Published to coincide with the grand opening of Grant Wood’s studio at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art in Iowa, this in-depth exploration of the artist’s most fruitful period brings together some of his best-known paintings and rarely seen decorative art...

Michael Graves's career has been one of the most remarkably creative and successful of any American architect practicing today. His extensive oeuvre includes such renowned projects as the Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel and the Walt Disney World Swan...

This collection of translations of the more important non-canonical Old Testament books--such as Jubilees, the Odes of Solomon, and the Apocalypse of Elijah--is both accessible and completely up to date with modern scholarship. Edited with introductions...

St Basil the Great wrote his treatise On the Holy Spirit during the closing phase of the Trinitarian controversies of the fourth century. The Arians had previously denied the full divinity of the Son and the debate then turned to the Holy Spirit. In this...

In celebration of the 100th anniversary of its publication, a beautifully illustrated annotation of The Wizard of Oz, complete with an exact reproduction of the original 1900 edition. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the quintessential American fairy tale...

What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world's foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the...

Vine Deloria Jr., named one of the most influential religious thinkers in the world by Time , shares a framework for a new vision of reality. Bridging science and religion to form an integrated idea of the world, while recognizing the importance of...

Painted in his famous garden in Giverny, Monet's serial Water Lilies are among his most popular paintings. This magnificent, oversized 16" x 12" book contains full-color reproductions of 65 plates -- some in panoramic fold-out format -- plus several of...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D. freeze-framed a glorious legacy of Roman art and culture in the miraculously well-preserved remains of Pompeii. This magnificent collection by one of the world's leading antiquities photographers showcases the...

"In 1941 the National Park Service commissioned noted photographer Ansel Adams to create a photo mural for the Department of the Interior Building in Washington, DC. The theme was to be nature as exemplified and protected in the U.S. National Parks. The...