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Author
Publisher
Springer
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
This is a book of mathematical stories, funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about highway confusions occurring when the rules of Cartesian geometry are ignored, small-change errors due to ignorance of ancient paradoxes, and mistakes in calendars arising from...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2013].
Physical Desc
288 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Art and the Second World War is the first book in English to provide a comprehensive and detailed international overview of the complex and often disturbing relationship between war and the fine arts during this crucial period of modern history. This generously illustrated volume starts by examining the art produced in reaction to the Spanish Civil War (often viewed as "the first battle of World War II"), and then looks at painting, sculpture, prints,...
Author
Publisher
SUNY Press, State University of New York Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xv, 377 pages) : illustrations, color map, portraits
Language
English
Description
Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression.
During the Jazz Age, France became a place where an African American woman could realize personal freedom and creativity, in narrative or in performance, in clay or on canvas, in life and in love. These women were participants in the life of the American expatriate colony, which included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and Cole Porter,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Deciding to break away from everything, Tycho Zeling flies to America to spend his summer as a camp counselor, where he meets Oliver, another counselor, and feels his life stop, and finally begin again, as his.
11) Picasso
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 502 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Genius: Picasso is the second season of National Geographic's first fully scripted drama series. Diving into the life and loves of the brilliant Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (Antonio Banderas), this season showcases Picasso's significant and wide-ranging contribution to modern art. Exploring the Spanish expatriate's devotion to his craft, the series also reveals Picasso's relationships with other well-known personalities of the time, including Coco...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
535 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Brigitte Leal covers Picasso's formative years from 1881 through 1916, a period that includes his invention of Cubism with Georges Braque. Christine Piot explores the astonishingly fertile period from 1917 through 1952. Marie-Laure Bernadac discusses the unabashed vigor of Picasso's later years, from 1953 until his death in 1973. Nearly 1,235 magnificent reproductions, 798 in full color, illustrate Picasso's breathtaking range of artistic expression,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
xvii, 135 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
In 1944 fascist Spain, Ofelia, a young girl fascinated with fairy-tales, and her pregnant mother go to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army, on a rural military outpost. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiv, 322 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Faster! Higher! Stronger! Stranger! A glorious tapestry of legendary characters, forgotten records, crazy accomplishments, unbelievable feats, wacky contests, and controversial moments, Total Olympics is pure pleasure for anyone who loves the world's greatest sporting event. Discover how the modern Games began, in an out-of-the-way Victorian English town named Much Wenlock. Long-discontinued Olympic sports like tug of war, firefighting, live pigeon...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
455 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James Baldwin. 1835, Lord Brougham founded Cannes, introducing bathing and the manicured lawn to the wilds of the Mediterranean coast. Today, much of that shore has become a concrete mass from which escape is an exclusive dream. In the 185 years...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This collection of eight purr-fect cat stories is filled with all the humor and heart Gwen's devoted readership has come to know and love" --
Raised in a dog-loving family, Gwen never pictured herself as a {28}cat person.
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