Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. In this landmark biography, Christopher Hibbert reveals how this iconic figure and architect of Italian unification earned the adulation of not only his fellow Italians, but people across the globe.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, ILP 2004, held in Porto, Portugal, in September 2004.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers address all current topics in inductive logic programming, ranging from theoretical and methodological issues to ...

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. For the next four years, he and a team of assistants laboured over the vast ceiling. This book tells the story of those four years and paints a picture of day-to-day life on the Sistine scaffolding - in the upheaval of early sixteenth-century Rome.

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, retains a rare power to astonish. This book tells the story of how the cupola was raised, from its conception to its consecration.

While George Cutley is painting the portrait of Lady Beauclair in 1770s London, she tells him the scandalous story of Tristano, a castrato singer in Handel's opera 50 years before. He then hears a tragic tale from Eleanora, one that will have him unwittingly re-enacting the fate of Tristano.

Suitable for beginning learners of Korean, this book presents things that they need to learn the language effectively. It presents vocabulary, grammar, conversations, and exercises. It contains an audio CD that assists learners in speaking like a native.

An elegant new biography in which Ross King re-examines Machiavelli's legacy.

This sequel to Elementary Korean offers an intermediate-level course in Korean. The volume includes dialogues, vocabulary, detailed breakdowns of grammatical structures, and language exercises. It is accompanied by a 74-minute audio compact disk.

In 1863, the French painter, Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. Manet, on the other hand, was struggling in obscurity. Taking the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet, this book uses them as a lens for their times. It shows that their paintings was not just about Art, it was about how to see the world.

A cryptic summons from Lady Marchamont launches a London bookseller Isaac Inchbold on an odyssey through the back alleys of 17th-century Europe. He suddenly finds himself in a game where forces are anonymous, motives inexplicable but the outcome deadly.

In 1863, the French painter Ernest Meissonier was one of the most famous artists in the world. Manet was known only as the sloppy painter of a few much-derided canvases depicting absinthe-drinking beggars and bourgeois gentlemen in top hats. This book describes the parallel careers of Meissonier and Manet. It also describes the Parisian life.