Each chapter of Pharaoh's Flowers carries detailed descriptions of the plant species found or represented in King Tut's tomb. The plants and flowers of ancient Egypt are brought back to life in this botanical exploration of the Pharaoh's tomb.

Since Kenneth Clark’s major study, The Nude, appeared in 1956, value changes and social changes (particularly the rise of feminism), as well as aesthetic and technological developments in painting and photography, have produced new attitudes to the role and meaning of the naked body in art.

Making of the Modern World presents the development of science and technology through some 100 key inventions. Each invention is illustrated in full color, backed up in most instances by historical pictures in black and white. Accompanying these illustrations is an informative and easily understandable text, placing each invention in its historical context and explaining its function.

Prairies and Plains is intended for students at the under- graduate level and above, scholars investigating Prairies and Plains subjects, and librarians engaged in ref- erence work or collection building. It cites the reference sources- encyclopedias, biblio- graphies, biographies, alma- nacs, catalogues of flora and fauna, dictionaries- that read- ers will need to prepare class papers, resolve queries, and develop strategies for investi- gating questions of Plains history and culture.

Picturing Plants is an examination of the purpose and function of botanical art. The book considers such materials as early woodcut herbals and painted florilegia, botanical treatises and records of new discoveries, gardening manuals, and field guides for the enthusiastic amateur, and analyzes the ways in which the representation of plants has reflected man's changing relationship with the natural world.

Whales and dolphins are enduringly popular animals, yet man’s relationship with them over the years has been as exploitative as it is appreciative.

The Pencil of Nature, published in six installments between 1844 and 1846, was the first book to be illustrated entirely with photographs. Created by William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877), The Pencil of Nature documents Fox Talbot’s development of the calotype photographic process.

Despite the overwhelming popularity of “the movies” throughout the world, an encyclopedia treatment of film— one that includes not only entries on important films and important practitioners in film (actors, directors, writers, technicians, critics) but also surveys of national film- making, topics and terms in filmmaking —does not exist. No reference book combines “Dame Judi Dench” with Birth of a Nation with “film noir” with “Italian neorealism.” This multi-volume encyclopedia answers that need.

Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Commemorative Coins of the United States is the most thorough and far-ranging volume ever compiled about United States commemorative coinage. It provides indispensable information for a broad spectrum of readers—from the reference librarian and the student, to the historian and the discerning investor, to the serious collector and the casual hobbyist.