Libros

This new book is an in-depth study covering John K. ""Jack"" Northrop's quest for a clean flying machine. Covered are: Northrop's initial N-1M project, the N-9M, XP-56, through the B-35 project, B-49 project, and the huge bombers planned only on the drawing board.Included are over 300 black and (...)

A major collection of contemporary botanical illustration. Forty-one Australian and twenty-three overseas artists have contributed by invitation one or more works of significant plants in the three Sydney botanic gardens. This collection is published to celebrate the bicentenary this year of the (...)

Johan Laurentz Jensen (1800 1856) is the only full-fledged still-life painter in the Nordics. His beautiful ower and fruit paintings and his rarer kitchen and game still lifes have consistently found an appreciative audience, both in Denmark and abroad. As the ower painter par excellence of the (...)

"Quite simply the most fascinating record of a ' fashion victim' one could hope for." The SpectatorThis captivating study reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, it chronicles how style-conscious (...)

The Indonesian Confrontation that raged from 1963 to 1966 stemmed from Indonesia's opposition to the creation of Malaysia. Fighting in the challenging jungle terrain of Borneo and in the countryside straddling the Malaysia/Indonesia border, where there were few roads, posed significant logistical (...)