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This exquisite and wide-ranging collection of historic artworks celebrates the joy and despair, the giddiness and the passion, the ordinary and extraordinary experiences of romantic love.

Introduces the world of art, placing Western European art in a broad global context and discussing artistic treatment of such themes as other worlds, daily life, history and myth, and nature.

Bissinger, H.G. Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream (2003) (796.332 Bis) H. G. Bissinger's exquisitely written account brings into sharp focus the bitter struggle between sports and education in Odessa, Texas, as well as in high schools and colleges nationwide.

This unique volume, with over 250 photos and drawings, includes the complete Blackstone story, along with a vivid and varied appreciation of the history, science, and art of illusion, from the temples of ancient Egypt to the vaudeville stages of the 1920s to Broadway, Las Vegas, and television, including profiles of the greatest stage magicians, sleight-of-hand entertainers, and mentalists. The book discusses the why and how of magic (vanishing, transformation, escapes, mentalism, etc.), and the psychological principles behind effects such as sensory illusions and misdirection. In addition, the book contains 20 classic magic routines in detailed execution.

Nicknamed the "Eye of Paris" by Henry Miller, Brassai was one of the great European photographers of the twentieth century. This volume of letters and photographs, many published for the first time, chronicles the fascinating early years of Brassai's life and artistic development in Paris and Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s. The amazing letters Brassai wrote to his parents during his years as a student and struggling artist in Paris and Berlin are published here in English for the first time. Just as Brassai captured in his photographs the texture, mood, and mystery of 1930s Paris, so too in his letters, through his candid, detailed, and vivid descriptions, he conveys in an immediate and forceful way what it was like to live in that world. An important, revealing work for everyone interested in Brassai and the history of photography, this collection will fascinate anyone who wants a firsthand account of Berlin and Paris in the 1920s and 1930s.

From nationally bestselling author, Orson Scott Card, comes a vivid and imaginatiave portrayal of the biblical Sarah, Abraham's loyal wife. This is an incredible tale of loyalty and resilience before God and before Abraham. Sarah is the first in a new historical fiction series on biblical women.

The unknown subject of a Vermeer masterpiece is the basis for this remarkably evocative novel. The illiterate young Griet, held captive by the strict social order of 17th-century Delft, becomes a maid in the household of Johannes Vermeer to help support her family. She knows her role well: tend the laundry, keep up with the housework, and make sure Vermeer's six children stay out of the way. Griet even thinks she can handle Vermeer's shrewd mother-in-law, his bitter, neglected wife, and the family's jealous servant. But what no one suspects is that Griet's quiet manner, uncanny perception, and fascination with her master's paintings will draw her inexorably into the painter's private world. And as Griet witnesses the creative process of a great master, her long-suppressed passion becomes the catalyst for a scandal that irrevocably changes her life.

Goldman is a writer and broadcaster who has written about Black music and culture for 25 years. Here she draws on extensive interviews and research to trace historical, social, personal, and creative connections among great Black musicians from around the world, and among various genres of music<-->blues, rock, funk, jazz, and world music. The text is arranged in thematic sections on heart and soul, explorers, roots and culture, revolution, and explorers. It is generously illustrated with photographer Corio's powerful black-and-white images.

Coulton, Larry Counting Coup: A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn (2000)Counting Coup begins not on a basketball court, but in the tar-paper shack ghetto of Crow Agency, montana. There, everywhere amid the crumbling buildings and junk heaps are basketball hoops. Not N.B.A. fiber-glass-backed specials; tattered plywood and rope improvisations, netless circles rotting slowly under the August sun. The story that Larry Colton paints across this landscape has not been televised prime time, if it has been televised at all. Its heroes are girls' varsity basketball team of Harden High School in Crow. Some of them are white and some of them, native Americans, but all of their faces carry the toughness bred in a poor rural community beset with racism, alcoholism, and violence.

In this thoughtful and candid collection, some of the most well-known thinkers and activists of our time reflect on the joys, mysteries, and responsibilities of being human and, more importantly, humane, in today's rapidly changing society.

