Abbeville Publishing Group: 42 books
Harem
The World Behind the Veil
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
A fascinating illustrated history of one of the strangest, and cruelest, cultural institutions ever devised. A worldwide best seller, translated into twenty-five languages.
I was born in a konak (old house), which once was the harem of a pasha,” writes Alev Lytle Croutier. People around...
by Shirley Neilsen Blum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new.Adam and Eve are driven from the Garden of Eden into a rocky landscape, their naked bodies lit by a cold sun, their gestures and expressions a study in...
by Rex Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore.The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith—a man...
by Christopher Finch
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Now available for the first time as an e-book, Norman Rockwell 332 Magazine Covers features Rockwell's unique vision of America. All of his his justly famous cover illustrations for the Saturday Evening Post, painted between 1916 and 1963, are reproduced in splendid full color in a digital format,...
Stories My Father Told Me
Notes from "The Lyons Den"
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This amazing collection of choice anecdotes takes us right back to the Golden Age of New York City nightlife, when top restaurants like Toots Shor’s, 21,” and Sardi’s, as well as glittering nightclubs like the Stork Club, Latin Quarter, and El Morocco, were the nightly gathering spots for...
ArtSpeak
A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
The leading lexicon of contemporary art returns in an expanded, full-color third edition and is now available for the first time as an ebook.
An indispensable guide for art-world neophytes and seasoned professionals alike, the best-selling ArtSpeak returns in a revised and expanded third edition,...
A Key to the Louvre
Memoirs of a Curator
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture.
Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light...
Tara Revisited
Women, War, & the Plantation Legend
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Cutting through romantic myth, this captivating volume combines period photographs and illustrations with new documentary sources to tell the real story of southern women during the Civil War.
Drawing from a wealth of poignant letters, diaries, slave narratives, and other accounts, Catherine...
PACIFIC WAR STORIES
In the Words of Those Who Survived
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific-told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.
In this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and...
The New Father
A Dad's Guide to the First Year
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
An indispensable handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the first 12 months, by the author of The Expectant Father.
The essential handbook for all things first-year father is now fully updated and revised. Not only will new dads get a month-by-month guide to their baby’s development,...
The Expectant Father
Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-To-Be
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2001
The best-selling, ground-breaking, information-packed guide for dads-to-be is now significantly updated, revised, and expanded.
Fathering Your Toddler
A Dad's Guide To The Second And Third Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2005
A significantly updated, revised, and expanded guide to all aspects of fatherhood during a child’s second and third years by the best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The Expectant Father.
Fathering Your School-Age Child
A Dad's Guide to the Wonder Years: 3 to 9
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2007
A practical handbook on all aspects of fatherhood during the third to the ninth year (pre-K through the fourth grade) by the best-selling, critically acclaimed author of The Expectant Father.
Full Faith and Credit
The National Debt, Taxes, Spending, and the Bankrupting of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
What is the national debt? Who loses from it? Who profits from it? Why is it a greater threat to America than international terrorism? In direct, non-partisan language, this book follows the money and finds the answers.Conservative, Liberal, Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Socialist . . . Each has...