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The Perfect Prince
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 20.00In 1491, as Machiavelli advised popes and princes and Leonardo da Vinci astonished the art world, a young man boarded a ship in Portugal bound for Ireland. He would be greeted upon arrival as the rightful heir to the throne of England. The trouble was, England already had a king. The most intriguing and ambitious pretender in history, this elegant... more...
The Science of Describing
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing ... more...
The Renaissance
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 9.99This wide-ranging exploration of the Renaissance sees the period as a time of unprecedented intellectual excitement and cultural experimentation and interaction on a global scale. It guides the reader through the key issues that defined the period, from art, architecture, and literature, to advances in science, trade and travel. - ;More than ever before,... more...
English Fictions of Communal Identity, 14851603
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 114.95Focusing on Tudor prose fiction from Malory's Morte D'Arthur through the works of Sir Philip Sidney and Thomas Nashe, this study explores the concept of "collective agency" and the extensive impact it had on English Renaissance culture. Ultimately, author Joshua Phillips challenges standard accounts of literary history and periodization... more...
Literacy in Everyday Life
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00Focusing on four Dutch diaries from different periods of the early modern age, this book describes in detail the diversified use of reading in everyday life, examining it in a wider context of communication that also includes writing and speech. more...
Women of the Renaissance
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 21.00In this informative and lively volume, Margaret L. King synthesizes a large body of literature on the condition of western European women in the Renaissance centuries (1350-1650), crafting a much-needed and unified overview of women's experience in Renaissance society. Utilizing the perspectives of social, church, and intellectual history, King... more...
Leonardo's Legacy
Da Capo Press 2010; US$ 16.00By the international bestselling author of The Science of Happiness and The Secret Pulse of Time , a fresh exploration of Leonardo da Vinci?s real code: Science! more...
Odious Commerce
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 58.00This study shows how British influence affected the course of Cuban history. more...
The Mandarin-Capitalists from Nanyang
Cambridge University Press 1981; US$ 38.00This book examines the contribution of Chinese entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia to China's early modernization. more...
Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires
Cambridge University Press 1983; US$ 40.00A first full-length study of the political economy of the nineteenth-century Swazi state. more...