Garfunkel, Trudy On Wings of Joy: the Story of Ballet from the 16th C. to Today (2002)

Goldberg, Myla Bee Season (2000)

When 9-year-old Eliza Naumann finds out she has an unusual talent for spelling, she is utterly confounded. The long-time disappointment in her highly intelligent family, Eliza has grown accustomed to her role as under-performer. Her father Saul spends his evenings immersed in Jewish mystical studies; her mother Miriam, a successful lawyer and compulsive housekeeper, maintains a safe emotional distance from her family; and her brother Aaron usurps what little time Saul has to offer in the form of spiritual instruction in his father's hallowed study.

Greenberg, Jan, editor Heart to Heart: New Poems Inspired by 20th C. American Art (2001)

Drawing on the literature of combat, from Homer and Shakespeare to Erich Maria Remarque and Michael Herr, Hedges shows how human beings are conditioned to embrace what he calls "the myth of war" - the idea that combat is noble, selfless, and glorious. And yet if human history is any guide, nations and imperiums have stumbled and even fallen when they believed the myths peddled about war and about themselves. The reality of war, which Hedges knows first-hand, is about the destruction of culture, the perversion of human desire, and the embrace, ultimately, of death over life.

Howe, Peter Shooting Under Fire: the World of the War Photographer (2002)Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photography of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. On September 11, 2001, America and the world learned in a devastating attack that warfare can just as easily occur on a beautiful day in the middle of one of the world's greatest cities as in a desert thousands of miles away. The world was made aware of this because photographers were there to record the terror, bravery, and desolation of the assault. One of them gave his life doing so.

King, Ross Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (2000)

Light, Alan The Vibe History of Hip Hop (1999)

VIBE, the voice of the hip hop generation, presents the essence of hip hop. Music, fashion, dance, graffiti, movies, videos, and business: it's all in this tale of a cultural revolution that spans race and gender, language and nationality. The definitive history of an underdocumented music genre, The VIBE History of Hip Hop tells the full story of this grassroots cultural movement, from its origins on the streets of the Bronx to its explosion as an international phenomenon. Illustrated with almost 200 photos, and accompanied by comprehensive discographies, this book is a vivid review of the hip hop world through the eyes and ears of more than 50 of the finest music writers and cultural critics at work today.

Livingstone, Lili Cockerville American Indian Ballerinas (1999)This book is the first authorized biography of four twentieth-century American Indian ballerinas: Maria Tallchief, Rosella Hightower, Marjorie Tallchief, and Yvonne Chouteau. All raised in Oklahoma during the 1920s and 1930s, these women went on to achieve international fame, each uniquely responsible for changing the image of a ballerina. Lili Cockerille Livingston, who worked with all four of the ballerinas during her own career as a dancer, draws upon her extensive interviews with the women to bring their stories to life. In their own words, they tell about their childhoods in Oklahoma, their early rises to fame, the ups and downs of their personal lives, the challenges of combining marriage and motherhood with a dancing career, and their recent achievements as mentors and teachers of a younger generation of dancers.

Practical and comprehensive, the Encyclopedia of Acting Techniques contains step-by-step exercises and improvisations for both the individual and groups. Fully illustrated in color throughout, the first part of the book shows you how to use your body and voice to maximum effect, how to prepare play texts, analyze the character you are playing, and use costume and props. The author also describes the different types of stages, tells you how to handle your moves on stage and gives advice on audition technique. Another section covers the art of stage make-up. In the second part of the book the "world of the play" gives an overview of comedy, tragedy, epic theatre and realistic drama, supported by biographies of leading playwrights. Practical exercises in each type of drama show you how to apply the skills you have learned to specific genres.

Presents the history of photography from the daguerreotypes of the mid-1800s to its acceptance as an art form and more.

Smith, Huston Illustrated World Religions (1995)In the detailed, absorbing, richly illustrated, and highly readable chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, there is a refreshing emphasis on the inner dimensions of these great religious traditions, with highlighting of such topics as Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism, and the teachings of Jesus. The chapter on the primal religions evokes the rich traditions of the Americas, Africa, Australia, and Oceania.

At age eighteen, Artemisia Gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing the man who raped her -- Agostino Tassi, her painting teacher. When even her father does not stand up for her, she knows she cannot stay in Rome and begs to have a marriage arranged for her. Her new husband, an artist named Pietro Stiatessi, takes her to his native Florence, where her talent for painting blossoms and she becomes the first woman to be elected to the Accademia dell'Arte. But marriage clashes with Artemisia's newfound fame as a painter, and she begins a lifelong search to reconcile painting and motherhood, passion and genius.