How to Visit the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
The Getty Museum, opened in 1997, sits atop a hill in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Brentwood. The mostly travertine and glass building, designed by architect Richard Maier, houses a diverse collection of art, ranging from classical to 19th ... [... more]
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Giants of American Industry - John Paul Getty
 A Good History Of Getty!: This book is an outstanding history of J. Paul Getty. It well covers the story of his business career and the building of a sizeable fortune. This book covers his career from the beginning until his death in 1976. The novel also [... more]
$27.45
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CONTINUED: High-Performance Ethanol >>>
The sun may be setting on corn-based ethanol as Detroit revs up with cellulosic ethanol concept cars and tech investments. (Photograph by Getty Images) There's been a lot of talk about ethanol lately, most of it not very positive. But you ... [... more]
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Harvard professor
Google offices in Mountain View, California. (Photograph by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Alex Wissner-Gross made waves recently by suggesting that making a couple of Google searches are just as bad for the environment as the cup of tea you drink ... [... more]
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L.A. Quake Was Minor, but Is America Ready for the Big One?
Spectators look at a Pomona, California, scene where bricks collapsed into an alley from an unoccupied building during a magnitude 5.4 earthquake on July 29th. (Photograph by David McNew/Getty Images) The Chino Hills event, minor as it may have ... [... more]
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A Fourth of July Favorite
For moist and flavorful fried chicken, try some special treatment. Elizabeth Watt/Stockfood Creative/Getty Images John Fleer's Sweet Tea Brined Fried Chicken javascript:void(0); Elizabeth Watt/Stockfood Creative/Getty Images John Fleer's Sweet ... [... more]
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How to Remember Who's Who in the Getty Family
Their headline-grabbing lives have been filled with drug abuse, crime, scandals, tragic death and billions and billions of dollars. They have made contributions to business, art, motion pictures, music and politics. But who are the Gettys? Jean ... [... more]
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The J. Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections ...
How to keep up to date with an ever-expanding collection: This guide is a satisfactory companion to any visit to the Getty Center in L.A., with many colored illustrations of the major works in the museum's collection, grouped by department (decorative [... more]
$16.95
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Close to Home: An American Album (Getty Trust ...
Personal to some, vague to others: The book's contents were originally in an exhibition at the Los Angels Getty Museum. They are presented here with no captions or other references so I can only regard them as images on the page and as such they rather [... more]
$24.95
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Richard Meier: The Getty Center
First time at the Getty: A question everyone must ask when they first visit the Getty Museum is, "How did anyone ever build this enormous, complicated, graceful complex of buildings?" In The Getty Center by Michael Brawne, the author takes you [... more]
$45.00
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Robert Irwin Getty Garden
Gloriously, Richly Photographed Gardens: I felt that this book is not only a beautiful book on art and gardens to own, but qualifies as an "Everyday Reference" for our Architecture office. The photographs by Becky Cohen, 2000 Alfred Eisenstaedt [... more]
$45.00
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Picture Mumbai: Landmarks of a New Generation (Getty ...
Phenomenal Expression of young minds: I was actually a part of this project and can tell you this is a great glimpse of what the youth in Mumbai actually sees - or sometimes doesn't. I have met all the (then) kids who took pictures and this book is such [... more]
$19.95
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