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The art of perspective is of such a nature as to make what is flat appear in relief. Perspective is the guide and the gateway, and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing. So wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Throughout time, artists have struggled to represent our solid, three-dimensional world on a flat, two-dimensional canvas. How have artists represented our world over the centuries? At what point did artists first re...

The art of perspective is of such a nature as to make what is flat appear in relief. Perspective is the guide and the gateway, and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing. So wrote Leonardo da Vinci. Throughout time, artists have struggled to represent our solid, three-dimensional world on a flat, two-dimensional canvas. How have artists represented our world over the centuries? At what point did artists first re...

Throughout time, artists have struggled to represent our three-dimensional world on a two-dimensional canvas. How have artists represented our world over the centuries? At what point did artists first represent the world in a realistic, natural-looking way?What techniques did they use to help achieve realism? Taking famous works as examples, the author takes us on a journey from pre-historic art, through spectacular Renaissance paintings, to m...

Irish village. Viking town. English city. Proud European capital. A Little History of Dublin is a high-speed history of life in the Irish capital. The key events are explained in short, digestible chapters, and the reader can expect to discover the complete history of Dublin in the time it takes to walk from Dollymount to Dalkey. Incident, humour and humanity are privileged throughout this history in a hurry. Author Trevor White writes with af...

Voulez-vous épater vos amis avec des illusions visuelles? Intéressé par la photographie ou l'art? Avec ce livre vous comprendrez comment vous voyez pour de vrai et ainsi vous apprécierez mieux le génie des artistes et leurs peintures. Éducatif et étonnant en même temps, il y en a pour tous les âges et tous les niveaux. Nous ouvrons les yeux et le monde se présente comme sur un écran de cinéma. Les détails apparaissent bien définis, les couleur...

This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony by enslaved African Americans and Native Americans in the British and French Atlantic World. It interrogates how such narratives were produced and the meanings that can be attached.

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This book focuses on alternative types of slave narratives, especially courtroom testimony by enslaved African Americans and Native Americans in the British and French Atlantic World. It interrogates how such narratives were produced and the meanings that can be attached.

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We think we see the world in splendid detail, in glorious color, in 3D and full motion. But in reality, we only see detail over a tiny area, we are legally blind 25 degrees off center, and we are completely blind for up to half the time our eyes are open! Using striking visual illusions, the book demonstrates the eye's huge limitations compared with a modern digital camera but then goes on to show how nature splendidly overcomes these limitati...

Trevor White is the Director of the Little Museum of Dublin. He founded and for many years edited the Dubliner magazine. He is the author of Kitchen Con: Writing on the Restaurant Racket and The Dubliner Diaries. He lives in Dublin.

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Alfie Byrne was that rarest of things: a genuinely popular politician. He is still a figure of legend in Dublin, where he was elected Lord Mayor ten times. He was also a TD and a Senator, and only a last-minute deal between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael prevented him from becoming the first President of Ireland in 1938. Rising from inner-city Dublin to become known as the 'Lord Mayor of Ireland', he was a truly remarkable figure. And yet there has...

Kill Maker: One story with three plots, the London tube bombing, Ireland's biggest bank robbery and Osama bin Laden's whereabouts and death. The three plots each woven into a fast moving story of intrigue, murder, scheming and double-cross. Where is Osama bin Laden? Who planned the Irish bank robbery? Who masterminded the London tube bombing? Why was the IRA leader shot? Are the London Olmpics under threat? Jibril Behari, gun-runner, Al Qaeda ...

Are all food critics corrupt? What's the trick for getting a table tonight in America's and Europe's most fashionable restaurants? Find out in Kitchen Con. "Waiter and customer have a lot in common. Each lingers under the delusion that lunch is on the way, neither has more than a passing interest in the other, and both are at the mercy of an ill-tempered thug with a white toque, ” writes Trevor White in this hilarious account of life as a rest...