This book is intended to take readers on a wide-ranging journey through the story of western art, with the aid of one hundred examples of its leading exponents. For the most part, they have trained, inspired or influenced one another from the thirteenth century to the present day.
It is a fascinating, ever-developing part of our lives that we shall never tire of looking at.

Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions.

A follow up to DAY OF THE DRAGON, the second book in THE WAR OF THE ANCIENTS trilogy, the maverick mage Rhonin and his dragon ally Krasus are propelled through time into their world's dangerous and mysterious past. While back in the present, the Dark Lord Sargeras sets in motion a plan to overrun the free peoples of the world.

The 750 A-Z entries in this new work cover the cultural and political developments throughout Spain, including the culture of Catalonia, Galicia and the Basque country. Coverage spans from the end of the Civil War in 1939 to the present day, with emphasis on the changes made since the demise of the Franco dictatorship in 1975.