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Leah Lehmbeck
City of Cinema: Paris 1850–1907
How film emerged in 19th-century Paris amid an array of social, political, artistic and technological innovations―with works by the Lumiere brothers, Mélies, Chéret and more Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art. City of Cinema traces film’s evolution from an obscure entertainmen...
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Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed
Ghostnotes: Music of the Unplayed is an extended photo essay with more than two hundred images that represent a mid-career retrospective of B+’s photography of hip-hop music and its influences. Taking its name from the unplayed sounds that exist between beats in a rhythm, the book creates a visua...
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Hiroshi Yoshida
Yoshida Hiroshi : Landscapes in Woodblock Prints (Featuring 84 Works)
Discover the timeless beauty of Japanese woodblock prints through the masterworks of Hiroshi Yoshida (1876–1950) . This wide-format collection presents 84 prints , each reproduced in large size so that every detail of color and atmosphere can be fully appreciated. Yoshida’s art carries the vie...
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Sylvia Ferino-Pagden
Mantua: Classical Utopia
Because it was founded on water and marshes, Mantua is a wonderful water lily of a city. After a historical introduction, the volume focuses on the history of art and architecture in Renaissance Mantua, when the Gonzagas' passion and the presence of extraordinary architects and artists, such as Leon...
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Winsome Bingham
Life Is Beautiful
A “soul-stirring opportunity for joyful reflection” ( Kirkus Reviews , starred review) about a little girl who loses her grandmother and how, even in the midst of sadness and loss, life is beautiful. Every week, Granny Dee takes three trains and one bus to have a weekend full of TV-watching, b...
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Herbert E Bolt
Spanish Exploration in the Southwest 1542-1706
SPANISH EXPLORATION IN THE SOUTHWEST, 1542-1706 Original Narratives of Early American History Series J. Franklin Jameson, General Editor EXCERPT FROM PREFACE This volume is logically the successor in the series of Original Narratives to the one edited by Hodge and Lewis under the title of Spa...
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Carole Boston Weatherford
Grind: An Ode to Skateboarding
Try an ollie; take to the air! Jump and land; show off your flair! Award-winning author – and one time skateboard mom – Carole Boston Weatherford helps budding thrill seekers learn the ropes of skateboarding in this exciting and rhythmic ode to the culture surrounding this extreme sport. Ill...
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Frances Faviell
Thalia
‘You are a virgin?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘How dull! What’s the use of being a woman if you’re a virgin?’ ‘One has to begin sometime,’ I agreed. Recovering from an illness, Rachel, an 18-year-old art student at the Slade in London, is advised to spend a year in a warm climate. She agrees to go ...
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Justin A. Joyce
A Melvin Dixon Critical Reader
Over the course of his brief career, Melvin Dixon (1950-1992) became an important critical voice for African American scholarship as well as a widely read chronicler of the African American gay experience. His novels Trouble the Water and Vanishing Rooms still receive considerable attention, as ...
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Octavio Solis
Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
Recommended by the New York Times and NBC News, and called one of the Best Books of the Year by Buzzfeed! The New York Times directs readers to Retablos if you want to know "what's life really like on the Mexican border." "Solis grew up just a mile from the Rio Grande in El Paso, Texas, and h...
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Kristin Krebs-Dick
Through Alberti's Window: A Photographer's Journey Across Italy, Europe and Beyond
What would happen if you had the time to explore places you had never been, in a way that let you discover their past and present, to seek out natural beauty and to immerse yourself in the best of modern life? From her home base in Florence, Italy, Kristin Krebs-Dick photographed fourteen countries...
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Homer
Iliad (Hackett Classics)
"Gripping. . . . Lombardo's achievement is all the more striking when you consider the difficulties of his task. . . . [He] manages to be respectful of Homer's dire spirit while providing on nearly every page some wonderfully fresh refashioning of his Greek. The result is a vivid and disarmingly har...
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Romain Rolland
L'Âme enchantée (French Edition)
ROMAIN ROLLAND (1866-1944), est un écrivain français, lauréat du Prix Nobel de littérature en 1915. Issu d’une famille de notaires à Clamecy, en 1880, il s'installe à Paris, où il suit les cours du lycée Saint-Louis, puis du lycée Louis-le-Grand. Il est reçu à l’École normale supéri...
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Erik Daniel Shein
Footprints in the Sand: Spanish Edition (Thunder: An Elephant's Journey)
Un pequeño elefante, una aventura gigantesca...UNA búsqueda de la aventura puede conseguir Thunder más de lo que Ganges para. Él nunca espera encontrarse solo de nuevo, pero las huellas dejadas por su madre será su guía para curar y encontrar su camino. En su viaje se encuentra haciendo nuevos...
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Michael H. Rogers
Answering Their Country's Call: Marylanders in World War II
"Time will not dim the glory of their deeds." The inscription on Baltimore's recently razed Memorial Stadium reflects the gratitude we all feel toward the 288,000 Maryland men and women who served their country during the Second World War, especially the 6,454 Marylanders who didn't come home. But w...
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Jerome McGann
Poe and the Remapping of Antebellum Print Culture (Media & Public Affairs)
Edgar Allan Poe (1809--1849) has long occupied the position of literary outsider. Dismissed as unrepresentative of the main currents of antebellum culture, Poe commented incisively -- in fiction and nonfiction -- on nationalism, science, materialism, popular taste, and cultural ideology. Opposing th...
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Cristofer Odqvist
Making Sound: Creative Music Production Tips and Philosophies
How do you take the sounds you imagine in your head and make them come out of the speakers? Making Sound takes some different but very effective perspectives on learning to use the tools at hand to create the sounds you want. Following these techniques and philosophies will help bridge the gap be...
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Helene Verin
Beth Levine Shoes
If you love shoes―and who doesn't?―you know that nothing says as much about a woman’s style as her taste in footwear. Long before Jimmy Choo and Christian Louboutin, Beth Levine was designing shoes that were objects of desire and even lust. Levine, who introduced mules, stilettos, and fashion ...
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Nicolas Mathevon
The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals Communicate
Songs, barks, roars, hoots, squeals, and growls: exploring the mysteries of how animals communicate by sound What is the meaning of a bird’s song, a baboon’s bark, an owl’s hoot, or a dolphin’s clicks? In The Voices of Nature , Nicolas Mathevon explores the mysteries of animal sound. Putt...
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Jennifer Forrest
Decadent Aesthetics and the Acrobat in French Fin de siècle (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)
In his discussion of clowns in nineteenth-century French painting from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s 1857 La Sortie du bal masqué to Georges Rouault, art historian Francis Haskell wondered why they are so sad. The myth of the sad clown as an allegory for the unappreciated artist found echoes in the wor...
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