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100 Famous Paintings
$12.32
Book by Vaizey, Marina Author: Vaizey, Marina Publisher: Longmeadow Pr Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0681007575 ISBN-13: 9780681007574..
All I Really Need to Know I Learned from Watching ...
$7.68
How to win at poker. The power of a business's mission statement. If you can dial a telephone, you can do anything. These are the lessons to be learned from "Star Trek." First a hit television show, and then a pop culture phenomenon, "Star Trek" is now the basis for inspiration and guidance in our d..
Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Econ...
$54.37
The second edition of an innovative undergraduate textbook in Comparative Economic Systems that goes beyond the traditional dichotomies.This second edition of an innovative undergraduate text offers an approach to understanding different economic systems that reflects both recent transformations in ..
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Tel...
$40.30
Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape ofmagic, witch..
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and T...
$10.17
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytelle..
Paul Signac: A Collection of Watercolours and Draw...
$28.85
A leader in the Neo-Impressionist movement, the French painter Paul Signac (1863-1935) is best known for the intense color effects in his oil landscapes and marine canvases. However, it is in his largely unknown graphic works on paper-the precise black-and-white sketches and fluid watercolors that f..
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Med...
$29.67
With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing story about shif..
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Med...
$15.32
With over thirty illustrations in color and black and white, Phantasmagoria takes readers on an intellectually exhilarating tour of ideas of spirit and soul in the modern world, illuminating key questions of imagination and cognition. Warner tells the unexpected and often disturbing storyabout shift..
Politicizing Magic: An Anthology of Russian and So...
$12.21
A compendium of folkloric, literary, and critical texts that show how the Russian fairy tale acquired political and historical meanings during the Soviet eraWe were born to make fairy tales come true. As one of Stalinism's more memorable slogans, this one suggests that the fairy tale figured in Sovi..
Renaissance Utopias and the Problem of History
$58.42
Marina Leslie draws on three important early modern utopian texts--Thomas More's Utopia, Francis Bacon's New Atlantis, and Margaret Cavendish's Description of a New World Called the Blazing World--as a means of exploring models for historical transformation and of addressing the relationship of lite..
Richard Wentworth
$18.39
Richard Wentworth is one of the generation of younger, internationally acclaimed British sculptors who have fundamentally altered traditional definitions and perceptions of sculpture. His work allows us to recreate our perception of the world by forcing us to reappraise the objects with which we are..
Selected Poems (Twentieth-Century Classics)
$9.51
An acclaimed translation of the best work of the passionate Russian poetAn admired contemporary of Rilke, Akhmatova, and Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva was a witness to the political turmoil and the social devastation wrought by the Russian Revolution and a powerfully inspired chronicler of a difficul..
University of California Press
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Hum...
$18.32
This magnificently illustrated book accompanies the most ambitious exhibition in the Hayward Gallery's program for the year 2000. Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo da Vinci to Now is a ground-breaking exhibition with the potential to be a visual, cultural, and a..
Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, ...
$8.72
When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered that they each had sugar in their family history, they were inspired to trace the globe-spanning story of the sweet substance and to seek out the voices of those who led bitter sugar lives. The trail ran like a bright band from religious cerem..
The Art of Throwing: Practical Instruction for Bet...
$13.75
The ultimate book on how to throw knives and eleven other objects. Concise and informative, The Art of Throwing covers everything from grips and stances to targets and charting your progress with accurate instructions. Athletes, martial artists, and knife throwers alike will benefit from learning ne..
The Cambridge Introduction to the Novel (Cambridge...
$18.08
Beginning its life as the sensational entertainment of the eighteenth century, the novel has become the major literary genre of modern times. Drawing on hundreds of examples of famous novels from all over the world, Marina MacKay explores the essential aspects of the novel and its history: where nov..
The Girl With No Name
$34.57
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came up..
The Girl With No Name
$34.57
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came up..
The Italian Piazza Transformed: Parma in the Commu...
$34.69
Winner of the 2013 Howard R. Marraro Prize for the best book on Italian history from the American Catholic Historical Association.During the long thirteenth century, the cities of northern Italy engendered a vital and distinctive civic culture despite constant political upheaval. In The Italian Piaz..
The Joy of Art: A Creative Guide for Beginning Pai...
$14.11
An inventive handbook for beginning papers combines helpful instruction and creative inspiration along with reproductions of masterworks by Rembrandt, Bosch, Degas, and other great painters, as it covers such themes as "From Light to Color," "Perpective, the Point of Escape," "How to Paint an Apple,..
Understanding the Oracle Server
$15.67
A clear, conceptual overview of Oracle Server, the leading enterprise-wide database management system. In this book, an Oracle Corporation expert walks the reader through Oracle Server architecture, explains how it handles data concurrency, data integrity and other information management issues, and..