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  • Little Book of Dinosaurs, The
    Little Book of Dinosaurs, The
    Charles, Rhys
    A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of dinosaursPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any dinosaur lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Dinosaurs is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference. It fits an astonishin...

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  • Little Book of Weather, The
    Little Book of Weather, The
    Scaife, Adam
    A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s weatherPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile anyone who is curious about weather. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Weather is an accessible and enjoyable mini-referen...

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  • Little Book of Beetles, The
    Little Book of Beetles, The
    Evans, Arthur V / Okay, Tugce
    A charming, richly illustrated, pocket-size exploration of the world’s beetlesPacked with surprising facts, this delightful and gorgeously designed book will beguile any nature lover. Expertly written and beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs and original color artwork, The Little Book of Beetles is an accessible and enjoyable mini-reference about the world’...

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  • Surreal Spaces
    Surreal Spaces
    Moorhead, Joanna
    The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is one of the vanguards in the history of women artists and the history of Surrealism. The interests of this visionary—feminism, ecology, the arcane and the mystical, the interconnectedness of everything—are now shared by many. Challenging the conventions of her time, Carrington abandoned family, society, and Eng...

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  • Twelve Caesars
    Twelve Caesars
    Beard, Mary
    From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of to...

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  • White
    White
    Pastoureau, Michel
    From the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of the color white in visual culture, from antiquity to todayAs a pigment, white is often thought to represent an absence of color, but it is without doubt an important color in its own right, just like red, blue, green, or yellow—and, like them, white has its own intriguing history. In this richly illustrated...

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  • Keith Haring
    Keith Haring
    Deitch, Jeffrey
    A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists in the 1980s, Haring found an empty canvas in the advertising panels scattered throughout New York City's subway system, wher...

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  • Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Mushroom at the End of the World,The
    Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt
    What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical ...

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  • Nature's Palette
    Nature's Palette
    Baty, Patrick / Charwat, Elaine / Davidson, Peter / Karliczek, André / Simonini, Giulia
    A gorgeous expanded edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours, a landmark reference book on color and its origins in natureFirst published in 1814, Werner's Nomenclature of Colours is a taxonomically organized guide to color in the natural world. Compiled by German geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner, the book was expanded and enhanced in 1821 by Patrick Syme, who added color sw...

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  • 1177 B.C.: Revised and Updated Edition
    1177 B.C.: Revised and Updated Edition
    Cline, Eric H
    A bold reassessment of what caused the Late Bronze Age collapseIn 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came t...

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  • Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat-isms
    Basquiat, Jean-Michel / Warsh, Larry (ed.)
    One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his career as a celebrated painter with an instantly recognizable style. In his paintings, notebooks, and interviews, he showed himself to be a powerful and creative writer and speaker as well as image-maker. Basquiat-isms is a collection o...

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  • Myth of the Eternal Return, The
    Myth of the Eternal Return, The
    Eliade, Mircea / Trask, Willard R / Smith, Jonathan Z
    First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rit...

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  • Mimesis
    Mimesis
    Auerbach, Erich
    More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial es...

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  • Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung): Revised Edition
    Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of...
    Jung, C.G.
    One of Jung’s most influential ideas has been his view, presented here, that primordial images, or archetypes, dwell deep within the unconscious of every human being. The essays in this volume gather together Jung’s most important statements on the archetypes, beginning with the introduction of the concept in “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious.” In separate essays, he e...

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  • Yoga
    Yoga
    Eliade, Mircea / Trask, Willard R / White, David Gordon
    In this landmark book, first published in English in 1958, renowned scholar of religion Mircea Eliade lays the groundwork for a Western understanding of Yoga. Drawing on years of study and experience in India, Eliade provides a comprehensive survey of Yoga in theory and practice from its earliest antecedents in the Vedas through the twentieth century.A new introduction by David...

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  • Cat Wars
    Cat Wars
    Marra, Peter
    In 1894, a lighthouse keeper named David Lyall arrived on Stephens Island off New Zealand with a cat named Tibbles. In just over a year, the Stephens Island Wren, a rare bird endemic to the island, was rendered extinct. Mounting scientific evidence confirms what many conservationists have suspected for some time--that in the United States alone, free-ranging cats are killing bi...

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  • Faust I & II
    Faust I & II
    Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
    One of the great classics of European literature, Faust is Goethe's most complex and profound work. To tell the dramatic and tragic story of one man's pact with the Devil in exchange for knowledge and power, Goethe drew from an immense variety of cultural and historical material, and a wealth of poetic and theatrical traditions. What results is a tour de force illustrating Goet...

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  • Shamanism
    Shamanism
    Eliade, Mircea
    Shamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia-where shamanism was first observed-to North and South America, Indonesia, Tibe...

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  • Brutal Aesthetics
    Brutal Aesthetics
    Foster, Hal
    How artists created an aesthetic of "positive barbarism" in a world devastated by World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bombIn Brutal Aesthetics, leading art historian Hal Foster explores how postwar artists and writers searched for a new foundation of culture after the massive devastation of World War II, the Holocaust, and the atomic bomb. Inspired by the notion that mo...

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  • Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised Edition
    Birds of Southern Africa: Fifth Revised...
    Sinclair, Ian / Hockey, Phil / Tarboton, Warwick / Perrins, Niall / Rollinson, Dominic / Ryan, Peter
    A substantially revised and expanded new edition of the bestselling standard field guide for southern Africa, now with a dedicated app providing access to vocalizationsNow in its fifth edition, Birds of Southern Africa has been brought fully up to date by its expert authors and greatly enhanced with a wide range of new information and features. Providing comprehensive coverage ...

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  • Bodypedia
    Bodypedia
    Taor Adam

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  • Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity Through Skin and Ink
    Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity...
    Krutak, Lars

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  • Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
    Wassily Kandinsky: The Sketchbooks
    Warsh, Larry

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  • George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised Edition
    George Seferis: Collected Poems, Revised...
    Seferis, George

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  • Dogpedia
    Dogpedia
    Pierce, Jessica / Chudler, Kelly (illus.)

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  • Little Book of Spiders, The
    Little Book of Spiders, The
    Pollard, Simon / Okay, Tugce (illus,)

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  • Little Book of Trees, The
    Little Book of Trees, The
    Shugart, Herman / White, Peter / Okay, Tugce (illus.)

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  • Nude, The
    Nude, The
    Clark, Kenneth

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  • Graveyards
    Graveyards
    Luckhurst, Roger
    Why, how, and where do we inter our dead? How have people throughout history responded to the problem of laying their dead to rest? Roger Luckhurst sets out in search of answers in this arresting book. Taking readers on an unforgettable tour of the rich and unusual visual culture of the grave, he visits locales such as the pyramids of Giza, the catacombs and columbaria of Rome,...

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  • Pink
    Pink
    Pastoureau, Michel
    From the acclaimed author of Blue and other color histories, the beautifully illustrated story of pink, from the first ancient pigments to BarbiePink has such powerful associations today that it’s hard to imagine the color could ever have meant anything different. But it’s only since the introduction of the Barbie doll in 1959 that pink has become decisively feminized. Indeed, ...

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