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An Affair to Remember: The Remarkable Love Story of Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracyby Christopher P. AndersenISBN 0380731584 (0-380-73158-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essaysby Susan SontagISBN 0374520402 (0-374-52040-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus Giroux
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Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Against Interpretation: And Other Essays: ISBN 0374975140 (0-374-97514-0)
Hardcover, Octagon Books - Against Interpretation, and Other Essays: ISBN 0374520402 (0-374-52040-2)
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Albion : Origins of the English Imaginationby Peter AckroydISBN 0385497733 (0-385-49773-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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American Buildings and Their Architectsby William H. Jordy, William Harvey PiersonISBN 0385061234 (0-385-06123-4)
Hardcover, Anchor Press
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American Gothic: A Life Of America's Most Famous Paintingby Steven BielISBN 0393328554 (0-393-32855-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Art : A Field Guideby Robert CummingISBN 037541312X (0-375-41312-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art : A Field Guide'Book summary:Your eyes will indeed be opened, and what you see in works of art will come newly alive when you have Robert Cumming, the former chairman of Christie's International Art Studies, as your guide.
With tremendous erudition and tart, provocative opinions, Cumming zeroes in on the essential characteristics of more than 770 painters, showing us, for example, what it was that made Rembrandt's art unique. He explains the conventions of narrative and iconography in Western art, such as the representation of St. Lawrence, who is always seen lying on a hot griddle. And Cumming defines several hundred terms-- both technical (gouache, sfumato, craquelure) and critical/historical (Expressionism, Mannerism, the Hudson River School)-- that so often mystify a viewer.
Cumming's no-nonsense guide is enlightening and entertaining; lavishly illustrated with the key works of hundreds of artists; concise and portable enough to use in the "field" (museums and galleries); and so substantial you will refer to it often at home.
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Art Against the Odds : From Slave Quilts to Prison Paintingsby Susan Goldman RubinISBN 0375824065 (0-375-82406-5)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Artists on Art: From the 14th to the 20th Centuryby Robert Goldwater, Marco TrevesISBN 0394709004 (0-394-70900-4)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Celliniby Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington SymondsISBN 0394605284 (0-394-60528-4)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Bali: Behind the Maskby Ana DanielISBN 0394738446 (0-394-73844-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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A Barthes Readerby Roland Barthes, Susan SontagISBN 0374521441 (0-374-52144-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Beatles Illustrated Lyricsby Beatles, Alan AldridgeISBN 0356029247 (0-356-02924-7)
Hardcover, Macdonald
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics'Book summary:First published in 1969, this reissued collection of illustrated lyrics for 200 Beatles songs will be a treasure for any fan of the Fab Four. Editor and Beatle-buddy Alan Aldridge states in his introduction to the original edition: "What I have tried to do is present a book [that] is as entertaining to the eye and the imagination as a Beatles album is to the ear." Indeed, he more than succeeds, creating a lavish pageant of art and music that embraces not only the Beatles but also the psychedelic spirit of the entire era.
In 320 photos and illustrations, renowned artists offer their interpretations of various songs. "Help" is visualized by Ronald Searle; "Fixing a Hole," by Tomi Ungerer; "Glass Onion," by Peter Max; "I'm So Tired," by David Hockney; and "Oh, Darling," by Ralph Steadman. Aldridge also contributes his own trippy illustrations, which reflect the bold, bulbous, cartoons-on-acid style of 1960s poster art. This rich compilation also has brief quotes from the Beatles explaining the origins of the themes and lyrics of certain songs. For example, despite the buzz that "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" is about LSD, according to Paul, "What happened was that John's son Julian did a drawing at school and brought it home, and he has a schoolmate named Lucy, and John said, 'What's that?' and he said 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds.'" Band members also share their thoughts on superstardom, including this now weighty comment from John: "I don't intend to be a performing flea anymore. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40." It can't bring them back, but The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics can take you on a long and winding road of nostalgia. --Brangien Davis [via]
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The Blue Bookby Brad BenedictISBN 0394530179 (0-394-53017-9)
Hardcover, Indigo Books
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The Book of Photography: How to See and Take Better Picturesby John Hedgecoe, Adrian BaileyISBN 0394724666 (0-394-72466-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't Seeby Sabrina Ward HarrisonISBN 0375756639 (0-375-75663-9)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't See'Book summary:"In the continuum of life and trying to discover my true self, Sabrina reminds me, through her brave, insightful, and heartfelt honesty, that we are all connected in this journey. We are connected through an intertwining sameness called the struggles and joys of finding and becoming our authentic selves. When I read her words, I felt acknowledged for my journey and for being a woman in these complex times... Thank you, Sabrina, for sharing your gift with us. May we all continue to share our journeys together so we know we are not alone."
