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Product Description: This volume offers `a complete account of the meaning, form and purpose of Cycladic Art' - using masterpieces from the Goulandris collection newly and spectacularly photographed as illustrations. Renfrew introduces the familiar folded-arm figures, explaining their classification and possible use; he considers the art-historical issues which they raise: whether certain figures can be attributed to individual craftsmen; how they were originally painted; proportion schemes that might have been used in their creation; and their formal representation of the human body...read more
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9780810931695 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1991, cover price $49.50 | About this edition: This volume offers `a complete account of the meaning, form and purpose of Cycladic Art' - using masterpieces from the Goulandris collection newly and spectacularly photographed as illustrations.
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9781558595569 | Abbeville Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History, this illustrated history of the Inkas and their predecessors offers a fresh appraisal of a remarkable civilization.
Product Description: The portrait medal was one of the key sculptural forms of the Renaissance, a manifesto for the humanist cult of personal fame and a vehicle for some of the finest artists of the age. Yet this most subtle and delicate variety of relief sculpture has chiefly been the province of collectors and connoisseurs, viewed as an intriguing branch of numismatics, rather than an art form in its own right...read more
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9780810931916 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1994, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The portrait medal was one of the key sculptural forms of the Renaissance, a manifesto for the humanist cult of personal fame and a vehicle for some of the finest artists of the age.
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9780810944534 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $75.00
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9780810935716 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1995, cover price $45.00
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9780810944541 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Michael W. Monroe, Curator-in-Charge of the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, selected this collection of fine contemporary crafts specifically for the interiors of the White House, to be viewed and admired alongside the works of the past...read more
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9780810940352 | Harry N Abrams Inc, April 1, 1995, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Michael W.
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9780810926288 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1995, cover price $19.95
An introduction to the Buddhist way of life explains the Kalachakra ceremony and initiation, the meaning of the sand mandala and its symbols, and other cultural information.
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9780525450634 | Dutton Childrens Books, October 1, 1995, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Introduces Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, the Kalachakra ceremony, and the sand mandala
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9780810963115 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 30, 1996, cover price $75.00
Explores the life and career of the jeweler known for the imaginative costume jewelry he created for first ladies and Hollywood stars
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9780810935792 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Explores the life and career of the jeweler known for the imaginative costume jewelry he created for first ladies and Hollywood stars
Product Description: Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers is an adventure into today's business world of the new millennium and it's associated mathematical procedures. The book is designed to provide solid mathematical preparation and foundation for students going on to courses and careers in accounting, marketing, retailing, banking, office administration, finance, insurance, real estate, and business administration...read more
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9780030260742, titled "Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers: Brief" | Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $56.00 | also contains Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers: Brief | About this edition: Contemporary Mathematics for Business and Consumers is an adventure into today's business world of the new millennium and it's associated mathematical procedures.
9780810926660 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Showcases art made from found objects while exploring Americans' concepts of thrift and wastefulness and the materialistic orientations of Western society
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9780810944732 | Harry N Abrams Inc, October 1, 1996, cover price $39.95
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9780030282324, titled "Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication/Instructors Manual and Test Bank" | 4th edition (Harcourt School, March 1, 1989), cover price $22.75 | also contains Interplay: The Process of Interpersonal Communication/Instructors Manual and Test Bank
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9780810942868 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1997, cover price $16.95
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9780810939394 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
In a terrifying near future in which the wasteland Earth can no longer support all its human population, a seventeen-year-old is endangered by a new edict calling for the relocation of one child from every two-progeny household.
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9780810940185 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1998, cover price $65.00
9780060203641, titled "Smart Rats: A Novel" | Harpercollins Childrens Books, October 1, 1990, cover price $14.95 | also contains Smart Rats: A Novel | About this edition: In a terrifying near future in which the wasteland Earth can no longer support all its human population, a seventeen-year-old is endangered by a new edict calling for the relocation of one child from every two-progeny household.
Product Description: FAn exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 195 pages; Physical desc. : 195 p. : ill. (some col. ) , col. Map ; 31 cm...read more
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9780810963863 | Ill edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 1999), cover price $49.50 | About this edition: FAn exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw.
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9780815681274 | Munson Williams Proctor Inst, July 1, 1999, cover price $50.00
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9780811823074 | Chronicle Books Llc, July 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Shows examples of sketches and pages from the artist's journal in which she documented her existence with objects that she found
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9780810943926 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2000, cover price $49.50
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9780810982048 | Expanded edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 2000), cover price $34.98
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9780810929937 | Harry N Abrams Inc, March 1, 2001, cover price $34.95
More than 125 years ago, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild transformed a barren hill in the countryside outside London into the setting for an astonishing French Renaissance–style chateau that remains one of the most extraordinary houses in all of England. Bequeathed to Britain's National Trust in 1957, Waddesdon Manor and its spectacular gardens are now open to the public, welcoming more and more visitors every year. Illustrated with specially commissioned photographs and unpublished historical material, this book provides a fascinating portrait of the Manor and its inhabitants. Perusing it, readers can marvel at the architecture and interior decor, wander through the romantic gardens, enjoy the renowned collections of superb English portraits, Dutch Old Masters, and exquisite furniture and textiles—and bask in le style Rothschild.
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9780810932395 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $65.00
9780810905078 | Harry N Abrams Inc, May 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: More than 125 years ago, Baron Ferdinand Rothschild transformed a barren hill in the countryside outside London into the setting for an astonishing French Renaissance–style chateau that remains one of the most extraordinary houses in all of England.
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9780743236645 | Simon & Schuster, September 1, 2002, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Profiles the film star's collection of jewelry, providing descriptions of her most noteworthy pieces and describing their representation of particular relationships and events in her life.
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9780743254380 | Reprint edition (Simon & Schuster, December 1, 2003), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Profiles the film star's collection of jewelry, providing descriptions of her most noteworthy pieces and describing their representation of particular relationships and events in her life.
Product Description: Casa Asia, established in 2000 by the Spanish government to foster cultural and educational exchange between Asia and Spain, celebrates its inaugural exhibition entitled "Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas". The exhibition brings together over 60 of the world's finest examples of Indian and Himalayan art, drawn from 26 leading private and public collections in Europe and North America...read more
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9788874390229 | 5 Continents Editions, August 1, 2003, cover price $48.00 | About this edition: Casa Asia, established in 2000 by the Spanish government to foster cultural and educational exchange between Asia and Spain, celebrates its inaugural exhibition entitled "Divine Presence: Arts of India and the Himalayas".
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