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Onesteia by Alan Shapiro, Christopher Collard, G. Thomson, H. Alan Shapiro, Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Though Aeschylus specialized in the tragic trilogy, Oresteia is the only surviving example by an ancient playwright. A form that was not picked up by his successors, the trilogy traditionally consists of three connected tragedies followed by a satyr play. ( Proteus , the satyr play in this work, is lost.) Oresteia follows the life of Agamemnon from the end of the Trojan War, tracing the cycle of violence that plagues his family. After Atreus, Agamemnon`s father, fools his brother Thyestes into eating his own children, revenge is exacted by Aegisthus, Thyestes` son, who kills Agamemnon after taking his wife as a lover. Agamemnon`s son Orestes then avenges his father`s death by killing both Aegisthus and his own mother. Orestes then becomes the object of revenge himself, set upon by the Furies at the orders of his mother`s ghost. Only Athena can stop the bloodshed by holding a trial that acquits Orestes and eventually placates the Furies.

AUTHOR: Alan Shapiro, Christopher Collard, G. Thomson, H. Alan Shapiro, Hugh Lloyd-Jones
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Debbie Travis' Painted House by Debbie Travis
Description not available.The author and television host shows beginners how to create today's most fashionable painted effects easily and safely, through simple-to-follow instructions and 250 photographs designed to help readers create ingenious painting effects for the home. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.

AUTHOR: Debbie Travis
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Comics & Sequential Art by Will Eisner
Universally acknowledged as the leading guide to the mastery & practice of comic book art & graphic storytelling. Written & profusely illustrated by Will Eisner, the internationally acclaimed pioneer award winner & teacher of this proliferating medium. Mr. Eisner has authored 10 graphic novels & is the creator of the classic newspaper comic THE SPIRIT. Based on classroom lectures & almost 60 years of experience, the author writes for both teachers & the working practitioners. Designed to be of use to both beginners & professionals. He uses his own art as demonstrations & examples to clearly focus on comics as a literary-art medium. The book covers the entire process of sequential art & discusses scripting, lettering, timing, imagery, panel composition, expressive anatomy & the visual language of comics. Widely used in classrooms as well as in studios, the book has become a classic. It has been translated into four foreign languages. It is a popular sourcebook in public & school libraries & is referred to as a pioneering work. By documenting the theories & subliminal techniques integral to the art Eisner has written an important possibly definitive guidebook to the process. --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY. ...The book resembles a college-level course in the mechanics...it is both a study of the vocabulary & a dismantling of the creative process...Essential reading. --THE COMICS JOURNAL.

AUTHOR: Will Eisner
PUBLISHER: Poorhouse Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The Collected Shorter Plays of Samuel Beckett by Samuel Beckett
'Beckett reduces life, perception, and writing to barest minimums: a few dimly seen, struggling torsos; a hopeless intelligence compulsively seeking to come to terms, in rudimentary yet endlessly varied language, with the human condition they represent. Within these extraordinary limitations, Beckett's verbal ability nonetheless generates great intensity.'--Library Journal

AUTHOR: Samuel Beckett
PUBLISHER: Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Gathering Sparks
Over the course of its 25 years of publication, PARABOLA magazine has interviewed some of the most brilliant, wise, and compassionate minds from a wide variety of the world's religious and spiritual paths. the highlights of these interviews are collected in this volume of timeless essays that explore an array of nationalities, faiths, and traditions. Neurologist Oliver Sacks discusses the link between conscience and consciousness and mythologist Joseph Campbell describes how myths unify the world. Famous or obscure, these vibrant, vital interviewees are devoted to the search for meaning and understanding.
PUBLISHER: Parabola Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Tipis & Yurts by Leslie Dierks, Blue Evening Star Staff
A Native American expert gives instructions for making tipis of the American Plains Indians, as well as a Mongolian yurt. Includes 80 color photos from Arizona`s red rock country.

AUTHOR: Leslie Dierks, Blue Evening Star Staff
PUBLISHER: Lark Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture