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Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-ThinkingIn the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white--or at least that is what happens when a black sultan converts to Christianity in the English romance King of Tars. In Black Metaphors, Cord J. Whitaker examines the rhetorical and...
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Only in New YorkCurated from hundreds of thousands of photos from The New York Times' archives Only in New York brings together the most memorable, poignant, and historic images of the Big Apple. This beautiful gift book celebrates New York in a way that will be treasured...
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Rooms for Living: A Style for Today with Things from the PastCelebrated interior designer Suzanne Rheinstein focuses on the use of rooms--from entries to outdoor spaces--that reflect her relaxed, elegant style, in which beauty and comfort are paramount. Suzanne Rheinstein is a master at translating traditional style into something fresh and elegant. In Rooms for...
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Seeking Chicago: The Stories Behind the Architecture of the Windy City-One Building at a TimeRichly detailed and full of engaging stories, this charming guide traces the history of Chicago's unparalleled architecture. Meticulously researched, engagingly presented, and richly detailed, Seeking Chicago is truly a must-read for anyone interested in the story of the Windy City and how it got...
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Bali: Sustainable VisionsDiscover how visionary architects and designers are pioneering a new, environmentally sustainable style of tropical living. Justly famous for its artistic expressions, Balinese culture is also uniquely adapted to the natural conditions of this small volcanic island just a few degrees south of the...
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Storybook Style: America's Whimsical Homes of the 1920sStorybook style, fairy tale, Disneyesque, Hansel and Gretel--these are all synonyms for what is surely the most delightful residential style of the twentieth century. With their romantic evocation of faraway lands and eras, storybook homes were created by architects and builders with a flair...
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Pacific Spaces: Translations and TransmutationsDelving into Pacific spaces from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and interpretations, this book looks at how the anthropological and architectural can be connected. The contributors to this book - architectural practitioners, architectural and spatial design theorists, anthropologists and historians - show not only...
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A Respectable TradeFrom #1 New York Times bestselling author and "queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY) Philippa Gregory comes a story about the devastating consequences of the slave trade in 19th century England. Bristol in 1787 is booming, a city where power beckons those who dare...
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DK Super Readers Level 4 Knights and CastlesAll about magnificent medieval fortresses and the people who lived in them. Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about medieval knights and their castles - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to...
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Finn Juhl: Life, Work, WorldThe first-ever comprehensive monograph on one of Denmark's most influential Modernist design pioneersDanish architect, interior-, and industrial designer Finn Juhl is best known for his furniture. Credited in the creation of the international 'Danish design' phenomenon of the 1940s and 1950s, his interior for...
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SpectrumGlobally acclaimed miminalist architect, John Pawson, celebrates colors through 320 inspiring photographs."Pawson is a lot more than just an architect; he's also handy with a camera and has a good eye for what makes a nice picture." --MonocleGlobally acclaimed architectural designer John Pawson takes...
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Concrete, Mini FormatA visual exploration of the world's most extraordinary and inspiring concrete architecture - in a stylish and compact format."Yes, concrete can be cold and imposing - but as the structures in the book attest, it can also be colourful, playful, and delicate." --Wall Street...
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Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest MasterpieceThe untold story of Michelangelo's final decades--and his transformation into one of the greatest architects of the Italian Renaissance As he entered his seventies, the great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were past. Anguished by the death of friends and...
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AsylumFrom our most celebrated writer of the psychological thriller comes this nerve-wracking yet eerily beautiful work of erotic obsession and madness. In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful...
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Jim Henson: The Works: The Art, the Magic, the ImaginationThe ultimate gift for Muppet lovers everywhere, this extraordinary tribute celebrates 40 years of Henson's creative genius--from his best-known inventions to his lesser known but equally fascinating notions for everything from designs for futuristic nightclubs and homes to experimental films. 500 color illus.Author: Christopher...
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Buddhas of BamiyanFor 1,400 years, two colossal figures of the Buddha overlooked the fertile Bamiyan Valley on the Silk Road in Afghanistan. Witness to a melting pot of passing monks, merchants, and armies, the Buddhas embodied the intersection of East and West, and their destruction by...
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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of ArtFrom Simon & Schuster, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a unforgettable autobiography for any arts and culture fans. A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine...
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Vitruvius: 'Ten Books on Architecture'For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is...
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Durer's Drawings for the Prayer-Book of Emperor Maximilian I: 53 PlatesRegarded as the greatest of the German Renaissance artists, Albrecht D rer (1471-1528) created a vast body of work that ranges from altarpieces to copper engravings and portraits. Painter, printer, draughtsman, and art theorist, he remains most famous for his woodcuts. D rer's primary...
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Camillo Sitte: The Birth of Modern City Planning: With a Translation of the 1889 Austrian Edition of His City Planning According to Artistic PrincipleFirst published in 1889, this revolutionary text by a noted Austrian architect and urban planner ignited a new age of city planning. Inspired by medieval and baroque designs, Camillo Sitte emphasized the creation of spacious plazas, enhanced by monuments and other aesthetic elements.Numerous illustrations...
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