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Author
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
599 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
The history of the Museum, from its origins as a daring idea in the minds of three prominent art patrons in the twenties to the opening of its greatly expanded facilities in the eighties; examples of one thousand works from the holdings of the Museum's six curatorial departments.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and highly readable history of Britain's postwar Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6." ―The Wall Street Journal
From Berlin to the Congo, from Moscow to the back streets of London, these are the true stories of the agents on the front lines of British intelligence. And the truth is sometimes more remarkable than the spy novels of Ian Fleming or John le Carré.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
154 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Once wildly popular and used by teachers across America to teach grammar, sentence diagramming is now a lost art to most people. But from the moment she encountered it in the seventh-grade classroom of Sister Bernadette, Kitty Burns Florey was fascinated by the bizarre method of mapping the words in a sentence. Now a veteran copyeditor, Florey studies the practice in a funny look back at its odd history, its elegant method, and its rich, ongoing possibilities--from...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
4th ed., completely rev. and expanded.
Physical Desc
729 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
James Monaco discusses the elements necessary to understand how a film conveys its meaning, and, more importantly, how the audience can best discern all that a film is attempting to communicate.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
191 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Much more than a book about language, this book interweaves history, culture and art to reveal one of the world's greatest civilizations. Chinese characters have developed over thousands of years, captivating as much with their artistic expressiveness as with their intriguing layers of meaning. In this book the text is accompanied with calligraphy and full-colour reproductions of Chinese brush paintings, calligraphic scrolls, ceramics and textiles,...
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