The Library

Introduction by Malachy McCourt

“A gargantuan omnibus of song, a one-volume reference library. The like of it, for scholarship and inclusiveness, we shall not see again.” – The Philadelphia Inquirer

Styles examined include Neoclassicism, Empire, Sturm und Drang, Romanticism, the Nazarenes, Biedermeier, the Pre-Raphaelites, Primitivism, the Gothic Revival, and Realism. Artists include William Blake, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Jacques-Louis David, Delacroix, Goya, Ingres, and Turner.

Photographs by Sam Lindberg

A luminous series of brief, paired biographies/autobiographies of fathers and children from every walk of life, accompanied by an archival photograph of the father and contemporary portraits of each son or daughter by famed photographer, Sam Lindberg. Using “forced field writing,” adapted from the work of psychologist Kurt Lewin, Jess Maghan has drawn eloquence from these non-professional writers that astounded even themselves. He wants the reader “to tap into the familiar yearning all sons and daughters have to connect with the man anchored to the very center of their being. The man we call father.”

The art of sub-Saharan African has a long history, although it is difficult to reconstruct precisely because many works, being made from wood and earth, have disappeared without trace, and archaeological excavations, which could enrich our knowledge of the region, are still rare.
Nonetheless, what has been preserved largely works from the past 150 years, although there are some which date back even thousands of years—is already substantial…

Here are four popular board games which were played in the days of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and in nearby countries from about 5,000 years ago. Everything you need is here “€œ the playing boards in sumptuous colors, playing pieces and full instructions.

SENET, Game of Thirty Squares
MEHEN, The Snake Game
HOUNDS AND JACKALS
THE ROYAL GAME OF UR

A Baltimore Sun Best Book of the Year

“Rossi’s extraordinary grace and force took my breath away… it sings with lovely ironies without ever being trivially comic. It is bubblingly delightful and yet somehow deeply tragic.” – Michael Packenham, Baltimore Sun

This book presents a comprehensive outline of Sub-Saharan African art dating through the last 150 years, and connects a multitude of styles to specific ethnic groups and to spatial-temporal macro-areas that date back thousands of years.
To fully understand the meaning of each Sub-Saharan artifact, we must try to imagine it back in the hands of the person who made it, and contextualize it through the humus of the beliefs and superstitions that played a part in its creation. A recurring theme…

Inspired by the life of Artemesia Gentileschi, painter of Judith Decapitating Olophern, Artemesia is the basis of the film Artemesia (Mirimax/Zoe)by Agnes Merlet, which received a Golden Globe nomination as Best Foreign Film.

Translated by Jon Graham

Winner of the 1991 Grand Priz De L’Academie Francaise
A Los Angeles Times Book of the Year

“This biography represents the fruit of a hundred years of Rimbaldian studies. A highly attentive and just biography.” – Magazine Litteraire

A New York Times Notable Book

“Alma Mahler, the belle of Vienna’s Belle Epoque, pulled off an unusual grand slam, cuckolding the composer Gustav Mahler, the architect Walter Gropius, the painter Oskar Kokoschka, and the novelist Franz Werfel…This fictional memoir, narrated with sardonic omniscience after death, captures Alma’s wit and scheming with a blend of historical detail and sensuality.” – The New Yorker

Translated by Jody Gladding

“Rarely do writers know how, in following patiently the detours and meanderings of a sentence, to say everything there is to say about a sentiment, a setting, or an event. They are, perhaps, the little nephews of Proust. Pierre Moinot is one of them… One cannot resist reciting out loud these supple, undulating phrases… Truly remarkable.” – MAGAZINE LITTà€°RAIRE

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was the most notorious and outstanding artist of the fin de siecle. His disturbing erotic drawings shocked the sensibilities of the Victorians. Jacques-Emile Blanche’s portrait of Beardsley, his face “like a silver hatchet,” is the enduring image of this man, friend and collaborator of Oscar Wilde, who died at age 25.

