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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
This book explores the collaborations, during the mid-20th century, between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Book-of-the-Month Club. Between 1948 and 1962 the two institutions collaborated on three book projects -- 'The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures' (1948-1957), 'The Metropolitan Seminars in Art' (1958-60), and a print reproduction of Rembrandt's 'Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer' (1962) -- bringing art from the Met's collections...
Author
Publisher
Astra House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In Slow Down, Kohei Saito delivers a bold and urgent call for a return to Marxism in order to stop climate change. Here he argues that by returning to a system of social ownership, we can restore abundance and focus on those activities that are essential for human life, effectively reversing climate change and saving the planet.
Author
Language
English
Description
Bob Comet is a retired librarian, isolated but not lonely, living out his quiet days in a mint-colored house in Oregon, surrounded by his books and small comforts. One morning, out on his daily walk, he performs an act of kindness that brings him into contact with a nearby senior center, where he soon begins volunteering. Here, as a community of peers and friends gathers around Bob, and following a happenstance brush with a painful complication from...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A professional captain of traditional sailing ships who has spent thirty years at sea offers a sailor's-eye-view of the moving parts of our atmosphere, unveiling the larger patterns it holds: global winds, storms, air masses, jet streams, and the longer arc of our climate.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Ending a two-hundred-year tsarist regime and bringing communism to the masses, Vladimir Lenin changed not only Russia, but the world as well. Learn about Lenin's life and the major events of the Russian Revolution and its consequences. You may never view this period of history the same way again.
Series
Publisher
Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In battle for the Bird, Bloomberg journalist Kurt Wagner takes the reader inside Twitter's everchanging headquarters, charting its rise from flippant 140-character posts to one of the world's most consequential tech companies. From Jack Dorsey's triumphant return as CEO in 2015 to the rise and fall of @realDonaldTrump to the contentious $44 billion sale to Elon Musk, Battle for the Bird exposes the messy reality and relentless challenges that come...
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