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Glaciers (Tin House New Voice) by Alexis Smith Publisher Comments Isabel is a single, twenty-something thrift-store shopper and collector of remnants, things cast off or left behind by others. Glaciers follows Isabel through a day in her life in which work with damaged books in the basement of a library, unrequited... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $7.67 Sale - Trade Paper
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Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron Publisher Comments Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.47 Sale - Hardcover
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The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Publisher Comments In The Flame Alphabet, the most maniacally gifted writer of our generation delivers a work of heartbreak and horror, a novel about how far we will go, and the sorrows we will endure, in order to protect our families. A terrible epidemic has struck... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $18.17 Sale - Hardcover
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Defining Moments in Art: Over a Century of the Artists, Exhibitions, People, Art Works and Events That Rocked the World by Mike Evans Publisher Comments From the breathtakingly beautiful to the just plain weird, the modern art world excites, challenges, sparks debate, and also offends. This is the definitive accompaniment to the events, movements, personalities, and works that have had the greatest... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Egyptian Papers: 24 Perforated Papers (Crafter's Paper Library) by Search Press Publisher Comments The wonderful selection of Egyptian papers compiled here can be used by all crafters to embellish and enhance cards, scrapbook pages, collages, and a whole host of craft and collage projects. Containing two dozen perforated, themed papers offering a wide... (read more) List Price $11.75 Your price: $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Neo Shunga: An Introduction to Japanese Pop Erotica by Cocoro Books Publisher Comments Japan's shunga woodblock prints were originally created to advertise the facilities of the Edo-era pleasure quarters, including tea houses, restaurants and theaters, as well as the brothels. But this new art form quickly took on a life of its own... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Advertising Now! TV Commercials by Julius Wiedemann Publisher Comments As seen on TV! From Apple and Audi to public awareness, the very best of today's television ads Though most of us change the channel or make a trip to the bathroom during commercial breaks, there are actually ads out there that are more like thought... (read more) List Price $39.99 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Flexible
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The Street Art Stencil Book by Onstudio Synopsis Containing 20 laser cut stencils from the world's leading street artists, this book is a must for artists, illustrators, and anyone who loves street art. The stencils are printed on perforated card stock so that they can be removed and used. Each artist... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Creative Type: A Sourcebook of Classic and Contemporary Letterforms by Cees W De Jong Publisher Comments The digital era has entirely transformed the world of typography. This elegant and easy-to-use book provides a comprehensively illustrated record of developments in the field, clearly setting them in their historical context and forming an essential... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows W/Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect by Martin Hentschel Publisher Comments Commissioned to produce an installation for Mies van der Rohe's Museum Haus Lange, John Baldessari decided to rub the building up the wrong way with humorous interventions.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Big Book of Boxes by Thais Caballero Publisher Comments comprehensive encyclopedia of package designs, from the simplest, most minimalist envelopes to elaborate asymmetrical display structures for encasing anything from perfume to fancy chocolates. But this book is far from being just a technical reference... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $12.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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London Recordings by David Sylvester Publisher Comments Eminent art critic, David Sylvester, put together this dazzling collection of his key interviews with prominent members of the arts world shortly before his death in 2001. It is a deeply enjoyable, rewarding and thought provoking collection. From the... (read more) Your price: $4.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Design Essential Index (Index) by Jim Krause Synopsis Combining three invaluable, practical design books for idea-hungry designers, the Design Essentials Index offers designers solutions for everything from design basics to new systems for combining colors to an in depth examination of creative an practical... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $25.98 Sale - Flexible
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Erotic Fantasy (Temporis) by Hans Jugrgen Dopp Synopsis The many and varied points of view encountered in this work demonstrate the multifarious aspects of sexuality. It reveals that nothing is more natural than sexual desire; and paradoxically, nothing is less natural than the forms in which this desire... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Joseph Beuys: Leve Sieht Beuys: Block Beuys: Photographs by Leve Manfred Synopsis Joseph Beuys created his Block Beuys installation in the 1960s out of greatly varied materials and salvaged items that were selected, manipulated, altered and brought together in unusual ways. The objects correspond to one another and, in their... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $28.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Chagall: A Biography by Jackie Wullschlager Publisher Comments “When Matisse dies,” Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, “Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is.” As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century,... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Marbeled Paper Design (Agile Rabbit Editions) by Pepin Publisher Comments Die Papierherstellung wurde in China vor vermutlich 2.000 Jahren erfunden. Auch die ersten Papier-Dekorationstechniken wurden in China sowie in Japan entwickelt. Bereits im 12. Jahrhundert n. Chr. war die Marmoriertechnik in beiden Ländern bekannt... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.24 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Zen Art Book: The Art of Enlightenment by John Daido Loori Publisher Comments When a Zen master puts brush to paper, the resulting image is an expression of the quality of his or her mind. It is thus a teaching, intended to compassionately stop us in our tracks and to compel us to consider ultimate truth. Here, forty... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $10.94 Sale - Trade Paper
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From Monet to Cezanne: Late 19th-Century French Artists by Jane Turner Book News Annotation Some 300 in-depth biographies explore the life and work of painters who brought about the artistic revolutions of realism, impressionism, and post-impressionism in late 19th-century France. Each entry includes a bibliography. Arrangement of entries is... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $2.75 Sale - Trade Paper
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Bodoni: Manuale Tipografico by Giambattista Bodoni Publisher Comments The origin of the ubiquitous typeface Celebrated printer and type designer Giambattista Bodoni set the standard for printing the alphabet with his Manuale Tipografico (1818). The two-volume set—published posthumously in a limited edition of 250... (read more) List Price $69.99 Your price: $49.98 Sale - Hardcover
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