In this electrifying debut thriller, a brilliant defense lawyer takes on a murder case with ingenious twists
Phoenix, Arizona, 1973. A beautiful woman, armed with a gun and accompanied by her twelve-year-old daughter, enters a house. Shots are fired. The woman and her daughter leave the house. Inside, her husband lies dead. 
The case seems open and shut. The cops, the attorney general's office, and the media are certain the woman is guilty. The only witness to the shooting is in a catatonic state and cannot testify. But the murdered man's wealthy father believes he owes the woman something and hires Dan Morgan, the best lawyer in Phoenix, to defend her. 
When the legendary criminal attorney takes on a case it's to win, no matter what the odds. But for Morgan and his young protégé, Doug McKenzie, there are no easy answers, only mysteries, and the question of innocence and guilt take on profound new meaning.
Combining the riveting suspense of Presumed Innocent with the raw ambition and power of All the King's Men, this full-bodied novel introduces a writer of great skill and insight into the human character.

Missing Witness

Literature & Fiction

Campbell, Gordon

United States

William Morrow

1973, Phoenix, Arizona. A beautiful woman with a gun enters a house with her twelve-year-old daughter. When they leave, the man inside is dead.
Though the only witness to the fatal shooting is in a catatonic state and unable to testify, the police, the attorney general's office, and the media have already declared the woman guilty. But the best trial lawyer in Phoenix, Dan Morgan, has been hired to prove her innocent.
For Morgan and his idealistic young protégé, Doug McKenzie, the goal is to win at any cost. But there are no easy answers, only shocks and mysteries, as the question of guilt versus innocence takes on a profound and disturbing new meaning.

Harper

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 entries, as well as hundreds drawn from the 34-volume Dictionary of Art, this topical collection is a valuable resource for those interested in the history, practice, and mechanics of the decorative arts. Accompanied by almost 100 color and more than 500 black and white illustrations, the 1,290 pages of this title include hundreds of entries on artists and craftsmen, the qualities and historic uses of materials, as well as concise definitions on art forms and style. Explore the works of Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, and the Wiener Wekstatte, or delve into the history of Navajo blankets and wing chairs in thousands of entries on artists, craftsmen, designers, workshops, and decorative art forms.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Oxford University Press

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture spans every art form, medium, and civilization the fall of the Roman Empire, The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art &amp; Architecture is a comprehensive reference source on this important field of study. Drawing on the expansive scholarship of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols) and Grove Art Online, and adding dozens of new entries, the Encyclopedia includes all subject areas in the classical arts, including philosophers, rulers, writers and artists, architecture, ceramics, sculpture, and more. Arranged alphabetically, this two-volume set contains over 800 entries tracing the development of the art forms in classical civilizations such as ancient Greece and Rome. Illustrated with 400 halftones, maps and line drawings, and 32 color plates, the Encyclopedia is a reliable and convenient resource covering this field of everlasting significance in the development of western culture.

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture (2 Volume Set)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Beginning in the early 14th century and continuing into the 15th and 16th centuries, the Renaissance was a period of intense intellectual and cultural activity, the fruits of which have had a profound impact on the thought, culture, philosophy, painting and sculpture, and writing of Europe and the wider world ever since. Gordon Campbell, with the help of his team of distinguished consultant and advisory editors, has created a unique new A-Z reference surveying all aspects of the Renaissance in Europe. From da Vinci to Dutch law, from gypsies to geometry, this volume contains an immense breadth of information with over 3,000 entries covering an extensive spectrum of topics including art, literature, science, culture, philosophy, religion, economics, history, and conflict. Over half of the entries are biographical, covering artists, architects, garden designers, philosophers, explorers, royalty, cardinals, reformers, statesman, writers, poets, playwrights, soldiers, rebels, woodcarvers, silversmiths, mystics, mathematicians, sculptors, and composers. With 100 stunning black-and-white illustrations, this elegant dictionary is an ideal referenc to a period that has had an enduring and important cultural influence.

