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  • Vermeer

    A Life Lost and Found

    by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...
    This revelatory biography persuasively addresses the two great unresolved questions about Vermeer: why did he paint his pictures, and what do they mean?One spring day in 1683, a notary’s clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Caravaggio

    A Life Sacred and Profane

    by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...
    **A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year"This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review**Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

    by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...
    You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Modern Aspects of Power System Frequency Stability and Control

    by Andrew Dixon ...
    Modern Aspects of Power System Frequency Stability and Control describes recently-developed tools, analyses, developments and new approaches in power system frequency, stability and control, filling a gap that, until the last few years, has been unavailable to power system engineers. - Deals with specific practical issues relating to power system frequency, control and stability - Focuses on low ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Practical Guide to IT Problem Management

    by Andrew Dixon ...
    Series series IT Pro Practice Notes
    Some IT organisations seem to expend all their energy firefighting – dealing with incidents as they arise and fixing, or patching over, the breakage. In organisations like this, restarting computers is seen as a standard method to resolve many issues. Perhaps the best way to identify whether an organisation understands problem management is to ask what they do after they have restarted the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Living Greatly in the Law

    Hal Wootten's selected writings

    Edited by Andrew Lynch, David Dixon ...
    John Halden ' Hal' Wootten (1922-2021) – lawyer, legal academic and the founder of the UNSW Faculty of Law – made a major contribution to the law and public life in Australia. Wootten' s essays on the causes he felt passionately about, including the rights of First Nations peoples, press degradation, the future of legal education, climate change, the Palestinian tragedy, are as fresh and relevant ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Vermeer

    A Life Lost and Found

    by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...
    Narrated by Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours

    One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. Rather than dispel the mysteries of Vermeer's life, this discovery merely gave rise to more questions: How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the master's work? ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Artists Who Changed History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK History Changers
    This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Artists Who Changed History places well-known artists in their historical and cultural context, showing you how they came to influence Art as we know it today.This illustrated guide is ideal for those interested in art, sculptures, and the history of art or who would ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Fundamentals of Craniofacial Growth

    by Andrew D. Dixon, David A.N. Hoyte, Olli Ronning ...
    This book brings together in one volume selected important topics in craniofacial growth. Topics include: principles of skeletal growth; osteogenesis and its control; formation of the cranial base and craniofacial joints; prenatal development of the facial skeleton; growth of the mandible, nasomaxillary complex, orbit, cranial base, ear capsule, and cranial vault; bone remodeling; muscles; soft ... Read more

    $470.00 USD

  • Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete Design to EC2

    The Complete Process, Second Edition

    by Eugene Obrien, Andrew Dixon, Emma Sheils ...
    Concrete is an integral part of twenty-first century structural engineering, and an understanding of how to analyze and design concrete structures is a vital part of training as a structural engineer. With Eurocode legislation increasingly replacing British Standards, it’s also important to know how this affects the way you can work with concrete.Newly revised to Eurocode 2, this second edition ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Tourism Ethnographies

    Ethics, Methods, Application and Reflexivity

    Edited by Hazel Andrews, Takamitsu Jimura, Laura Dixon ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Tourism and Anthropology
    How is ethnography practiced in the context of tourism? As a multi- and interdisciplinary area of academic enquiry, the use of ethnography to study tourism is found in an increasingly diverse number of settings.This book is a collection of essays that discuss the practice of ethnography in tourism settings. Scholars from different countries share their work. Reflecting on their experiences, each ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Poetry by Heart

    Poems for Learning and Reciting

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual ... Read more

    $14.29 USD