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This two-man show is a bubbling stew of humor with a dash of poignancy to sharpen the flavor. A grand crowd pleaser whenever performed, the Blaguards is a story of immigration, triumph over hardship and the love of a family.

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This vivid photo-essay on "the great adventure" of discovery and exploration 1860-1930 is drawn from the collection of The Royal Geographical Society in London. It begins with Stanley and Livingstone in Africa and proceeds through Asia and Oceania, the Americas, and the Middle East. The work of twenty-three intrepid photographers are included.

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Bob Howard started Wang Labs with An Wang, the cable tv business with Milt Shapp, and invented the dot matrix and laser printers. Along the way he partnered with Howard Hughes and Rupert Murdoch among others. Bob's inventions affect us all in many ways every day. The industries he started employ hundreds of thousands of people.

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Starting in the 10th century BCE, Greek art began to stand out for its variety of regional styles found mainly in ceramic works of the Protogeometric and Geometric Periods, which were given these names do to the use of decorative patterns based on a combination of lines and circles. These characteristics were orientalized following the acquisition of motifs from eastern civilizations during the 8th and 7th centuries BCE; leading to the Archaic Period, with its focus on the human body, especially in sculpture. The Classical Age, with its emphasis on beauty and harmony followed, and eventually gave way to Hellenism upon the death of Alexander the Great. Rome had a farming and pastoral origin until it came into contact with Greece in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. An elegant style developed during the reign of Augustus, especially in architectural decorations, sculpture, portraiture, and craftwork. Eclectic influences were incorporated into the mosaics, paintings and public buildings built during the Imperial Age.

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"Designed to be unsinkable" according to Shipbuilder magazine, the Titanic pushed back boundaries of technological achievement in the golden age of ocean- going travel.This narrative history-drawn from the largest photo archive in the world-tells and shows in many never before seen photographs, the story of her tragic maiden voyage in which more than 1,500 souls were lost in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Yet another in our illustrious series of Illustrated Biographies, here are hundreds of classic, rare and previously unseen photos of Springsteen narrated by a talented editor - and bookseller.

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Author Elizabeth Sharland visits the homes of authors, actors and composers, and muses on settings in which their creative work was done. She visits: George Sand's home in Nohant, Maugham, Ivor Novello (London), Puccini in Lake Lago, Coward in Jamaica, G.B. Shaw in Ayot St. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield in Menton, Paul Bowles in Morocco and Lady Gregory in County Galway.

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Named Sportsman of the Century" in 1999 by Sports Illustrated, Muhammad Ali first came into the public eye when, as Cassius Clay, he won a Gold Medal at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960. In 1964 he stunned the boxing community with his defeat of Sonny Liston to take the heavyweight title for the first time. Shortly after, he converted to Islam and in 1966 refused to be drafted as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. He was found guilty of draft evasion, stripped of his title, sentenced to five years in prison, and banned from boxing. He returned to the ring four years later, when the Supreme Court overturned his conviction. He would go on to regain his title in 1974, rope-a-dope George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle and fight three memorable bouts against Joe Frazier culminating in the Thrilla in Manila. Diagnosed with Parkinson's syndrome in 1984, Ali was awarded the Presidential Metal of Freedom in 2005. Utilizing classic, rare and previously unseen photographs (including one of Ali on a British chat show hosted by Eamonn Andrews, with Lucille Ball, Noel Coward and Dudley Moore), Christine Kidney charts the life of this fascinating and complex man (for many years the most famous man in the world) in and out of the ring.

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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 calligraphy, with its numerous graphic variations, all of which have great visual impact. The ceramics with their extraordinary shapes and amazing range of colors, the metalwork's damascening of precious materials and subtle details, the refined textiles that nearly constitute a separate art, and the carpets that illustrate a rich diversity in design form the portrait of an artistic culture at the highest level.

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Tianyi is a painter and writer whose life coincides with perhaps the most turbulent era in China's vast history. Raised in a world whose ageless traditions were on an irreversible collision course with modernity and the West, Tianyi heads to Paris on a scholarship at the age of 23. Upon his return after nine years, he finds the China he had cherished in his memory is almost unrecognisable. Arrested as a Western 'sympathiser', Tianyi becomes an exile in his own country.

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The small Italian town of Cortenza is home to Beppe Arpino, a boy blessed with poor posture and chronic insomnia. Under the paternal eye of Father Vicenzo, the local priest, Beppe develops a passion for teeth and, after the priest's death, heads to Naples to pursue a career in dentistry. There he finds a mentor in the eccentric Dr. Puzo and love in Angelina. But a trip to Rome to fulfil Dr. Puzo's dying wish threatens to cost him Angelina.

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Faces Along the Bar is a masterful tale of a community swept up in the volatile racial and social tensions of the period, and a profound questioning of the reality and validity of the American dream.

