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Enemies: A History of the FBI
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Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel's Intelligence Community
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The Butcher's Trail: How the Search for Balkan War Criminals Became the World's Most Successful Manhunt
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America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present
In the eighteenth century, Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy Adams greatly admired the Persian Empire, while Iranians regarded America as an ideal their own government might emulate. Beginning there, how...
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983-1992
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The sizzling diaries of Tina Brown's eight spectacular years as editor in chief of Vanity Fair paint a riveting portrait of the flash, dash and follies of the Eighties in...
There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen's "Born In The
A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.-a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern AmericaOn June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued...
The Art of Peter Sculthorpe: Paintings Spanning Four Decades
This compilation of the classic artwork of Peter Sculthorpe spans four decades. By considering light, the passage of time, the use of different mediums and sizes, and inspiring locations, Peter...
I Pity the Dolls
This book features the largest collection of Mr. T memorabilia in the world, including over 150 homemade soft sculpture dolls collected and documented over the past 25 years. The dolls...
Brooklyn on My Mind: Black Visual Artists from the WPA to the Present
This new resource assembles 134 Black artists and their magnificent works, highlighting their important contributions to art worldwide. Beginning with the Brooklyn-based artists active during the Works ProgressAdministration years and...
Western Art of the Twenty-First Century: Native Americans
The second book in this two-volume survey, readers are invited to re-examine the history of the West and its art through a multi-faceted contemporary lens. More than 30 artists are...
Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940
The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialisation of fine crafts and the empowerment of thousands of women and immigrants, who began...
Quilts in Everyday Life, 1855-1955: A 100-Year Photographic History
The history of quilts, their makers, and usage is an important part of our country's heritage presented here in full detail through 330 vintage photographs. Books on quilt history have,...
The 54th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
During the height of the Cold War, the United States started to develop and expand its air defence capabilities to knock down Russian Air Force nuclear-armed bombers flying over the...
Training the Right Stuff: The Aircraft That Produced America's Jet
A comprehensive study of the training aircraft used to transition the United States military into the jet age. At the end of World War II, high-performance jets with unfamiliar operating...
Our Stories: 75 Years of the NHS from the People Who Built It, Lived
FOREWORD BY ADAM KAY, AUTHOR OF THIS IS GOING TO HURTPortion of proceeds go to NHS Charities Together.A beautiful and heart-warming collection of stories, this landmark publication tells, for the...
Contemporary Ice Sculpture
In this collection of works by more than 25 contemporary ice artists, discover a fascinating art medium defined by its ephemeral nature. Merging creativity and engineering, today's ice artist can...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Art of the Middle East: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World
Artistic expression in the Middle East is experiencing something of a renaissance. Domestic patronage is flourishing, and an impressive array of new museums and art fairs across the region is...
Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes: America's Paris on West 67th Street
More than 600 archival colour and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This is the well-researched, untold story of the artists, returning...
Two Scoops of Hooah!: The T-Wall Art of Kuwait and Iraq
Within the pages of this book you will see how cement structures, intended for barriers, are transformed into pictorial walls that identify military units and honour service members who gave...
The Other Russian Dolls: Antique Bisque to 1980s Plastic
As interest in Russia increases, increased value and attention are focused on its history-rich ethnic dolls, and this is the only comprehensive resource available. For those who collect, deal in,...
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany
The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...
Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940
Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with...
The Ambassador Magazine: Promoting Post-War British Textiles and
The Ambassador has been described as 'probably the most daring and enterprising trade magazine ever conceived'. With the motto 'Export or Die!', the magazine was renowned for its innovative design...
Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of
In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an...
Girl Who Fought Back: Vladka Meed and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Scholastic Focus is the premier home of thoroughly researched, beautifully written, and thoughtfully designed works of narrative nonfiction aimed at middle-grade and young adult readers. These books help readers learn...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Jonny Hannah: Greetings from Darktown: An Illustrator's Miscellany
The illustrator Jonny Hannah was born and bred in Scotland, and now lives by the sea in Southampton, but he also resides in Darktown a mysterious coastal town, not found...
KOLORSTORM: The Art of Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro
NYC graffiti art, heavy metal, comic books, and fantasy art intersect here in Louie "KR.ONE" Gasparro's visual autobiography. This legendary Queens artist-drummer weaves these powerful influences into a medium he...
Contemporary Ice Sculpture
In this collection of works by more than 25 contemporary ice artists, discover a fascinating art medium defined by its ephemeral nature. Merging creativity and engineering, today's ice artist can...
Nantucket Portrait: Fun & Games with the Super Rich...The Birth of
Jim Cromartie first came to Nantucket as a college student, but for the past 35 years he has called the island home. As a young artist, his major patron was...
80s Redux: Your Favorite Musicians Today
The influence of 80s culture is undeniable, perhaps most popularly in music. So what are the musicians who built the sonic landscape of the 80s up to? Photographer Mike Hipple...
Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940
Six major design styles during 1880 - 1940 form the basis of the Modernist Movement which embraces a diverse range of the decorative and applied and graphic arts. Starting with...
Uptown & Downtown: Old Skool Paintings on NYC Subway Maps
New York graffiti writers who cut their teeth painting trains in the '70s and '80s transfer Old Skool street art to a more permanent, collectible medium in this book, using...
The Architecture of Whimsy: Mid-20th-Century Modern Architecture in
This fascinating lexicon examines the quixotic architectural expressions found on select mid-20th-century modern commercial buildings in South Florida. Showcasing the work of 13 noted architects from Miami Beach to Fort...
Escape Artist: The Art of Fran Forman
In this rich and dream-like collection of photo-paintings, artist and fabulist Fran Forman offers characters, scenes and visual narratives that lure the imagination. She explores the multiple meanings of the...
Sex, Sense and Nonsense: Felicity Green on the 60's Fashion Scene
The 'Swinging 60s' up close - 60s' style captured in a unique combination of words and pictures from award-winning journalist Felicity Green of the Daily Mirror, the biggest-selling newspaper of...
Retro Radio: Six Decades of Design 1920s-1970s
Before television and MTV, the radio was central in the home, a way for the family to gather to hear the news or listen to music. Over 175 images provide...
Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes: America's Paris on West 67th Street
More than 600 archival colour and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This is the well-researched, untold story of the artists, returning...
In the Company of Evil-Thirty Years of California Crime, 1950-1980:
California's picturesque shores have always been a magnet for outcasts and criminals. Read about 64 of the most horrifying crimes ever committed in The Golden State, from the early 1950s...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at
'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning historian's "immersive" ( New York Times) account of the...
Another Man's War: The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten African Army
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November 1916: the Second Knot of the Red Wheel
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The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020
Ireland is a strikingly different country now to the one it was in the mid-1990s. Dramatic economic, social and cultural changes, including the Celtic Tiger boom and increasingly secular debate...
Saving Sam: The True Story of an American's Disappearance in Syria and
A gripping testament of resilience, family, and faith, this is the incredible and true story of an American traveler who was captured and wrongfully imprisoned in Syria while on a...
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and
'An absorbingly creepy travelogue through the corridors, tunnels and basements of our most famous cultural repository. With Noah Angell as our guide, the British Museum becomes a haunted prison filled...
All You Need Is Love: The End of The Beatles - Unpublished,
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Music Book of the Year, 2024An Observer Book of the Week'I can think of no one better placed to tell the story behind...
Her Secret Service: The Forgotten Women of British Intelligence
'Groundbreaking' Sunday Times'Beautifully written and elegiac . . . a masterpiece' Damien Lewis, Sunday Times bestselling authorSince the inception of the Secret Service Bureau back in 1909, women have worked...