Product Description: The 60 extraordinary paintings that comprise The Royal Holloway Collection’s touring exhibit illustrate the Victorian belief in art as the ultimate civilizing influence. Art was seen as a teaching tool with visual beauty as its medium, and Thomas Holloway sought out only the best examples, regardless of cost, to enhance the women’s college he founded in 1879...read more

Product Description: The rediscovery of Shakespeare's work in the eighteenth century was a key factor in launching the Romantic movement. At the height of the Shakespeare craze of the early nineteenth century a handful of plays--"Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear and "Romeo and Juliet--created the mindset of a generation, affecting every artist, writer, composer and politician in Europe...read more

Product Description: Arriving at their mature styles independently of one another, the renowned American expatriate painters James McNeill Whistler and John Singer Sargent and the British artist Philip Wilson Steer are often credited with bringing modern art to London near the end of the 19th century...read more

Product Description: The Wallace collection commemorates the 400th anniversary of Van Dyck's birth with this publication and an exhibition devoted to the artist's achievements. This book includes in-depth studies of select paintings, including portraits of Philippe le Roy, his teenage bride Marie de Raet and Isabelle Waerbecke, wife of painter Paul de Vos as well as his lyrical work, The Shepherd Paris...read more

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Product Description: The third edition of Process Systems Analysis and Control retains the excellent style for which this book is well known: short, clearly written chapters. The book is an ideal teaching and learning tool for a semester-long undergraduate chemical engineering course in process dynamics and control...read more