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  • The Rise and Fall of a Great Nation

    by John Gondeck ...
    Nations have risen to power through their might and driven by greed they have held many people in bondage. When the workforce was limited, they bought and sold slaves. Slavery is still taking place on the continent of Africa, and no one is there protesting. Politics! It is all about politics and the political game that is being played out in the greatest nation that the world has ever known could ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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    by Adam Smith ...
    The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Introduction and plan of the work Part 1 Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive ... Read more

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  • The Last Vermeer

    Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

    Now a major motion picture starring Guy Pearce, The Last Vermeer* is a revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger—a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush—and a deliciously detailed story of deceit in the art world.It’s a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

    From A to B and Back Again

    by Andy Warhol ...
    In this memoir, the enigmatic, legendary artist makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in. But more often than not, the party was at his own studio, The Factory, where celebrities—from Edie Sedgwick and Allen Ginsberg to the Rolling Stones and the Velvet ... Read more

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  • Bad New Days

    Art, Criticism, Emergency

    by Hal Foster ...
    One of the world’s leading art theorists dissects a quarter century of artistic practiceBad New Days examines the evolution of art and criticism in Western Europe and North America over the last twenty-five years, exploring their dynamic relation to the general condition of emergency instilled by neoliberalism and the war on terror.Considering the work of artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tacita ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music

    by Louise Gray ...
    Series series No-Nonsense Guides
    "World music" is an awkward phrase. Used to describe the hugely multifaceted nature of a range of typically non-English-language popular music from the world over, it's a tag that throws up as many problems as it does solutions.Louise Gray's The No-Nonsense Guide to World Music attempts to go behind the phrase to explore the reasons for the contemporary interest in world music, who listens to it, ... Read more

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  • Chasing Light

    Michelle Obama Through the Lens of a White House Photographer

    A collection of striking and intimate photographs of Michelle Obama—many never before seen—coupled with personal reflections and behind-the-scenes stories from Official White House Photographer Amanda Lucidon, presented in a deluxe format.Michelle Obama is one of the most admired First Ladies in history, known for her grace, spirit, and beauty, as well as for the amazing work she did during her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age

    Depictions of War in Burns, Moore, and Morris

    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    American Documentary Filmmaking in the Digital Age examines the recent challenges to the conventions of realist documentary through the lens of war documentary films by Ken Burns, Michael Moore, and Errol Morris. During the twentieth century, the invention of new technologies of audiovisual representation such as cinema, television, video, and digital media have transformed the modes of historical ... Read more

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  • Signal: 03

    A Journal of International Political Graphics & Culture

    Edited by Josh MacPhee, Alec Dunn ...
    Series Book 3 - Signal
    Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the center of upheavals and revolts the world over, from the painters and poets in the Paris Commune to the poster makers and street theatre performers of the recent Occupy ... Read more

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  • The Theft of the Ghent Altarpiece April 10, 1934

    The Ghent Altarpiece or Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a 15th century polyptych painted by Hubert and Jan Van Eyck. One of its twenty panels was stolen from St. Bavon Cathedral in Ghent on the night of April 10, 1934. What happened to the panel is an enduring art mystery that spans the twentieth century and after. Completed in 1432 the masterpiece was taken by the French in 1794 for display in ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Emotion

    Journeys in Art, Architecture, and Film

    An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor to map the cultural terrain of spatio-visual arts. In an evocative blend of words and pictures, Giuliana Bruno emphasizes the connections between “sight” and “site” and “motion” and “emotion.” In so doing, she touches on the art of Gerhard Richter and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Drugs, Daydreaming, and Personality

    A Study of College Youth

    Series series Psychology Revivals
    Originally published in 1980, this book presents a detailed account of a series of investigations that examined the patterns of resort to drugs and alcohol use in college youth, and how such substance uses are linked to personality characteristics and daydreaming patterns. The Editors chose to emphasize the more "private" features of the personality, because these had often been ignored in earlier ... Read more

    $51.99 USD