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|  | Slanting the Story by Trudy Lieberman
This book argues that think tanks, especially on the right, hold too much power over the way that issues are represented in the media. The author demonstrates the ways that groups such as the Heritage Foundation influence the reporting of public policy issues by launching campaigns that both raise awareness of the issues and frame the way those issues will be discussed. AUTHOR: Trudy Lieberman
PUBLISHER: Norton, W. W. & Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | The Art of Tassel Making by Jane Devine, Susan Dickens
This gorgeous book unravels the secrets of the French tassel-making houses, allowing the reader to produce tassels that look every bit as elegant as the commercial variety. Providing detailed instructions for making many different styles of tassels in a variety of sumptuous materials, a unique flip section shows the reader how to mix and match the three components of tassels: the rope, the head, and the skirt. 40 color photos, b&w illustrations throughout. AUTHOR: Jane Devine, Susan Dickens
PUBLISHER: Independent Publishers Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Brushes by Jacques Turner
Here is everything an artist needs to know to acquire and maintain a functional, well-rounded brush collection. A fine handbook that should be within reach of every serious artist . -- New England Review of Books AUTHOR: Jacques Turner
PUBLISHER: Globe Pequot Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | House & Garden Book of Kitchens & Dining Rooms by Leonie Highton
Description not available.Looks at interiors of dining rooms and kitchens from around the world, and offers a selection of ideas from city apartments to country homes AUTHOR: Leonie Highton
PUBLISHER: Vendome Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Landscapes by Clare Roundhill, Penny King
Inspiration for children`s art is provided by such landscape artists as Katsushika Hokusai, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet and Georgia O`Keeffe. Activities include: -- plasticine and art tile prints -- paper cut-out gardens -- winter scenery -- decorative dwellings -- Impressionist paintings AUTHOR: Clare Roundhill, Penny King
PUBLISHER: Crabtree Publishing Company
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Scenes in a Library by Carol Armstrong
Today we are so accustomed to seeing photographs wedded to text-whether in the family album or daily newspaper -- that the verbal framing of the photograph has become invisible. The text is internalized within the image, and the meaning of the photograph becomes clear and self-evident, as if by the evidence of the photograph itself. In Scenes in a Library Carol Armstrong explores the experimental moment, at the inception of the new medium, when the word came to haunt the photographic image, and the forty or so years -- roughly from the 1840s to the 1880s -- during which the photographic image alternately resisted and became assimilated to the printed page. Armstrong`s emphasis is on British books. Not only was it in an English book that the paper photograph was first described and published, but the range of subject matter of nineteenth-century British photographically illustrated books prior to the 1880s was as rich as it was peculiar and sometimes recalcitrant. Armstrong focuses on one book about photography (Talbot`s The Pencil of Nature); one scientific book (Anna Atkins`s Photographs of British Algae); two travel narratives, one factual and one fictional (Francis Frith`s Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Observed and his illustrated edition of Longfellow`s novel Hyperion: A Romance); and one book of poetry (Julia Margaret Cameron`s Illustrations to Alfred Lord Tennyson`s Idylls of the King); as well as some miscellaneous books from the 1870s. According to Armstrong, art history has tended to remove the historic photograph from its printed and published context. Moving back and forth between close looking and equally close reading, she reinserts the photograph into the bookfrom which it was taken. AUTHOR: Carol Armstrong
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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