Product Description: Vogue: Like a Painting is a lavish celebration of the intersection between the worlds of fashion photography and European art historical tradition. Compiling 67 carefully selected images from the Vogue archive, the volume explores fashion photographs of the last eight decades that take their inspiration from classical painting--those images that have become only marginally related to selling clothes (or perhaps all the better at it for their painterly invocations)...read more

Product Description: In 1969, the artist Robert Smithson proposed a new interpretation of the work of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). In Smithson's view, Cézanne's painting had been distorted by the Cubists, reduced to an almost abstract play of forms. In contrast to this formalist simplification, Smithson underlined the need to recover the physical reference in Cézanne's work, his strong link to certain places in Provence...read more

Product Description: "Humble and colossal," as his friend Cézanne described him, Camille Pissarro is at once the most important and the least familiar of the leading Impressionist painters. As a mentor to that group, which he helped to convene, Pissarro was responsible for drafting the statutes of the artists’ cooperative that launched the famous Impressionist exhibitions, which were the first to take art outside the academic confines of Paris’ salon exhibitions; he was also the only painter to participate in all eight of those landmark shows, from 1874 to 1886, and was the first painter to develop and sustain the plein air practice for which the Impressionists are famed...read more

Product Description: El termino violencia, en su sentido mas elemental, refiere al dano ejercido sobre las personas por parte de otros seres humanos. Los experimentos totalitarios del siglo XX ampliaron este uso de la violencia a una escala y una intensidad ineditas en la historia de la humanidad, y es en este contexto donde cabe encuadrar esta obra perenne de Hannah Arendt...read more

Product Description: The Art of Cartier is published to coincide with the exhibition of more than 400 pieces from the historic collection of the legendary French jeweler Cartier at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. Cartier was founded in Paris in 1847 by Louis-François Cartier, although it was his three grandsons--Jacques, Louis and Pierre--who were responsible for launching the brand name worldwide...read more

Product Description: Book by Ter Haar, Jaap

A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Product Description: One of the key paradoxes concerning Paul Gauguin is the fact that he was both a profound individualist and at the same time the founder of an artistic school. For the young artists collectively known as the Nabis, Gauguin's personal version of Symbolism became the canonical route to modern art...read more

Product Description: First published in English a few seasons ago, The Book of Spells has become one of Barron's top-selling titles. Now in a Spanish translation, it presents 42 enticing, exotic, and sometimes erotic magic spells to help their users prosper at work, at play, or in love...read more

Allan Brewster's science teacher challenges him to discover a method for converting sunlight into food, but the hilarious result turns out to be a threat to national security.

Young Barney is bored and unhappy living in a new city apartment until a cat that resembles a white rabbit pays a visit.

The determination of two youngsters to win a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction.

Matt befriends an Indian boy who helps him survive in the wilderness

Product Description: Book by Exley, Helen

Product Description: This book could be given as a card. Like many of Helen Exley's book, this one is beautifully illustrated by Juliette Clarke.

Product Description: Book by Exley, Helen

Product Description: Book by Exley, Helen

Jessie, a thirteen-year-old boy, is kidnapped and pressed into service on a slave ship where he plays the fife in order to make the slaves dance.