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Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In architectural terms, the twentieth century can be largely summed up with two names: Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson. Wright (1867-1959) began it with his romantic prairie style; Johnson (1906-2005) brought down the curtain with his spare postmodernist experiments. Between them, they built some of the most admired and discussed buildings in American history. Differing radically in their views on architecture, Wright and Johnson shared a restless...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of a bonsai tree that lived with the Yamaki family in Hiroshima, Japan, for more than 300 years before being donated to the National Arboretum in Washington, D.C., in 1976 as a gesture of friendship and peace to celebrate the American Bicentennial.
11283) Gauguin: artist as alchemist
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
335 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a creative force above and beyond his legendary work as a painter. Surveying the full scope of his career-spanning experiments in different media and formats--clay, works on paper, wood, and paint, as well as furniture and decorative friezes--this volume delves into his enduring interest in craft and applied arts, reflecting on their significance to his creative process. Gauguin: Artist as Alchemist draws on extensive...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous memorials in the world. But most people are not as familiar with the college student who won the design competition to build it. This carefully researched volume chronicles Maya Lin's childhood, her battle to create the memorial as she envisioned it, and the incredible body of work she has produced since then. More than simply an art book, this compelling biography of a young...
11285) The shady tree
Author
Series
Ping (Demi) volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Ping returns and deals with the selfish Tan Tan, who owns a beautiful house and a beautiful shady tree, but who does not share, so Ping turns Tan Tan's greed into his own gain, but remains true to his generous nature.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
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"In the first picture book written by a DACA dreamer, Areli Morales tells her own powerful and vibrant immigration story of moving from a quiet town in Mexico to the bustling and noisy metropolis of New York City"--
11287) Forest
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Introduce children to the importance of protecting the environment with this illustrated story book about deforestation and its effect on animals. Join fisherman Finn and his dog, Skip, on their second adventure in this illustrated story book for young children, which teaches them about deforestation and what they can do to help. This book is the ideal introduction to the environmental concerns facing our forests, featuring colourful illustrations...
11288) Marvel Phase three box set
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following Ultron's war on humanity, the world no longer trusts the Avengers. After a tragic car accident, talented neurosurgeon Doctor Stephen Strange must put ego aside and learn the secrets of a hidden world of mysticism and alternate dimensions. After saving the known universe, Peter Quill (aka the legendary Star-Lord), Gamora, Drax, Rocket, and Groot are operating like a finely tuned machine. But when a job for a genetically perfect race of jerks...
11289) The accidental highwayman
Author
Series
Accidental highwayman trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
In eighteenth-century England, young Christopher Kit Bristol is the unwitting servant of notorious highwayman Whistling Jack. One dark night, Kit finds his master bleeding from a mortal wound, dons the mans riding cloak to seek help, and changes the course of his life forever. Mistaken for Whistling Jack and on the run from redcoats, Kit is catapulted into a world of magic and wonders he thought the stuff of fairy tales. Bound by magical law, Kit...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
230 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lavish showcase of paleoartist Jay Matternes's spectacular murals and sketches. For half a century, the artwork of Jay Matternes adorned the fossil halls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Most prominent among his work was a set of immense murals documenting the story of mammal evolution over the past 56 million years. Matternes also worked with sculptor Neal Deaton to construct three dioramas showing environments from each...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The dramatic and compelling story of the transformation of America during the last fifty years, told through a handful of families in one suburban county in Virginia that has been utterly changed by recent immigration. In the fifty years since the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act, the foreign-born population of the United States has tripled. Significantly, these immigrants are not coming from Europe, as was the case before 1965, but from all...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxx, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world's greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflict. The United States has always been divided, but Americans from all walks of life have also always shared a deep affinity for the plays William Shakespeare, even if their meaning has been fiercely contested. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes-- presidents...
11294) Boots
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the infinity trinity hears of a Nazi spy plot that could bring danger to Chicago, Mae knows they must go to check on her beloved aunts, the daring World War II pilots Willa Brown and Janet Harmon. Mae's Granny Crumpler isn't exactly thrilled about Mae and her friend trying to get involved with something so dangerous--especially when she's already worried about not hearing from Mae's dad, who is serving in Europe and fighting for freedoms on ad...
11295) The midwinter witch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
201 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Aster always looks forward to the Midwinter Festival, a reunion of the entire Vanissen family that includes competitions in witchery and shapeshifting. This year, he's especially excited to compete in the annual Jolrun tournament-- as a witch. He's determined to show everyone that he's proud of who he is and what he's learned, but he knows it won't be easy to defy tradition. Ariel has darker things on her mind than the Festival-- like the mysterious...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 419 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation. Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving results than taking the credit. To reach his lifelong goal of a self-governing constitutional republic, he blended his talents with those of key partners....
11298) The butterfly rebellion
Author
Series
Battle bugs volume 9
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When gliding lizards threaten to overrun Bug Island, Max must persuade a butterfly soldier to join their fight.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Every day, Americans are bombarded with terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and the health consequences of the foods we've been enjoying for years. We're judged by social media users, pressured into maintaining a perfect home, and expected to base our self-worth on retweets, faves, likes, and followers. Our collective FOMO (fear of missing out), and the disparity between ideals and reality, is leading us to spend more and feel...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
lxxii, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era. When Firing Line premiered on American television in 1966, just two years after Barry Goldwater's devastating defeat, liberalism was ascendant. Though the left seemed to have decisively...
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