Works of Art: Joe Chiodo
 WELL BALANCED VIEW OF AN ARTIST: FINALLY, a well balanced, well designed monograph about one of the best pin-up artists of the last twenty years. This book treats us to an informative over-view of Chiodo's career and a candid interview with the artist. [... more]
CDN$26.08
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What I Loved: A Novel
Sparkling prose with emotion to boot: This book knocked my socks off -- literally and figuratively. It is a story to crawl into bed with, not because it is pleasant, or happy, or overly touching, but because it is a read that plays on your heart while [... more]
CDN$34.95
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Powerful Evocation of an Era and a Landscape: One of the most elegant, evocative novels in Australian literature. Lindsay's prose is exquisite, as is her reconstruction of this era in Australian history. Both the landscape and the figures that move in it, [... more]
CDN$31.20
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The 5,000-Year-Old Puzzle: Solving a Mystery of Ancient ...
From Amazon.com: When King Tut's tomb was discovered in Egypt in 1922, the world was abuzz. What would be the next big, newsworthy archaeological find? Might it be Giza 7000X, a secret Egyptian tomb buried deep within the earth? Claudia Logan and Melissa [... more]
CDN$18.95
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Photorealism at the Millennium
Excellent addition to the definitive series on photorealism: Louis Meisel et al. have produced yet another beautiful edition to the definitive series on photorealism. Like the two previous volumes ("Photorealism" and "Photorealism Since 198 [... more]
CDN$84.20
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As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
Spend some time in Renaissance Belgium: Rucker builds a series of chapters around particular paintings by Bruegel, in order to produce a biographical novel that is well-informed concerning the (known) historical details of Bruegel's life and the [... more]
CDN$21.95
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Around the Year
From Amazon.com: Two-time Caldecott honor artist Tasha Tudor invites readers to celebrate the many joys of family life throughout the year. Although her verses and quaint ink and watercolor illustrations depict Tudor's signature idyllic New England [... more]
CDN$26.00
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Dog's Night
Great Story Line that Isn't the Same Old Thing: The dogs come out of the paintings in the museum one night a year for a party. One year the remnants of a human cocktail party lead them to eat too much food and wine, and when it is time to crawl back into [... more]
CDN$12.95
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Dogs' Night
Great Story Line that Isn't the Same Old Thing: The dogs come out of the paintings in the museum one night a year for a party. One year the remnants of a human cocktail party lead them to eat too much food and wine, and when it is time to crawl back into [... more]
CDN$9.95
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Action Jackson
Meet Jackson Pollack.....: Award winning authors, Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan introduce a whole new generation to the brillance of painter, Jackson Pollock as they focus on just two months in the artist's life, and the creation of one of his most [... more]
CDN$8.50
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Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the ...
Renaissance Crosscurrents: When I was a kid, getting art books from the public library, there were dozens of books about the Italian Renaissance and only one about the Renaissance in the north. Van Eyck, Van der Weyden, Memling, all of them were crammed [... more]
CDN$105.00
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Buffalo Hunt
Buffalo Hunt by R. Freeman: A review: Author, Russell Freeman, writes an informational (nonfiction) book targeting grades 3 - 7 about the interdependence of the Plains Indian Tribes and the North American Bison. This book documents a way of life few non- [... more]
CDN$12.95
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