A very interesting screen saver which shows all the World Cup. You can also set the wallpaper. FIFA World Cup history Screensaver - provides an opportunity to touch the history of football. Represents a successive series of prompts with a set of transition effects. You will be able to remember all the world champions in football since 1930, and ending at the last FIFA World Cup in Germany in 2006.

Following his international bestseller, A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright provokes once again, as he explores the oldest American myth: the endless frontier. In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we ve traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow.

The figure of the lone genius may captivate us, but we intuit that such geniuses’ creations don’t materialize in a vacuum. Johnson supported the intuition in his biography of eighteenth-century scientist Joseph Priestly (The Invention of Air, 2009) and here explores it from different angles using sets of anecdotes from science and art that underscore some social or informational interaction by an inventor or artist. Assuring readers that he is not engaged in “intellectual tourism,” Johnson recurs to the real-world effects of individuals and organizations operating in a fertile information environment.

Description : This book was designed to map out a popular history of painting in the western world, from medieval times to the present day. Rather than focusing on the biographical details of individuals and their specific contributions, I hawe looked in detail at where artists were located in time, with which movements they were associated and who or what inspired them to work in the way that they did...

Description : What do we mean when we call a work of art beautiful ? How have artists responded to changing notions of the beautiful? Which works of art have been called beautiful, and why? Fundamental and intriguing questions to artists and srt lovers, but ones that are all too often ignored in discussions of art today. Elizabeth Prettejohn argues that we simply cannot afford to ignore these questions. Charting over two hundred years of western art, she illuminates the vital relationship between our changing notions of beauty and specific works of art, from the works of Kauffman to Whistler, Ingres to Rosetti, Cezanne to Pollack. Beautifully illustrated with 100 photographs-60 in full color--Beauty and Art concludes with a challenging question for the future: Why should we care about beauty in the twenty-first century?

In today's era of modern Western medicine, organ transplants are routine, and daily headlines about the mysteries of DNA and the human genome promise that the secrets of life itself are tantalizingly within our reach. Yet to reach this point took thousands of years.

Around 1,200 BC, an ancient Armageddon swept through the eastern Mediterranean and wiped out the greatest civilizations of the age in a single generation.
While the exact cause of this mass destruction remains a mystery, new archaeological evidence found among ancient ruins at unimaginable heights is now shedding light on the source of this great cataclysm. In this fascinating program, join renowned archaeologist Krzysztof Nowicki as he reveals the spectacular clues he has uncovered in his search for answers to this age-old puzzle. Discover how the evidence Nowicki and his colleagues have found supports the theory that the Bronze Age collapse may be explained by the invasion of a mysterious and destructive military force the Egyptians came to call the Sea Peoples.