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Accessorize!

250 Objects of Fashion & Desire

Bianca du Mortier and Ninke Bloemberg

From purses to parasols, spectacles to slippers, wigs to walking sticks, the Rijksmuseum has a superb collection of fashion accessories that also includes a rich array of more familiar items: hats, gloves, and shoes for both...

October 16, 2012, Paper, $30.00

Building Seagram

Phyllis Lambert; With a foreword by Barry Bergdoll

A personal, authoritative history of one of the 20th century’s most influential buildings The Seagram building rises over New York’s Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of...

April 16, 2013, Cloth, $65.00

Plumes

Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

Sarah Abrevaya Stein

An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of...

September 28, 2010, Paper, $22.00

The Making of Americans

Democracy and Our Schools

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children"Ought to be read by anyone interested in the education and training...

August 31, 2010, Paper, $17.00

The Virgin Warrior

The Life and Death of Joan of Arc

Larissa Juliet Taylor

France’s great heroine and England’s great scourge: whether a lunatic, a witch, a religious icon, or a skilled soldier and leader, Joan of Arc’s contemporaries found her as extraordinary and fascinating as the legends that...

October 12, 2010, Paper, $20.00

Art of Empire

The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple

Edited by Michael Jones and Susanna McFadden

The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site’s...

October 27, 2015, Hardcover, $60.00

An Ethical Compass

Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Preface by Elie Wiesel; Foreword by Thomas Friedman

In 1986, Elie Wiesel received the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his victory over “the powers of death and degradation, and to support the struggle of good against evil in the world.” Soon after, he and his wife, Marion,...

November 9, 2010, PB-with Flaps, $20.00

A Field Guide to the Ants of New England

Aaron M. Ellison, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Elizabeth J. Farnsworth, and Gary D. Alpert

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants—the “little things that run the world.” Lavishly illustrated with more than 500 line drawings, 300-plus photographs, and regional distribution maps as...

November 13, 2012, PB-Flexibound, $40.00

The 1912 Yale Peruvian Scientific Expedition Collections from Machu Picchu

Metal Artifacts; Vol. #91

Edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar

This second book in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology series dedicated to the Machu Picchu collections recovered early in the twentieth century from Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham and the Yale Peruvian...

January 4, 2011, Paper, $69.95

The Italian Paintings Before 1400

Dillian Gordon

The National Gallery in London houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. This completely updated catalogue of...

July 26, 2011, Cloth, $125.00

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