--from the Foreword by Hilary Swank, actor
From the acclaimed twenty-five-year-old author/artist of the stunning visual memoir Spilling Open comes the all-new multimedia installment of her intimate journey Brave on the Rocks: If You Don't Go, You Don't See.
Picking up where Spilling Open left off, Sabrina Ward Harrison tells us about the surprising reaction to her first book. Via her readers' letters and e-mails, she realized that through her journal she had become an identifying voice for women around the world. However, along with recognition came a certain pressure to uphold her new image. Overwhelmed by her attempt to live up to what she thought she had to become, Sabrina decided to head out on her own. She chose as her destination Italy, a place she had always dreamed and written about, a place she felt she could go to "recolor" herself. In her journey she discovered a universal identity with other travelers and a particular kinship with the women she met. But back home she struggled to keep her newfound confidence intact as she navigated her life.
Harrison writes and illustrates with a powerful and creative voice. Her thoughts are real and brave. She explores with sensitivity questions of love, faith, growing pains, being true to oneself, and what it means to be unique. With unfaltering honesty, she allows us to witness and share in her reconnection with herself, her growing and reaching, and, ultimately, her voyage home again. [via]More editions of Brave on the Rocks : If You Don't Go, You Don't See:
Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Artsby Roger ShattuckISBN 0393321118 (0-393-32111-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Catholic Lifeby John A. HardonISBN 038523080X (0-385-23080-X)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Color : A Natural History of the Paletteby Victoria FinlayISBN 0345444302 (0-345-44430-2)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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How did the most precious color blue travel all the way from remote lapis mines in Afghanistan to Michelangelos brush? What is the connection between brown paint and ancient Egyptian mummies? Why did Robin Hood wear Lincoln green? In Color, Finlay explores the physical materials that color our world, such as precious minerals and insect blood, as well as the social and political meanings that color has carried through time.
Roman emperors used to wear togas dyed with a purple color that was made from an odorous Lebanese shellfishwhich probably meant their scent preceded them. In the eighteenth century, black dye was called logwood and grew along the Spanish Main. Some of the first indigo plantations were started in America, amazingly enough, by a seventeen-year-old girl named Eliza. And the popular van Gogh painting White Roses at Washingtons National Gallery had to be renamed after a researcher discovered that the flowers were originally done in a pink paint that had faded nearly a century ago. Color is full of extraordinary people, events, and anecdotespainted all the more dazzling by Finlays engaging style.
Embark upon a thrilling adventure with this intrepid journalist as she travels on a donkey along ancient silk trade routes; with the Phoenicians sailing the Mediterranean in search of a special purple shell that garners wealth, sustenance, and prestige; with modern Chilean farmers breeding and bleeding insects for their viscous red blood. The colors that craft our world have never looked so bright. [via]More editions of Color : A Natural History of the Palette:
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The Complete Playsby Anton Chekhov, Laurence SenelickISBN 0393048853 (0-393-04885-3)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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This stunning new translation presents the only truly complete edition of the playwright who is in the pantheon of the greatest dramatists in history. Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works interpreted and adapted internationally and beloved for their understanding of the human condition and their brilliant wit. This volume contains work that has never previously been translated, including the newly discovered farce The Power of Hypnosis and the first version of Ivanov, as well as Chekhov's early humorous dialogues. No less important, Laurence Senelick, who has staged many of these plays, has freshly translated them to bring into English Chekhov's jokes, the deliberate repetitions of his dialogue, and his verbal characterizations. Senelick has also annotated the works to bring clarity for the general reader and has included variants of the plays. His translations infuse new life into such classics as The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters. [via]More editions of The Complete Plays:
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby David BevingtonISBN 0321366263 (0-321-36626-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre. This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase. The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own. A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevingtons the most accessible Complete Works available. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it. Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want Shakespeare's complete works in a portable format.
