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Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-Ups
by Gil Elvgren

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Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a... (read more)
 
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Art

1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939
by Uwe Scheid and Hans-Michael Koetzle

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This book offers a cross-section of the history of nude photography, ranging from the earliest nude daguerrotypes and ethnographic nude photographs to experimental nude photography. All the pictures shown are taken from the late Uwe Scheid’s collection,... (read more)
 
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Science Fiction and Fantasy

WWW HR Giger Com (25 Spring)
by H R Giger

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HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and particularly in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien. In 1980, he received an Oscar for "Best... (read more)
 
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Native North American

The North American Indian
by Edward Curtis

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At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868?1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious... (read more)
 
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Architecture

Art Nouveau: Utopia: Reconciling the Irreconcilable
by Klaus Jurge Sembach

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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition Big-sized, new designed edition at special bestseller price Art Nouveau, whose emergence at the same time as cinema was no mere coincidence, represents the most remarkable attempt to reconcile the demands of... (read more)
 
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Home Construction

Small Eco-Houses
by Kleine Ökohäuser

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The emergence of a greater awareness of the environment, the application of more and new technical knowledge and the use of traditional construction methods, such as orientation towards the sun, are motivating a growing number of owners to have... (read more)
 
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Gardening

The Book of Plants: The Complete Plates
by Basilius Besler

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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition New design, new low price The most famous botanical record ever committed to paper: Basilius Besler's complete Book of Plants of 1613 A magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest... (read more)
 
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Internet

Web Design: Studios 2 (Icon)
by Julius Wiedemann

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The follow-up to our popular title Web Design: Best Studios, this new installments brings you more examples of the web's most outstanding design work. Working online means working from every place you can imagine. The coolest design studios from over 28... (read more)
 
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Photography

Leroy Grannis: Surf Photography of the 1960s and 1970s
by Jim Heimann

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At a time when surfing is more popular than ever, it's fitting to look back at the years that brought the sport into the mainstream. Developed by Hawaiian islanders over five centuries ago, surfing began to peak on the mainland in the 1950s, taking... (read more)
 
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Tuesday May 13, 2008

  1. Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-Ups by Charles G. Martignette
  2. Alchemy & Mysticism (25th) by Alexander Roob
  3. Fantasy Worlds by John Maizels
  4. 1000 Clowns by Thomas H Steele
  5. 1000 Nudes: A History of Erotic Photography from 1839-1939 by Uwe Scheid and Hans-Michael Koetzle
  6. Brassai, Paris by Jean-claude Gautrand
  7. Hopper by Ivo Kranzfelder
  8. Pierre Koenig: 1925-2005: Living with Steel by Neil Jackson
  9. The North American Indian by Edward Curtis
  10. WWW HR Giger Com (25 Spring) by H R Giger

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Hopper Hopper
by Ivo Kranzfelder

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Edward Hopper (1882?1967) is considered the first significant American painter in 20th-century art. Living in a secluded country house with his wife, Josephine, he depicted the loneliness of big-city people in canvas after canvas. Probably the most... (read more)
 
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Francis Bacon: 1909-1992 Francis Bacon: 1909-1992
by Luigi Ficacci

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Materials Science

The Woodbook: The Complete Plates
by Romeyn Beck Hough

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TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition Revised edition at a new low price Culled and assembled by Romeyn Beck Hough between 1888 and 1913 in what still remains a stunning and unparalleled achievement, American Woods ?originally published in 14... (read more)
 
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Rare Book Room

Domus 1928-1999: 12 Volumes
by Charlotte Fiell

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For over seventy-five years, domus has been hailed as the world's most influential architecture and design journal. Founded in 1928 by the great Milanese architect Gio Ponti, the magazine's central agenda has always remained that of creating a privileged... (read more)
 
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Film and Television

Filmposters Science Fiction
by Tony Nourmand

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With its unique ability to bring our wildest fantasies to life, the cinema has done more than any other medium to popularize the science fiction genre throughout the world. This book features images, representing the creme de la creme of science fiction... (read more)
 
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Astronomy

Cellarius Atlas
by Andreas Cellarius

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Stargazing: History's most beautiful constellation maps in XXL-format! This collection of celestial atlases by Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (c. 1596 ? 1665) brings back to life a masterpiece from the Golden Age of... (read more)
 
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Interior Design

Havana Style (Icons)
by Christiane Reiter

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Music

1000 Record Covers (Taschen 25)
by Michael Ochs

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A fascinating survey of cover art (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) Record covers are a sign of our life and times. Like the music on the discs, they address such issues as love, life, death, fashion, and rebellion. For music fans the covers... (read more)
 
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