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English
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"The art world is one of the most secretive of global businesses, and the list of its crimes runs long and deep. Today, with prices in the hundreds of millions for individual artworks, and billionaires' collections among the most conspicuous and liquid oftheir assets, crime is more rampant than ever in this largely unregulated universe. Increased prices and globalization have introduced new levels of fraud and malfeasance into the art world--everything...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
"As the most destructive war in history ravaged Europe, many of the world's most cherished cultural objects were in harm's way. The Greatest Treasure Hunt in History recounts the astonishing true story of eleven men and one woman who risked their lives amidst the bloodshed of World War II to preserve churches, libraries, monuments, and works of art that for centuries defined the heritage of Western civilization. As the war raged, these American and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Menachem Kaiser's story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather's former battle to reclaim the family's apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery-that his grandfather's cousin not only survived...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
viii, 375 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
xii, 354 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A product of ten years of research and support from leading American and European universities, A Universal History of the Destruction of Books traces a tragic story: the smashed tablets of ancient Sumer, the widespread looting of libraries in post-war Iraq, the leveling of the Library of Alexandria, book burnings by Crusaders and Nazis, and censorship against authors past and present. With diligence and grace, Ba?ez mounts a compelling investigation...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of how a team of librarians and archivists joined forces to spirit tens of thousands of ancient manuscripts into hiding when al-Qaeda-linked jihadists surged across Mali in 2012, threatening the existence of these precious documents. Relying on extensive research and firsthand reporting, Charlie English expertly twines a fraught and fascinating account of one of the planet's extraordinary places, and the myths from which it has become...
Author
Series
Fearless Jones novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xiii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through extensive new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves--Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries and bookshops, large and small, the...
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Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction-and surprising survival-of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia."--Amazon.com.
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