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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...
3) The patriot
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©[2007]
Edition
Extended cut.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (174 min.) : sound, color, Blu-ray ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Benjamin Martin is a former war hero who has renounced fighting forever - until the Revolutionary War arrives at his front door. Faced with the harsh reality of fighting to protect those he loves, Martin takes up arms and commands a brave rebel militia in fierce battles against the well-armed English army, fighting for his family and his young nation's freedom.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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An unlikely World War II platoon has been tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. With the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could they possibly succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time, they would risk their lives to protect...
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...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 431 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Argues that through a campaign of organized theft, the proceeds of which were channeled into generous social programs at home, Hitler and the Nazis "bought" the allegiance of ordinary Germans.
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