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  • Corky Lee's Asian America

    Fifty Years of Photographic Justice

    by Corky Lee ...
    **A collection of over 200 breathtaking photos celebrating the history and cultural impact of the Asian American social justice movement, from a beloved photographer who sought to change the world, one photograph at a time“For generations, Corky taught us how to see ourselves—as individuals and as a community.”—Hua Hsu, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Stay TrueKnown throughout his lifetime as the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Writing Life

    by Annie Dillard ...
    "For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague." — Chicago TribuneFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer's life.In these short essays, Annie Dillard—the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

    The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition

    by Sogyal Rinpoche ...
    “A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying] is an inestimable gift.”—San Francisco ChronicleA newly revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling spiritual classic, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, written by Sogyal Rinpoche, is the ultimate introduction to Tibetan Buddhist wisdom. An ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • All About Love

    New Visions

    by bell hooks ...
    Series Book 1 - Love Song to the Nation
    A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD $11.99 USD

  • The Apple Trees at Olema

    New and Selected Poems

    by Robert Hass ...
    “No practicing poet has more talent than Robert Hass.”—Atlantic MonthlyThe National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials, Robert Hass is one of the most revered of all living poets. With The Apple Trees at Olema, the former Poet Laureate and winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize offers twenty new and selected poems grounded in the beauty of the physical world. As with all of the collections ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • A History of Art History

    by Christopher S. Wood ...
    An authoritative history of art history from its medieval origins to its modern predicamentsIn this wide-ranging and authoritative book, the first of its kind in English, Christopher Wood tracks the evolution of the historical study of art from the late middle ages through the rise of the modern scholarly discipline of art history. Synthesizing and assessing a vast array of writings, episodes, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Essential Kabbalah

    The Heart of Jewish Mysticism

    by Daniel C. Matt ...
    A translation of the Kabbalah for the layperson includes a compact presentation of each primary text and features a practical analysis and vital historical information that offer insight into the various aspects of Jewish mysticism. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Row Upon Row

    Sea Grass Baskets of the South Carolina Lowcountry

    by Dale Rosengarten, McKissick Museum, Jane Przybysz ...
    An in-depth, illustrated history of South Carolina's Lowcountry basketsCoiled grass baskets are icons of Gullah culture. From their roots in Africa, through their evolution on Lowcountry rice plantations, to their modern appreciation as art objects sought by collectors and tourists, these vessels are carriers of African American history and the African-inspired culture that took hold along the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Viking Art (Second) (World of Art)

    by James Graham-Campbell ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    Updated to reflect recent archaeological discoveries and overflowing with color illustrations, this book is the definitive introduction to the art of the Viking Age.The Viking Age in Europe lasted from the time of the first major Viking expeditions in 800 CE to the widespread adoption of Christianity in Scandinavia some 300 years later. During that time, Viking art and culture spread across ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Chaldean Oracles

    by G. R. S. Mead ...
    UNDER this general title is now being published a series of small volumes, drawn from or based upon, the mystic, theosophic and gnostic writings of the ancients, so as to make more easily available for the ever-widening circle of those who love such things, some echoes of the mystic experiences and initiatory lore of their spiritual ancestry. There are many who love the life of the spirit, and who ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Guggenheims

    A Family History

    by Debi Unger, Irwin Unger ...
    A portrait of a great American dynasty and its legacy in business, technology, the arts, and philanthropyMeyer Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, founded a great American business dynasty. At their peak in the early twentieth century, the Guggenheims were reckoned among America's wealthiest, and the richest Jewish family in the world after the Rothschilds. They belonged to Our Crowd, that tight social ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Globemakers

    The Curious Story of an Ancient Craft

    by Peter Bellerby ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Publishing
    The beautiful illustrated story of our globe and the creations it has inspired, told by the only truly bespoke globemakers in the world, Bellerby & Co. Globemakers'The untold story of the globe, this book is a glorious spyhole into a forgotten art' - Lara Maiklem, author of MudlarkingPeter Bellerby is the founder of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers, the world's only truly bespoke makers of globes. His ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Distant Early Warning

    Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde

    by Alex Kitnick ...
    Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) is best known as a media theorist—many consider him the founder of media studies—but he was also an important theorist of art. Though a near-household name for decades due to magazine interviews and TV specials, McLuhan remains an underappreciated yet fascinating figure in art history. His connections with the art of his own time were largely unexplored, until now. In ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Mike Kelley

    Educational Complex

    by John Miller ...
    Series series Afterall Books / One Work
    An illustrated examination of a 1995 work by Mike Kelley that marked a significant change in his work.One of the most influential artists of our time, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) produced a body of innovative work mining American popular culture as well as modernist and postmodernist art—relentless examinations of subjectivity and of society that are both sinister and ecstatic. With a wide range of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • AFRICOBRA

    Experimental Art toward a School of Thought

    by Wadsworth A. Jarrell ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative
    Formed on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 at the height of the civil rights, Black power, and Black arts movements, the AFRICOBRA collective created a new artistic visual language rooted in the culture of Chicago's Black neighborhoods. The collective's aesthetics, especially the use of vibrant color, capture the rhythmic dynamism of Black culture and social life. In AFRICOBRA, painter, ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Georgia O’Keeffe

    by Daniel Catton Rich ...
    This is the definitive book on Georgia O’Keeffe’s work—selected, designed, and supervised by the artist herself, with her own text. It includes 108 magnificent full-color plates, some never reproduced elsewhere or publicly shown, and spans O’Keeffe’s entire career: from her intense, personal abstractions to her unique depictions of nature—flowers, bones, rocks, and landscapes. ... Read more

    $1.00 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fabric

    The Hidden History of the Material World

    by Victoria Finlay ...
    A magnificent work of original research that unravels history through textiles and cloth—how we make it, use it, and what it means to us.How is a handmade fabric helping save an ancient forest?Why is a famous fabric pattern from India best known by the name of a Scottish town?How is a Chinese dragon robe a diagram of the whole universe?What is the difference between how the Greek Fates and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Violin Maker

    A Search for the Secrets of Craftsmanship, Sound, and Stradivari

    by John Marchese ...
    “[A] magical, profound, and elegant look at the continued need for high quality in our throw away society.” —Douglas Brinkley, HistorianThis intensely human story, which moves from an ageless workshop in Brooklyn to the rehearsal rooms of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, and across the globe to Cremona, the birthplace of Stradivari, opens up for the reader the insular and fascinating realm of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $7.99 USD

  • The Dream Colony

    A Life in Art

    by Mr. Walter Hopps, Deborah Treisman, Anne Doran ...
    Art Forum's Best of the Year ListA panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • The Man Who Loved China

    The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

    by Simon Winchester ...
    In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, the bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman ("Elegant and scrupulous"—New York Times Book Review) and Krakatoa ("A mesmerizing page-turner"—Time) brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham, the brilliant Cambridge scientist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, long the world's most technologically ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Discarded Image

    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

    by C. S. Lewis ...
    In The Discarded Image, C.S. Lewis paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, providing the historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. It describes the "image" discarded by later years as "the medieval synthesis itself, the whole organization of their theology, science and history into a single, complex, harmonious mental model of the universe. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Secret Lives of Color

    by Kassia St. Clair ...
    **One of *USA Today'*s “100 Books to Read While Stuck at Home During the Coronavirus Crisis”A dazzling gift, the unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume.“Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017**The Secret Lives of Color tells ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Creativity and Taoism

    A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and Poetry

    by Chung-yuan Chang ...
    In Creativity and Taoism, Chang Chung-yuan makes the elusive principle of Tao available to the western mind with objectivity, warmth, and depth of insight. It is an important contribution to the task of making the Taoist wisdom accessible to the western intellect'- Ira Progoff'No one can read Chang's book without experiencing a broadening of his mental horizons'- John C. H. Wu, Philosophy East and ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Jo van Gogh-Bonger

    The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous

    by Hans Luijten ...
    Translated by Lynne Richards ...
    It is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.'JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIOT, 1922'It is a sacrifice for the sake of Vincent's glory.'JO VAN GOGH-BONGER ON THE SALE OF 'THE SUNFLOWERS' TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, UK, 1924Little known but no less influential, Jo van Gogh-Bonger ... Read more

    $28.99 USD