Libros

This generously illustrated book examines Photorealism in contemporary art from its roots in the late 1960s to today. Photorealism reintroduced straightforward representation into an art world dominated by Pop Art, Minimalism, Land Art, and Performance Art. Often misunderstood as being overtly (...)

The reign of Louis XIV of France had a great impact on the course of European and world military history. The years 1643 to 1715 were a defining epoch for western military, diplomatic and economic matters. Most of those years were marked by conflict between major European powers and the Sun King's (...)

UN RELOJ ES UNA OBRA MAESTRA DE LA TÉCNICA, EN LA QUE EL ARTE SE FUNDE CON LA CIENCIA PARA CREAR LO QUE, A LO LARGO DE LOS AÑOS, SE HA CONVERTIDO Y SIGUE SIENDO UN VERDADERO OBJETO DE DESEO. La evolución de la relojería ha coincidido con las etapas de la evolución técnica y con los cambios en las (...)

This volume completes the study of the Tudor Art of War and is in effect a handbook for the Elizabethan army, which explains its leadership, organization, tactics and training and recruitment. It also describes how soldiers were paid, clothed, equipped and provided for or as was too often the case, (...)

This study describes and analyses the Swedish campaign in Muscovy of 1609 1610 and the Ingrian War of 1610 1617 between Sweden and Muscovy; both wars took place during Russia's Time of Troubles'. Faced with a serious threat from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Moscow entered into an alliance (...)

A Orange, en 105 avant notre ère, les Romains subissent la plus impressionnante défaite depuis Hannibal ; en 451, Attila échoue à conquérir la Gaule dans les champs Catalauniques ; la bataille de Poitiers, en 732, met fin aux incursions musulmanes en Aquitaine et ouvre le sud de la Loire à (...)