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VASCO DA GAMA

The biography of Vasco da Gama (1469-1524) the Portuguese explorer. Vasco da Gama was the commander of the first ships to sail from Europe to India. Vasco da Gama's momentous voyage irreversibly changed the course of human history by opening up the sea route to the east.  Click for more details

BARTOLOMEU DIAS

Ernst Georg Ravenstein, William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha

The biography of the Portuguese discoverer Bartolomeu Dias (Bartholomew Diaz) (1450-1500). In 1488, he became the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa. He subsequently took part in the voyages of discovery of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Cabral. Click for more details

PEDRO CABRAL

The biography of Pedro Cabral (c1467 – c1520), the Portuguese commander of a fleet of ships whose epic voyage to India led to the first crossing of the South Atlantic, the discovery of Brazil, the discovery of Madagascar, and trade between Europe and Asia around Africa. Click for more details

AMERIGO VESPUCCI

Charles Lester Edwards, Amerigo Vespucci

The biography of Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512), the Italian explorer whose discoveries led to the continent of America being named after him. The first of Amerigo's voyages has been disputed since he first described it, because it meant that he had reached the mainland of America before Columbus. Click for more details

MAGELLAN

Francis Guillemard, Antonio Pigafetta, Francisco Albo, Gaspar Correa

The biography of Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521), the commander of the first ships to sail around the world. Of the five ships and more than 270 men that set out on that famous venture, only one ship was to complete it, with only eighteen men aboard, but Magellan was not one of them.  Click for more details

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

TITIAN

J.A.Crowe, G.B.Cavalcaselle, Giorgio Vasari, Carlo Ridolfi

The biography of the Venetian artist Titian (1485-1576). He was the unrivalled master of Ventian painting, a painter of landscapes, mythological and religious subjects, and the portraits of members of the nobility and the church. He lived over 90 years, only to succumb to the plague.

GIOVANNI BELLINI

J.A.Crowe, G.B.Cavalcaselle, Giorgio Vasari

The biography of Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516), the Italian Renaissance painter. He was the most famous of the Bellini family of Ventian painters. He used sumptuous colour and religious symbolism. Both Giorgione and Titian were his puils.

TIEPOLO

J.A.Crowe, G.B.Cavalcaselle,

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was a Venetian painter and printmaker, considered among the last "Grand Manner" fresco painters from the Venetian republic.

TINTORETTO

The biography of Tintoretto (1518-1594), the Italian Renaissance painter. His real name was Jacopo Comin. As a teenager he was taken to be a pupil of Titian, but lasted only ten days. Virtually all of his work was done in Venice, a city where he spent most of his life.

GIORGIONE

J.A.Crowe, G.B.Cavalcaselle, Giorgio Vasari

The biography of Giorgione (1477-1510, the Italian Renaissance painter. Few of his paintings are known to be his, partly because some of his painting were completed after his death. Giorgione's career was short lived as he died at the age of only 33.

VERONESE

J.A.Crowe, G.B.Cavalcaselle, Giorgio Vasari

The biography of Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), the Italian Renaissance painter. Veronese was known for the massive scale of his paintings. Along with Titian and Tintoretto he was the most famous of the Venetian painters of the Renaissance.  

PIETRO LONGHI

The biography of Pietro Longhi (1701-1785), the Venetian painter. There were some religious painting in his early work, but Pietro Longhi was renowned for painting scenes of everyday life in Venice. Some of them dealt with odder aspect of life such as the gambling parlours and the display of a rhinoceros.

EL CID

The biography of El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) (c1040-1099). El Cid was a Castilian nobleman, and then a military and political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia. He was the chief general, of Alfonso VI, fighting for him against the Moors in the early expelling of the Moors from Spain.

LEONARDO

Keith Bridgeman, Tahira Arsham

A biographical novel of the life of Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1512). Leonardo is most famous for the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. However, Leonardo was also a sculptor, architect, engineer, inventor, scientist, and musician, who recorded most of his work in his secretly kept notebooks.

EMPEROR CONSTANTINE

William O'Connor Morris, Polybius, Livy

The biography of Emperor Constantine (Gaius Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus) (272-337) often known as Constantine the Great. As Roman Emperor he was responsible for the legalisation of Christianity. This lead to the spreading of the Christian religion.

MUSIC THEORY

Keith Bridgeman, Tahira Arsham

A comprehensive guide to music theory and music notation intended for musicians, composers, music students, and music teachers, for learning or for reference, from beginners to advanced, for use in all styles of music, in order to improve the ability to write, play, arrange and understand music.

PARKINSON'S DISEASE

Keith Bridgeman, Tahira Arsham

A complete explanation of Parkinson's Disease : its symptoms, causes, toxic causes, genetic causes, treatment, history, prevalence, Parkinsonism, and the only comprehensive source of the biochemistry of Parkinson's Disease.

HUMAN BIOCHEMISTRY : VITAMINS

Keith Bridgeman, Tahira Arsham

The fully referenced, structure, biosynthesis and metabolism of all the vitamins : A (all-trans retinol), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B3 (nicotinamide), B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 (pyridoxine), Folic acid, Biotin, Choline, Inositol, C (ascorbic acid), D, E, K.

HUMAN BIOCHEMISTRY : AMINO ACIDS

Keith Bridgeman, Tahira Arsham

The fully referenced, structure, biosynthesis and metabolism of the amino acids : alanine, aspartic acid, asparagine, cysteine, cystine, glutamic acid, glutamine, glycine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, proline, serine, threonine, tryptophan, tyrosine, valine.

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