From earliest days, artists have sought to record the beauty, form, movement, and infinite variety of the human body. Among the most successful were the great masters of the various European traditions and schools of art. The extraordinary skill, inspiration, and technique they brought to figure drawing resulted in many masterpieces....

By the time he created these images, Rackham was England\'s leading illustrator, famous throughout the world for his interpretations of fairy tales and myths. These illustrations from the original 1911 and 1912 editions, widely regarded as the greatest representations of Wagner\'s drama, constitute Rackham\'s masterworks....

Portfolio of 181 black-and-white patterns — medieval to Renaissance — from a rare 19th-century portfolio: floor tiles, mosaics, textile designs, more....

This wonderful book shows a gigantic selection of over 1,000 child-pleasers exactly as they appeared in Sears catalogs from 1921 to 1939: space guns, wind-up toys, trains, bicycles, sleds, more....

This book provides a dramatic lesson illustrating the need for international cooperation to manage bank crises and to set common standards to help prevent financial crises in the future....

The first book to give students the breadth and depth of scholarship they need to understand the politics of the world economy, THE POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS has been fully updated to reflect the sweeping changes that continue to reshape the international arena....

This handsome, large-format photographic guide comprises 100 striking photographs and extensive captions about the Empire State Building, the World Trade Center, United Nations, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Radio City Music Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art, many other sites. Foreword by Edward I. Koch....