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  • Mixed Signals
    Mixed Signals
    Gneezy, Uri
    An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentives. The result: mixed signals. Consider ...

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  • Art of the Literary Poster, The
    Art of the Literary Poster, The
    Rudnick, Allison
    An exploration of late nineteenth-century American literary posters—a vibrant genre at the vanguard of modern commercial art and graphic design Spurred by innovations in printing technology, the modern poster emerged in the 1890s as a popular form of visual culture in the United States. Created by some of the best-known illustrators and graphic designers of the period — includi...

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  • Love in the New Millennium
    Love in the New Millennium
    Can Xue
    Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2019The most ambitious work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writersIn this darkly comic novel, a group of women inhabits a world of constant surveillance, where informants lurk in the flower beds and conspiracies abound. Some try to flee—whether to a mysterious gambling bordello, underground ancestral homes, or Nest Co...

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  • Givenchy
    Givenchy
    Samson, Alexandre / Madsen, Anders Christian
    This sweeping celebration of Givenchy’s classic glamor celebrates more than 70 years of the house’s history and features designs from luminaries including Hubert de Givenchy, Alexander McQueen, and Matthew M. Williams This definitive publication revels in the beauty, opulence, and constant reinvention of the Givenchy brand. Opening with a concise history of the fashion house fo...

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  • Vertigo of Color
    Vertigo of Color
    Amory, Dita / Dumas, Ann
    In the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and André Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain went on holiday in Collioure, a modest French fishing village fifteen miles from the Spanish border. This groundbreaking book examines how two artists, entranced by the shifting...

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  • Cleopatra
    Cleopatra
    Prose, Francine
    A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy “A lucid and persuasive reinterpretation. Readers won’t see Cleopatra the same way again.”—Publishers Weekly “Where Prose really sparkles: her critiques of the cultural depictions of Cleopatra.”—Allison Arieff, San Francisco Chronicle The siren passionately in lov...

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  • Manet / Degas
    Manet / Degas
    Wolohojian, Stephan / Dunn, Ashley
    The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas maintained a pictorial dialogue throughout their lives as they both worked to define the painting of modern urban life. Manet/Degas, the first book to consider their care...

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  • Murakami
    Murakami
    Allen, Laura W. (ed.) / Ikegami, Hiroko / Shiba, Masako / Murakami, Takashi
    This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade One of Japan’s leading contemporary artists, Takashi Murakami (b. 1962) is known for a wide-ranging practice that encompasses not only fine art but fashion, consumer products, curatio...

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  • Barefoot Doctor
    Barefoot Doctor
    Can Xue
    A profound, poignant story of a village healer and her community, from one of the world’s great contemporary novelistsIn rural Yun Village, herbalist Mrs. Yi lives with her husband in a cottage at the foot of Niulan Mountain, where she gathers herbs to treat the ailments of the villagers by day and studies medicine by night. Sickness and herbs are lovers, she tells her patients...

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  • World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti, The: Revised Edition
    World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti,...
    Schacter, Rafael / MacDowall, Lachlan / Fekner, John (foreword)
    Bursting with color and energy, this revised edition of the definitive guide to street art and graffiti covers the world’s most significant artists, styles, and the urban landscapes that form their canvas Ten years after its original publication, The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti is recognized as the definitive guide to the most significant artists and styles of street...

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  • About Architecture
    About Architecture
    Pearman, Hugh
    Hugh Pearman deftly guides us through the compelling stories of fifty-five buildings that explain our world, from antiquity to the present day About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives—from how our towns and cities ...

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  • A Little History of Music
    A Little History of Music
    Philip, Robert
    A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or love. It is common to all cultures across the world. But how has it changed over the millennia? Robert Philip explores the extraordinary history of music in all its forms, from our earliest ancestors to...

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  • Look at the Lights, My Love
    Look at the Lights, My Love
    Ernaux, Annie
    A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie ErnauxFor half a century, the French writer Annie Ernaux has transgressed the boundaries of what stories are considered worth telling, what subjects worth exploring. In this probing meditation, Ernaux turns her attention to the phenomenon of the big-box superstore, a ubiquitous feature of mode...

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  • Wounded Storyteller, The
    Wounded Storyteller, The
    Hoffmann, E. T. A.
    E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822) was one of the greatest German Romantic authors of fantasy and a pioneer in the genre we now call Gothic horror. His innovative stories explore ideas of madness, genius, doppelgängers, artificial intelligence, and the boundaries between realities and dreams. Artist Natalie Frank and leading fairy-tale scholar Jack Zipes have joined forces in this l...

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  • Story of Architecture, The
    Story of Architecture, The
    Rybczynski, Witold
    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authors “Rybczynski’s expansive account traces the influence of social, technological, and economic shifts on architecture across centuries.”—New York Times Book Review “The finest architectural writer in our language.”—Mark Alan Hewitt, New Criterion In this sweeping history, fr...

