The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream
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The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has...
1000 Nudes. A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939
Hans-Michael Koetzle and Uwe Scheid
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This is a glimpse through the keyhole of history. From the earliest nude daguerrotypes to...
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Ammonite Press and Royal Geographical Society
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This book is the RGS' only official publication on the expedition in 2013, marking the 60th...
Marine Chronometers at Greenwich: A Catalogue of Marine Chronometers at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
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The Marine Chronometers at Greenwich is the fifth, and largest, of the distinguished series of...
Natural Magic: Salted Paper Prints in North America
Jordan Bear, Russell Lord, Lisa Volpe and Keith F. Davis
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The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes,...
Pop Expressionism: Works on Paper by Rudolf Humm
Edward Lucie-Smith and Philipp-Rudolf Humm
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Philipp Rudolf Humm is a German/Belgian artist living in London. Humm started out to become an...
William Hunter and His Eighteenth-Century Cultural Worlds: The Anatomist and the Fine Arts
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The eminent physician and anatomist Dr William Hunter (1718-1783) made an important and significant...
A Brief Guide to Agatha Christie
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Agatha Christie's 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than...
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe and Biyi Bandele
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A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the...
Words are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books, 2000-2016, with a Journal of a Writer's Week
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"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how...