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0385000499 (0-385-00049-9)
Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Copenhagenby Michael FraynISBN 0385720793 (0-385-72079-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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De Kooning's Bicycle: Artists And Writers In The Hamptonsby Robert LongISBN 0374165386 (0-374-16538-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Emergence of Film Art: The Evolution and Development of the Motion Picture As an Art, from 1900 to the Presentby Lewis JacobsISBN 0393950492 (0-393-95049-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The Fannie Farmer Cookbookby Marion Cunningham, Jeri Laber, Fannie Merritt FarmerISBN 0394406508 (0-394-40650-8)
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From Bauhaus to Our Houseby Tom WolfeISBN 0374158924 (0-374-15892-4)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Garbo: A Biographyby Barry ParisISBN 0394580206 (0-394-58020-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'Book summary:Everything is a symbol, and symbols can combine to form patterns. Patterns are beautiful and revelatory of larger truths. These are the central ideas in the thinking of Kurt Gödel, M.C. Escher, and Johann Sebastian Bach, perhaps the three greatest minds of the past quarter-millennium. In a stunning work of humanism, Hofstadter ties together the work of mathematician Gödel, graphic artist Escher, and composer Bach.
Gödel, Escher, Bach, a Pulitzer prize-winning treatise on genius, explores the workings of brilliant people's brains with the help of historical examples and brainteaser puzzles. Not for the dim or the lazy, this book shows you, more clearly than most any other, what it means to see symbols and patterns where others see only the universe. Touching on math, computers, literature, music, and artificial intelligence, Gödel, Escher, Bach is a challenging and potentially life-changing piece of writing. [via]
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The Greek Wayby Edith HamiltonISBN 0393310779 (0-393-31077-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Greek Way'Book summary:The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece.
"Five hundred years before Christ in a little town on the far western border of the settled and civilizaed world, a strange new power was at work. . . . Athens had entered upon her brief and magnificent flowering of genius which so molded the world of mind and of spirit that our mind and spirit today are different. . . . What was then produced of art and of thought has never been surpasses and very rarely equalled, and the stamp of it is upon all the art and all the thought of the Western world."
A perennial favorite in many different editions, Edith Hamilton's best-selling The Greek Way captures the spirit and achievements of Greece in the fifth century B.C. A retired headmistress when she began her writing career in the 1930s, Hamilton immediately demonstrated a remarkable ability to bring the world of ancient Greece to life, introducing that world to the twentieth century. The New York Times called The Greek Way a "book of both cultural and critical importance."
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The Guitar Handbookby Ralph Denyer, Isaac Guillory, Alastair M. CrawfordISBN 0394712579 (0-394-71257-9)
Softcover, Knopf
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Hamletby William Shakespeare, Cyrus Henry HoyISBN 0393316424 (0-393-31642-4)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hamlet'Book summary:This revised Norton Critical Edition of one of the series' most widely read texts is based on the second quarto (1604-05). Where necessary, the editor has also drawn from the folio text, recording all departures from the quarto in the Textual Notes. Punctuation and stage directions for the play have been refined, and textual annotations have been revised and expanded.
The "Intellectual Backgrounds" and "Extracts from the Sources" sections, both highly praised, remain as germane as ever. Intellectual Backgrounds includes important readings on melancholy, demonology, the nature of man, and death, including works by Peter de la Primaudaye, Timothy Bright, Lewes Lavater, G. Gifford, Michel de Montaigne, and Heironymous Cardanus. Extracts from the Sources provides pre-Shakespearean accounts of the story of Hamlet, reprinting substantial excerpts from Saxo Grammaticus's Historia Danica and Belleforest's Histoires Tragiques.
"Criticism" has been revised to accommodate the most significant recent interpretations of Hamlet while retaining the seminal essays of the First Edition. Twenty-three critical analyses are featured, including those by Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, A. C. Bradley, D. H. Lawrence, T. S. Eliot, G. Wilson Knight, C. S. Lewis, Harry Levin, Peter J. Seng, Rebecca West, Arnold Kettle, Margaret W. Ferguson, Jacqueline Rose, and William Empson.
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Hidden in Plain View: The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroadby Jacqueline L. Tobin, Raymond G. DobardISBN 0385497679 (0-385-49767-9)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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The authors construct history around Ozella's story, finding evidence in cultural artifacts like slave narratives, folk songs, spirituals, documented slave codes, and children's' stories. Tobin and Dobard write that "from the time of slavery until today, secrecy was one way the black community could protect itself. If the white man didn't know what was going on, he couldn't seek reprisals." Hidden in Plain View is a multilayered and unique piece of scholarship, oral history, and cultural exploration that reveals slaves as deliberate agents in their own quest for freedom even as it shows that history can sometimes be found where you least expect it. --Amy Wan [via]
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Hidden in Plain View : The Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroadby Raymond G. Dobard, Jacqueline L. TobinISBN 0385491379 (0-385-49137-9)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Hogarth: A Life and a Worldby Jennifer S. UglowISBN 0374528519 (0-374-52851-9)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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How to Enjoy Balletby Don McDonaghISBN 0385126905 (0-385-12690-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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In Ruinsby Christopher WoodwardISBN 0375421998 (0-375-42199-8)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionismby Ross KingISBN 0385661037 (0-385-66103-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Katharine Hepburnby Barbara LeamingISBN 038072717X (0-380-72717-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architectsby Giorgio Vasari, Philip Joshua JacksISBN 0375760369 (0-375-76036-9)
Softcover, Modern Library
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London in the 1890s: A Cultural Historyby Karl E. BecksonISBN 039303397X (0-393-03397-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Lulu in Hollywoodby Louise BrooksISBN 0394520718 (0-394-52071-8)
Hardcover, Knopf
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M.C. Escher: The Graphic Workby M.C. EscherISBN 034532787X (0-345-32787-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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The Making of "The African Queen": or How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Almost Lost My Lifeby Katharine HepburnISBN 0394562720 (0-394-56272-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Manhattan Unfurledby Matteo PericoliISBN 0375504915 (0-375-50491-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Marleneby Marlene Dietrich, Salvator AttanasioISBN 0380710889 (0-380-71088-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Meby Katharine HepburnISBN 0345410092 (0-345-41009-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Me: Stories of My Lifeby Katharine HepburnISBN 0345377702 (0-345-37770-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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A NEW YORK TIMES Notable Book of the Year
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The Merro Treeby Katie WaitmanISBN 0345414365 (0-345-41436-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Metal Techniques for Craftsmen : A Basic Manual for Crastmen on the Methods of Forming and Decorating Metalsby Oppi UntrachtISBN 0385030274 (0-385-03027-4)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William Shakespeare, Norman SandersISBN 0333026721 (0-333-02672-1)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Miltonby William Blake, Roger R. Easson, Kay Parkhurst EassonISBN 0394503007 (0-394-50300-7)
Hardcover, Shambhala
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Montgomery Cliftby Maurice LeonardISBN 0340653574 (0-340-65357-4)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Musicby Neil ArdleyISBN 0394822595 (0-394-82259-5)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Music'Book summary:Full-color photos. "Ardley introduces types of musical instruments in a scintillating blend that spans ancient to modern. Interesting historical asides and highlights about famous musicians contrast with the precisely labeled parts of the numerous illustrated instruments. The double-page spreads display an array of full-color photos, sketches, and explanatory text. Holds wide appeal for research and browsing."--(starred) Booklist. [via]
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My Life So Farby Jane FondaISBN 0375435026 (0-375-43502-6)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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The Newlywedsby Elizabeth BevarlyISBN 0373613938 (0-373-61393-8)
Softcover, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Newlyweds'Book summary:Follow the investigation by a "husband and wife" team as true crime turns to true love. . .
