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Google Earth's ancestor: a snapshot of urban life, circa 1600
History's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations

The complete reprint of all 363 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details, two folding maps, as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary. First published in Cologne 1572-1617.

More than four centuries after the first volume was originally published in Cologne, Braun and Hogenberg's magnificent collection of town map engravings, Civitates orbis terrarum, has been brought back to life with this reprint taken from a rare and superbly preserved original set of six volumes, belonging to the Historische Museum in Frankfurt. Produced between 1572 and 1617 - just before the extensive devastation wreaked by the Thirty Years' War - the work contains 564 plans, bird's-eye views, and map views of all major cities in Europe, plus important cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun, and largely engraved by cartographer Franz Hogenberg, the Civitates was intended as a companion volume for Abraham Ortelius's 1570 world atlas, Theatrum orbis terrarum. Over a hundred different artists and cartographers contributed to the sumptuous artwork, which not only shows the towns but also features additional elements, such as figures in local dress, ships, ox-drawn carts, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, that help convey the situation, commercial power, and political importance of the towns they accompany.

The Civitates gives us a comprehensive view of urban life at the turn of the 17th century. TASCHEN's reprint includes all of the city plates, accompanied by selected extracts from Braun's texts on the history and contemporary significance of each urban center as well as translations of the Latin cartouches. A detailed commentary places each city map in its cartographical and cultural context, and examines earlier sources and later editions. Rounding off this comprehensive publication is a separate introductory essay examining the Civitates in its cultural and historical context. From Paris and London to Cairo and Jerusalem, readers will find many a familiar city to zoom back in time to and explore - in fact, many of the maps can still be used for orientation in historical town centers today..
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WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR WORLD? is a much-loved children's classic reissued for the first time in forty years. This imaginative, inspiring book encourages children to look at and think about colour in the world around them. Bob Gill presents a beautifully woven sequence of text and images. The book is notable for being a combined UK/US edition that highlights our different approaches to spelling. WHAT COLOUR IS YOUR WORLD? is destined to be a classic for design lovers of all ages..
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The most complete, accurate and authoritative history on the group Jethro Tull..
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This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source information for the images. Monographs on individual artists also feature a brief chronology..
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Sean Scully , an Irish-born American painter has been a focus of attention in international painting for more than thirty years. He has produced a vibrant and compelling body of work that is widely collected and internationally exhibited. He has persistently held his own course and countless exhibitions all over the world testify to his creative powers and the force of his painting, which is in the tradition of Classical Modernism, ascribing particularly great importance to the expressiveness of colour itself. This book outlines and highlights the continuous development of Scully's oeuvre, from its beginnings in the late 1960s to the present day, with particular reference to the inherent structural qualities of colour itself. The internationally known works which Scully has produced since the 1980s are thereby linked with his almost unknown early works. What actually constitutes the essential links in the last four decades is the artist's exploration of colour and its particular capacity to fulfil s.
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Part of the Illustrated Colour Text series, Embryology presents core information on human embryology. The concise text and clear diagrams help to explain complex processes and concepts, and key points boxes aid retention of the most important facts. The science is linked to clinical medicine with clinical boxes. Highlighting relevant medical conditions, and a glossary helps to demystify embryological terms.

• Text in concise ICT style so core information on embryology can be quickly recognised and digested.
• Clear full colour diagrams and pictures make the embryological concepts clear and easily assimilated.
• Clinical boxes make the the nub of what most medical students need to know, clinical relevance behind the science, immediately apparent.

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When looking at two horses (one black and the other white), we instinctively admire their elegance and their energy without any consideration for their colour. On the other hand, when looking at two men (one black and the other white), everything seems suddenly so different. Colour becomes the main criterion that will define and even classify them. Paradoxically, the pigment that gives the skin its dark colour (the criterion used to assign a negative value to human beings) plays an indispensable physiological role and generates huge profits for pharmaceutical corporations.

From this observation, one conclusion becomes self-evident: our perception of the colour of the skin is neither natural nor logical. It results from the confrontation of two opposite perspectives.

This book is a journey starting from the very roots of the racist ideology up to the latest scientific discoveries on the genetic identity of human beings.

For those who are willing to wear new glasses and take a different (science-based) look at people surrounding them, this book is a must..
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This book traces the life and work of Kenneth Webb, still working hard at seventy-five, one of the foremost contemporary painters in Europe. Best known in Ireland, his evocative paintings of the Connemara landscape, that intimate landscape of wild flowers, rocks, bog pools and whispering grass, ever-changing and full of colour, have all the mystery and sensuality of this magic place. Many other subjects have come under his fluent brush, many techniques and many moods, but there is never a question of mistaken identity. Webb has had exhibitions in London, Manchester, Bristol, Suffolk, Dublin, Galway, Cork, Belfast, Washington, New York, Toronto, Nairobi, Geneva, Jersey and commissions have been taken from all over the world. He has work in important public and private collections in over a dozen countries. The book divides into two parts written nearly thirty years apart in a unique way of illusrating the development into the maturity of a unique individual. The Contents The book includes chapte.
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