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Garden Design: A Book of Ideas
Heidi Howcroft · Firefly Books
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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Author Marianne Majerus was one of three photographers for the seminal book by Prince Charles, HRH The Prince of Wales, Highgrove: A Garden Celebrated, published in 2014, which Camilla Swift of Gardens Illustrated praised for its photographs, "images so breathtaking I want to jump... |
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How Architecture Works: A Humanist's Toolkit
Witold Rybczynski · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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An essential toolkit for understanding architecture as both art form and the setting for our everyday livesWe spend most of our days and nights in buildings living and working and sometimes playing Buildings often overawe us with their beauty Architecture is both setting for our everyday... |
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Collecting Art for Love, Money and More
Ethan Wagner · Phaidon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Collecting Art For Love, Money and More is an insider's guide for both the novice and experienced buyer. It reveals the motivations and secrets of successful collectors as well as providing an historical overview of the greatest collectors and their superb collections. Written by renowned... |
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Jack London. The Paths Men Take
Jack London · Contrasto
Pages: 195
Format: Print book
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This unique book combines long excerpts of Jack London's literature with a copious amount of his photographs. It beautifully juxtaposes his worldwide famous literature with his incredible photographs, creating a dialogue between the visual and literary arts and building towards a complete... |
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London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj
Elena Crippa · J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Tate
Pages: 138
Format: Print book
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Between the postwar years and the 1980s in Britain, and in particular in London, a number of figurative painters simultaneously reinvented the way in which life is represented in art. Focusing on the depiction of the human figure, these artists rendered the frailty and vitality of the human... |
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Civil Rights and the Promise of Equality
Lonnie Bunch · GILES
Format: Print book
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Volume 2 of Double Exposure commemorates the ongoing fight to fulfil the promise of freedom and equality for all American citizens, from the Civil War and Reconstruction to the present. It features powerful images from, for example, Leonard Freeds series, Black in White America, Ernest... |
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Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History
Paul Stillwell · Naval Institute Press
Pages: 450
Format: Print book
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Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese surrender in 1945, and her contribution to the Persian Gulf War. Through extensive interviews and research with records from the Naval Heritage... |
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Paul Simon: An American Tune
Cornel Bonca · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover
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Paul Simon: An American Tune is the first full-scale survey of the career of one of the most honored musicians and songwriters in American history. Starting out as a teeny-bopper rocker in the late 1950s, Paul Simon went on to form the most influential pop duo of the 1960s—Simon &... |
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Fairy Tale Fashion
Colleen Hill · Yale University Press ; New York
Pages: 275
Format: Print book
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Dress plays a crucial role in fairy tales, signaling the status, wealth, or vanity of particular characters, and symbolizing their transformation. Fairy tales often provide little information beyond what is necessary to a plot, but clothing and accessories are frequently vividly described,... |
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