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  • Lives of the Gods
    Lives of the Gods
    Pillsbury, Joanne (ed.)
    This engaging exploration of the Maya pantheon introduces readers to the complex stories of Mesoamerican divinity through the stunning carvings, ceramics, and metalwork of the Classic period Focusing on the period between A.D. 250 and 900, Lives of the Gods...

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  • Edward Hopper's New York
    Edward Hopper's New York
    Conaty, Kim
    A revealing exploration of Edward Hopper’s inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materialsThis engaging book delves into the iconic relationship between Edward Hopper (1882–1967) and New York City. This comprehensive look at an essential aspect of the revered American artist’s life reveals how Hopper’...

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  • Black Artists in America
    Black Artists in America
    Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
    Exploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day—from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White This timely book surveys the varied ways in which Black American artists responded to the political, social, and economic climate of the United States from the time of the Great Depression through the landmark Brown v. Board of Educa...

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  • Joan Mitchell
    Joan Mitchell
    Reoberts, Sarah (ed.) / Siegel, Kathy (ed.)
    A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped herJoan Mitchell (1925–1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story...

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  • Why Marx Was Right
    Why Marx Was Right
    Eagleton, Terry
    In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx's own though...

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  • Jasper Johns and Edward Munch
    Jasper Johns and Edward Munch
    Ravenal, John
    At a crucial point midway through his career, American painter and printmaker Jasper Johns (b. 1930) looked to the art of Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch (1863–1944) for inspiration. Munch’s innovative working methods and defining themes of love, anxiety, illness, and death infused Johns’s work with new meaning, allowing him a broadened range of expression that propelled h...

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  • Walden
    Walden
    Thoreau, Henry David
    The ultimate gift edition of Walden for bibliophiles, aficionados, and scholars “Replaces all other available editions of Walden as the most attractive and reliable way to approach this great American book.”—Joel Porte, author of Consciousness and Culture: Emerson and Thoreau Reviewed This is the authoritative edition of an American literary classic: Henry David Thoreau’s Walde...

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  • Bald
    Bald
    Critchley, Simon
    The moderator of the New York Times' Stone column and the author of numerous books on everything from Greek tragedy to David Bowie, Simon Critchley has been a strong voice in popular philosophy for more than a decade. This volume brings together thirty-five essays, originally published in the Times, on a wide range of topics, from the dimensions of Plato's academy and the myste...

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  • A Little History of Religion
    A Little History of Religion
    Holloway, Richard
    Written for those with faith and for those without-and especially for younger readers-A Little History of Religion sweeps us through the story of religion in our world, from the dawn of religious belief to the present.An emphathetic yet discerning guide to the enduring importance of faith, Richard Holloway introduces us to the history and beliefs of the major world religions-Ju...

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  • Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure
    Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the...
    Cole, Michael W.
    In late 1504 and early 1505, Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) and Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564) were both at work on commissions they had received to paint murals in Florence’s City Hall. Leonardo was to depict a historic battle between Florence and Milan, Michelangelo one between Florence and Pisa. Though neither project was ever completed, the painters’ mythic encounter ...

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  • Existentialism Is Humanism
    Existentialism Is Humanism
    Sartre, Jean-Paul
    It was to correct common misconceptions about his thought that Jean-Paul Sartre, the most dominent European intellectual of the post-World War II decades, accepted an invitation to speak on October 29, 1945, at the Club Maintenant in Paris. The unstated objective of his lecture (“Existentialism Is a Humanism”) was to expound his philosophy as a form of “existentialism,” a term ...

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  • Manus x Machina
    Manus x Machina
    Bolton, Andrew
    The complex and often ambiguous relationship between the hand crafted and the machine made is examined in this intriguing look at the ever-changing world of fashion and taste. Manus x Machina traces styles of dress from one-of-a-kind works and haute couture created by highly skilled artisans, through the introduction of industrial manufacturing, to extraordinary recent technolo...

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  • Alexander McQueen
    Alexander McQueen
    Fairer, Robert
    Never-before-seen photos of McQueen’s brilliantly creative world from an exclusive backstage photographerAlexander McQueen, the iconic designer whose untimely death in 2010 left the fashion world reeling and fans worldwide clamoring for more, fused immense creativity, audacity, and a hauntingly dark aesthetic sense into powerful, unforgettable imagery. The strange, singular be...

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  • A Little History Of Philosophy
    A Little History Of Philosophy
    Warburton, Nigel
    Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy and explores their m...

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  • A Little History of the World
    A Little History of the World
    Gombrich, E. H.
    E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an engaging and lively book written for readers both young and old, vividly brings the full span of human experience on Earth to life, from the stone age to the atomic age. Gombrich's text paints a colorful picture of wars and conquests; of grand works of art; of the advances and limitations of science; of remarkable people and re...

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