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

History

Europe

The Renaissance, French for 'rebirth', was undoubtedly the most intensely creative period in history. This explosion of activity is reflected perhaps more than elsewhere in the art and architecture of the period. The legacy the artists, sculptors, tradesmen, architects, garden designers, engravers, and printers left behind can still be seen all over Europe today, not only in the things produced at the time but also in modern art, architecture, culture, and ways of thinking. Illustrated throughout, Renaissance Art and Architecture provides the reader with an informative overview of this fascinating period and comprehensive, alphabetically arranged entries on individual artists, architects and theorists, Schools, styles, techniques, and terms. Intruiging captions explain all featured pictures, giving the history and myth behind paintings, buildings, sculptures, and more. With the assurance of sound knowledge (Gordon Campbell is the epitome of the Renaissance man) this book can be used either as a source of reliable information on the art and architecture of the period or as something to browse through at leisure. Spanning the years 1415 to 1618 the A-Z text covers drawing, design, painting, sculpture, garden design, and architecture across the whole of Europe. Containing a major overview of the period as well as A-Z entries Renaissance Art and Architecture will be valuable to a variety of people, from art lovers and all those fascinated with European history and culture to a wide range of students and teachers. ENTRIES INCLUDE: ART style and techniques: calligraphy, fresco, impresa, watercolour painting drawing and painting: drawing frame, landscape painting, miniature, still life art terms: cartoon, perspective, putto artists: Master of Alkmaar, Sandro Botticelli, Jan Brueghel, Jan van Eyck, Fra Filippo Lippi, Cosimo Rosselli, Leonardo da Vinci, Rogier van der Weyden, Pieter de Witte illuminators: Bening family, Monaco Lorenzo, Jean Pucelle mosaicists: Alessio Baldovinetti art theory and art theorists: Alberti Leon Battista, paragone, Federico Zuccaro SCULPTURE styles and techniques: chevron, drapery, grotesque, relief materials: brass, marble sculptors: Baccio Bandinelli, Pierre Bontemps, Alonso de Covarrubias, Donatello, Jacques Du Broeucq, Konrad Meit, Nicholas Stone, Veit Stoss, Tino di Camaino woodcarvers and woodsculptors: Del Tasso family, Fra Giovanni da Verona, Ugo da Carpi METALWORK styles and techniques: Auricular Style, filigree and filigree enamel, nautilus shell decoration: acorn cup, coins, medal metal workers: Francois Briot, Thomas Rucker medallists: Bertoldo di Giovanni, Leone Leoni, Martin Schaffner goldsmiths: Arfe family, Jean Duvet, Urs Graf, Jacopo da Trezzo, Lencker family, Ritter family coppersmiths: Antonio de Castro, Hans Petzolt armoury and armourers: Daniel Hopffer, Markwart family, Seusenhofer family cameo making, enamelling, and enamellers: intaglio, Limoges enamels, Penicaud family GLASSWORK styles and techniques: agate glass, Crutched Friars glass, stained glass glass designers and makers: Andrea del Castagno, Bernard Flower, Giacomo Verzelini FURNITURE styles and techniques: intarsia, marquetry, panelling furniture and decoration: Alcaraz carpets, cabinets, chairs, settles, and stools, chimney piece, mirrors, tables POTTERY styles and techniques: albarello, ceramics, glaze, maiolica, tiles potters and potteries: Andries family, Deruta potteries, Faenza potteries, Mennicken family, Talavera de la Reina potteries TEXTILES AND CLOTHING styles and techniques: brocade, cutwork, damask, lace, linen, needlework, petit point, sampler, weaving tapestry makers, weavers, and embroiderers: Arras tapestries, Elsinore tapestries, Paolo da Verona, Jan Corneliszoon Vermeyen PRINTING styles and techniques: block books, bookbinding, book illustration, calligraphy, etching, fanfare bindings, girdle books, paper, watermarks engravers: Jean Goujon, Master of the Housebook, William Rogers, Saracchi family typefounders: Claude Garamond, Francesco Griffo, Francesco Marcolini printers and publishers: William Caxton, Giunti Press, Johann Gutenberg ARCHITECTURE styles and techniques: altarpiece, gothic, quattrocento Renaissance architecture: Chateau d' Amboise, Villa d' Este, Hatfield House, Medici villas, Pitti Palace, theatre architecture features: amphitheatre, fountain, nymphaeum architects: Baccio da Montelupo, Ducerceau family, Egas family, Girolamo da Carpi, Juan Guas, Inigo Jones, Hans Krumpper, Raffaello da Montelupo, Jan Vredeman de Vries GARDENS style and techniques: bosco, botanical gardens, grotto, pavilion, topery Renaissance gardens and villas: Villa Barbaro, Villa Farnese, Kenilworth Castle, Tuileries gardens garden designers and horticulturalists: Mollet family, Jean Robin, John Tradescant

Renaissance Art and Architecture

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.

The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this short history, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation.

A Short History of Gardens

World

The story of the Vikings in North America as both fact and fiction, from the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries to the myths and fabrications about their presence there that have developed in recent centuries. Tracking the saga of the Norse across the North Atlantic to America, Norse America sets the record straight about the idea that the Vikings 'discovered' America. The journey described is a continuum, with evidence-based history and archaeology at one end, and fake history and outright fraud at the other. In between there lies a huge expanse of uncertainty: sagas that may contain shards of truth, characters that may be partly historical, real archaeology that may be interpreted through the fictions of saga, and fragmentary evidence open to responsible and irresponsible interpretation. Norse America is a book that tells two stories. The first is the westward expansion of the Norse across the North Atlantic in the tenth and eleventh centuries, settling in Greenland and establishing a shore station at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland (to which a chapter of the book is devoted) and ending (but not culminating) in a fleeting and ill-documented presence on the shores of the North American mainland.The second is the appropriation and enhancement of the westward narrative by Canadians and Americans who want America to have had white North European origins, who therefore want the Vikings to have 'discovered' America, and who in the advancement of that thesis have been willing to twist and manufacture evidence in support of claims grounded in an ideology of racial superiority.

Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth

Americas

This landmark publication presents the most faithful edition of the 1611 King James Bible available today. It reproduces the seventeenth-century text in roman type-page for page, line for line, and letter for letter-including original spellings and the typesetting errors made by the first printers. Also included are reproductions of the original illustrated initial letters as well as the full preliminaries such as the Epistle Dedicatorie to King James, the prefatory note from the Translators to the Reader, and the biblical genealogies. This convenient paperback edition now includes a full introduction and detailed annotations of the preliminary pages.

The 1611 King James Bible: Complete Original Spelling Edition

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

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Missing Witness

Missing Witness

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts

The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art & Architecture (2 Volume Set)

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

Renaissance Art and Architecture

The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome

A Short History of Gardens

Norse America: The Story of a Founding Myth

The 1611 King James Bible: Complete Original Spelling Edition