Known more for her work ethic than for her romantic history, FBI agent Bridget Logan landed an assignment that involved issues too close to home-and a "husband" as part of the sting. If Agent Samuel Jones weren't so sexy, Bridget would have had no problem handling this case. But he was, and for the first time in her career, Bridget had trouble keeping a cool head under fire. A lot was at stake, though, and Bridget was determined to solve this case and move on, no harm done. But then her "husband" made love to her. . .and suddenly their role as a devoted couple transformed into a passion over which neither had control! [via]
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The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Editionby William Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine E. MausISBN 0393041077 (0-393-04107-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Shakespeare : Based on the Oxford Edition'Book summary:Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available. [via]
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Notes from a Small Sopranoby Lesley GarrettISBN 0340739010 (0-340-73901-0)
Hardcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books
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Notre-Dame of Parisby Allan TemkoISBN 039330664X (0-393-30664-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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O'Keeffe and Stieglitz: An American Romanceby Benita EislerISBN 0385261225 (0-385-26122-5)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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On Photographyby Susan SontagISBN 0385267061 (0-385-26706-1)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Photography'Book summary:Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject. Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are everywhere, and the 'insatiability of the photographing eye' has profoundly altered our relationship with the world. Photographs have the power to shock, idealize or seduce, they create a sense of nostalgia and act as a memorial, and they can be used as evidence against us or to identify us. In these six incisive essays, Sontag examines the ways in which we use these omnipresent images to manufacture a sense of reality and authority in our lives. "Sontag offers enough food for thought to satisfy the most intellectual of appetites". (The Times). "A brilliant analysis of the profound changes photographic images have made in our way of looking at the world, and at ourselves". (Washington Post). "The most original and illuminating study of the subject". (New Yorker). One of America's best-known and most admired writers, Susan Sontag was also a leading commentator on contemporary culture until her death in December 2004. Her books include four novels and numerous works of non-fiction, among them Regarding the Pain of Others, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, At the Same Time, Against Interpretation and Other Essays and Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963, all of which are published by Penguin. A further eight books, including the collections of essays Under the Sign of Saturn and Where the Stress Falls, and the novels The Volcano Lover and The Benefactor, are available from Penguin Modern Classics. [via]
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The Ongoing Momentby Geoff DyerISBN 0375422153 (0-375-42215-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ongoing Moment'Book summary:In his most recent book, Yoga for People Who Cant Be Bothered to Do It, Geoff Dyer confessed that not only did he not take pictures in the course of his travels but that he does not even own a camera. With characteristic perver-sityand trademark originalityDyer has now come up with an idiosyncratic history of
. . . photography. Seeking to identify their signature styles, Dyer looks at the ways in which such canonical figures as Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Walker Evans, André Kertész, Edward Weston, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus, and William Eggleston, among others, have photographed the same things (barber shops, benches, hands, roads, and signs, for example). In doing so, he constructs a narrative in which these photographersmany of whom never metconstantly encounter one another.
Great photographs change the way we see the world; The Ongoing Moment changes the way we look at both. It is the most ambitious example to date of a form of writing that Dyer has made his own: the nonfiction work of art. [via]More editions of The Ongoing Moment:
The Painter of Modern Lifeby John Richardson, Marilyn McCullyISBN 0394559185 (0-394-55918-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followersby T. J. ClarkISBN 0394495802 (0-394-49580-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Quicksandby Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Hibbett, Howard S., Jr.ISBN 039458547X (0-394-58547-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Ransom of Russian Artby John A. McPheeISBN 0374524505 (0-374-52450-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Retakes: Behind the Scenes of 500 Classic Moviesby John EastmanISBN 0345353994 (0-345-35399-4)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Richard Scarry's Best Rainy Day Book Everby Richard ScarryISBN 0394830180 (0-394-83018-0)
Softcover, Cengage Learning
