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101 Things You Didn't Know About Da Vinci
F+W Media 2010; US$ 9.95Everybody knows Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, drew that famous guy inside a circle, and-oh yeah-has something to do with that code, too. But what about the man behind the myth? Although he's incredibly famous for his artistic achievements, most people don't know much about this genius's life. 101 Things You Didn't Know about Da Vinci takes... more...
A.Y. Jackson
Dundurn 2009; US$ 60.00A founding member of the Group of Seven, Jackson portrayed the Canadian landscape in a bold and inventive manner, illustrating a key chapter in Canadas coming of age. more...
Abundant Beauty
Greystone Books 1753; US$ 14.00In 1871, Marianne North , a brilliant artist with a keen interest in botany, set-forth to travel the world on a quest to paint indigenous plants in their natural habitat. Encouraged by her friend Charles Darwin, North travelled by boat, train, mule, foot and palanquin to every continent except Antarctica. She circled the globe twice over fifteen... more...
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians, Volume 1
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95George Catlin traveled the North American continent from 1830-1838 to chronicle the people, customs and traditions of Native American tribes. His life's ambition was to record the disappearing Native American culture in paint and print. He attempted to share his knowledge with Europeans in an eight-year tour of England, France and Belgium. This... more...
Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians, Volume II
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95George Catlin traveled the North American continent from 1830-1838 to chronicle the people, customs and traditions of Native American tribes. His life's ambition was to record the disappearing Native American culture in paint and print. He attempted to share his knowledge with Europeans in an eight-year tour of England, France and Belgium. This second... more...
Advise & Dissent
Chicago Review Press 1989; US$ 14.95The life story of the founder of ADC, from his parents' farm in South Dakota to the halls of the Senate, where he refused to compromise his principles. more...
African-American Architects
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 185.00African-American architects have been designing and building houses and public buildings since 1865. Although many of these structures survive today, the architects themselves are virtually unknown. This unique reference work brings their lives and work to light for the first time. Written by 100 experts ranging from architectural historians to archivists,... more...
After Fire
Hardie Grant Books 2009; US$ 34.95Written in a sweeping, almost literary style, this detailed biography of Clifton Pugh is a landmark volume that offers an alternative perspective to the biography of Clifton's former wife, Judith Pugh's Unstill Life (2008 more...
Ai Weiwei Speaks
Penguin Books Ltd 2011; Not Available'If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human, where does art stand then?' Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world's most significant creative and cultural figures. In this series of interviews, conducted over several years with... more...
Al Jaffee's Mad Life
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 13.99Jaffee?s inventive work has enlivened the pages of MAD since 1955. To date he has pickled three generations of American kids in the brine of satire, and continues to bring millions of childhoods to untimely ends with the knowledge that parents are hypocrites, teachers are dummies, politicians are liars, and life isn?t fair. Jaffee?s work... more...









