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What the Dog Saw

Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:04:26 PST

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What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard-but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century? In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell has written three books that have radically changed how we understand our world and ourselves: The ...

Ghosts

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:39:48 PST

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The most unsettling and stunning of Aira's short novels published so far by New Directions.

The Forty Rules of Love

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:38:12 PST

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But Who Will Bell the Cats?

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:30:51 PST

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Cynthia von Buhler’s enchanted upstairs/downstairs world shows readers the rewards of determination, bravery,and creativity—and reminds them of the ...

The Imperfectionists

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:27:04 PST

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Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachmanrs"s wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, ...

Heads on and We Shoot

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:26:50 PST

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Maurice Sendak's classic book "Where the Wild Things Are" follows the adventures of Max, a headstrong young boy who leaves home after having a fight with his mother, only to find himself in a mysterious forest bordering a vast sea. Misunderstood and rebellious, Max sets sail to the land of the Wild Things, where mischief reigns. But how do you turn one of the world's favorite children's books int ...

There Was an Old Lady

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:26:29 PST

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With his distinct art style and a clever foldout format, an acclaimed graphic designer has given the universal rhyme a unique makeover that is clever, ...

Stop Me If You've Heard This

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:26:04 PST

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A priest, a rabbi and a minister walk into bar. 'What is this', the barman says, 'some kind of joke?'. As he laughs his way though the history of jokes, Jim Holt discovers that most of those we trade are actually hundreds of years old: Palamedes, a Greek hero of the Trojan War, is credited with inventing the joke (before being stoned to death) and it was Philip the Great of Macedon in the 4th cen ...

How to Do Better Creative Work

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:25:40 PST

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Effective creative work is not a nice-to-have, it's a necessity - it's the only way you'll stand out in a fiercely competitive marketplace. Whether you're in digital, direct or advertising, the CEO of an agency or just starting out, How to do better creative work has been written for you. In fact, you'll see that everyone plays a crucial role in producing creative work that works: What it means t ...

Face Hunter

Mon, 10 May 2010 18:24:55 PST

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Face Hunter is the pseudonym of 32-year-old Swiss-born Yvan Rodic, who began his careerwith the advertising agencies Saatchi & Saatchi and Leo Burnett before ...

Conversations with Woody Allen

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:28 PST

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In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet ofmoviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of ...

Slow

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:26 PST

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"SLOW: Life in a Tuscan Town" is an unprecedented photographic personal journey into the heart of hidden Tuscany that celebrates the principles that define ...

Box Bottle Bag

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:24 PST

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Take a look at the very best in packaging designEvery day Andrew Gibbs seeks out and discovers the very best in packaging design for his influential blog, TheDieline.com. Here, he has collected the cream of the crop--plus some additional brand-new projects--in all their full-color glory.The look, feel and concept of a package is crucial to its sales success, and "Box Bottle Bag" contains more tha ...

Valmiki's daughter

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:23 PST

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The Boat

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:16 PST

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With his immensely imaginative and gifted voice, Nam Le brings us a haunting collection of stories that resonate like those of JD Salinger, ZZ Packer, ...

Where the Money Went

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:14 PST

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Can I Have a Word with You?

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:13 PST

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In his fifth popular book about language, Howard Richler moves from A to Z with one specially chosen word for every letter of the alphabet.

Piet Zwart Hc

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:08 PST

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Say Hello

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:06 PST

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A spare, poignant picture book reminding us that when someone looks lonely and in need of a friend, one little word can help.A lone dog comes upon a group ...

Wallace Berman, photographs

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:02 PST

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The quintessential visual artist of the Beat generation, Wallace Berman's influence has continued to radiate throughout the American art scene and in our ...

Cylinder van Troffa

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:52:00 PST

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Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:57 PST

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After fifteen years spent exploring China and its food, Fuchsia Dunlop finds herself in an English kitchen, deciding whether to eat a caterpillar she has ...

Sam Taylor-Wood, 1995-2007

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:49 PST

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... as one of the YBA's (Young British Artists), alongside such artists as Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, who were quickly propelled to celebrity status for ...

AM/PM

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:47 PST

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In "AM/PM, " impish humor and cutting insight are on full display.

Grow

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:44 PST

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Author Alyson Beaton and illustrator KJ Bradley created "Grow" to take a child ( 2 to 5 years of age) through a typical day, implementing a "normal" routine ...

The Slide

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:41 PST

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And just what are those noises coming from the attic?Kyle Beachy has woven a uniquely affecting story of the long and hard, then quick and hard, struggle to ...

You Must Be This Happy to Enter

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:39 PST

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Elizabeth Crane is the author of two previous story collections, When the Messenger is Hot and All This Heavenly Glory .