The definition of the Baroque age, meaning the set of complex cultural and artistic expressions that developed in Europe during the 17th century, is still subject to debate among critics and historians. In one of its most commonly accepted meanings, Baroque describes some aspects of 17th-century art, with sumptuous Roma at the center, that upset the proportions and static harmony of the Renaissance—already undermined by Mannerism during the previous century—through the use of curves…

Rowan Atkinson first came to prominence in the classic comedy series Not the Nine O’clock News in the late 1970s. His music hall mannerisms and natural acting ability gave him huge success in his next outing as the dastardly Blackadder, one of the most popular comedy series ever produced. In the 1980s he created, with Richard Curtis “€œ who went on to write Four Weddings and a Funeral “€œ Mr. Bean. Mr Bean is now a major international success, shown all over the world.

“Beneath Buddha’s Eyes is a moving and exciting tale of life and survival, and a human portrait that goes far beneath the politics and pretensions of the tragic conflict in Vietnam. A beautiful gift to the reader by a writer who has the eyes of a painter.” – Tracy Sugarman, author of My War: A Love Story in Letters and Drawings from World War II

“THE authoritative, comprehensive biography of the woman whose pin-up provided the inspiration for American soldiers to win World War II.” – Booklist

“This book is a must for Grable fans and all those who love the exciting cinema era of the forties and fifties. It is so refreshing to read a movie biography devoid of trashy gossip and petty commentary.” – William Hare

In his magisterial Fine Bird Books, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell says of Audubon: “There is nothing in the world of fine books quite like the first discovery of Audubon. The giant energy of the man, his power of achievement and accomplishment, give to him something of the epical force of a Walt Whitman or a Herman Melville – Audubon is the greatest of bird painters; he belongs to American history.”

“This is much more than a survey of styles and personalities. A study of the music of an oppressed and segregated people must necessarily be a study of that experience. James Haskins vividly conveys the inseparable bond between black life in a predominantly white society and the music that results.” – Publishers Weekly

Never in the history of war to this point had a civilian population been subject to such unrelieved terror, though Britain and her Allies would give as good as they got – and more: Germany paid a terrible price for its aggression.

Born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Minnesota, Bob Dylan is a singer, songwriter, author, and poet who has been a major figure in popular music for five decades.

In 2008, he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize special citation for his “profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.

“My greatest claim to fame is that I discovered Bricktop before Cole Porter.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald

“This books sounds just like the Bricktop I knew–charming, tough, independent…Bricktop’s book is a key to a very special time in history. Her book unlocks the door to memories and secrets she has kept hidden in her heart for many years. Bricktop has lived a hundred lives rolled into one. She saw things and did things most people only dream about.” – Diana Ross

More than 800 painstakingly restored photographs from the archives of The Daily Mail, giving a fascinating insight into a time when Britain faced the biggest threat in its history and stood alone against implacable enemies.

“Mi casa es su casa” might be a fantasy for many readers of this oversize photographic collection of 55 sumptuous homes throughout the world, all taken by internationally acclaimed photographer, Massimo Listri.

The virtual tour spans every continent and most imaginable forms of housing, from Native American wigwams, to Baroque and French Empire chateaux, to ultra-modern high rise apartments, to rustic stone, wood, and adobe houses, all elegant in their own ways, and all depicted in multiple pages of details.

In this exciting and lavishly illustrated new guide, Damien Noonan explores the many and varied historic sites to be found the Emerald Isle. A chapter is devoted to each of the seven tourist regions of the Irish Republic: Southeast, Northeast, Shannon, West, Northwest, Midalds, East and Dublin; with another chapter focusing on Northern Ireland. 150 main sites are described in detail, with another 150 sites receiving brief mentions. They range from the chambered tombs of Newgrange and Carrokeel and the monastic sites of Clonmacnois and Glendalough, to the great abbeys of Moyne and Athassel to the Clara Castle and the great Norma stronghold at Trim.