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The world is falling apart at every turn as New York PI Giacomo Berg and missing-persons expert Bonita ¿B.C.¿ Boyd search desperately for old friend Peter Proust before he disappears from the face of the earth. Set in the months prior to the arrival of the last Millennium, Peter Proust is working intently to disappear into the landscape in Texas. Berg is joined by Texas-born friend Boyd, whose job is to document disappeared persons in Latin Am...

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This new collection is William O'Rourke's third volume of a diverse mixture of long and short articles and it extends his reputation as a brilliant social historian and curmudgeonly contrarian. More political than his previous two volumes (Signs of the Literary Times, 1993, Confessions of a Guilty Freelancer, 2012), it additionally serves as an illuminating memoir of his literary generation. These provocative pieces analyze the contemporary tu...

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Retro environments appeal to both the individual and collective memory and evoke nostalgic feelings. The projects included in this book are designed by such cutting edge firms as Autobahn, Dizel & Sate, Gensler, Greg Natale, JMA, Karim Rashid, Marc Newson, Sebastian CG Segers, Marcio Kogan, Pichiglas/ Alfonso de la Fuerta, Retrovius Reclamation and Design, Shaun Clarkson, Slade Architecture, Studio 63 and Wary Meyers Decorative Arts, projects ...

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An encounter with the artistic heritage of Islam is characterized by two factors that make it very special: 1) the vast dimension of the areas involved, from Spain to Central Asia as far as China, and south to sub-Saharan Africa 2) its continuing influence through fourteen centuries of history. Within the great variety of structures and objects showing an Islamic aesthetic, some constants stand out: the most representative art is certainly cal...

Lyrical, image-driven and provocative, Cheng's novel is composed in the form of an artist's memoir, reording not just what is seen but the consciousness of seeing.--Starred Review, Publishers Weekly

The term Romanesque, however imprecise, is a useful key to our understanding of a period of profound innovation. Just as the romance languages shared a common root and became differentiated as they spread across Europe, the artistic language of the ¿Romanesque¿ diversified as it was interpreted in the various regions of Europe from the 11th century. This makes it possible to speak of a ¿European¿ art, even at a time of extreme geopolitical fra...

The definition of the Baroque age is still subject to debate among critics and historians. In one of its most commonly accepted meanings, Baroque describes some aspects of 17th-century art, with sumptuous Roma at the center, that upset the proportions and static harmony of the Renaissance¿already undermined by Mannerism during the previous century¿through the use of curves, strange movements of forms, the daring optics of illusionism, and thea...

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Classic, rare and never before seen photographs tell stories from the theater of war and its battlefields as well as from civilian life, presenting an astonishing insight into life during the world's most devastating military conflict

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