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|  | Imperial Rome & Christian Triumph by J. R. Elsner
This stimulating book offers an exciting new approach to the twin themes of the arts of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christian art. Beginning in the second century, with its rich revival of ancient Learning and artistic practices, and ending in the fifth with Christian narrative and Liturgical cycles and the pilgrimage arts, this book explores the art of the Roman Empire by tackling two inter-related periods of internal transformation: the 'Second Sophist' (c. AD 100-300), and the era of late antiquity (c. AD 250-450). For the first time, these two themes are treated together, throwing a more penetrating tight on the radical change undergone by the empire in becoming a Christian imperium. Vases, murals, statues, and masonry are explored in relation to such issues as power, death, society, acculturation, and religion. By examining questions of reception, viewing, and the culture of spectacle alongside the more traditional art-historical themes of imperial patronage and stylistic change, Elsner presents a fresh and challenging account of a rich cultural crucible in which many developments of later European art had their origins. AUTHOR: J. R. Elsner
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Treasure Island by A. J. McAllister, Ara Watson, Dan Danko, David Frankland, Deidre S. Laiken
Jim Hawkins, who narrates Stevenson's classic tale, is rewarded for his assistance to an old pirate, Billy Bones, with a map showing the way to buried treasure. He and his associates set sail for the island on a ship manned by a band of pirates--a fact they discover en route. The pirate king is the notorious one-legged cook Long John Silver, one of Stevenson's most delightfully conceived villains. The pirates are vanquished, the treasure is retrieved, and Stevenson's novel is widely loved, and admired as one of the great adventure novels of all time. AUTHOR: A. J. McAllister, Ara Watson, Dan Danko, David Frankland, Deidre S. Laiken
PUBLISHER: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Faust by Goethe Johan Wolfgang, Peter Sis, Randall Jarrell
Peter Sis's eerie illustrations accompany Jarrell's translations of Goethe's FAUST, PART I, which he translated during the last decade of his life. When Jarrell died before completing the task in 1965, Robert Lowell stepped in to finish the job. Goethe's German is rendered in unrhymed English. AUTHOR: Goethe Johan Wolfgang, Peter Sis, Randall Jarrell
PUBLISHER: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Ancient Greece by Thomas R. Martin
Description not available.Covers the political, military, and social history of Greece from the Stone Age through the rise of Alexander the Great and the disintegration of his empire after his death AUTHOR: Thomas R. Martin
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Valparaiso by Don DeLillo
This play premiered at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge in January 1999. An ordinary businessman named Michael Majeski, en route to Valparaiso, Indiana, mysterious lands instead in Valparaiso, Florida and then Valparaiso, Chile-a series of misadventures that turn him into an international media curiosity and threatens to destroy his life. AUTHOR: Don DeLillo
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Treasure Island by Angela Cheyne, Earle Hitchner, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Jasper Britton, John Lawrence
Jim Hawkins, who narrates Stevenson's classic tale, is rewarded for his assistance to an old pirate, Billy Bones, with a map showing the way to buried treasure. He and his associates set sail for the island on a ship manned by a band of pirates--a fact they discover en route. The pirate king is the notorious one-legged cook Long John Silver, one of Stevenson's most delightfully conceived villains. The pirates are vanquished, the treasure is retrieved, and Stevenson's novel is widely loved, and admired as one of the great adventure novels of all time. AUTHOR: Angela Cheyne, Earle Hitchner, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Jasper Britton, John Lawrence
PUBLISHER: Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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