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The Seven Lamps of Architectureby J. RuskinISBN 0374501882 (0-374-50188-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Snowmanby Raymond BriggsISBN 0375810676 (0-375-81067-6)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Snowman'Book summary:Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charming tale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frosty fellow enjoys his tour of the boy's cozy home; he admires the cat, but is disturbed by the fire. The boy shows him other wonders--the TV and a lamp and running water. Predictably perhaps, he is disturbed by the stove, but likes ice cubes quite a bit. Soon it is the snowman's turn to introduce the boy to his wintry world. They join hands, rise up into the blizzardy air--presumably over Russia and into the Middle East--and then safely back to home sweet home. The boy pops into bed before his parents get up... but when he wakes up the next morning he races outside only to find his new buddy's melted remains, scattered with a few forlorn lumps of coal. Since the book is wordless, you can make up any ending you want... like "Then, in a puff of pink smoke, the snowman recomposed himself and went to live in the boy's garage freezer." Or you could just resign yourself to a peaceful "And that was that." Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Snowman Shaped Board Bookby Raymond BriggsISBN 0375800859 (0-375-80085-9)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Snowman Shaped Board Book'Book summary:Who needs words to tell a story? In Raymond Briggs's charming tale, told with 175 softly hued, artfully composed frames, a little boy makes friends with a snowman. He wakes up on a snowy day, tells his mother he's going outside, then begins a flurry of snowman-building. That night, he can't sleep, so he opens the front door and lo! the snowman has come to life. The amiable yet frosty fellow enjoys his tour of the boy's cozy home; he admires the cat, but is disturbed by the fire. The boy shows him other wonders--the TV and a lamp and running water. Predictably perhaps, he is disturbed by the stove, but likes ice cubes quite a bit. Soon it is the snowman's turn to introduce the boy to his wintry world. They join hands, rise up into the blizzardy air--presumably over Russia and into the Middle East--and then safely back to home sweet home. The boy pops into bed before his parents get up... but when he wakes up the next morning he races outside only to find his new buddy's melted remains, scattered with a few forlorn lumps of coal. Since the book is wordless, you can make up any ending you want... like "Then, in a puff of pink smoke, the snowman recomposed himself and went to live in the boy's garage freezer." Or you could just resign yourself to a peaceful "And that was that." Raymond Briggs's The Snowman won the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and this wintertime classic continues to win the hearts of kids every year. (Preschool and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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The Spectacle of Empire: Style, Effect and the Pax Britannicaby Jan MorrisISBN 0385181167 (0-385-18116-7)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Workby Barbara IsenbergISBN 0380810727 (0-380-81072-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfectionby Toby FaberISBN 0375760857 (0-375-76085-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stradivari's Genius: Five Violins, One Cello, and Three Centuries of Enduring Perfection'Book summary:Antonio Stradivari (16441737) was a perfectionist whose single-minded pursuit of excellence changed the world of music. In the course of his long career in the northern Italian city of Cremona, he created more than a thousand stringed instruments; approximately six hundred survive, their quality unequalled by any subsequent violin-maker. In this fascinating book, Toby Faber traces the rich, multilayered stories of six of these peerless creationsfive violins and a celloand the one towering artist who brought them into being. Blending history, biography, meticulous detective work, and an abiding passion for music, Faber takes us from the salons of Vienna to the concert halls of New York, and from the breakthroughs of Beethovens last quartets to the first phonographic recordings. This magnificent narrative invites us to share the life, the intrigue, and the incomparable beauty of the worlds most marvelous stringed instruments. [via]
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The Success and Failure of Picassoby John BergerISBN 0394739000 (0-394-73900-0)
Hardcover, Pantheon Books
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In this stunning critical assessment, John Bergerone of this century's most insightful cultural historianstrains his penetrating gaze upon this most prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and very particular culture that shpaed his life and work. Writing with a novelist's sensuous evocation of character and detail, and drawing on an erudition that embraces history, politics, and art, Berger follows Picasso from his childhood in Malaga to the Blue Period and Cubism, from the creation of Guernica to the pained etchings of his final years. He gives us the full measure of Picasso's triumphs and an unsparing reckoning of their costin exile, in loneliness, and in a desolation that drove him, in his last works, into an old man's furious and desperate frenzy at the beauty of what he could no longer create. [via]More editions of The Success and Failure of Picasso:
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Prince Of Denmarkby Constance JordanISBN 0321317297 (0-321-31729-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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[via]From Longman's new Cultural Edition series, Hamlet, edited by Constance Jordan, includes the play and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare.
This edition represents Shakespeare's text as it appears in the most authoritative of early editions, the Folio, published in 1623, and it supplies students with useful footnotes to the interpretation of the text. It also includes brief samples of works by Shakespeare's contemporaries in a section entitled Contexts; which will help students understand the historical setting and cultural ideas that helped shape the meaning of Shakespeare's play. By listening to these voices from the past, students can approach the play with some knowledge of why Hamlet asks the questions he does and of why the character himself, the creation of a distant century, also seems so much a part of our own world.
The Longman Cultural Edition series is composed of teaching texts edited by prominent scholars. In addition to the recently published Cultural Editions Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and Othello, titles in the series for this year include Dickens' Hard Times, Beowulf, and Oscar Wilde'sThe Picture of Dorian Gray.
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Woodcarving; Techniques & Projectsby James B. JohnstoneISBN 0376048026 (0-376-04802-6)
Hardcover, Lane Books
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