Hiding Out

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:37 PST

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Hiding Out is a collection of hilarious, sparkling stories about people avoiding the consequences of their poor decisions.

Baba Yaga Laid an Egg

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:33 PST

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Baba Yaga Laid an Egg takes a traditional myth and spins it afresh. The result is an extraordinary meditation on femininity, aging, identity.

Dan Graham

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:32 PST

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Dan Graham is one of the most significant figures to emerge from the 1960s moment of Conceptual art, with a practice that pioneered a range of art forms, modes, and ideas that are now fundamental to contemporary art. The thrust of his practice has always pointed beyond: beyond the art object, beyond the studio, beyond the medium, beyond the gallery, beyond the self. Beyond all these categories an ...

The Case of the Imaginary Detective

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:28 PST

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What I Wore Today

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:25 PST

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Capturing an online community of artistic, peer-inspired and -supported fashion pioneers, this collection of more than 250 images gives an unprecedentedly ...

Loser's Town

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:22 PST

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Loser's Town is charged with the elements of all great L.A. noir -- crackling dialogue, fast-paced plot, and seedy, jaded characters -- and Depp brings a few ...

Amateur Barbarians

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:20 PST

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In their absence he flounders in the possible, wondering what it will take to anchor himself to the supremely ordinary existence he both longs for and abhors ...

Kochen unter anderen Sternen

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:17 PST

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Still lives

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:15 PST

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Natsuki Ikezawa has been described as the best short story writer in Japan today, and colleagues as accomplished as Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe have publicly admired his work. This is no mean achievement in a country where short fiction is as highly appreciated as the shorter forms of verse for which Japan is famous.When Ikezawa won his country's highest literary honor, the Akutagawa Prize, i ...

Pričaj mi o njoj

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:11 PST

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Italian Villas and Their Gardens

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:09 PST

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Edith Wharton s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America s greatest writers. A ...

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:06 PST

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Instilling a poetics of place is a goal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), the famous landscape design firm that has created successful public spaces in some of the country's most challenging urban sites. In these locations, nature offers not so much an escape from city living as a teasing dialogue with built structures. The whole experience is aimed, as critic Paul Goldberger notes, t ...

Licorice

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:03 PST

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Licorice, is the beautiful and eerie story of a Midwestern town whose residents are slowly, inexplicably vanishing.

Saint Ghetto of the Loans

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:51:01 PST

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Lies My Mother Never Told Me

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:55 PST

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Her mother was a brainy knockout with the sultry beauty of Marilyn Monroe, a raconteur whose fierce wit could shock an audience into hilarity or silence.

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:53 PST

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What part of our selves do we hide away in order to have a stable, prosperous life? Pippa Lee has just such a life in place at age fifty, when her older ...

Nikolski

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:52 PST

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A sweet and quirky novel that follows three characters as they search for home while clinging to artifacts of their past: a misdirected compass, a book with no ...

Allo'Allo!

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:50 PST

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The genuine diaries In one volume of Rene Artois, the hero of BBC TV's comedy program of the same name seen all over the US on numerous cable and PBS TV ...

N 1 Number Five

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:47 PST

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Re-Bound

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:45 PST

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Re-Bound is a beautiful book on bookbinding with a fun green twist-all the projects use recycled and upcycled materials. This book shows you how to take ...

The Arms Maker of Berlin

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:42 PST

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As the stakes rise, so do the risks.Here is Dan Fesperman’s most thrilling, unexpected, and satisfying novel yet.

The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:41 PST

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None of This Ever Really Happened

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:39 PST

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Pete Ferry is driving home from work one evening when he sees a car swerving dangerously on the road. He wants to keep out of its way, so he allows it to overtake - but as it does so he sees that the driver is a beautiful woman, she's half-naked or at least her clothes are hanging off her, and it's clear that she's drunk or something isn't right. He follows at a safe distance for a while, wonderi ...

Sukie Iron-On Craft Pad

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:36 PST

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With British design studio Sukie at the helm of this innovative craft pad, it's simple to turn any T-shirt into eye-catching, 'gotta wear it' art.

Magritte

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:34 PST

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The ongoing relevance of Belgian painter Rene Magritte may lie in the semiotic character of his work and its ability to create chasms between the world, ...

Zaboravio sam gdje sam parkirao

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:32 PST

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Koncert za tequilu i apaurin

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:30 PST

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Plesačica iz Blue Bara

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:28 PST

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The Gaudi Key

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:27 PST

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Their name was only spoken in hushed tones. They were cloaked in anonymity, a legend thought to belong to the distant past. In the early twentieth century, ...

