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The Black Book
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
35th Anniversary Edition
Edited by Middleton A. Harris, Ernest Smith, Morris Levitt and Roger Furman
Foreword by Toni Morrison
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: November 10, 2009
Price: $35.00
Seventeenth-century sketches of Africa as it appeared to marauding European traders. Nineteenth-century slave auction notices. Twentieth-century sheet music for work songs and freedom chants. Photographs of war heroes, regal in uniform. Antebellum reward posters for capturing runaway slaves. An 1856 article titled “A Visit to the Slave Mother Who Killed Her... Read more >
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The Bauhaus Group
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >
Six Masters of Modernism
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: Hardcover, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >
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The Bauhaus Group
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 544 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $40.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-three years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he a professor and an artist, in glass, metal, wood, and photography). The Alberses told him their own stories... Read more >
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Painting Below Zero
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >
Notes on a Life in Art
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >
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Painting Below Zero
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >
Written by James Rosenquist and David Dalton
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: October 27, 2009
Price: $50.00
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more complex palette, including grisaille and Day-Glo colors... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Church Misericords and Bench Ends
Written by Richard Hayman
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated. Now they, along with the benches installed in parish churches in the later middle ages, are the objects... Read more >
Written by Richard Hayman
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $12.95
Although misericords were originally installed on the hidden undersides of church folding seats to provide comfort to those standing for long periods of prayer, the have gradually become more ornately carved and decorated. Now they, along with the benches installed in parish churches in the later middle ages, are the objects... Read more >
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
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eBook.
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Master of Shadows
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens
Written by Mark Lamster
Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $29.95
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.
Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master with the penchant for fleshy, pink nudes whose popularity was eclipsed by that of Rembrandt van Rijn. In his time, however... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
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eBook.
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Tiepolo Pink
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Written by Roberto Calasso
Translated by Alastair McEwen
Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: October 20, 2009
Price: $40.00
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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The Art of Buddhism
An Introduction to Its History and Meaning
Written by Denise Patry Leidy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
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An Introduction to Its History and Meaning
Written by Denise Patry Leidy
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $24.95
Read more >
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Dark Water
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
Art, Disaster, and Redemption in Florence
Written by Robert Clark
Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: October 6, 2009
Price: $16.00
Birthplace of Michelangelo and home to untold masterpieces, Florence is a city for art lovers. But on November 4, 1966, the rising waters of the Arno threatened to erase over seven centuries of history and human achievement.
Now Robert Clark explores the Italian city’s greatest flood and its aftermath through the... Read more >
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Antoine's Alphabet
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $15.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
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New Art City
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
New Art City takes us from the solitude of the artist’s studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to... Read more >
Manhattan at Mid-Century
Written by Jed Perl
Format: eBook, 656 pages
On Sale: June 3, 2009
Price: $18.95
A fascinating, panoramic exploration of art and culture in mid-twentieth-century New York City from one of our most important and influential art critics.
New Art City takes us from the solitude of the artist’s studio to the uproarious bars where artists gathered, from the ramshackle bohemian neighborhoods of downtown Manhattan to... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: Hardcover, 560 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this...
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Rogues' Gallery
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
Written by Michael Gross
Format: eBook, 496 pages
On Sale: May 5, 2009
Price: $29.95
“Behind almost every painting is a fortune and behind that a sin or a crime.”
With these words as a starting point, Michael Gross, leading chronicler of the American rich, begins the first independent, unauthorized look at the saga of the nation’s greatest museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this... Read more >
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hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Visual Shock
A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
Written by Michael Kammen
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The... Read more >
A History of Art Controversies in American Culture
Written by Michael Kammen
Format: eBook, 480 pages
On Sale: April 22, 2009
Price: $18.00
In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America’s obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins’s 1875 masterpiece The... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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The Clarks of Cooperstown
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $35.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America’s greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer... Read more >
Written by Nicholas Fox Weber
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $35.00
Nicholas Fox Weber, author of the acclaimed Patron Saints (“Exhilarating avant-garde entertainment”—Sam Hunter, The New York Times Book Review) and Balthus (“The authoritative account of his life and work”—Michael Ravitch, Newsday), gives us now the idiosyncratic lives of Sterling and Stephen Clark—two of America’s greatest art collectors, heirs to the Singer... Read more >
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The Cave Painters
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... Read more >
Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
Written by Gregory Curtis
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $15.95
The Cave Painters is a vivid introduction to the spectacular cave paintings of France and Spain—the individuals who rediscovered them, theories about their origins, their splendor and mystery.
