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Haeckel's Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud
Nick Hopwood · University Of Chicago Press Format: Hardcover
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Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Ernst Haeckel in which humans and other... |
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays
Moli?re · Oxford University Press Pages: 400 Format: Paperback
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This unique volume brings together four of Molière's greatest verse comedies covering the best years of his prolific writing career. Actor, director, and playwright, Molière (1622-73) was one of the finest and most influential French dramatists, adept at portraying human foibles... |
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The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention
Alexander Monro · Knopf, 2016. Pages: 384 Format: Print book
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A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper - the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago - wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court... |
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Diana Krall -- Wallflower: Piano/Vocal/Guitar
Diana Krall · Alfred Pages: 99 Format: Musical score
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On Wallflower, jazz singer Diana Krall lends her trademark contralto to songs first made famous by artists such as The Mamas & the Papas, the Carpenters, the Eagles, Jim Croce, Elton John, Randy Newman, and a freshly penned tune by Paul McCartney. This book provides piano/vocal/guitar... |
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The Porcelain Thief: Searching the Middle Kingdom for Buried China
Huan Hsu · Crown Format: Hardcover
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A journalist travels throughout mainland China and Taiwan in search of his family's hidden treasure and comes to understand his ancestry as he never has before. In 1938, when the Japanese arrived in Huan Hsu's great-great-grandfather Liu's Yangtze River hometown of Xingang,... |
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Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome
Shawn Levy · W W Norton Pages: 464 Format: Print book
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A romp through the worlds of film, fashion, and titillating journalism that made 1950s Rome the sexiest city on the planet. From the ashes of World War II, Rome was reborn as the epicenter of film, fashion, creative energy, tabloid media, and bold-faced libertinism that made "Italian"... |
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House of Nutter: The Rebel Tailor of Savile Row
Lance Richardson · Crown Archetype Pages: 400 Format: Hardcover
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The strange, illuminative true story of Tommy Nutter, the Savile Row tailor who changed the silhouette of men's fashion - and his rock photographer brother, David, who captured it all on film. From an early age, there was something different about Tommy and David Nutter. Growing up in an austere... |
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Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir
Joel Grey · Flatiron Books Pages: 246 Format: Print book
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Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children's theater... |
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The Orpheus Clock: The Search for My Family's Art Treasures Stolen by the Nazis
Simon Goodman · Scribner Book Company Pages: 368 Format: Hardcover
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The passionate, gripping, true story of one man's single-minded quest to reclaim what the Nazis stole from his family, their beloved art collection, and to restore their legacy.Simon Goodman's grandparents came from German-Jewish banking dynasties and perished in concentration camps.... |
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How New York Breaks Your Heart
Bill Hayes · Bloomsbury USA Pages: 160 Format: Hardcover
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Bill Hayes's critically acclaimed memoir Insomniac City provided a first look at his unique street photography. Now he presents an exquisite collection that captures the full range of his work and the magic of chance encounters in New York City. Hayes's "frank, beautiful, bewitching"... |
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The golden decade : photography at the California School of Fine Arts, 1945-55
William Heick · Steidl Pages: 415 Format: Print book
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The California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco was among a handful of institutions in the nation to offer an extensive program in photography and film during the postwar period. Under the new directorship of Douglas McAgy, CSFA's photography program, established by Ansel Adams... |
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25 Women: Essays on Their Art
Dave Hickey · University of Chicago Press Pages: 192 Format: Hardcover
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Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging." Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer." Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero." There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey - and a new book... |
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