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John A. Walker

An essential overview as well as a theoretical critique for all students of design history. Walker studies the intellectual discipline of Design History and the issues that confront scholars writing histories of design.Taking his approach from a range of related fields, he discusses the problems of defining design and writing history. He considers the different methods that leading scholars have used in the absence of a theoretical framework, and looks critically at a number of his...

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John Walker

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James Patrick Cronin

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Rise of Mankind

Contains books three and four of the Rise of Mankind series.Raid, Book 3:Earth has nearly completed a second ship, a sister vessel to the Behemoth. This crowning achievement is hampered by a lack of a necessary element called ulem, mined in deep space in planetoids and asteroids spread throughout Alliance space. The closest such station failed to deliver their goods. A lone security guard managed to deploy a distress call ...

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William W. Johnstone, J.A. Johnstone

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A Full Cast, Mort Shelby, Steven Carpenter, Colleen Delany, Terence Aselford, Bradley Smith, James Lewis, David Jourdan, Michael Glenn, Elizabeth Jernigan, Alyssa Wilmoth, Richard Rohan, David Coyne, David Harris, James Konicek, John Dow, Ren Kasey, Christopher Walker, Thomas Penny, Casie Platt, Ken Jackson, Nick DePinto, Jeff Allin, Chris Davenport, Thomas Keegan, Drew Kopas, Nanette Savard, Yasmin Tuazon, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Scheeren, Evan Casey, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Tim Carlin, Kimberly Gilbert, Scott McCormick, Scott Graham, Tim Getman, Nora Achrati, Andy Clemence, Matthew Keenan, Michael John Casey, Lily Beacon, Dylan Lynch, Eric Messner, Steve Wannall

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Christmas

Three weeks before Christmas, the little town of Chug Water in Wyoming Territory is stunned by a brutal crime. The mayor's family has been slaughtered in cold blood on their ranch outside of Raw Hide Butte. As the townsfolk gather to pay their last respects, Duff MacCallister saddles up to go after the killers. He returns with two outlaws - a cold-blooded, nasty pair of snakes, Jesse and T. Bob Cave. But the day before they're sentenced to hang, the Cave brothers escape their fate...Into t...

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John A. Walker

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Routledge Library Editions: Popular Music

This book, first published in 1987, was the first major survey of the links between the visual arts and pop music over the last thirty years. It brings to light the ideas, styles and people who have influenced both the look of pop and the shape of art. It examines how pop uses art movements like Dada, Futurism and Surrealism in everything from the design of album covers to the creation of a group’s look, stage act and video; how art uses pop, as a subject for painting, sculpture and design...

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Myke Cole

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A Full Cast, Ken Jackson, Jefferson A. Russell, Thomas Keegan, Nora Achrati, Sunny Lasskey, Dylan Lynch, James Lewis, Eric Messner, Tim Getman, Lily Beacon, Matthew McGee, Steve Wannall, Drew Kopas, Andy Brownstein, Tim Carlin, Richard Rohan, Joel David Santner, David Coyne, Kenyatta Rogers, Joe Brack, Dawn Ursula, Doug V. Brown, Nick DePinto, Colleen Delany, Barbara Pinolini, Jeff Allin, Tara Giordano, David Harris, Christopher Graybill, Nanette Savard, Michael John Casey, Chris Walker, Myke Cole, Terence Aselford, Rose Supan, Scott McCormick, David Jourdan, Yasmin Tuazon, Michael Glenn, James Konicek, Jonathon Church

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Shadow Ops

Army Officer. Fugitive. Sorcerer.Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze.Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the military's Supernatural Operations Corps, his mission is to bring order to a world gone mad. Then he abruptly manifests a rare and prohibited magical power, transforming him overnight fro...

