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River of Shadows

Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004

**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Men Explain Things to Me explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become...
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Fire in the Belly

The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz

by Cynthia Carr
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012

“[Fire in the Belly is] unimprovable as a biography-thorough, measured, beautifully written, loving but not uncritical-as a concentrated history of his times, and as a memorial.” -Luc Sante, Bookforum David Wojnarowicz was an abused child, a teen runaway who barely finished high school,...
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My Love Affair with Modern Art

Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator

by Katharine Kuh
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011

A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian. Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
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by Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

Adult movie actress and entrepreneur. Born Jenna Marie Massoli on April 9, 1974, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Lawrence and Judith Massoli. Lawrence was a local constable, and Judith was a showgirl on the Las Vegas Strip. Jameson had only a few years with her mother, who died from skin cancer cells on...
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by Charles M. Schulz
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2010

While best known as the creator of Peanuts, Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) was also a thoughtful and precise prose writer who knew how to explain his craft in clear and engaging ways. My Life with Charlie Brown brings together his major prose writings, many published here for the first time.Schulz's...
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Leonardo da Vinci

La biografía

by Walter Isaacson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 5, 2018

El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía. Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra,...
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Grand Avenues

The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.

by Scott W. Berg
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2009

In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached...
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by Nadjer Ibrahim
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017

I've always wanted to tell my story but never had that push to do it. It was a pleasant morning of weekend when I finally realized that my personal story must be told considering that I've been through a lot since my childhood aside from being so desperate to making some extra income for my sister's...
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by Daniel Coenn
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013

  John William Waterhouse was an English painter famous for working in the Pre-Raphaelite style. His early works were not Pre-Raphaelite in nature, but were of classical themes in the spirit of Alma-Tadema and Frederic Leighton. He painted several decades after the break-up of the Pre-Raphaelite...
Cover of Carol Burnett: Unofficial Biography
by Steve Rutherford
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

About Carol Burnett An iconic figure in the history of American television funny and a motivation to both female and male comics for almost 50 years, Carol Burnett rose from a difficult childhood to become one of the most cherished performers on television, both as a highlighted entertainer...
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The White Road

Journey into an Obsession

by Edmund de Waal
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015

An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted. Extraordinary new nonfiction, a gripping blend of history and memoir, by the author of the award-winning and bestselling...
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Tom and Jack

The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock

by Henry Adams
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009

The drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, trailblazing Abstract Expressionist, appear to be the polar opposite of Thomas Hart Benton's highly figurative Americana. Yet the two men had a close and highly charged relationship dating from Pollock's days as a student under Benton. Pollock's first and only...
Cover of Sylvester Stallone: Life and Career
by Philip Ross
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013

Sylvester Stallone is an American actor, writer, director and screenwriter. His career started with small films mostly soft core. He was more inclined to be a writer and before being successful was a screen writer. The movie ‘Rocky’ was the most significant movie in his life that has led him to...
Cover of Claude Monet Pastels
by Daniel Coenn
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012

This Art Book contains reproductions of Claude Monet pastels. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Although Monet helped perpetrate the myth that he did not, and maybe even...
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