This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
Vintage Digital
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9780670140442
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Hardcover
Norma Kamali
By Kamali, Norma
In her first book, fashion legend Norma Kamali offers readers a stylish, inspiring, and heartfelt handbook for gliding boldly through each of life's decades with purpose and power. Manifesto, memoir, and essential guide, its pages are informed by 50 years of Kamali's twists, turns, triumphs, and failures experienced while nding the courage and conviction to race after her dreams and never look back. At 75, Kamali looks - and acts - nearly half her age. The secret, she writes, is learning to age with power: Embracing a healthy lifestyle and looking forward to every milestone and the changes they bring, with the realization that reaching one's potential has no date. With wisdom and wit, Kamali imparts her lessons on authentic beauty, timeless style, career-building, tness, and health through personal stories, worldly insight, and actionable advice designed to help women of every age create their happiest, healthiest, most successful and fulfilling lives.
Abrams
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9781419747403
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Paperback
Con/Artist
By Tetro, Tony
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you've ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro's "Rembrandts," "Caravaggios," "Miros," and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe. In 2019, it was revealed that Prince Charles received into his collection a Picasso, Dali, Monet, and Chagall, insuring them for over 200 million pounds, only to later discover that they're actually "Tetros.
Hachette Books
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9780306826481
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Hardcover
MIRACLES HAPPEN
By Platnick, Abraham-joseph
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO READ THIS BOOK? Because you will see how one man was able to overcome obstacles, even the Federal government. Read how Joseph Platnick finally stopped the railroad train horn at safe crossings in Dade County, Florida. No more trying to, "beat the train". Also, read how one man, Joe Platnick, as President of Northeast Dade Coalition, with this book, is still trying to convince the Fire Department in Florida that instead of installing sprinklers in residential buildings, to continue with installing electrified smoke detectors, they should be connected to a central alarm system just as a sprinkler system is tied in. He got them to agree to electrifying smoke detectors in lieu of installing sprinklers in high rise residential buildings.
Independently published
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9798638088323
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Paperback
The Son and Heir
By Munninghoff, Alexander
What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform Reporter Alexander Mnninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father's recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father's tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son.In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents' complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Mnninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander's life for the next seventy years.
Amazon Crossing
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9781542004558
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Hardcover
RODIN CROWN ART LIB
By Taillandier, Yvon
Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings.
Crown
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9780517082669
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Hardcover
The Life of Mark Twain
By Scharnhorst, Gary
In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens was one of the most famous people in the world. He also grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works in the last years of his life.
Publisher: n/a
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9780826222411
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Hardcover
Sad Happens
By Stosuy, Brandon
A beautifully-illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness - and the transformative power of tears.. When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry - and the circumstances in which we shed a tear - are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances. We hear from Mike Birbiglia on the role that grief and pain have in comedy; Jia Tolentino on how motherhood made her cry in both hormonal joy and fervent rage; and Hanif Abdurraqib on the intimacy of crying on planes.
Simon & Schuster
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9781668003459
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Hardcover
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
By Flam, Laura
. Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100 subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s. . . . . The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. . As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to the top of the charts, girl groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. While the songs are essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners.
The Auden Generation
By Hynes, Samuel
This is a study of a literary generation writing in a period of expanding fears and ever more urgent political and social crises. The pace of the time itself, the sense of time passing and an end approaching gave a special quality to the Thirties. The public world pressed insistently on the private world. For those who came of literary age - Auden, Day Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, Graham Greene, Isherwood and Orwell among them - writing became a form of action. In the process a generation discovered itself and found its own expression.
Norma Kamali
By Kamali, Norma
In her first book, fashion legend Norma Kamali offers readers a stylish, inspiring, and heartfelt handbook for gliding boldly through each of life's decades with purpose and power. Manifesto, memoir, and essential guide, its pages are informed by 50 years of Kamali's twists, turns, triumphs, and failures experienced while nding the courage and conviction to race after her dreams and never look back. At 75, Kamali looks - and acts - nearly half her age. The secret, she writes, is learning to age with power: Embracing a healthy lifestyle and looking forward to every milestone and the changes they bring, with the realization that reaching one's potential has no date. With wisdom and wit, Kamali imparts her lessons on authentic beauty, timeless style, career-building, tness, and health through personal stories, worldly insight, and actionable advice designed to help women of every age create their happiest, healthiest, most successful and fulfilling lives.
Con/Artist
By Tetro, Tony
The world's most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the masters - exposing an art world that is far more corrupt than we ever knew while providing an art history lesson wrapped in sex, drugs, and Caravaggio. The art world is a much dirtier, nastier business than you might expect. Tony Tetro, one of the most renowned art forgers in history, will make you question every masterpiece you've ever seen in a museum, gallery, or private collection. Tetro's "Rembrandts," "Caravaggios," "Miros," and hundreds of other works now hang on walls around the globe. In 2019, it was revealed that Prince Charles received into his collection a Picasso, Dali, Monet, and Chagall, insuring them for over 200 million pounds, only to later discover that they're actually "Tetros.
MIRACLES HAPPEN
By Platnick, Abraham-joseph
WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO READ THIS BOOK? Because you will see how one man was able to overcome obstacles, even the Federal government. Read how Joseph Platnick finally stopped the railroad train horn at safe crossings in Dade County, Florida. No more trying to, "beat the train". Also, read how one man, Joe Platnick, as President of Northeast Dade Coalition, with this book, is still trying to convince the Fire Department in Florida that instead of installing sprinklers in residential buildings, to continue with installing electrified smoke detectors, they should be connected to a central alarm system just as a sprinkler system is tied in. He got them to agree to electrifying smoke detectors in lieu of installing sprinklers in high rise residential buildings.
The Son and Heir
By Munninghoff, Alexander
What can a son say upon discovering that his father wore a Nazi uniform Reporter Alexander Mnninghoff was only four when he found this mortifying relic from his father's recent past in his attic. This shameful memento came to symbolize not only his father's tragically misguided allegiance but also a shattered marriage and ultimately the unconscionable separation of a mother and son.In this revelatory memoir, the author confronts his parents' complex past as he reconstructs the fortunes and disillusions of an entire family upheaved during the changes of twentieth-century Europe. The Mnninghoffs were driven by greed, rebellion, and rage. An embattled dynasty, they were torn between the right and the wrong side of history. Their saga haunted Alexander's life for the next seventy years.
RODIN CROWN ART LIB
By Taillandier, Yvon
Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings.
The Life of Mark Twain
By Scharnhorst, Gary
In the final volume of his three-volume biography, Gary Scharnhorst chronicles the life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens from his family's extended trip to Europe in 1891 to his death in 1910. During this period, Clemens was one of the most famous people in the world. He also grapples with bankruptcy, returns to the lecture circuit, loses two daughters and his wife, and writes some of his darkest, most critical works in the last years of his life.
Sad Happens
By Stosuy, Brandon
A beautifully-illustrated, celebratory anthology exploring sadness - and the transformative power of tears.. When was the last time you cried? Was it because you were sad? Or happy? Overwhelmed, or frustrated? Maybe from relief or from pride? Was it in public or in private? Did you feel better afterwards, or worse? The reasons that we cry - and the circumstances in which we shed a tear - are often surprising and beautiful. Sad Happens is a collective, multi-faceted archive of tears that captures the complexity and variety of these circumstances. We hear from Mike Birbiglia on the role that grief and pain have in comedy; Jia Tolentino on how motherhood made her cry in both hormonal joy and fervent rage; and Hanif Abdurraqib on the intimacy of crying on planes.
But Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
By Flam, Laura
. Featuring over 300 hours of new interviews with 100 subjects, an oral history of the girl groups (such as The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas) that redefined the early 1960s. . . . . The girl group sound, made famous and unforgettable by acts like The Ronettes, The Shirelles, The Supremes, and The Vandellas, took over the airwaves by capturing the mixture of innocence and rebellion emblematic of America in the 1960s. . As songs like "Will You Love Me Tomorrow," "Then He Kissed Me," and "Be My Baby" rose to the top of the charts, girl groups cornered the burgeoning post-war market of teenage rock and roll fans, indelibly shaping the trajectory of pop music in the process. While the songs are essential to the American canon, many of the artists remain all but anonymous to most listeners.
Maybe It's Me
By Pollack, Eileen