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Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rachel Eisendrath has written a personal and critical work that celebrates the pleasure of books and reading. She specializes in English Renaissance poetry. Her book, Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis (University of Chicago Press, 2018), was a co-winner of the Elizabeth Dietz Award for the best publication in early modern studies."--
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A legendary record producer-turned-brain scientist explains why you fall in love with music. This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secrets of why your favorite songs move you. But it's also a story of a musical trailblazer who began as a humble audio tech in Los Angeles to became Prince's chief engineer for Purple Rain, and then create other No. 1 hits (including Barenaked Ladies' "One Week")...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Take a colorful journey through the history of art from cave paintings and Renaissance art to modern graffiti. Find out how and why art is made. Explore colors, shapes, patterns and themes. Discover the world's great artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Andy Warhol, and Yayoi Kusama.
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback. This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions...
9) Matisse
Author
Series
Publisher
Barron's Educational Series
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Explores the French painter's life and development as an artist, his involvement with Fauvism, and his continued experimentation with art.
Author
Publisher
Coal Cracker Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In Screaming for Pleasure, S.A. Bradley takes you on a wild journey exploring horror, where you'll discover what is so tantalizing about terror, including: rare insights about some of the greatest fright directors of all time, like David Cronenberg, Guillermo Del Toro and John Carpenter; an in-depth look at 6 of the most groundbreaking horror films by women directors, plus a list of 15 women directors you should be watching now; and relive the most...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon and French cryptologist Sophie Neveu work to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary neighbor. Sound implausible? Well, from 1950 until the late 1970s, a huge number of people begged to differ, as they devoured Immanuel Velikovsky's major...
18) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies established this young writer as one the most brilliant of her generation. In The Namesake, Lahiri enriches the themes that made her collection an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation, and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life...
The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-bound life...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this passionate, deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson explains why Homer matters-- to him, to you, to the world--in a text full of twists, turns and surprises. In a spectacular journey through mythical and modern landscapes, Adam Nicholson explores the places forever haunted by their Homeric heroes. From Sicily, awash with wildflowers shadowed by Italy's largest oil refinery, to Ithaca, southern Spain, and the mountains on the edges of Andalusia...
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