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This 400 page book presents for the first time a close look at 500 years of figurative card decks created or used for fortune telling, divinations, and oracle purposes and will explore, one card at the time, their iconographic roots at the cross-roads of the medieval imaginarium, Western esoteric wisdom, folklore, and also contemporary art and pop culture. With hundreds of images drawn from more than 100 decks, rarely published and often forgo...

Wild Design celebrates wild design in the world of animals, plants, and other organisms, as well as in earth, stone, and water. This illustrated compendium explores structures as intricate as the microscopic "glass" cases of jewel-like diatoms, as flamboyant as the festooned leks of bowerbirds, and as mysterious as the towering hoodoos of the Colorado Plateau. Bringing together art and science in lush illustrations and lively text, Wild Design...

From award-winning chef Gabriel Kreuther, the definitive cookbook on rustic French cooking from Alsace Gabriel Kreuther is the cookbook fans of the James Beard Award-winning chef have long been waiting for. From one of the most respected chefs in the United States, this cookbook showcases the recipes inspired by Kreuther's French-Swiss-German training and refined global style, one that embraces the spirits of both Alsace, his homeland, and of ...

Familiar histories of graphic design have placed women in the margins, their work unworthy of discussion and preservation. The good news is that with a little digging, we are confirming that women of many backgrounds and ethnicities have long been active in the profession. This collection of 15 fascinating illustrated essays reveals their stories, countering the history we've been fed and expanding the small canon of (overwhelmingly white) wom...

Timed for the 60th anniversary, the iconic and influential first issue of the Fantastic Four by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, deconstructed by award-winning designer Chip Kidd, with text by novelist Walter Mosley, Marvel editor Tom Brevoort, and historian Mark Evanier, and photographs by Geoff Spear The first issue of Fantastic Four by legendary creators Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced fans to a now-iconic team of Super Heroes—Mister Fantastic, ...

In her follow-up cookbook to Salad for President, artist, chef, and social media star Julia Sherman explores how artists entertain, with recipes and ideas for inspired get-togethers Julia Sherman knows how to throw a party. She's hosted a 200-person book launch in the aisles of a corner supermarket, a New York crawfish boil to the accompaniment of a punk-rock marching band, and potluck dinners on museum rooftops. She's thrown a party in an und...

Packed with much-loved characters such as Jemima Puddleduck and Squirrel Nutkin, alongside exquisite botanical drawings, humorous picture letters to friends, Lake District watercolours, rarely seen photographs and an essay by James Rebanks this publication embeds Potter's celebrated characters in the context of her life, from the confines of middle-class London to the expanse of Lake District hill farming, identifying the people and places tha...

It's a behind-the-scenes look at Lee's films, commercials, and music videos and includes never-before-seen photographs, memorabilia, ephemera, and more. Quotes by luminaries and friends such as Barack Obama, Denzel Washington, and others emphasize Lee's importance as a prominent voice on race and racism in the culture at large. The monograph highlights the enormous impact Spike Lee has had culturally, historically, and aesthetically in film an...

In this middle-grade graphic novel, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man ...

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Despite wide interest in Woolf's writings, her circle, and her relationship with the visual arts, there is no accessible edition or selection of essays dedicated to her writings on art. This newest edition in David Zwirner Books's ekphrasis series collects such essays, including "Walter Sickert: A Conversation" (1934), "Pictures" (1925), and "Pictures and Portraits" (1920), formally inventive texts that examine the connection between the liter...

Además de una recopilación de recetas, es un legado culinario para jóvenes que se independizan, quieren ser autosuficientes en la cocina e, incluso, desarrollar un estilo culinario propio. Contiene recetas propias y platos tradicionales, pero también aporta consejos, ideas y sugerencias abiertas, a fin de que cada uno incorpore su propia intuición y su propia creatividad, haciendo suyos esos platos y convirtiendo en algo divertido y placentero...

Audrey and Ivy, determined to bring their fellow student Lola Radcliffe's killer to justice, find themselves in the middle of another mystery when a friend disappears in suspicious circumstances.Their only clue is a mysterious card left by the enigmatic Magpie Society. With time running out and the police baffled, Audrey and Ivy must delve deeper than ever into the dark secrets that their school is hiding.But someone is playing a deadly game. ...

An uplifting, inspirational story of women in wartime, by the world's favourite storyteller, Danielle Steel.

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In den 1920er-Jahren begann Paul Klee (1879-1940), sich intensiv mit der polyphonen Malerei - der mehrstimmigen Malerei in Analogie zur Musik - auseinanderzusetzen. Die Studien des unermüdlichen Experimentators fanden ihren Anfang zunächst am Bauhaus in Dessau, entwickelten sich während seiner Zeit an der Kunstakademie Düsseldorf weiter und fanden ab 1933 mit Klees Rückkehr nach Bern ihren Abschluss. Der international anerkannte Kunsthistorike...

Große Schuldenkrisen gibt es immer wieder, sie gehören zum Wirtschaftsleben dazu. Hedgefonds-Legende Ray Dalio hat sich gefragt: Gibt es Gesetzmäßigkeiten, die immer auftreten? Sofern man solche Gesetzmäßigkeiten erkennt, kann man sich nämlich darauf einstellen, diese Krisen besser als andere bewältigen und sein Vermögen sichern - in Dalios Fall 140 Milliarden US-Dollar, die sein Hedgefonds Bridgewater verwaltet. Also untersuchte er die Krisen...

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One crisp and bright Mothering Sunday, Alexandra Abbott's now elderly mother, Elizabeth, reveals a secret that she has kept buried for over 50 years...April 1963: Aspiring artist Kitty Campbell has recently given birth to her first child in a mother and baby home. Kitty is to give her baby away for adoption but, when the day comes, she can't bring herself to part with her tiny daughter.In desperation, Kitty flees. She stops at a tea shop to fe...

January 1942. Rommel's seemingly invincible Afrika Korps is at the gates of Egypt - perhaps soon to threaten Cairo itself.And Rommel has a spy in the city - a source so well-informed that the German commander knows in advance every movement of the allied forces.Amongst the teeming streets and bazaars, the British, led by Major Albert Cutler, must find him. But Cairo is a city of fool's gold, where nothing and nobody, not even Cutler, can be ta...