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Obama: An Intimate Portrait

Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

This is the definitive visual biography of Barack Obama's historic presidency, captured in unprecedented detail by his White House photographer--and presented in an oversize, 12"x10" exquisitely produced format, and featuring a foreword from the President himself.
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Midsomer Murders, Set 22

~ Midsomer Murders - Acorn Media
Format: DVD


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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments

J. L. Pickering - University Press of Florida
Format: Hardcover

Picturing Apollo 11 is an unprecedented photographic history of the space mission that defined an era. Through a wealth of unpublicized and recently discovered images, this book presents new and rarely-seen views of the people, places, and events involved in the pioneering first...
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Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life

Eric Klinenberg - Crown
Format: Hardcover

An eminent sociologist and bestselling author offers an inspiring blueprint for rebuilding our fractured society. We are living in a time of deep divisions. Americans are sorting themselves along racial, religious, and cultural lines, leading to a level of polarization that the country...
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Paint, Play, Explore: Expressive Mark-Making Techniques in Mixed Media

Rae Missigman - North Light Books
Format: Paperback

Discover the marks for your most authentic art! Mixed-media artist Rae Missigman identifies herself as a "mark-maker." Ever in the forefront of her art, organic shapes and graphic marks are what give her work a sense of authenticity. With an adventurous, anything-goes attitude...
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Galapagos: A Traveler's Introduction

WAYNE LYNCH - Firefly Books
Format: Paperback

In 1979, the Galapagos Islands was one of the earliest World Heritage Sites to be selected by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) , a designation intended to protect and preserve sites of cultural and natural heritage around the world. Today, there...
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Grace Kelly: Hollywood Dream Girl

JAY JORGENSEN - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

The definitive visual biography of Grace Kelly's unforgettable Hollywood career, chronicled in 400 extraordinary black-and white and color photographs, including many never-before-seen."Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder...
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The Weir

- Nick Hern Books; Donmar ed edition
Format: Paperback


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Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents

Pete Souza - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

From Pete Souza, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Obama: An Intimate Portrait, comes a potent commentary on the Presidency--and our country. As Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza spent more time alongside President Barack Obama than almost anyone...
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Vogue: The Gown

Jo Ellison - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

Reviews for the limited edition: "(A) sumptuous love letter capturing the essence of Vogue: beautiful women in beautiful gowns." --Library Journal "An art book about gowns must be as opulent and enchanting as its lavish subject. So it is with this grandly produced and mesmerizing...
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Aretha: The Queen of SoulA Life in Photographs

Meredith Ochs - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

This beautifully illustrated unofficial retrospective celebrates the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin, and reflects on her life, music, and legacy. Aretha Franklin's voice was legendary, unforgettable: deeply rooted in gospel, yet versatile enough to brilliantly interpret R&B, rock,...
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Hubble's Universe: Greatest Discoveries and Latest Images

Terence Dickinson - Firefly Books
Format: Hardcover

Praise for the first edition: "Superbly well produced. Any engagement with this 'cosmic portfolio,' from picture gazing to deep reading, is grandly rewarded." --BOOKLIST [starred review] "The book's precise descriptions and captions brilliantly complement the 300 full-color...
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Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar DVD

- Hal Leonard
Format: Multimedia CD

Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar Learn to Play Rock Rhythms! Series: Instructional/Guitar/DVD Publisher: Hal Leonard Medium: DVD Learn all the essential rhythm techniques! In this DVD, Stetina teaches power chords, barre chords, triad shapes, muting, chord progressions, pick harmonics, chord...
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Joseph L Mankiewicz - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

This black-and-white film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's Southern gothic play is perhaps more famous for the rumored off-screen shenanigans of its stars than for its over-the-top repressed sexuality (only Williams could pull off that paradox, and pull it off he does). Supposedly,...
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Digital Photography Through the Year, 2nd Edition

Tom Ang - Dk Publishing, 2016.
Format: Print book

Digital Photography Through the Year is your essential companion to capturing the most beautiful moments of every season. Updated to include all the latest technological developments and creative trends, this guide is packed with practical explanations of key techniques and tips and tricks...
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Michael Jackson: On the Wall

NICHOLAS CULLINAN - National Portrait Gallery
Format: Hardcover

Icon as muse: Michael Jackson in art, from Warhol to KAWSSince Andy Warhol first used his image in 1982, Michael Jackson has become the most depicted cultural figure in contemporary art. But while his impact on music, music video, dance, choreography and fashion is widely acknowledged,...
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Release Your Creativity: Discover Your Inner Artist with 15 Simple Painting Projects

Rebecca Schweiger - Get Creative 6
Format: Paperback

Awaken your inner artist! The owner of New York City's #1 art school for all ages and levels shows how we can all ignite our creative spark. In her more than 10 years of teaching art to people from all walks of life, Rebecca Schweiger has honed her ability to bring out students'...
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3 Geezers

TNT's The Closer J.K. Simmons - Green Apple Entertainment
Format: DVD


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Painting the Dream: From the Biblical Dream to Surrealism

Daniel Bergez - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover

The first-ever history of the representation of dreams in Western painting, illustrated with works by more than 130 artistsOrganized by period, from the Middle Ages to the present, this engaging book shows how the idea of the dream, and its depictions, have shifted throughout history, from...
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Lonely Planet's Best Ever Photography Tips

LONELY PLANET. - Lonely Planet
Format: Paperback

Sharpen your skills and your pictures with this updated edition of Lonely Planet's bestselling Best Ever Photography Tips . Featuring 45 practical tips and ten golden rules from award-winning travel photographer Richard I'Anson, it's packed with insight into the creative and technical...
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The Smartphone Photography Guide: Shoot*Edit*Experiment*Share

Peter Cope - Carlton Books
Format: Paperback

Make the most of your smartphone camera with this enlarged, updated edition of the handy guide to creating brilliant photos and videos! Smartphones have put powerful cameras, literally, in our pockets and encouraged us to document our lives in ever-increasing detail. But do we realize...
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PhotoCity Paris

LONELY PLANET. - Lonely Planet
Format: Hardcover

One photographer. One complete picture. We present 24 hours in the life of one of the world's most iconic cities. From sunrise to after sunset, from famous landmarks to lesser-known neighbourhoods, this celebration of Paris is packed with local insights and visual stories to showcase...
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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation

MINDY JOHNSON - Disney Editions
Format: Hardcover

From the earliest origins of animated imagery, the colorful link between paper and screen was created by legions of female artists working on the slick surface of celluloid sheets. With calligraphic precision and Rembrandtesque mastery, these women painstakingly brought pencil drawings...
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More Somerset Tales

Sweet, Jack William - AMBERLEY PUB


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Gustav Klimt at Home

PATRICK BADE - Frances Lincoln
Format: Hardcover

Gustav Klimt at Home explores the influences of Vienna and other places Klimt travelled to and called home on his life and work. Klimt was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. He was both influenced by and shaped the city of Vienna at the turn of the century,...
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Brooklyn Before: Photographs, 19711983

Larry Racioppo - Three Hills
Format: Hardcover

Before Brooklyn rose to international fame there existed a vibrant borough of neighborhoods rich with connections and traditions. During the 1970s and 1980s, photographer Larry Racioppo, a South Brooklynite with roots three generations deep, recorded Brooklyn on the cusp of being the trendy...
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Artist's Market 2018

Noel Rivera - North Light Books
Format: Paperback(Forty-third Edition)

A successful art career at your fingertips Do you want to establish or expand a career for yourself in fine art, illustration, or design? Artist's Market 2018 is the must-have reference guide you need. Thousands of successful artists have relied on us to help develop their careers and navigate...
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Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography

Lonely Planet. - Lonely Planet Pbns
Format: Print book

Lonely Planet: The world's leading travel guide publisherThe best-selling Lonely Planet's Guide to Travel Photography is written by internationally renowned travel photographer Richard I'Anson. He shares his wealth of experience and knowledge about travel photography in this jargon-free...
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Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being

NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION. - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don't have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with...
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Dress Like a Woman: Working Women and What They Wore

Abrams Books - Abrams Image
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
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...
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Manga for the Beginner Kawaii: How to Draw the Supercute Characters of Japanese Comics

Christopher Hart - Watson-Guptill
Format: Paperback

Kawaii—so cute it hurts! You probably know this already, but the superpopular manga genre of Kawaii is everywhere! From Hello Kitty to Pokémon, these supercute Kawaii creatures are taking over. These characters are intensely cute, simple to draw, and colorfully graphic. The Kawaii...
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Women Who Write Are Dangerous

