Search Results: Authors starting with G from Emily Green Books

Atlantic Books, 2004 Soft cover. Very Good.

Studio Vista, 1988 This is a practical guide to understanding how colours behave and how to use them in painting. It details the art of choosing from the vast array of colours available, in every medium - oil, watercolour, pastel, acrylic - and how to select a basic palette that is the basis for every painting. The full colour, step-by-step approach makes it an invaluable help for the amateur artist and improves his understanding and use of colour.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.

Oxford University Press, USA, 2009 How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with. Games discusses such topics as the men and women who built the colonial enterprise, the political and fiscal factors that made such growth possible, and domestic politics that fueled commercial expansion. Her cast of characters includes soldiers and diplomats, merchants and mariners, ministers and colonists, governors and tourists, revealing the surprising breath of foreign experiences ordinary English people had in this period. This book is also unusual in stretching outside Europe to include Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. A… Read More

Oxford University Press, Usa, 2012 Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture -- one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones -- is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific values lies above all in their ability to provide the criteria by which we come to appraise cognitive enquiry, and which shape our understanding of what it can achieve. The period between the 1680s and the middle of the eighteenth century is a very distinctive one in this development. It is then that we witness the emergence of the idea that scientific values form a model for all cognitive claims. It is also at this time that science explicitly goes beyond technical expertise and begins to articulate a world-view designed to displace others, whether humanist or Christian. But what occurred took place in a peculiar and overdetermined fashion, and the outcome in the… Read More

W&N, 2006 About the book: The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly, livid much of the time. In between the incoherent bellowing of the terraces and the pursed, rigid eye-rolling of the commuter carriage, they reach the end of their tethers and the thin end of their wedges. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy and fractious. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, roundabouts and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge.. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New.

W&N, 2008 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New.

Phaidon, 1994 About the book: A companion volume to Art and Illusion. Provides an intriguing overview of art and our perception of it. Discusses subjects as diverse as photography's tricks with perspective, the problems of expressing emotion through art and how pictorial representation affects the way in which we see the world. Soft cover. As New.

Phaidon, 1994 About the book: An important collection of essays containing some of Professor Gombrich's most famous contributions to the discussion of values and their place in the humanities. Ranges in subject from the philosophy of Hegel to wartime propaganda broadcasts, the future of museums and the role of reason and feeling in the study of art. Includes one of Gombrich's most influential essays, 'In Search of Cultural History'.. Soft cover. Fine.

Phaidon Press Ltd, 1977 About the book: Described by Kenneth Clark as 'one of the most brilliant books of art criticism that I have ever read', Art and Illusion is a classic study of image-making. It seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? The question may be simple but there is no easy answer, and Professor Gombrich's brilliant and wide-ranging exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him into countless crucial areas. Gombrich examines, questions and re-evaluates old and new ideas on such matters as the imitation of nature, the function of tradition, the problem of abstraction, the validity of perspective and the interpretation of expression: all of which reveal that pictorial representation is far from being a straightforward matter. First published more than 40 years ago, Art and Illusion has lost none of its vitality and importance. In applying the findings of experimental science to a nuanced understanding of art and in… Read More

Canongate Books, 2012 About the book: Seventy-three short tales from Gray's earlier books are here joined with sixteen new tales Droll & Plausible, all the original illustrations with some new, and endnotes to inform every curious reader.. Hardcover. As New.

Dis Voir, 1999 Soft cover. Fair.

Arrow, 2008 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine.

Vintage Classics, 2006 About the book: Suppressed by the KGB, Life and Fate is a rich and vivid account of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union. On its completion in 1960, Life and Fate was suppressed by the KGB. Twenty years later, the novel was smuggled out of the Soviet Union on microfilm. At the centre of this epic novel looms the battle of Stalingrad. Within a world torn apart by ideological tyranny and war, Grossmans characters must work out their destinies. Chief among these are the members of the Shaposhnikov family Lyudmila, a mother destroyed by grief for her dead son; Viktor, her scientist-husband who falls victim to anti-semitism; and Yevgenia, forced to choose between her love for the courageous tank-commander Novikov and her duty to her former husband. Life and Fate is one of the great Russian novels of the 20th century, and the richest and most vivid account there is of what the Second World War meant to the Soviet Union.. Soft cover. As New.

Harvill Secker, 2010 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New.

Springer, 2011 Ex library book, but in excellent condition. Lively and easy to understand, Total Eclipses presents the myths and legends associated with solar and lunar eclipses through the ages, the mechanisms governing these events, their beauty, and the wealth of information gleaned from them by astronomers and astrophysicists. "Gives a wide variety of information on observing eclipses for the novice as well as on the value of eclipses to professionals.any reader can find information at an interesting and appropriate level and can be sure that he is being guided knowledgeably." -NATURE. Soft cover. Near Fine.