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Straight Bourbon: Distilling the Industry's Heritage

Carol Peachee · Indiana University Press
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover

The story of bourbon production is a tale of American innovation, industry, and craft. Join photographer Carol Peachee on a visual journey from farm to bottle, with stunning images of the distilleries, farms, copper, brass, and steel works, cooperages and stave mills, and barrel warehouses...
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West Point History of the Revolutionary War

Clifford J Rogers · Simon & Schuster
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

This is the definitive concise military history of the Revolutionary War and the fourth volume in the West Point History of Warfare series is packed with essential images, exclusive tactical maps, and expert analysis commissioned by The United States Military Academy at West Point to teach...
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The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present

CAROL STRICKLAND · Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback

An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format. This heavily illustrated crash course in art history is revised and updated from the second edition published in 2007,...
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A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance

Natalie Hopkinson · The New Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

As people consider how to respond to a resurgence of racist, xenophobic populism, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled tells an extraordinary story of the ways art brings hope in perilous times. Weaving disparate topics from sugar and British colonialism to attacks on free speech and Facebook activism...
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Miraculum Monstrum

Kathline Carr · Red Hen Press
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback

Miraculum Monstrum is an epic hybrid narrative about Tristia Vogel, a female artist who experiences a radical physical transformation, beginning with the excrescence of apparent wings. Though she is possibly an anomalous mutation resulting from worldwide ecological upheaval, the bird/woman...
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Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing

Selwyn Leamy · Laurence King Publishing
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback

This book demystifies the art and practice of drawing. Through fifty drawings by great masters past and present, the techniques and ideas behind their master sketches will put you on the path to making your own great drawings.The entries also feature exercises with step-by-step instructions...
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Unseen: Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives

Dana Canedy · Black Dog & Leventhal
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover

Hundreds of stunning images from black history have long been buried in The New York Times archives. None of them were published by The Times--until now. UNSEEN uncovers these never-before published photographs and tells the stories behind them.It all started with Times photo editor Darcy...
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Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

Abrams Books · Abrams Image
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

At a time in which a woman can be a firefighter, surgeon, astronaut, military officer, athlete, judge, and more, what does it mean to dress like a woman? Dress Like a Woman turns that question on its head by sharing a myriad of interpretations across history. The book includes 300 incredible...
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Black Girls Rock!: Owning Our Magic. Rocking Our Truth.

BEVERLY BOND · Atria / 37 INK
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

From the founder of the mentoring organization and awards show Black Girls Rock! comes an inspiring and beautifully-designed tribute to the achievements and contributions of black women around the world, featuring moving entries from icons like Kerry Washington, Angela Davis, Misty Copeland,...
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3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop's Multibillion-Dollar Rise

Zack O'Malley Greenburg · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover

Tracing the careers of hip-hop's three most dynamic stars, this deeply reported history brilliantly examines the entrepreneurial genius of the first musician tycoons: Diddy, Dr. Dre, and Jay-ZBeing successful musicians was simply never enough for the three kings of hip-hop. Diddy, Dr. Dre,...
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