Ljubav, struja, voda and telefon

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:24 PST

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Twelve Fingers

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:21 PST

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Jô Soares weaves the lives of his characters in and out of modern history, creating odd synchronicities, uncanny coincidences, and the impression that this ...

P.S.

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:18 PST

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Have you ever had something you wanted to say to a friend, but couldn't? Ever wished you could go back in time to say something you didn't? ...

The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:13 PST

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Originally published in 1970, Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox tells the story of the Fox Family. After twelve years, the Fox Family's quiet home life proves ...

Showbiz

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:11 PST

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A dark comedy about the cost of fame, Jason Anderson’s Showbiz is the story of a man who became a punchline and a writer who is desperate to find out how the ...

Subverting the Lyric

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:50:07 PST

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From one of the most prolific and engaged book reviewers in Canada over the past 15 years, this collection of essays and reviews showcases the literary insight ...

The Sixties

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:59 PST

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What was Jenny Diski doing in the sixties? A lot: dropping out, taking drugs, buying clothes, having sex, demonstrating, and spending time in mental hospitals.

Above the Human Nerve Domain

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:57 PST

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In Praise of Older Women

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:54 PST

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Stephen Vizinczey's remarkable, acclaimed worldwide bestseller "In Praise of Older Women" is published in Penguin Modern Classics. 'I am not an expert on sex, but I was a good student of the women I loved, and I'll try to recall those happy and unhappy experiences which, I believe, made a man out of me,' writes the narrator of this novel. Originally published by the author himself in 1965, "In Pr ...

The Selby Is in Your Place

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:51 PST

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The Selby Is in Your Placewas conceived when fashion and interiors photographer Todd Selby began taking portraits of dynamic and creative people—authors, ...

Appassionata

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:47 PST

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In this story of contemporary love and conflict, Hoffman illuminates the currents andundercurrents of our time, as she explores the luminous and dark faces of ...

The Tin Drum

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:44 PST

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The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentieth century, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translation in 1959.

The Case of the Missing Servant

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:42 PST

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Here comes the first novel by the highly acclaimed writer Tarquin Hall in an entrancingnew mystery series set in India.The portly Vish Puri is India’s most ...

Plavo salo

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:39 PST

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A fantasy satire on the present, past and future of Russia.

Monkey Wrench Gang, the

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:36 PST

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Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power--taking on the strip miners, clear-cutters, and the highway, dam ...

The Invention of Everything Else

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:36 PST

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A wondrous imagining of an unlikely friendship between the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla and a young chambermaid in the Hotel New Yorker where Tesla lives out his last days From the moment she first catches sight of the Hotel New Yorker’s most famous resident on New Year’s Day 1943, Louisa -- obsessed with radio dramas and the secret lives of the guests -- is determined to befriend this strang ...

Naïve

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:36 PST

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Await Your Reply

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:36 PST

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The Art of Subtext

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:34 PST

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The Art Of series is a new series of brief books by contemporary writers on important craft issues. Each book investigates an element of the craft of fiction, creative nonfiction, or poetry by discussing works by authors past and present. The books in the Art Of series are not strictly manuals, but serve readers and writers by illuminating aspects of the craft of writing that people think they al ...

The Shack

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:34 PST

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Mackenzie Allen Philips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he ar ...

February

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:34 PST

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The story of the man who never comes back from sea has been embedded in the lore of eastern Canada. Moore's third work of fiction (after Alligator) imagines the impact one such disaster—the 1982 sinking of the Ocean Ranger—has on Helen O'Mara, a mother of three small children whose husband, Cal, dies at sea. The narrative jumps in time from Helen's life with Cal, the accident itself and the years ...

The Female of the Species

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:33 PST

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A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in “So Help Me God.” Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In “Madison at Guignol” an unhappy fashionista discovers a secret door inside her favorite clothing store and insists the staff let her enter. But even her fevered imaginat ...

Joe Speedboot

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:33 PST

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Joe Speedboot is een roman over liefde en rivaliteit, over een verlosser zonder belofte en een heroïsche odyssee. Het toont het lot van nieuwkomers in een Nederlands dorp, waar de last van het onverwerkte verleden op de inwoners drukt. De tragikomische maalstroom van gebeurtenissen geeft het ingeslapen dorp een onverwachte dynamiek waar het niet meer van zal herstellen. Tommy Wieringa schreef me ...

The Secret Life of Words

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:33 PST

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Thank You, Jeeves

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:32 PST

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A full cast of Wodehouse creations--including tyrannical relatives, beastly acquaintances, demon children, and literary fatheads--return for further near catastrophes and sparkling comedy Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about Belpher Castle, the idyllic home of the aristocratic Marshmoreton family an ...

