
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Who Was Henry VIII?
$6.99 Add to cartHear Ye, Hear Ye! Travel to the age of the Renaissance and learn why Henry VIII is one of the most famous kings in English history.
Mainly remembered for his six marriages and his self-appointment as- Series: Who Was?
- Author: Labrecque, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 044848854X
- Language: English
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Who Was Ferdinand Magellan?
$6.99 Read moreWhen Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain in 1519, he believed he could get to the Spice Islands by sailing west through or around the New World. He was right, but what he didn’t k… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Kramer, S. A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 105
- Publish Date: August 03 2004
- ISBN10: 044843105X
- Language: English
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Who Are You?: Identification, Deception, and Surveillance in Early Modern Europe
$39.00 Read moreWho are you? And how can you prove it? How were individuals described and identified by people who had never seen them before, in the centuries before photography and fingerprinting, in a world withou
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Groebner, Valentin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2007
- ISBN10: 1890951722
- Language: English
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Geometry & Art: How Mathematics Transformed Art During the Renaissance
$24.95 Read moreA definitive look at how geometry changed the world of art forever.
Geometry & Art follows the artists of the Renaissance, whose search for perspective and visual depth led them to the study of geomet- Author: Wade, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1627951059
- Language: English
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
$14.99 Add to cartThe brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Kepler, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1573920363
- Language: English
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Letters from Mexico
$24.99 Add to cartHernan Cortes’s Cartas de Relacion, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town o… [more below]
- Author: Cortes, Hernan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 26 2012
- ISBN10: 1638231974
- Language: English
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Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570
$30.00 Add to cartIn what is both a specific study of conversion in a corner of the Spanish Empire and a work with implications for the understanding of European domination and native resistance throughout the colonial… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies (Paperback) #61
- Author: Clendinnen, Inga
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 28 2003
- ISBN10: 0521527317
- Language: English
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Shadow Drawing
$20.00 Add to cart“[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus–the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Edit
- Author: Fiorani, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250800218
- Language: English
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The Sleeve Should Be Illegal: & Other Reflections on Art at the Frick
$29.95 Read moreExplore the treasures of The Frick Collection through the eyes of a diverse group of contemporary writers, artists and other cultural figures, from George Condo, Lydia Davis and Julie Mehretu to Abbi
- Author: Mitchell, Michaelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1942884796
- Language: English
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The Wonders of Florence
$22.50 Add to cartThe first pop-up book on Florence. Dario Cestaro’s spectacular drawings and paper architecture reveal Florence and its treasures in a pop-up book telling the city’s history with straightforward texts
- Author: Cestaro, Dario
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: March 24 2015
- ISBN10: 8831719211
- Language: English
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El Greco
$20.00 Add to cartTo his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (1541–1614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Through
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Scholz-Hänsel, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534533
- Language: English
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The Boleyns: From the Tudors to the Windsors
$29.95 Read moreAnne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII, was executed on 19 May 1536. Her sister Mary, rumoured mistress to the monarch, lived on and survived the king’s wrath. But this is not the end of the tale … [more below]
- Author: Harvey Purse, Amanda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1398100226
- Language: English
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Amerasia
$40.00 Read moreA connected world as imagined by early modern European artists, mapmakers, and writers, where Asia and the Americas were on a continuum
America and Asia mingled in the geographical and cultural imagin- Author: Horodowich, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 194213083X
- Language: English
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The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World’s Greatest Library
$17.00 Add to cartThis impeccably researched and “adventure-packed” (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus’s son to create the greatest library in the world is “the stuff of Hollyw… [more below]
- Author: Wilson-Lee, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 1982111402
- Language: English
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The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger
$18.99 Add to cart“A colorful introduction to one of the most influential businessmen in history” (The New York Times Book Review), Jacob Fugger–the Renaissance banker “who wrote the playbook for everyone who keeps sc… [more below]
- Author: Steinmetz, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1451688563
- Language: English
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The Renaissance: An Enthralling Guide to a Period of Rebirth in Arts, Science and Culture
$25.99 Add to cartDo the names Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and Raphael ring a bell?
If so, you are already somewhat familiar with the Renaissance, which saw a rebirth in the arts and science. Great strides were mad
- Author: Wellman, Billy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 9798887652474
- Language: English
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God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
$19.99 Add to cartEstablished by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with the persecution of heretics and Jews — and with bur
- Author: Murphy, Cullen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 22 2013
- ISBN10: 0547844581
- Language: English
