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by Gustav Doré
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This beautifully presented edition reproduces all of Doré's London illustrations alongside carefully selected texts of the period.
by J.M. MEHTA
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
The book, Poems for Children has been written and compiled by the well-known and acclaimed writer, J.M Mehta. Most of the poems listed in the book have been written by schoolchildren in the age group of 6 to 14 years and is exclusively meant for them, though it can be read and enjoyed by all. When...
by Charles Larcom Graves
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
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The title of this work indicates at once its main source and its limitations. The files of Punch have been generally admitted to be a valuable mine of information on the manners, customs, and fashions of the Victorian age, and of the wealth of material thus provided liberal...
by Austin Kleon
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
“Some of the results are hilarious, some are profound and even unsettling, but they are never bland or boring.”
— Ephermerist
Newspaper article + sharpie = Newspaper Blackout Poetry: Instead of starting with a blank page, poet Austin Kleon grabs a newspaper and a permanent marker and...
by Nick Lindsey
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
ABOUT THE BOOK James Joyce was most definitely an artist ahead of his time; and, as is so often the case with prophetic characters of any sort, his ideas and works were met with some resistance by the general public. This is particularly true of Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses....
by Stephen P. Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
A general introduction to the classical world from its origins to the fall of the Roman Empire.
The book focuses on questions of how we know about Classical civilization from archaeology and history; deals with the Mycenaean era and the world of Myth and Epic in Homer's Iliad & Odyssey;...
Deeply Grateful & Entirely Unsatisfied
A Book for Anyone Wondering if Life Is Giving You Magical Gifts or Just Messing with You
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
What does it mean to be vulnerable and defiant at the same time? In Deeply Grateful and Entirely Unsatisfied, author and artist Amanda Happé poses this question with disarming honesty and humor. Her colorful marker drawings and quirky hand-lettered sentiments offer an idiosyncratic take on life's...
The Measure of a Man
The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)
FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (2012)
A son’s decision to alter his father’s last surviving suit for himself is the launching point for...
The Hidden History of American Fashion
Rediscovering 20th-century Women Designers
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This book is the first in-depth exploration of the revolutionary designers who defined American fashion in its emerging years and helped build an industry with global impact, yet have been largely forgotten. Focusing on female designers, the authors reclaim a place in history for the women who created...
Phobia
An Art Deco Graphic Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A leader in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration, John Vassos undertook his most personal and ambitious work in this 1931 volume. Its twenty-four gripping images represent visceral depictions of common fears—the dread of heights, open and enclosed spaces, the dark,...
by Irvin S Cobb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Mr. Cobb's commentary on traveling in Europe as an American around the turn of the previous century gives an interesting sense of the era, and is always at least mildly amusing. But the real joy of this book is that Cobb is forever side-swiping you with startlingly funny, burst-out-laughing descriptions...
They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted
Women’s Strategic Use of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Published by Viking in 1991 and issued as a paperback through Penguin Books in 1992, Snow White became an instant classic for both academic and general audiences interested in how women use humor and what others (men) think about funny women. Barreca, who draws on the work of scholars, writers, and...
Wrotten English
A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Painstakingly researched and tapping in to the public's insatiable general interest with the written word, Wrotten English contains curious opening lines, fantastic fictions whose titles are too terrible to be true and some of the most suggestive double entendres committed by those who really should know better!
Social History of Art, Volume 4
Naturalism, Impressionism, The Film Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005
First published in 1951 Arnold Hausers commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone Age through to the Film Age. Exploring the interaction between art and society, Hauser effectively details social and historical movements and sketches the...