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Simon R. Green

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A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, David Coyne, Bradley Smith, Ren Kasey, Elizabeth Jernigan, Scott McCormick, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Michael John Casey, Christopher Graybill, Christopher Walker, Richard Rohan, Lily Beacon, Nanette Savard, Michael Glenn, James Konicek, Andy Brownstein, Andy Clemence, John Dow, Tim Getman, Thomas Keegan, Eric Messner, Jonathan Watkins, Yasmin Tuazon, Thomas Penny, David Jourdan, Colleen Delany, Ken Jackson, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh, Steve Wannall, Jeff Allin, Christopher Scheeren, Eric Singdahlsen, Evan Casey, Matthew McGee, Joe Brack, Casie Platt, Jacob Yeh, Nick DePinto, Mort Shelby

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Forest Kingdom

Twice upon a time, Prince Rupert and Princess Julia saved the Forest Kingdom.They have earned the right to live happily ever after.But there's a blue moon on the rise....Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they'd grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes.Legends never die, but it seems they ca...

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John A. Walker

The vibrant fine arts and mass culture that the United Stated exported to Britain in the postwar period had a powerful and far-reaching impact on many British artists, art students and critics. In a fascinating social and cultural history covering the period from the 1940s to the 1990s, but with emphasis on the 1950s and 1960s, John A. Walker offers a scholarly but accessible account of America's Cold War cultural offensive and the role played by American artists living in Britain....

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John A. Walker

The growing cult of the celebrity in contemporary culture is throwing up paradoxical ideas about the contradictions between 'high' art and mass appeal and blurring the already unstable boundaries between art, commodity and popular culture.This is a lively and accessible study of the phenomenon, informed by a look at what happens when the 'serious' world of art collides with celebrity. Global culture is now dominated by celebrities, some of whom, like Madonna and Stallone, are art c...

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John A. Walker

Can fine art survive in an age of mass media? If so, in what forms and to what purpose? And can radical art still play a critical role in today's divided world?These are the questions addressed in the Art in the Age of Mass Media, as John Walker examines the fascinating relationship between art and mass media, and the myriad interactions between high and low culture in a postmodern, culturally pluralistic world.Using a range of historic and contemporary works of art, Walker...

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John Walker

"Caribbean Soul: The Essential Isla Mujeres Travel Handbook" is your 2024-updated key to unlocking Mexico’s island paradise, blending local secrets, budget hacks, and sustainable travel tips for the ultimate escape. Discover hidden gems like Punta Sur’s sunrise cliffs and secret snorkeling spots at MUSA’s underwater art exhibits, or unwind in hammocks on Playa Norte’s powder-white sands. Feast on $1 tacos at Taquería Los Compadres, sip Instagram-worthy cocktails at Lola Valentina, and dive...

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John A. Walker

When art hits the headlines, it is usually because it has caused offence or is perceived by the media to have shock-value. Over the last fifty years many artists have been censored, vilified, accused of blasphemy and obscenity, threatened with violence, prosecuted and even imprisoned. Their work has been trashed by the media and physically attacked by the public.In Art & Outrage, John A. Walker covers the period from the late 1940s to the 1990s to provide the first detailed survey ...

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Jon Sprunk

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A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Thomas Keegan, Nora Achrati, Colleen Delany, Thomas Penny, Ken Jackson, Christopher Scheeren, Andy Clemence, Tim Getman, Bradley Smith, Christopher Walker, Michael John Casey, David Jourdan, James Lewis, John Dow, Richard Rohan, Scott McCormick, Jeff Allin, Kimberly Gilbert, Alyssa Wilmoth, Steve Wannall, David Coyne, Nanette Savard, Scott Graham, James Konicek, Drew Kopas, Dylan Lynch, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby

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Book of the Black Earth

This action-heavy EPIC FANTASY SERIES OPENER is like a sword-and-sorcery Spartacus set in a richly-imagined world.It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the west, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son from plague. When he washes ashore, he finds himself at the mercy of the very people he was sent to kill, who speak a language and have a culture and customs he doesn't even begin ...