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  • 印象

    英文

    by 笑颜 吕 ...
    This is the shooting of a trip to India in early 2019. Every place brings me good memories, only to record and share selected pictures of the trip. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • “Soapy”

    An Authorized Biography of Earnest O. (Soapy) Gillam

    First published in 1958, this book is a biography of Fort Worth businessman Earnest O. (Soapy) Gillam, who rose from humble beginnings to become America’s best known independent soap manufacturer.“‘Every generation or so, someone should sit down and sum up the history of a family so it can be passed down to future generations.’“The man who spoke these words early in 1957 was Earnest О. Gillam, the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Édouard Manet

    Annotated Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    Once classified as an Impressionist, Manet has subsequently been regarded as a Realist who influenced and was influenced by the Impressionist painters of the 1870s, though he never exhibited with them nor adopted fully their ideas and procedures. His painting is notable for its brilliant prima vista painterly technique. In his relatively short career he evolved from an early style marked by ... Read more

    $2.21 USD

  • Zurbarán

    Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter, known mainly for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. He painted directly from nature, and made great use of the lay-figure in the study of draperies, in which Zurbarán was ... Read more

    $2.21 USD

  • Zodiac

    A Graphic Memoir

    by Ai Weiwei ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac.As a child living in exile during the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei often found himself with nothing to read but government-approved comic books. Although they ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Zelda

    by Nancy Milford ...
    “Profound, overwhelmingly moving . . . a richly complex love story.” — New York TimesAcclaimed biographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality of Zelda Sayre and clarifies as never before Zelda’s relationship with her husband F. Scott Fitzgerald—tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing woman, torn by the clash between her husband’s career and her own ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit

    This unusual biography of a remarkable New Zealand artist and arts tutor, offers a view of life in remote New Zealand amongst Maori during the 1920s. Be guiled by the fascinating story of an eccentric woman who would not be told, and therefore achieved much. Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit (Theresa Sjoquist, 2014), is the result of 18 months of detailed research across New Zealand and includes input ... Read more

    $6.67 USD

  • Yves Klein

    by Nuit Banai ...
    Series series Critical Lives
    Denounced as a charlatan and fêted as a mystic, French artist Yves Klein (1928–62) scandalized the art world with his enthusiastic embrace of postwar mass culture and his exploitation of controversial publicity tactics. Today, we know Yves Klein not only as one of the most radical artists of the postwar period, but also as an iconic role model for contemporary practices—he reinvented abstract ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Yucatan Through Her Eyes: Alice Dixon Le Plongeon, Writer and Expeditionary Photographer

    Alice Dixon (1851-1910) was born into a comfortable middle class life in London that she eagerly left behind to travel to Yucatán as the young bride of Maya archaeologist Augustus Le Plongeon. Working side by side as photographers and archaeologists, the Le Plongeons were the first to excavate and systematically photograph the Maya sites of Chichén Itzá and Uxmal. After spending eleven years in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Your Story Is Your Power

    Free Your Feminine Voice

    HOW DO YOU DEFINE YOURSELF?IN A VERY REAL SENSE, we define ourselves through our stories. If we can truly understand the stories that made us the women we are, including the motivations behind our actions and thoughts, we can take charge of how our future unfolds.WHAT IS AT THE HEART OF YOUR STORY?Follow the prompts, tools, questions, and advice through a labyrinth of self-discovery to reach the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Your Fifteen Minutes Are Up

    Series series Andy Warhol's Factory People
    The conclusion of the uncensored oral history that sheds light on the infamous final years of Andy Warhol’s Silver Factory.The late 1960s brought seismic shifts to Andy Warhol and life at the Silver Factory. The hub of his avant-garde scene shifted from the Factory on Manhattan’s 47th Street to the downtown bar Max’s Kansas City; new stars like drag queens Jackie Curtis, Holly Woodlawn, and Candy ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Rembrandt: A Biography

    by Onno Blom ...
    Translated by Beverley Jackson ...
    A captivating exploration of the little-known story of Rembrandt’s formative years by a prize-winning biographer.Rembrandt van Rijn’s early years are as famously shrouded in mystery as Shakespeare’s, and his life has always been an enigma. How did a miller’s son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist of his age? How in short, did Rembrandt become Rembrandt?Seeking the roots of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Young Michelangelo

