This book "is a collaborative effort that includes contributions from many archivists and researchers at the National Archives. The origins of the volume go back to the late 1970's, when the Education Branch of the Office of Public Programs began an effort to encourage wider use of the substantial family and local history materials in the National Archives."--Preface.

Stroke of Genius. The complete painted oeuvre of Leonardo da Vinci. The paintings of a renaissance master Inventor, painter, sculptor, scientist, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was nothing short of a quintessential Renaissance genius. No other artist of his generation has left behind such an extensive, authentic, and innovative oeuvre yet Leonardo remains the most enigmatic of them all. From the beguiling Last Supper to the...

"Meticulous reproduction of a rare catalog includes floor plans as well as exterior and interior views of 80 American homes, among them a handsome, three-story frame residence with six bedrooms and a cozy, three-room cottage measuring 18 feet by 22 feet. A profusion of illustrations depict handsome stairways, French doors, built-in linen closets, and other amenities. Of value to home restorers and preservationists, this delightful view to the past...

This title offers a comprehensive examination of the whole of Caravaggio's œuvre with a catalogue raisonée of his works. Five introductory chapters analyse his artistic career from his training in Lombard Milan and his triumphal rise in papal Rome up to his dramatic final years in Naples, Malta and Sicily.

"An entrancing and prismatic debut novel by Christine Lai, set in a near future fraught with ecological collapse, Landscapes brilliantly explores memory, empathy, preservation, and art as an instrument for recollection and renewal. In the English countryside--decimated by heat and drought--Penelope archives what remains of an estate's once notable collection. As she catalogues the library's contents, she keeps a diary of her final months in the dilapidated...

This episode of The Green Interview features Tzeporah Berman, an eco-activist, environmental iconoclast, and author who has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada for two decades. Her latest book, This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, documents some of her most notable experiences on the front lines of Canada’s environmental organizations and some of their most successful environmental campaigns, including the...