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Seven Keys to Modern Art
Simon Morley · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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A liberating approach to interpreting modern and contemporary art, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world and representing a diversity of styles, mediums, and artists.With modern art's proclivity for self-expression, originality, and the abstract, great works can often... |
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Operation Dragoon: The Allied Liberation of the South of France: 1944
Robin Cross · Pegasus Books
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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A dramatic and expertly rendered narrative of the Allied liberation of the South of France during Operation Dragoon in 1944.Operation Dragoon is the story of the Allied invasion of the South of France on August 15, 1944. It was, in effect, the second D-Day, launched two months after "Overlord,"... |
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A New Way of Seeing: The History of Art in 57 Works
Kelly Grovier · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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An exciting new critical voice explores what it is that makes great art great through an illuminating analysis of the world's artistic masterpieces.From a carved mammoth tusk (ca. 40,000 BCE) to Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights (1505-1510) to Duchamp's Fountain (1917) , a remarkable... |
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A Short History of Europe: From Pericles to Putin
Simon Jenkins · PublicAffairs
Pages: 400
Format: Hardcover
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A sweeping, illustrated history of Europe---a continent whose imperial ambitions, internal clashes, and existential threats are as vital today as they were during the conquests of Alexander the Great. Studded with infamous figures---from Julius Caesar to Charlemagne, and Machiavelli to Marx---Simon... |
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50 Women Artists You Should Know
Christiane Weidemann · Prestel
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Now available in a new edition, this book offers more than 500 years of achievements in art by women. This beautifully produced, richly detailed, and comprehensive survey of fifty influential women artists from the Renaissance to the Post-Modern era details their vast contributions to the art world.... |
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Now You Know Canada: 150 Years of Fascinating Facts
Doug Lennox · Dundurn
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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A Toronto Star Bestseller! A new collection of the best Canadian trivia in honour of Canada's 150th birthday. Just in time for Canada's 150th birthday comes this collection of the best in Canadian questions and answers, covering history, famous Canadians, sports, word origins,... |
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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Amsterdam
DK TRAVEL. · DK Eyewitness Travel
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooksFind your corner of Amsterdam with this essential travel guide to this historic city, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you there before you've even packed your case - stroll along atmospheric canals,... |
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The Lives of the Surrealists
DESMOND MORRIS · Thames & Hudson
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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Life histories of the Surrealists, known and unknown, by one of the last surviving members of the movement -- artist and best-selling author Desmond MorrisSurrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment... |
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Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England
Eleanor Parker · I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these... |
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The Structure of Soviet History: Essays and Documents
· Oxford University Press
Pages: 752
Format: Paperback
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Edited by eminent historian Ronald Grigor Suny, this unique collection of primary documents and important scholarly articles frames both the revolutionary changes and broad continuities in Soviet history. Organized chronologically and covering political, social, and cultural history from... |
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Five for Freedom: The African American Soldiers in John Brown's Army
Eugene L Meyer · Chicago Review Press
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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On October 16, 1859, John Brown and his band of eighteen raiders descended on Harpers Ferry. In an ill-fated attempt to incite a slave insurrection, they seized the federal arsenal, took hostages, and retreated to a fire engine house where they barricaded themselves until a contingent of US Marines... |
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The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
GARY KRIST · Crown
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
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A vivid account of the creation of modern Los Angeles, a city born from the fantasies of strong-willed visionaries, from bestselling author and masterful storyteller Gary Krist. Now in paperback.Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California was sleepy semi-desert farmland.... |
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Battle Royal: The Wars of the Roses: 1440-1462
Hugh Bicheno · Pegasus Books
Pages: 400
Format: Print book
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The enthralling story of the dynastic wars fought between the houses of Lancaster and York, the first of a dynamic two-volume history of the Wars of the Roses.England, 1454. A kingdom sliding into chaos.The mentally unstable King Henry VI, having struggled for a decade to contain the violent... |
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God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin
Jeffrey Lee · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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"[Jeffrey Lee] brings a blockbuster sensibility to this slice of the 12th century Levant." -- Dan Jones, Sunday Times (UK) In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to Reynald de Chatillon, a knight who had died centuries ago in the crusades.... |
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