Abbeville Press imprint: 33 books

by Christopher Finch
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,...

Harem

The World Behind the Veil

by Alev Lytle Croutier
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

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

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...

Stories My Father Told Me

Notes from "The Lyons Den"

by Jeffrey Lyons
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

by Robert Atkins
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

by Michel Laclotte
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

by Catherine Clinton
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

by Rex Alan Smith, Gerald A. Meehl
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

by Armin A. Brott
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

by Armin A. Brott, Jennifer Ash
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

by Armin A. Brott
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

by Armin A. Brott
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

by Alan Axelrod
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...
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