How green is my planet
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Pavilions of delight in a picturesque show of power
Fruitful States
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Problem pages
International Transcations in Operational Research
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Red is not the only colour
Art and Artists of 20th Century China
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Roll over Bernoulli
Bernoulli
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The clockmaker who beat the stars
Longitude - The Charting of the Oceans
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The end of certitude
Beyond Science
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Ancient Egypt
Egyptian art is big business. The decline of classics has created a gap waiting to be filled, and Egyptian things have the advantage of not being Eurocentric, while being familiar enough not to be...
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Classical worlds
Classical art, though ancient, is not static in modern scholarship. The recent revelation of key sites (such as the villa of Herod Atticus at Astros), or fresh interpretations of familiar monuments (...
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Far Orient expressed
It is hard to write down reactions to a dictionary. We do not read dictionaries, but rather collect the right tools from them for all our various mining ventures. To that end, the Dictionary of Art...
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Images of India
The Dictionary of Art is an awesome effort by Macmillan, but my main impression of its coverage of India is of disappointment at the number, quality and the size of the illustrations. Perhaps a...
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Islamic light and lustre
Islamic culture's most striking visual achievement is an art of light and colour, a mastery of lustrous surface reflections and aqueous depths. The small and mostly muddy black and white...
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Marvels of the Maya
The Dictionary devotes no fewer than 228 pages to "Native North American art", "Mesoamerican, pre-Columbian art,'' and "South America, pre-Columbian art''. Each subject is covered by some 76 pages on...
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From Asante to Zulu
It is immediately obvious that this is an unusual publication. Few dictionaries require fieldwork of a reviewer but this is so vast that Mohammed must go to the mountain and read it in the publisher'...