Family Happiness

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:32 PST

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Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is probably best known to the Western world for his epic WAR AND PEACE and splendid ANNA KARENINA, but during his long lifetime Tolstoy also wrote enough shorter works to fill many volumes. Reprinted here are two of his finest short novels -- FAMILY HAPPINESS and MASTER AND MAN -- and one short story -- ALYOSHA THE POT Alongside FAMILY HAPPINESS, Harper Perennial will ...

Less than Zero

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait of a lost generation who have experienced sex, drugs, and disaffection at too early an age, in a world shaped by casual nihilism, passivity, and too much money a place devoid of feeling or hope. Clay comes home for Christmas vacation from his Eastern college and re-enters a landscape of limitless pr ...

Street Logos

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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Subverted signs, spontaneous drawings, powerful monolithic symbols, and curious characters represent a worldwide outdoor gallery of free contemporary art. Graffiti art is constantly changing. Fresh coats of paint and newly pasted posters appear overnight in cities across the world. New artists, new ideas, and new tactics displace faded images in a perpetual process of renewal and metamorphosis. ...

The Art of Rebellion 2

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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The Art of Rebellion 2 features an up to the minute international survey of street art, spotlighting dozens of new and unknown protagonists alongside many well known and respected artists who have been at it for years. Since the publication of the first volume, there has been a surge in street art activity and a growing awareness of the art form in the public eye; this volume takes the reader on ...

+Rosebud No.6

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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"We are living in an era of profound upheaval and change. Change that reaches so deep and so far, no stone is left unturned, nothing is left untouched, not even our ideals". In times of permanent change and an all-pervasive state of unrest, design magazine +rosebud reaches out to readers to question our ideals. Over 250 artists, designers, photographers, scientists, philosophers and authors from ...

Average American Male

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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An offensive, in-your-face, brutally honest and completely hilarious look at male inner life and sexual fantasy--sure to be one of the most controversial books of the year.

Lemon Poppy Seed

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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Bonjour Tristesse AND A Certain Smile

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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An original, mischievous rites of passage novel which will delight fans of offbeat fiction such as 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen'. The Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women's Book Club is THE foremost book club in Canada, no, in the world. Priding themselves on their good taste, intelligent discussions and impeccable opinions, they are a group of misfits and oddballs, living on the edge of normality. ...

The Wish Maker

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:31 PST

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The Art of Looking Sideways

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:30 PST

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The ultimate guide to visual awareness. Compiled over decades by one of today's most brilliant graphic designers, this is a panoply of curious facts, visual puns, anecdotes, serious science, insights, images, jokes, memories and reflections, with 700 illustrations and quotes from over 1000+ writers. The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of ...

Nothing to Write Home About

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:30 PST

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Corporate Diversity

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:30 PST

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The design studio of J. R. Geigy AG was the launching pad for one of the great periods of Swiss graphic design, in the 1950s and 1960s. The open-minded corporate culture of the chemical company in Basel combined product and company advertising in an exemplary way. The resulting works reveal a modernist formal idiom without being indebted to a specific, formulaic look. There was room in it for vis ...

Artist Exhibition - More Than Art Shows

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:30 PST

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At their best, art galleries and exhibitions are able to open viewers senses and create a feeling of ambiance, curiosity, and even sacred space. ...

Bldgblog Book

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:30 PST

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Architecture is more than what makes up our built environment; it is a way of thinking about the world-and beyond. This is the lesson author Geoff Manaugh, creator of the popular website BLDGBLOG, entertainingly communicates in this tour-de-force of architectural speculation and futuristic critique. In five sections that relate to the sprawling, smart, always compelling, and often very funny inqu ...

(un)Fashion

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:29 PST

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(un)FASHION scans the globe to show how real people dress: at work and at play, on the streets, and for ceremonial occasions. This witty, eye-popping book offers a delightfully unconventional view of contemporary fashion as seen in the creative ways that people around the world adorn their bodies. The brainchild of the late Tibor Kalman, one of the graphic design geniuses of the 20th century, and ...

The Mysterious Benedict Society

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:29 PST

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ARE YOU A GIFTED CHILD LOOKING FOR SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES? Dozens of children respond to this peculiar ad in the newspaper and are then put through a series of mind-bending tests, which readers take along with them. Only four children-Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance-succeed. Their challenge: to go on a secret mission that only the most intelligent and inventive children could complete. To acco ...

The Rest is Noise

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:29 PST

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The scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences. At the same time, the influence of modern music can be felt everywhere. Avant-garde sounds populate the soundtracks of Hollywood thrillers. Mi ...

Design as Art

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 0:49:29 PST

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How do we see the world around us? "The Penguin on Design" series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever. Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as 'the new Leonardo'. Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly e ...