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Tianyi is a painter and writer whose life coincides with perhaps the most turbulent era in China's vast history. Raised in a world whose ageless traditions were on an irreversible collision course with modernity and the West, Tianyi heads to Paris on a scholarship at the age of 23. Upon his return after nine years, he finds the China he had cherished in his memory is almost unrecognisable. Arrested as a Western 'sympathiser', Tianyi becomes an exile in his own country.

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'Chancey' Haste seems to have it all. He is a man caught up in the pursuit of success, sex, and love, but in his quest to have everything his greatest discovery may be what he finds within himself. Originating in Australia, then moving to New York and London, Chancey On Top is a witty and irreverent picaresque novel that exposes with wicked insight and aplomb the similar hypocrisies that underlie romantic love and modern business.

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Sir Elton is shown here in hundreds of photos that have never before been seen, drawn from the massive archive of The Daily Mirror.

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Another collection of essays by a master of the art. These deal primarily with the silliness of conventional wisdom.

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Given the remorseless pace of change from 1870 onwards, and the catastrophic damage inflicted during the Second World War, one might be forgiven for thinking that much of London's architectural heritage had been obliterated, and that what survived was given the coup de grace by insensitive post-war planning and architecture. But this is not the case. A wealth of treasures that the public know little about can still be found hidden behind London's inscrutable facades. In contrast to the perceived lack of concern at the loss of so much of London's heritage in the first part of the 20th century, today there is unprecedented public interest in its history and buildings and, not least, what lies behind closed doors inside the offices, institutions, clubs and private houses that so many pass every day; from the discreet grandeur of Whitehall and clubland to the fascinating subterranean spaces that lie beneath the capital. The hugely popular annual Open House London event has created access to over 750 buildings and places normally closed to the public and now attracts more than a quarter of a million visitors. London: Hidden Interiors has 180 examples which have been selected from a complete range of building types to convey the richness and diversity of London's architectural heritage, and the secrets that lie within. Each has had to earn its place, and most deserve much greater coverage than can be accorded here. The selection is an entirely personal one. It concentrates generally on the buildings and interiors that are less well known and to which the public are not normally allowed access - the hidden and the unusual, the quirky and the eccentric, although there is space too for some of the better known. A number celebrate unsung conservation successes of recent years, which deserve greater recognition.

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Deftly blending period detail and modern sensibility, Max Phillips presents here a bold, unapologetic Alma Shindler, who narrates her own provocative story from beyond the grave.

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AN ENGLISHWOMAN'S LOVE LETTERS was published anonymously in England and in the United States in 1900. This collection of amorous correspondence from a young Englishwoman to her lover caused a sensation, provoking critics, journalists and writers to attribute the letters to more than forty different people - including Queen Victoria. It went on to become the best-selling book of the year in both countries.

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Nature and the countryside have inspired generations of poets to produce some of their finest literary works. This anthology gathers more than 200 of the best-loved poems with timeless, vintage photographs of beautiful landscapes and natural scenes specifically chosen to compliment the works.

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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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The complete history of the photogenic Beatles is here told and illustrated with contemporaneous newspaper and magazine articles, memorabilia (from the collection of Peter Nash), and 750 classic, rare and unseen photographs drawn from the Associated Newspaper Archive.

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No civilization has left such imposing and fascinating vestiges as that of Egypt, and yet so little trace of the "human." In ancient Egypt art was not an expression of the human world but a living and active representation of the act of creation. The extreme and forceful nature of the Nile Valley-where the fertile plain runs without a break into the desert, and the annual flooding erases the landscape in a relentless cycle as it brings new life-has shaped Egyptian art. It is in the first place a direct emanation of the divine, and as such proposes the order established by the gods with mathematical rigor and in strictly codified canons. Religion was everything and everything was religion in ancient Egypt. Art had no aesthetic value in this world. Art was a symbol of nature; it has to capture its essence rather than imitate it, and left no freedom or independence of expression to the individual. The works that adorn temples, palaces, and tombs always have a magical function: They are intended to protect. Thus they are not an imitation of nature. On the contrary, they are alive and potent. The magical and religious conception that inspired these artist-creators can still be perceived today, even when their works have been transported to lands faraway from the blazing sun of the African desert. Even inside the showcases of museums they still speak of a natural world inhabited by human beings, but one that has been created by a divinity that pervades it through and through-a world where humanity and its art represent the pinnacle of divine creation.

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This is a concise edition of The Visual Encyclopedia of Art: African Art, also published by Welcome Rain (978-1-56649-978-1). Please see that title for a complete description. We are pleased to offer more than twenty titles in this series.

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The 100th anniversary of the outbreak of "the war to end all wars" has already generated substantial historical analysis and media attention. The anniversary of the US entry into the war will spark another round of interest, and this book is both an excellent pictorial introduction and short history of the conflict.

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This is a heartbreaking story of a young Irish man and his family torn apart by life's misfortunes. Set in a working-class suburb of Dublin during the 1940s, it tells the story of the Kelly family and of young Jackie's journey toward actual, physical exile. THE STORM is a novel of pride and estrangement, of fathers and sons, and of passions so strong that they wear out the bodies they inhabit.

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