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by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2009
You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously...
Almost Anywhere
Road Trip Ruminations on Love, Nature, National Parks, and Nonsense
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
What do you do when your world ends?
At twenty-eight years old, Krista Schlyer sold almost everything she owned and packed the rest of it in a station wagon bound for the American wild. Her two best friends joined her-one a grumpy, grieving introvert, the other a feisty dog-and together they sought...
by Diane von Furstenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: “It’s so good, you’ll want to take notes” (People).
Diane von Furstenberg...
Fallingwater Rising
Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a Pennsylvania waterfall in 1937, but the full story has never been told.
When he got the commission...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish...
Front Row
Anna Wintour: The Cool Life and Hot Times of Vogue's Editor in Chief
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
From the New York Times bestselling author of Just Desserts: Martha Stewart: The Unauthorized Biography comes a scrupulously researched investigative biography that tells the inside story of Anna Wintour's incredible rise to power
From her exclusive perch front row center, glamorous Vogue magazine...
by Joseph Scolden
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Learn the Essentials That Will Get You Started Using Photoshop Is Photoshop confusing you? Are you interested in learning Photoshop but you don’t know where to start? Do you need a guide that will simplify Photoshop and teach you how to use it? If you answered “YES!” to any of these...
Lost in Translation
A Life in a New Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012
Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman (107,000 words)
The late poet and memoirist Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "I am enchanted. This book is graceful and profound."
Since its publication in 1989, many other readers across the world have been enchanted by Lost in Translation:...
by Hourly History
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Creativity is in our bones. It is found in our very DNA, something not known to Leonardo da Vinci or anyone else who lived in his day and time. All he did was to uncover the hidden genius which lay within himself, and he used that inner genius to the very best of his abilities.
Leonardo da Vinci...
Ghadf قذف
یادداشتهای بتول مرادی
Language: Persian
Release Date: June 11, 2017
خاطرات زنی از افغانستان از روند پیگیری دعواهای حقوقی اش پس از طلاق
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Excerpt From: Batul Moradi. “Ghadf.” iBooks.
Mademoiselle
Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth...
Grace
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Beautiful. Willful. Charming. Blunt. Grace Coddington’s extraordinary talent and fierce dedication to her work as creative director of Vogue have made her an international icon. Known through much of her career only to those behind the scenes, she might have remained fashion’s best-kept secret...
The Yellow House
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 B&W reproductions of the artists' paintings and drawings from the period.
by Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the bestselling classic is introduced to a new generation-with an added preface by Warhol's diarist and long-time friend, Pat Hackett, contemplating Warhol's lasting cultural impact.
This international literary sensation turns the spotlight on one of...