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Cayman was known as "The Islands that time forgot". However, Bob Soto woke it up when he started the world's first scuba diving company in 1957. He brought it to great success with his talent for marketing. Bob produced Cayman's first promotional film, to advertise the island's sun, sea, sand and amazing underwater beauty. With his permission, the Department of Tourism used the movie as their main advertising tool for many years. It was not long before...
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Master of Deception tells of a son's search for his father amid the fabric of family, guilt, renunciation, and hidden history in the borderlands of 1950s stage show and trailer park culture.
In the tradition of Geoffrey Wolf's The Duke of Deception and Jeanette Walls' The Glass Castle, John-Ivan Palmer's Master of Deception takes readers on the road with his magician father and his mother, the lovely assistant, as they travel from Elks Lodges to...
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An exciting figure among the avant-garde of Paris in the 1920s, Caresse Crosby is little known today. She and her husband Harry founded the Black Sun Press, early publishers of such titans as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce. This flamboyant chapter of her life ended when Harry and his lover shot themselves in a sensational suicide pact. Caresse was thirty-six. Ever resilient, Caresse lived and loved...
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A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier...
625) Calme Bloc
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Architects, authors, and photographers—different viewpoints on a dense and complex building in Paris's 20th arrondissement. Located just above the city's eight-lane ring road, this "calm block" was recently completed by Parisian architecture firms Chartier Dalix and Avenier Cornejo, which combines a kindergarten with 240 studio apartments for young workers—in a rapidly changing neighbourhood. The photographer Myr Muratet, who spent several weeks...
626) Million Dollar Red
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Gleah Powers began her adult life at age 14, not as a runaway, but as a "send away" in 1962.
Known as Linda in those days, her strong-willed grandmother put her on a greyhound bus to travel alone, cross-country, with no firm plans for a return. It was understood between them that Linda, a young artist, was strong enough. By her early teens she was already the jaded veteran of her mother's first three divorces. She felt ready for the world, all set...
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What is creativity? What is the relationship between work life and personal life? How is it possible to live truthfully in a world of contradiction and compromise? These deep and deeply personal questions spring to the fore in Thomas Yarrow's vivid exploration of the life of architects. Yarrow takes us inside the world of architects, showing us the anxiety, exhilaration, hope, idealism, friendship, conflict, and the personal commitments that feed...
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The Olympics, the story goes, have transformed London into a gleaming, wholly modern city. And, East London-Olympic headquarters-is the city's new jewel, provider of unlimited opportunities and better tomorrows. The grime and poverty have been scrubbed away, and huge stadiums and grand public sculptures have taken their place.
The writer Iain Sinclair has lived in East London for four decades, and in Ghost Milk, he tells a very different story...
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This is a deluxe, full-color, coffee table book biography; the first of one of America's greatest storytellers. It's filled with beautifully reproduced artwork from the comic books Little Lulu, and his creations Melvin Monster and Thirteen (Going on Eighteen); rare drawings and cartoons; and never-before-seen photographs. Bill Schelly tells Stanley's life story through interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues: his childhood in Harlem and...
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This book may seem a simple accumulation of twenty-one public space projects in eight Latin American cities. On closer inspection, the presentation of project descriptions, photographs, and annotated drawings reflects a concern to analytically explain the operative aspects at work.
The publication is not intended to serve only as a catalogue, guide, or manual on how to produce public space in spontaneous settlements. Rather, it goes beyond the aims...
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Discover the story of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard-a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France-in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.
Born in Paris in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard rose from shopkeeper's daughter to an official portraitist of the royal court-only to have her achievements reduced to ash by the French Revolution. While she defied societal barriers to become a member of the exclusive...
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Extrait : "Ecrire une histoire générale de l'art et de la fortification depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à nos jours est un des beaux sujets livrés aux recherches des archéologues, et nous ne devons pas désespérer de le voir entreprendre ; mais on doit convenir qu'un pareil sujet exigerait des connaissances très variées, car il faudrait réunir à la science de l'historien la pratique de l'art de l'architecte et de l'ingénieur militaire."
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Décryptez l'art de Lucas Cranach l'Ancien en moins d'une heure!
Aujourd'hui considéré comme l'un des plus grands artistes du XVIe siècle, Lucas Cranach l'Ancien flirte déjà avec le succès de son vivant. Peintre de cour, fondateur d'un atelier prospère et artiste phare de la Réforme, il est l'auteur d'une œuvre à double face: à cté de ses portraits sobres et de ses représentations religieuses dans l'esprit du luthéranisme, il s'illustre...
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John Isaac Jones's new biographical novel on Edgar Allan Poe brings the turbulent life of America's most famous poet to life in vivid, captivating detail. His time, 1810-40s America, Lewis and Clark have returned from their great adventure, the Monroe doctrine takes effect, the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson's tempestuous presidency, the train, the steamship and the graphite pencil were still being improved, the Mexican-American War, the trail of tears,...
636) Becoming Michelangelo: Apprenticing to the Master, and Discovering the Artist through His Drawings
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An artist's extraordinary challenge to himself reveals the genius of Michelangelo in the making.
Many believe Michelangelo's talent was miraculous and untrained, the product of "divine" genius-a myth that Michelangelo himself promoted by way of cementing his legacy. But the young Michelangelo studied his craft like any Renaissance apprentice, learning from a master, copying, and experimenting with materials and styles. In this extraordinary book,...
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“Ambiguous Territory” brings together the work of over forty architects, landscape architects, artists, and historians engaged in an exploration of art and design's place in a time of environmental uncertainty and existential threat. Conceived in both environmental and disciplinary terms, the concept of "ambiguous territory" seeks to define conditions of uncertainty between nature and culture as well as architecture, art, and landscape. “Ambiguous...
638) Check, Please!
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Supermodel Janice Dickinson's over-the-top quest for Mr. Right is a hilarious rollercoaster of famous names, outrageous stories, and vicarious thrills.
The inimitable, outrageous Janice Dickinson-America's first supermodel and the bestselling author of No Lifeguard on Duty and Everything About Me Is Fake... And I'm Perfect-now serves up her most scintillating kiss and tell-all yet in Check, Please! Loaded with uncensored dish on her dating sagas...
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Essai sur la vie et l'oeuvre d'Emile Ajar, alias Romain Gary.
Si l'on vous dit Romain Gary, à qui pensez-vous?
À l'un des écrivains français les plus brillants du XXème siècle. Auteur, cinéaste, journaliste, diplomate, grand résistant, aviateur, Gary fut aussi l'ami de Malraux, de Kessel, et un grand admirateur de de Gaulle, le général isolé du 18 juin 1940.
Surtout, Gary a reçu 2 fois le prestigieux prix Goncourt. Ce succès unique...
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Just as William Goldman, the ultimate screenwriter, took us inside Hollywood, Simon de Pury, the ultimate art player, will take us inside an even more secretive business, whose staggering prices, famous collectors, and high crimes are front-page news almost every day. The former Chairman of Sotheby's Europe, the former owner of Sotheby's rival Phillips de Pury, and currently a London-based dealer and advisor to great collectors around the world, Simon...
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