John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist (Stuhlman Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist (Stuhlman Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

John Leslie Breck (1860-1899) was one of the founders of the American art colony at Giverny and was among the earliest American artists to embrace the Impressionist style. He was also one of the first to exhibit his Impressionist paintings in America and helped to popularize the style during his

Sargent: The Masterworks (Herdrich Stephanie L.)(Pevná vazba)

A lush new volume devoted to the best works by beloved American Impressionist and portraitist John Singer Sargent, whose dazzling use of light and color depicts modern subjects with arresting intimacy.An ideal introduction to the painter's work, Sargent: The Masterworks features 100 of his most

American Gothic - Six Decades of Classic Horror Cinema (Rigby Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

In the long-awaited American Gothic Jonathan Rigby tells the story of the Hollywood horror lm from its 19th century beginnings through to the arrival of Vincent Price as a horror star in films like House of Wax and The Fly. This 60-year period encompasses the shadowy nightmares of the silent era,

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Gullah Images: The Art of Jonathan Green (Green Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Paintings, magisterial and universal, that capture the essence of a vibrant African American communityIn his art Jonathan Green paints the world of his childhood and an ode to a people imbued with a profound respect for the dignity and value of others--the Gullah people of the South Carolina

Classic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s (Klinger Leslie S.)(Pevná vazba)

American crime writing was reborn in the 1920s. After years of dominance by British authors, new American writers--with fresh ideas about the detective and the mystery--appeared on the scene and rose to heights of popularity not witnessed since the success of the Sherlock Holmes tales in America

Godsend (Wray John)(Pevná vazba)

Inspired by the story of John Walker Lindh, the 'American Taliban,' Whiting Award-winning author John Wray explores the circumstances that could impel a young American to abandon identity and home to become an Islamist militant. Like many other eighteen-year-olds, Aden Sawyer is intently focused on

Flora of Cambridgeshire (Leslie Alan)(Pevná vazba)

Collected Stories: John Barth (Barth John)(Pevná vazba)

When John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse appeared in 1968, American fiction was turned on its head. Barth's writing was not a response to the realistic fiction that characterized American literature at the time; it beckoned back to the founders of the novel: Cervantes, Rabelais, and Sterne, echoing

Impressionist & Post-Impressionist Drawing (Lloyd Christopher)(Pevná vazba)

An authoritative analysis of the drawings (including watercolours and pastels) of twenty leading Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists in one magnificent volumeManet, Pissarro, Morisot, Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh and their colleagues made some of the most beautiful drawings in the

A Separate Peace (Knowles John)(Pevná vazba)

Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to World War II. Set at

Wildfire Through Staffordshire (Leslie Line Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Wilderness Essays (Muir John)(Pevná vazba)

Part of John Muir's appeal to modern readers is that he not only explored the American West and wrote about its beauties but also fought for their preservation. His successes dot the landscape and are evident in all the natural features that bear his name: forests, lakes, trails, and glaciers. Here

Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity (Smith Leslie Dorrough)(Pevná vazba)

Americans have long believed that the private lives of their politicians are important indicators of their fitness to lead and of their ability to defend and uphold American values. For many, a sex scandal renders a person ineligible, or at the very least questionably qualified, for public service

Boys Dance! (American Ballet Theatre) (Allman John Robert)(Pevná vazba)

A lively and encouraging picture book celebrating boys who love to dance, from the renowned American Ballet Theatre. Boys who love to dance are center stage in this encouraging, positive, rhyming picture book about guys who love to pirouette, jet , and pli . Created in partnership with the American

Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture (Hay John)(Pevná vazba)

The idea of America has always encouraged apocalyptic visions. The 'American Dream' has not only imagined the prospect of material prosperity; it has also imagined the end of the world. 'Final forecasts' constitute one of America's oldest literary genres, extending from the eschatological theology

A Year in Impressionism (Prestel Publishing)(Pevná vazba)

Featuring 365 great Impressionist paintings, this book offers a beautiful and inspiring way to celebrate art every day of the

Up & Down: The Adventures of John Jeffries, First American to Fly (Brown Don)(Pevná vazba)

The incomparable Don Brown chronicles the ballooning misadventures of John Jeffries, scientist and aviation pioneer. Swept up by the European ballooning craze of the 1780s, Dr. John Jeffries longed to become the first person to fly across the English Channel. But first he had to outwit a rascally

Children Under Fire: An American Crisis (Cox John Woodrow)(Pevná vazba)

Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * Winner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social JusticeBased on the acclaimed series--a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--an intimate account of the devastating effects of gun violence on our nation's children,

The Antitrust Paradigm: Restoring a Competitive Economy (Baker Jonathan B.)(Pevná vazba)

A new and urgently needed guide to making the American economy more competitive at a time when tech giants have amassed vast market power. The U.S. economy is growing less competitive. Large businesses increasingly profit by taking advantage of their customers and suppliers. These firms can also

Architecture - A Visual History (Glancey Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The Darkest Lullaby (Janz Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Sorolla: Painted Gardens (Pons-Sorolla Blanca)(Pevná vazba)

Valencian master Sorolla's Impressionist paintings depict the most beautiful gardens and architecture in Spain. Like Claude Monet's celebrated plein air landscapes at Giverny, the series collected in this book represents among the best-loved examples of Joaqu n Sorolla's (1863-1923) work, and a

Tim Pitsiulak: Drawings and Prints from Cape Dorset (Boyd Leslie)(Pevná vazba)