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The Odyssey by A. F. Garvie, A. T. Murray, Adrian Mitchell, Albert Cook, Allen Mandelbaum
Perhaps the most celebrated of all Western narratives, the Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's roundabout voyage home to Ithaca where his beloved Penelope awaits. In stories along the way, he famously encounters Circe, the Sirens, the Cyclops, and many, many others. This translation renders the classic more economically than others.

AUTHOR: A. F. Garvie, A. T. Murray, Adrian Mitchell, Albert Cook, Allen Mandelbaum
PUBLISHER: Bantam Dell Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Design Agent by Robert Klanten
The alter-ego pseudonym for Klaus Mai, km7 takes the reader on a roller coaster ride through modern graphic design. The book is presented like a trip into the secret design scene of the future--very much 007 with a blend of Designer's Republic. It features the most explicit layouts and presents graphic solutions for various kinds of interests. WIRED people will go crazy over it. 300 full-color illustrations.

AUTHOR: Robert Klanten
PUBLISHER: Die Gestalten Verlag
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Fortune Is a River by Roger D. Masters
A speculative history that maintains that Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli knew each other and collaborated on a fantastic project to transform Florence into a seaport by diverting the Arno River. Written by a professor of government at Dartmouth College.

AUTHOR: Roger D. Masters
PUBLISHER: Dutton/Plume
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Bernard Maybeck by Richard Barnes, Sally B. Woodbridge
Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview - the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors - analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only is his architecture thoroughly discussed and illustrated but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction. The book is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings. Bernard Maybeck is a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer today's designers and whose houses have given enormous pleasure to those fortunate enough to visit or dwell in them.

AUTHOR: Richard Barnes, Sally B. Woodbridge
PUBLISHER: Abbeville Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

I. M. Pei by Carter Wiseman
This study of I. M. Pei's life and work includes 65 color illustrations and many more in black-and-white.

AUTHOR: Carter Wiseman
PUBLISHER: Abrams, Harry N. Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Psychiatry & the Cinema by Glen O. Gabbard, Krin Gabbard
This text examines psychiatry and the cinema. It looks at the typology, mythology, and ideology of the psychiatrist in movies. It also examines psychoanalytic film criticism and such issues as narcissm in the cinema, and phallic women in contemporary cinema.

AUTHOR: Glen O. Gabbard, Krin Gabbard
PUBLISHER: American Psychiatric Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture