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|  | Golden Temples of Thailand by Gilles Mermet, Kenneth D. Whitehead, Sankti Leksukhum
Description not available.Taken from ancient Buddhist texts, these colorful images depict everyday life in Thailand from the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries as well as timeless mythological and cosmological scenes. AUTHOR: Gilles Mermet, Kenneth D. Whitehead, Sankti Leksukhum
PUBLISHER: Braziller, George Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | McBeth for Kids by Lois Burdett
Description not available.Retells in rhyming couplets the Shakespearean tragedy about the eleventh-century Scottish king AUTHOR: Lois Burdett
PUBLISHER: Black Moss Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Improper Pursuits by Hicks
Description not available.A portrait of the eighteenth-century Lady Diana Spencer, daughter of the third Duke of Marlborough, discusses her rigidly traditional upbringing, fashionable education, marriage to and divorce from Viscount Bolingbroke, illegitimate child, marriage to lover Topham Beauclerk, friendship with Horace Walpole, and artistic talents. 10,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Hicks
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press, LLC
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | American Shelter by Charles Moore, Lester Walker
This guide covers every American housing style, from Native American shelters through Dutch Colonials, Southern Plantation mansions, Carpenter Gothics, and more. Includes illustrations, diagrams, and floor plans. AUTHOR: Charles Moore, Lester Walker
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Hart Island by Melinda Hunt
This is the story of Hart Island, the Bronx, in the Long Island Sound, commonly referred to as Potter`s Field. its history is more than fascinating. After the purchase of the island measuring approximately one mile long and one-eight to one-third of a mile wide, by the City in 1868, Hart Island has served as cemetery, a charge, a hospital for women, an insane asylum, and a jail. During World War II the Island was turned over to the Navy. Later it served for housing of male derelicts, as a NIKE missile base for the U.S. Army, for a narcotic rehabilitation program, and finally as a cemetery again. Today, the in mate work details is are buced from Rikers Island to perform the burials, disinterments, and maintenance of the Island. Since 1869, more than 750,000 burials have been performed. Hart Island is not open to the public Well-known New York based photographer Joel Sternfeld has created a series of Color photographs, which are complemented by installations of artist Melinda Hunt. The book represents a unique discovery, a compelling documentation of an unknown territory right on the doorstep of New York City. AUTHOR: Melinda Hunt
PUBLISHER: Scalo Verlag
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Images of Enlightenment by Andy Weber, Jonathan Landaw
One of the most striking aspects of Tibetan Buddhism is its wealth of visual imagery, ranging from the tranquility of a serenely poised meditator to the dynamic energy of apparently wrathful figures. Western observers are often as puzzled as they are fascinated by these representations and wonder, Who are these figures and what do they mean? In telling the story of each major deity and its iconography, this book -- unavailable for two years -- answers the need for a clear, straightforward guide to the inner world of Tibetan Buddhist sacred art and serves as a great introduction to the tradition of spiritual self-transformation embodied by these depictions. The text by Landaw, which explicates thirty-two brilliant full-color plates of paintings by Weber in Tibetan style, is also sprinkled with numerous line drawings, helpful tables, and succinct, lucid explanations of topics ranging from emptiness to the processes of death to the stages of the tantric path . -- Religious Studies Review AUTHOR: Andy Weber, Jonathan Landaw
PUBLISHER: Snow Lion Publications, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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