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This is a revised and enlarged edition of an authoritative introduction to the history of world art. Broader in scope than any comparable survey, the volume examines architecture, sculpture, painting, and the minor arts from pre-history to the present. The text has been enlarged to include a chapter on Pre-Historic Art, another on the arts of the American Indians in Peru and Mexico, and a third on the Art of Primitive Peoples. The chapters on the arts of the twentieth century in Europe and America have been greatly expanded to incorporate the further artistic achievement and increased historical perspective of the past decade. Full attention is also given to the art of the Near and Far East.
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Who killed the Dead Sea? What can you build with BRICS? Does the World Bank have ATMs? Is all the talk of global warming just a lot of hot air? In Don't Know Much About® Geography, Kenneth C. Davis, New York Times bestselling author and creator of the Don't Know Much About® series of books, takes the reader on a fascinating, breathtaking, and hilarious grand tour of the planet Earth--opening our eyes and imaginations to a wide, wild, and wonderful world we never knew. In this newly revised, updated, and expanded edition of the classic anti-textbook, he reflects on many of the profound and important changes that have occurred on our planet in the last twenty years.