STEFAN BOLLMANN - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover

A sequel to the best-selling Women Who Read Are Dangerous, presenting portraits and profiles of fearless women writers past and presentWriting has not always been considered a suitable career for women. Indeed, it was once common for women authors to adopt a masculine pseudonym in order...
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Classic Greek Masterpieces of Sculpture

Photini N Zaphiropoulou - Harry N Abrams
Format: Print book

Greek sculpture was among the first art to communicate human emotions and to offer a more realistic portrait of the individual. By working in new materials and posing the body naturally, Greek sculptors established the foundation of a whole new art form. Classic Greek Masterpieces of Sculpture...
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Dance Nation

Clare Barron - Oberon Books
Format: Paperback

WINNER: 2017 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize"Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!"Somewhere in America, a revolution is coming, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plot to take over the world one routine at a time. And if their...
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Goosebumps 2


Format: DVD

This book brings together 50 exquisite portrait drawings from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including works by da Vinci, Drer, Holbein, Bernini, Carracci, Clouet and Rembrandt. These works capture a moment of connection between artist and sitter: an encounter.
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The Planets: Photographs from the Archives of NASA

Anthony Casillo - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

This magnificent volume offers a rich visual tour of the planets in our solar system. More than 200 breathtaking photographs from the archives of NASA are paired with extended captions detailing the science behind some of our cosmic neighborhood's most extraordinary phenomena. Images of newly...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones

Martin Kemp - Sterling
Format: Hardcover

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, world-renowned da Vinci expert Martin Kemp explores 100 of the master's milestones in art, science, engineering, architecture, anatomy, and more. Leonardo da Vinci was born in the small Tuscan town of Vinci in April 1452....
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Lorna Simpson Collages

Lorna Simpson - Chronicle Books
Format: Hardcover

This intimate, one-of-a-kind book showcases the exquisite collage work of internationally acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson. Combining vintage advertising images of Black women and men with colorful ink washes, striking geological formations, and dreamy skyscapes, Simpson creates fantastical...
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149 Paintings You Really Need to See in North America:

Julian Porter - Dundurn
Format: Paperback

Tour North America's greatest museums and galleries in the company of two incomparable guides. This lively companion highlights the essential paintings, by some of the world's greatest painters, from Giotto to Picasso, on display in North American museums and galleries. Julian Porter...
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The Art of Reading: An Illustrated History of Books in Paint

Jamie Camplin - Getty Publications
Format: Hardcover

"Why do artists love books?" This volume takes this tantalizingly simple question as a starting point to reveal centuries of symbiosis between the visual and literary arts. First looking at the development of printed books and the simultaneous emergence of the modern figure of the artist,...
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Casual Sex?

Ilona Herzberg - Universal Studios
Format: DVD video

Who says sex isn't a laughing matter? Certainly not the ready-for-anything Stacy (Lea Thompson) or her somewhat repressed friend Melissa (Victoria Jackson) . Determined to develop a meaningful relationship with a man who's not afraid to make a commitment, the girls take a vacation...
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Couples in Art

Agata Toromanoff - h.f.ullmann publishing
Format: Hardcover

This book tells the story of romantic companionship in one hundred works of art. Chronologically arranged and emotionally driven, this study of couples runs through many cultures, civilizations, and epochs. With examples from across the globe, it portrays iconic and lesser-known (yet fascinating)...
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Pharrell: A Fish Doesn't Know It's Wet

Pharrell Williams - Rizzoli
Format: Hardcover

Following Rizzoli's best-selling Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been, this volume documents the continuing adventures in art and design of one of the most influential figures in contemporary music and popular culture. Lavishly illustrated with 250 photographs and illustrations,...
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Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World's Best New Gardens

CHRISTOPHER WOODS - Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

A steep hillside garden in Singapore. A garden defined by shape and light in Marrakech. A haunting tree museum in Switzerland. These are just a few of the outstanding gardens featured in Gardenlust, a sumptuous exploration of the world's best new gardens. Intrepid plant expert Christopher...
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The Learning Tree

Kyle Johnson - WB
Format: DVD

Remember that special growing-up year in your life? When you had your first real adventure, discovered love, faced an enemy, withstood the death of a loved one, stood up for a principle, backed a friend? Maybe, like Newt Winger's growing-up year, it was all of them. A personal triumph...
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Annie Leibovitz: Photographs, 1970-1990

