Ross King

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1.		Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture from Penguin (Non-Classics) Customer Review: I travel a ton and I am so sorry I didn't climb Brunelleschi's Dome. After reading this book, I want to go back, just to climb and see all the details I just read about. At times the book got slow and technical, but it was overall fascinating.....Stands the test of time....	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

2.		Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $10.88 Customer Review: I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Many of the stories are things I have heard before, but woven seemlessly into an insightful narrative. King's assessment of Michelangelo's ceiling and its radical importance in pictorial history is correct in its context and amplitude; my knowledge thereby... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

3.		The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism from Walker & Company Price: $7.99 Customer Review: By tracing the careers of two French artists in the 1860s, King manages to illuminate the motivating forces behind, and the sources beneath, transition at a crucial point in the evolution of art in the West. Almost every page is filled with information and analysis that fascinates the reader. Yet... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

4.		Elementary Korean: Includes a 74-minute Audio CD from Tuttle Publishing Customer Review: I bought this book for self study and spent some months using it. The structure is quite familiar to whom has already been studying languages, various lessons are divided into a text, vocabulary, grammar notes and excercises. Talking about the general structure, I think the lessons are too... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

5.		Ibn Battuta In Black Africa from Markus Wiener Publishers Customer Review: I was reading Dunn's commentary and historic amplification of Battuta's travels when my daughter noticed what I was reading and gave me this book (it had been an assigned text in a college history course). It happened that I was then reading Dunn's commentary on Ibn Battuta's travels in the western... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

6.		Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power (Eminent Lives) from Eminent Lives Price: $14.93 Customer Review: This is one of several volumes in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series. Each offers a concise rather than comprehensive, much less definitive biography. However, just as Al Hirschfeld's illustrations of various celebrities capture their defining physical characteristics, the authors of books... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

7.	[no image]	Modern Fracturing - Enhancing Natural Gas Production from Energy Tribune Publishing Inc. Price: $120.00	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

8.	[no image]	The Judgement of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism from Walker Customer Review: Book arrived in excellent condition, however took a little longer than expected. Immediately opened it up and started to read! Great addition to my art history library.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

9.	[no image]	Brunelleschi's Dome from Walker & Co	Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

10.		Ex-Libris from Penguin (Non-Classics) Price: $11.70 Customer Review: King's narrative was bogged down with unnecessary details, historical conspiracies, name dropping and dead-end plot-lines in which a seventeenth century book-seller is given the task of tracking down a mysterious volume. I was pretty disappointed in the conclusion and the anticlimactic revelation of... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information Buy from: United Kingdom

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