Kimberly Williams
One of the most influential American interior designers of the twentieth century, Naomi Leff is best known as the creator of the flagship Ralph Lauren store in Manhattan. There she established the brand image, combining a distinctive ... [... more]
Random House |
The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
 Amazon.ca: Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and--especially--understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's [... more]
CDN$46.83
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Richard Greeman
Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most ... [... more]
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Selected Poems
Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) was one of the most original and influential American poets of the twentieth century. Although he grew up in Grafton, Massachusetts, O'Hara developed into the quintessential poet of mid-century Manhattan; soon after his ... [... more]
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Julie Kavanagh
Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most iconic dancers of the twentieth century, had it all: beauty, genius, charm, passion, and sex appeal. No other dancer of our time has generated the same excitement, for both men and women, on or off the ... [... more]
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Richard Pare
The Lost Vanguard documents the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union during the years following the 1917 revolution and civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were ... [... more]
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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon chronicled the latter half of the twentieth century with powerful portraits of artists, intellectuals, political figures, and events of the time. In a career spanning six decades, he turned fashion photography into an art form and ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jonathan Tucker
In this important and revelatory book, Jonathan Tucker, a leading expert on chemical and biological weapons, chronicles the lethal history of chemical warfare from World War I to the present. At the turn of the twentieth century, the rise of ... [... more]
Random House |
The Twentieth Century
Robida's social commentary is still relevant today: In his remarkable science fiction novel, The Twentieth Century, the late Albert Robida (1848-1926) attempted to predict what life would be like in decades composing the 20th Century. He envisioned women [... more]
CDN$29.95
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A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, ...
Too Much Arrogance Too Little Substance: I learned very little by reading this book. It is not a book about history in the first half of the twentieth century but rather a personal commentary of the opinions of the author. The reader becomes so soured by [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Coming of Age: Growing Up in the Twentieth Century
The old speak out: Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel, widely known for his oral histories on World War II, work, race and the Great Depression, here offers an oral history of the twentieth century. The 70 people on record range in age from 70 to 99 and [... more]
CDN$21.50
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The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
Amazon.ca: Anyone who has ever gamely tried and failed to absorb, enjoy, and--especially--understand the complex works of Schoenberg, Mahler, Strauss, or even Philip Glass will allow themselves a wry smile reading New Yorker music critic Alex Ross's [... more]
CDN$33.00
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