Gergory Curtis makes us see the astonishing sophistication and power of the paintings and tells us what is known about their creators, the Cro-Magnon... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Egyptian Painting and Relief
Written by Gay Robins
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $13.95
The artists of Ancient Egypt reached a level of sophistication and technical mastery unsurpassed by other early peoples. They perfected a style which was less naturalistic than that later employed by the Greeks and Romans but which is particularly fascinating to the modern eye because of its combination of realistic and... Read more >
Written by Gay Robins
Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $13.95
The artists of Ancient Egypt reached a level of sophistication and technical mastery unsurpassed by other early peoples. They perfected a style which was less naturalistic than that later employed by the Greeks and Romans but which is particularly fascinating to the modern eye because of its combination of realistic and... Read more >
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China
3000 Years of Art and Literature
Edited by Jason Steuber
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $60.00
A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, China: A Celebration in Art and Literature reveals the glorious 5,000-year-old history of this ancient and fascination culture. In 240 pages and more than 100 full-color images, this volume traces China through its tales and stories, plays and poetry, paintings and... Read more >
3000 Years of Art and Literature
Edited by Jason Steuber
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: September 23, 2008
Price: $60.00
A window into a world of extraordinary beauty and mystery, China: A Celebration in Art and Literature reveals the glorious 5,000-year-old history of this ancient and fascination culture. In 240 pages and more than 100 full-color images, this volume traces China through its tales and stories, plays and poetry, paintings and... Read more >
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Antoine's Alphabet
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Watteau and His World
Written by Jed Perl
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $25.00
Antoine Watteau, one of the most mysterious painters who ever lived, is the inspiration for this delightful investigation of the tangled relationship between art and life. Weaving together historical fact and personal reflections, the influential art critic Jed Perl reconstructs the amazing story of this pioneering bohemian artist who, although he... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Tara Donovan
Written by Tara Donovan
Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen Mergel
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $45.00
Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... Read more >
Written by Tara Donovan
Text by Lawrence Weschler, Nicholas Baume and Jen Mergel
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $45.00
Artist Tara Donovan uses commonplace consumer materials--toothpicks, tape, pencils, buttons, paper plates, and the like--to create her dazzling sculptural installations. Often biomorphic or topographical in character, her large-scale abstract works utilize systematic arrangements of thousands or even millions of units. Visually evocative and perceptually seductive, her pieces are at once organic... Read more >
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Terra Cotta Warriors
Guardians of China's First Emperor
Written by Jane Portal
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly 8,000 figures made on such a vast... Read more >
Guardians of China's First Emperor
Written by Jane Portal
Format: Hardcover, 96 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $14.95
Often described as the eighth Wonder of the World, the massive, underground army made from fired clay evokes both awe and curiosity. Who was this powerful Emperor of the Qin Dynasty who needed these warriors to guard him in the afterlife? How were nearly 8,000 figures made on such a vast... Read more >
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Tutankhamun
The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs
Written by Zahi Hawass
Photographed by Sandro Vannini
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $40.00
Mysterious boy king Tutankhamun returns to the U.S. in 2008, bringing rare treasures never before seen outside Egypt. For the millions of fans wanting a keepsake and chronicle of this magnificent new exhibition, this book will delight. Created by world-renowned art historians under the guidance of Zahi Hawass—director of Egypt’s Supreme... Read more >
The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs
Written by Zahi Hawass
Photographed by Sandro Vannini
Format: Hardcover, 264 pages
On Sale: September 16, 2008
Price: $40.00
Mysterious boy king Tutankhamun returns to the U.S. in 2008, bringing rare treasures never before seen outside Egypt. For the millions of fans wanting a keepsake and chronicle of this magnificent new exhibition, this book will delight. Created by world-renowned art historians under the guidance of Zahi Hawass—director of Egypt’s Supreme... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
hardcover library binding.
