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Authors: David A. Ebert, Marc Dando, And Sarah Fowler
“Sharks of the World” is the essential illustrated guide for anyone interested in these magnificent creatures.
Now fully revised and updated, it covers 536 of the world’s shark species and is packed with color illustrations, color photos and informative diagrams.
This comprehensive, easy-to-use reference guide incorporates the latest taxonomic revisions of many shark families, featuring many species that were only described in recent years.
In the heyday of Islamic art collecting around the turn of the 20th century, thousands of premodern ceramic objects circulated on the international antiquities market.
“Invisible Hands” tells the story of how traditional craft skills of the Islamic world, often thought to have died out with the advent of industrialization, were redirected toward a thriving new market in the colonial era: the fabrication and fictionalizing of antiquities, especially ceramics.
In this stunning work of art history, Margaret Graves shakes the foundations of the discipline, challenging us to reconsider what is and is not art.