    The Path to the Sistine—A Biography

    by John T. Spike ...
    In this biography, the author of the acclaimed Caravaggio examines therelationships that shaped Michelangelo’s first thirty years.In this compelling account, renowned art historian John Spike paints a vivid portrait of one of the world’s greatest artists and the places and people—Lorenzo de’ Medici, Leonardo, Machiavelli—that inspired and defined his early life and career. Spike’s masterful text ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Young Leonardo

    The Evolution of a Revolutionary Artist, 1472-1499

    Provocative and original, this fresh look at Leonardo da Vinci’s formative years in Florence and Milan provides a radically different scenario of how he created his signature style that would transform Western art forever.The traditional view of Leonardo da Vinci’s career is that he enjoyed a promising start in Florence and then moved to Milan to become the celebrated court artist of Duke Ludovico ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You Will Be a Builder of Musical Instruments

    Edward Victor Dick began life as a simple farm boy but was always attracted to music. Growing up amidst the cultural revolution of the 1960's was fertile ground for his exceptionally active imagination. A dramatic epiphany in his early 20's led him to pursue a career as a builder of musical instruments. This is the story of that journey, how he navigated the world of guitar-making and lutherie, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • You Say to Brick

    The Life of Louis Kahn

    by Wendy Lesser ...
    Born in Estonia 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia. By the time of his mysterious death in 1974, he was widely recognized as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this enormous reputation was based on only a handful of masterpieces, all built during the last fifteen years of his life.Wendy Lesser’s You Say to Brick: The Life of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

    Winner of the 2016 Marfield PrizeIn 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • You Belong to the Universe

    Buckminster Fuller and the Future

    A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's creations often bordered on the realm of science fiction, ranging from the freestanding geodesic dome to the three-wheel Dymaxion car to a bathroom requiring ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • You Are The Style!

    An Every Girl's Guide to Getting Dressed, Building Confidence, and Shining from the Inside Out

    "...just what women of all ages, styles, and sizes need to feel empowered in their own wardrobes and in their own skin." — Stacy London, Author of The Truth about Style and CEO of State of MenopauseLearn to love yourself through your style.Inspiring, thought-provoking, and empowering, You Are the Style will break down everything you once believed about getting dressed and rebuild your sense of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • You are Always With Me

    Letters to Mama

    by Frida Kahlo ...
    Translated by Hector Jaimes ...
    Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago.But beyond the familiar images there is a private story about a daughter who confided in her beloved mama, ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Yorkie Doodle Dandy: A Memoir

    8th Edition

    Smoky, WWII's 4 lb Yorkshire Terrier found in a New Guinea foxhole, flew combat missions, performed as a war hero, and provided comfort, healing and support to injured servicemen and hospital care providers. Smoky was voted "Mascot of the Southwest Pacific" by YANK Down Under magazine in July, 1944. After journeying home with companion-trainer Cpl. Bill Wynne of Cleveland, Ohio, she continued her ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Yield

    The Journal of an Artist

    Celebrating Anne Truitt's centenary, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in her remarkable series of journalsIn the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Yayoi Kusama

    by Robert Shore ...
    Series series Lives of the Artists
    'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' Yayoi KusamaNonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. In the early 1970s, she ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Yarn Harlot

    The Secret Life of a Knitter

    One woman shares hilarious personal stories of her obsession, frustration, reflection, and fun with knitting.An obsessed knitter who can’t seem to put the needles down, author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee reveals the tangled and sometimes maniacal path of her knitting triumphs and disasters in Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter.Sharing both humorous and poignant tales of knitting escapades, such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus