Included in Library Journal's "25 Key Indie Fiction Titles, Fall 2014-Winter 2015" Within the writer's life, words and things acquire power. For Borges it is the tiger and the color red, for CortAzar a pair of...
Art and architecture
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Author:Ducornet, RikkiSummary: - Author:Sparks, AmberSummary:
The Desert Places is a pocket-sized edition of a hybrid text by Amber Sparks and Robert Kloss that explores the evolution of evil in worlds both seen and unseen and features full-color illustrations by Matt Kish, illustrator of the...
- Author:Bevan, RobertSummary:
A decimated Shiite shrine in Iraq. The smoking World Trade Center site. The scorched cityscape of 1945 Dresden. Among the most indelible scars left by war is the destroyed landscapes, and such architectural devastation damages far more...
- Author:Laporte, RobertSummary:
An EcoNest is not just a home-it is a breathtakingly beautiful structure that nurtures health and embraces ecology. This unique approach to construction combines light clay straw, timber framing, earthen floors, natural plasters, and...
- Author:Costamagna, PhilippeSummary:
This is an art adventure story and a memoir all in one, written by a leading expert on the Renaissance whose profession is a high-stakes detective game involving massive amounts of money and frenetic activity in the service of the art...
- Author:Hyde, LewisSummary:
Drawing on examples from folklore and literature, history and tribal customs, economics and modern copyright law, Lewis Hyde demonstrates how our society, governed by the marketplace, is poorly equipped to determine the worth of artists...
- Author:Farkas, AndrewSummary:
Andrew Farkas reports on his bold explorations of the indoors--the waiting rooms, kitchens, malls, bars, theaters, roadside motel rooms, and other places that feature temperature control, protection from rampaging predators, and a...
- Author:Walljasper, Jay.Summary:
Abandoned lots and litter-strewn pathways, or rows of green beans and pockets of wildflowers' Graffiti-marked walls and desolate bus stops, or shady refuges and comfortable seating' What transforms a dingy, inhospitable area into a...
- Author:Scheckel, PaulSummary:
With rising energy costs, homeowners are beginning to examine the energy efficiency of their own homes, asking questions about where energy comes from and how much it costs, how to choose new appliances and what options exist for...
- Author:Chiras, Dan.Summary:
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy shows home and business owners how to make dramatic improvements in energy efficiency and tap into clean, affordable sources of renewable energy for heating, cooling, and generating...
- Author:Busby, Karen, Muller, Adam, Woolford, Andrew, Busby, Karen, Carter, Jennifer, Curle, Clint, Failler, Angela, Fallding, Helen, Giesbrecht, Jodi, Grzyb, Amanda, Jacob, George, Jaeger, Stephen, Moses, A. Dirk, Muller, Adam, Nállim, Jorge A., Norman, Ken, Perla, Armando, Petrasek, David, Phillips, Ruth B., Powell, Christopher, Reid, Mary, Simon, Roger I., Sinclair, Struan, Woolford, AndrewSummary:
"The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays...
- Author:Okakura, KakuzoSummary:
The 1904 book that famously declared "Asia is one" was among the first studies in English to reference Zen as it explored the roots of Japanese beauty. Like the author's The Book of Tea, this volume emphasized the...
- Author:Moyle, FrannySummary:
Franny Moyle traces and analyzes the life and work of an extraordinary artist against the backdrop of an era of political turbulence and cultural transformation, to which his art offers a subtle and endlessly refracting mirror.
- Author:Crary, DuncanSummary:
James Howard Kunstler is best known for his unflinching commentary on the collapse of the American dream in the face of the reality of Peak Oil. Written as a long-form conversational interview, The KunstlerCast explores urban planning,...
- Author:Lewis, Ben.Summary:
An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and might not be the real thing. For two centuries, art dealers and historians searched in...
- Author:Underwood, EleanorSummary:
This book of Geisha culture and history features beautiful antique photographs and a wealth of information. Geisha have the odd distinction of being both legendary and real, and this book helps clarify those differences. Myth by nature...
- Author:Cameron, JuliaSummary:
The newest audiobook from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey to deeper, more profound listening and creativity. Over six weeks, listeners will be given the tools to become better listeners -...
- Author:Laing, OliviaSummary:
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live if we're not intimately involved? Olivia Laing explores these questions by traveling deep into the work and lives of some of the century's most original artists.
- Author:Gardner, JamesSummary:
Some nine million people from all over the world flock to the Louvre each year to enjoy its incomparable art collection. Yet few of them are aware of the remarkable history of that place and of the buildings themselves-a fascinating...
- Author:Bouchard, Michel MarcSummary:
At the end of the Great War, to protect his village from the Spanish flu epidemic, a priest commissions an Italian painter to decorate the local church with a fresco dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The painter is to choose, among four...
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