Annie Leibovitz - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Hardcover

From Personal Private Collection. 1991 First Edition stated. Has no creases or marks on cover, spine as 1 dent on spine. Binding is good and tight, pages are clean and intact, No shelve wear on cover. No writing inside book. DJ has bumps on corners and 1 tear on front & 1 on back at top of spine....
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Posters of World War II: Allied and Axis Propaganda 1939 - 1945

Peter Darman - Chartwell Books
Format: Book

Over 200 exciting full color posters from World War II, each one accompanied by a caption describing its origins, design, and purpose. The posters cover a wide range of topics, such as recruitment, security, finance, food, and hygiene.Contains posters sourced from European and US archives,...
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Fifty Years of 60 Minutes: The Inside Story of Television's Most Influential News Broadcast

JEFF FAGER - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

A history of 60 Minutes - the iconic American TV news broadcast - going behind the scenes of the most famous breakthrough stories of its remarkable fifty-year run to reveal the secrets of the program's success.Fifty Years of 60 Minutes tells the inside story of the legendary...
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Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon: An artist's colorful guide to drawing on the go!

Monika Forsberg - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Paperback

Anyone can draw and paint, anywhere and at any time! Anywhere, Anytime Art: Crayon allows artists of all skill levels to create beautiful, spontaneous artwork inspired by their surroundings, no matter where they are! Discover how to work with crayon, master basic strokes and drawing techniques,...
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Island of Grace

- INGRAM ENTERTAINMENT (VIRTUAL)


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A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

Siri Hustvedt - Simon & Schuster
Format: Print book

A compelling and radical collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prize-winning novelist Siri Hustvedt, the acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.Siri Husvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception...
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Van Gogh and Music: A Symphony in Blue and Yellow

NATASCHA VELDHORST - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

"Ah! . . . to make of painting what the music of Berlioz and Wagner has been before us . . . a consolatory art for distressed hearts!" - Vincent van Gogh This engaging book is the first in-depth investigation of the influential role that music and sound played throughout Vincent...
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall

TIM MOHR - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"In case you weren't sure just how political music, fashion, and a certain attitude can be: read this book. Burning Down the Haus is wonderful." - Norman Ohler, author of Blitzed "The true story of how teenage kicks turned into political opposition. With meticulous...
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The Last Wild Men of Borneo: A True Story of Death and Treasure

Carl Hoffman - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary "Wild Men of Borneo." One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization - or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries, New York Times...
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The Duel at Silver Creek

Audie Murphy - Universal Studios
Format: DVD

Celebrated war hero Audie Murphy packs a two-fisted punch in this action-filled western adventure, which also features legendary Oscar winner Lee Marvin in one of his first screen appearances. Stephen McNally is Lightning, the quick-drawing marshal of Silver City who's intent on capturing...
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Rock-and-Roll Woman: The 50 Fiercest Female Rockers

Meredith Ochs - Sterling
Format: Book

Celebrate the women who rock, with this fully illustrated tribute to 50 iconic female musicians and bands.

 
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Winchester 73 [DVD]

James Stewart - Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Its the legendary James Stewart at his leading-man finest in this timeless western that set the standard for all that followed. Frontiersman Lin McAdam (Stewart) is attempting to track down both his fathers murderer and his one-of-a-kind rifle, the Winchester 73, as it passes...
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Corvette 50th Anniversary

Consumer Guide Auto Editors - Publications International Ltd
Format: Hardcover

Provides the history of the Corvette after fifty years of production, offering information on changes in body style, engine specifications, and production.
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Battlefields

Yan Morvan - Abbeville Press
Format: Hardcover

A monumental photo book documenting the scenes of more than 3,000 years of human conflict After a distinguished -- and death-defying -- career documenting the wars of today, Yan Morvan decided to undertake a different kind of battlefield photography, one that would show how war has imprinted...
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Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art

Michael Kerrigan - Flame Tree Publishing
Format: Print book

Prior to the invention of the printing press, all books had to be written by hand. Manuscripts are the beautiful manifestation of this craft, and the most precious and expensive of such manuscripts were 'illuminated' through the use of brightly coloured pigments and gold embellishments....
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