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  • Spice
    Spice
    Crowley, Roger
    The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the PacificSpices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Port...

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  • Caspar David Friedrich
    Caspar David Friedrich
    Hokanson, Alison
    A richly illustrated volume surveying the career of Caspar David Friedrich, the German landscape painter whose emotionally profound visions of nature are among the most iconic works of Romantic artThe paintings and drawings of the nineteenth-century German landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) brilliantly illuminate our experience of the natural world. This gener...

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  • Tattoos
    Tattoos
    Lodder, Matt
    The true history of tattoo as both art and profession in the West There is a pervasive stereotype of tattoo culture as relating to an underworld of scoundrels, sailors, and ne’er-do-wells, yet it has existed in the West as a professionalized art practice for centuries. Drawing on extensive new research and unprecedented access to largely unpublished private archives of photogra...

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  • The Last Lover
    The Last Lover
    Can Xue
    From the sensational Chinese author who has been called “a new world master,” a Kafkaesque novel set in a fictional Western nationWinner of the 2015 Best Translated Book Award for fiction, presented by Three Percent, a resource for international literature“[A] mind-bending novel... Xue succeeds in creating a unique, immersive, tale of ‘intersecting dreamworlds.’”—Publishers Wee...

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  • Hidden Faces
    Hidden Faces
    Nogueira, Alison Manges
    Highlighting the creativity and symbolism of covered portraits, this volume explores an intriguing but largely unknown aspect of Italian and Northern European Renaissance artMany small Renaissance portraits were richly adorned with covers or backs bearing allegorical figures, mythological scenes, or emblems that celebrated the sitter and invited the viewer to decipher their mea...

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  • Mixed Signals
    Mixed Signals
    Gneezy, Uri
    An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentives. The result: mixed signals. Consider ...

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  • Love in the New Millennium
    Love in the New Millennium
    Can Xue
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writersIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest Co...

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  • Givenchy
    Givenchy
    Samson, Alexandre / Madsen, Anders Christian
    This sweeping celebration of Givenchy’s classic glamor celebrates more than 70 years of the house’s history and features designs from luminaries including Hubert de Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, and Matthew M. Williams This definitive publication revels in the beauty, opulence, and constant reinvention of the Givenchy brand. Opening with a concise history of the fashion house fo...

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  • Barefoot Doctor
    Barefoot Doctor
    Can Xue
    A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelistsIn rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and studies medicine by night. Sickness and herbs are lovers, she tells her patients...

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  • World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, The: Revised Edition
    World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti,...
    Schacter, Rafael / MacDowall, Lachlan / Fekner, John (foreword)
    Bursting with color and energy, this revised edition of the definitive guide to street art and graffiti covers the world’s most significant artists, styles, and the urban landscapes that form their canvas Ten years after its original publication, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti is recognized as the definitive guide to the most significant artists and styles of street...

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  • Art of Colour, The
    Art of Colour, The
    Grovier, Kelly
    As featured on BBC WorldwideA captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigmentsIn this refreshing approach to the history of color, Kelly Grovier takes readers on an exciting search for the intriguing and unusual. In Grovier’s telling, a color’s connotations are never fixed but are endlessly evolving. Knowledge of a pigment and its histo...

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  • Chloé
    Chloé
    Stoppard, Lou
    The brilliance of the house of Chloé is on full view in this panorama of catwalk photography, celebrating the brand’s seventy years of collections by leading designers including founder Gaby Aghion, Karl Lagerfeld, Phoebe Philo, and Stella McCartneyThis in-depth publication celebrates the glamor and sophistication of the house of Chloé. The book’s chapters follow the developmen...

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  • Story of Architecture, The
    Story of Architecture, The
    Rybczynski, Witold
    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authors “Rybczynski’s expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries.”—New York Times Book Review “The finest architectural writer in our language.”—Mark Alan Hewitt, New Criterion In this sweeping history, fr...

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  • Lives of the Gods
    Lives of the Gods
    Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.)
    This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, Lives of the Gods...

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  • Black Artists in America
    Black Artists in America
    Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
    Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark Brown v. Board of Educa...

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  • Versace
    Versace
    Blancks, Tim (Ed.)
    The first comprehensive presentation of Versace's womenswear collections from its 1978 debut to today, seen through stunning catwalk photographyFounded in 1978, Gianni Versace's family-operated fashion house quickly grew into a symbol of high glamour and luxury known the world over. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Versace's styles were worn by iconic celebrities such as Madonna ...

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  • Yves Saint Laurent
    Yves Saint Laurent
    Menkes, Suzy
    A spectacular visual journey through 40 years of haute couture from one of the best-known and most trend-setting brands in fashionFounded in 1962 by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, the fashion house Yves Saint Laurent has for more than half a century been synonymous with excellence in modern and iconic style. From Yves Saint Laurent's revolutionary and endurin...

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  • Devotion
    Devotion
    Smith, Patti
    From the renowned artist and author Patti Smith, a rare and generous look into the creative process A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a de...

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  • Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary Edition
    Interaction of Color: 50th Anniversary...
    Albers, Josef
    The 50th anniversary edition of a classic text, featuring an expanded selection of color studies Josef Albers’s classic Interaction of Color is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers’s singular explanation of complex color theory principles. Originally published by Yal...

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  • Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
    Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
    Gautier, Jerome
    Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was undoubtedly the most influential fashion designer of the 20th century. Her clothes and accessories have remained perennially chic, and her legendary fashion house continues to exert a powerful sway over today's designers. Jérôme Gautier tells the story of Chanel's iconic style through hundreds of images, many taken by the leading ...

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  • Manus x Machina
    Manus x Machina
    Bolton, Andrew
    The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. Manus x Machina traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute couture created by highly skilled artisans, through the introduction of industrial manufacturing, to extraordinary recent technolo...

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  • Dior: The Collections, 1947-2017
    Dior: The Collections, 1947-2017
    Sabatini, Adélia
    A stunning and comprehensive overview of the legendary house of Dior, from its founding in 1947 to today, featuring over 170 collections presented through original catwalk photography In spring 1947, Christian Dior presented the first collection of his newly founded eponymous fashion house. Soon dubbed the "New Look," it grabbed headlines all over the world and turned Dior into...

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  • A Little History of the World
    A Little History of the World
    Gombrich, E. H.
    E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Gombrich's text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests; of grand works of art; of the advances and limitations of science; of remarkable people and re...

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  • Louis Vuitton
    Louis Vuitton
    Ellison, Jo (Ed.)
    Two decades of fashion history in the making, told through a sumptuous array of images straight from the catwalkFounded as a luxury leather goods house in 1854, Louis Vuitton was for many decades one of the world’s leading trunk and accessories makers. It was through the launch of its first fashion collections, however, that the house reached unprecedented fame, becoming one of...

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  • Bald
    Bald
    Critchley, Simon
    The moderator of the New York Times' Stone column and the author of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, Simon Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more than a decade. This volume brings together thirty-five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions of Plato's academy and the myste...

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  • 100 Poets
    100 Poets
    Carey, John
    A poem seems a fragile thing. Change a word and it is broken. But poems outlive empires and survive the devastation of conquests. Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries, and then choose their finest poems.Ranging from Homer and Sappho to Donne ...

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  • Superfine
    Superfine
    Miller, Monica L

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  • A Little History of Music
    A Little History of Music
    Philip, Robert

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  • A Little History of Religion
    A Little History of Religion
    Holloway, Richard

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  • A Little History of Philosophy
    A Little History of Philosophy
    Warburton, Nigel

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