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New Titles - Arts & Photography
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The Drama of Celebrity
Marcus, Sharon · Princeton University Press
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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A bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascinating and deeply researched book,... |
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
Michael Shnayerson · PublicAffairs
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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The meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world-for contemporary art-is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break careers and fortunes. The contemporary art market is an international juggernaut, throwing off multimillion-dollar... |
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How to Build a Boat: A Father, His Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
Jonathan Gornall · Scribner
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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Part ode to building something with one's hands in the modern age, part celebration of the beauty and function of boats, and part moving father-daughter story, How to Build a Boat is a bold adventure.Once an essential skill, the ability to build a clinker boat, first innovated by the Vikings,... |
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Ballpark: Baseball in the American City
Goldberger, Paul · Knopf
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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An exhilarating, splendidly illustrated, entirely new look at the history of baseball: told through the stories of the vibrant and ever-changing ballparks where the game was and is staged, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic.From the earliest corrals of the mid-1800s (Union... |
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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Jenny Odell · Melville House
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention - and our personal information - that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we've been too distracted to see about ourselves and our worldNothing is harder to do these... |
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