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Various issues regarding monuments have generated both controversy and lawsuits. Issues include the size of the areas and types of resources protected, the inclusion of non-federal lands within monument boundaries, restrictions on land uses that may result, the manner in which the monuments were created, the selection of the managing agency, and other legal issues. Courts have upheld both particular monuments and the President's authority to create them. This book addresses the authority of the President to create national monuments on federal lands under the Antiquities Act of 1906. It...

Renaissance art, past life experiences, and art terrorism lead to murder and suicide in modern-day Florence. David Rinaldo hears voices in his head that tell him to commit acts of vandalism. When he takes a hammer to Michelangelo's "David" in the Galleria dell Accademia, he tells police that the woman in Paolo Veronese's painting, "Allegory of Wisdom and Strength" told him to do it. He is no sooner out of jail when his "voices" compel him to destroy the plaque that commemorates the site of Father Girolamo Savonarola's execution (by fire) in 1498, but as he does that, he feels the flames again...