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Description not available.Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Claude Monet, and includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events. AUTHOR: Susie Hodge
PUBLISHER: Scholastic Library Publishing
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Passive Solar House Basics by Peter Van Dresser
Anyone who has visited a solar adobe home on a cold winter day has felt the warmth and comfort of its natural radiant heat. Passive Solar House Basics lays out in plain language what an owner-builder and designer will need to know about siting, designing, constructing, and living in a solar adobe home. Van Dresser's text and pictures provide a beginner's course in adobe construction and passive solar heat collection, including suggestions for natural heat circulation and heat storage in thermal mass. Included are sample house plans, ideas for solar hot water heaters, and plans-to-scale for solar crop dryers. The simple means he has developed for economically harnessing the energy of the sun in an energy-efficient home are easily within the grasp of the average home owner, home builder, or solar enthusiast. In 1958 solar pioneer Peter van Dresser built his first solar heated house, one of the first in the United States. First published as Homegrown Sundwellings, Passive Solar Basics was the outgrowth of a solar demonstration project. Peter van Dresser is the author of Landscape for Humans, as well as numerous articles about solar energy and rural life. ...an everyman's guide that could easily become the textbook for the beginning professional in the arts and sciences of buildings . -- Jeffery Cook, College of Architecture, Arizona State University AUTHOR: Peter Van Dresser
PUBLISHER: Ancient City Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Macbeth by A. R. Braunmuller, Alan Durband, Barbara A. Mowat, Braham Murray, Daniel Leary
Shakespeare's dark portrait of ambition begins when three prophesying witches conspire to meet with Macbeth. Obliging his fate, he indeed encounters these Weird Sisters, who mysteriously refer to him by the title Thane of Cawdor, and moreover, as the future king. Macbeth's companion Banquo is told that his descendants will inherit the throne. Macbeth and Banquo are dumbstruck when two noblemen of Scotland arrive announcing Macbeth's new title; with confirmation of the prophesy, the seeds of ambition are planted. When Lady Macbeth learns about the prophesy of her husband's rule in a letter from him, she begins plotting the murder of Duncan, King of Scotland. The murder of the King sets in motion a series of dark deeds that torment Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with guilt, especially when the ghost of Banquo, who is among the couple's slain, appears at a banquet. The guilt manifests pointedly when Lady Macbeth, in a somnolent state, attempts to wash the blood from her hands, famously uttering Out, damn'd spot! out I say! MACBETH was Probably written between 1603 and 1606, the last of his major tragedies. A concise drama, MACBETH may be brief as the result of Shakespeare's having learned of King James's penchant for shorter works. The plot was inspired by the Chronicles of Holinshed's narrative of the reigns of Duncan and Macbeth. Richard Burbage, one of the most prominent actors of the Elizabethan stage, is said to have originated the title role. The earliest extant evidence of performance refers to a staging in 1611, but indirect evidence, such as the work's influence on other plays of the period, suggests an earlier debut. AUTHOR: A. R. Braunmuller, Alan Durband, Barbara A. Mowat, Braham Murray, Daniel Leary
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Tempest by Alden T. Vaughan, Barbara A. Mowat, Christine Dymkowski, David Bevington, David Scott Kastan
A picture book version of the play by Shakespeare. Prospero, a rich and respected duke, and his daughter Miranda are forced to leave their home in Milan. Set adrift, they land on an enchanted island and are soon surrounded by magical spirits such as the helpful Ariel and the evil Caliban. Colorful paintings accompany the text. AUTHOR: Alden T. Vaughan, Barbara A. Mowat, Christine Dymkowski, David Bevington, David Scott Kastan
PUBLISHER: Atria Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Valery Gergiev & the Kirov by John Ardoin, Peter Ustinov
Valery Gergiev became chief conductor and artistic director at the Kirov Opera in 1988, and under his direction the Kirov has become revitalized. This is a history of the Kirov and of Gergiev's efforts on its behalf. AUTHOR: John Ardoin, Peter Ustinov
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes
The most controversial art critic in America--author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore and The Shock of the New--looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art and artists from the past to the present. Hughes evokes and defines the essences, works and worlds of a wide range of artists. AUTHOR: Robert Hughes
PUBLISHER: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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