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|  | La Dolce Vita by Catherine Fairweather, Mark Luscombe-Whyte
Description not available.An intriguing tour of some of Italy's most beautiful homes combines full-color photography with detailed decriptions as it journeys from artist Sandro Chia's austere Tuscan monastery, to Gore Vidal's cliffside retreat on the Amalfi Coast, to a charming Chianti farmhouse. 20,000 first printing. Architecture & Design Alt. AUTHOR: Catherine Fairweather, Mark Luscombe-Whyte
PUBLISHER: Bulfinch Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture 
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 | Oaxacan Woodcarving by Vicki Ragan
Presents a dazzling array of magical wood carvings created by the famed artisans of Oaxaca. AUTHOR: Vicki Ragan
PUBLISHER: Chronicle Books LLC
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Four Revenge Tragedies by Katharine Maus
The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain in the late Elizabethan and Jacobean period for both literary and cultural reasons. Thomas Kyd`s The Spanish Tragedy (1587) helped to establish the popularity of the genre, and it was followed by The Revenger`s Tragedy (1606), published anonymously and ascribed first to Cyril Tourneur and then to Thomas Middleton. George Chapman`s The Revenge of Bussy D`Ambois and Tourneur`s The Atheist`s Tragedy were written between 1609 and 1610. Each of the four plays printed here defines the problems of the revenge genre, often by exploiting its conventions in unexpected directions. All deal with fundamental moral questions about the meaning of justice and the lengths to which victimized individuals may go to obtain it, while registering the social strains of life in a rigid but increasingly fragile social hierarchy. AUTHOR: Katharine Maus
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | American Homes by Lester Walker
Description not available.Surveys American housing styles, from the Native Americans to the present day, providing over one thousand drawings and diagrams for each house type. AUTHOR: Lester Walker
PUBLISHER: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | The Rise & Fall of the City of Mahagonny & the Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie by Bertolt Brecht, Chester Kallman, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, W. H. Auden
The two works collected in this volume sprang from the same fruitful collaboration that gave rise to Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill`s Threepenny Opera. Both are set in America, but an America of myth. In The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, Brecht`s parable of greed and indifference, Mahagonny is a boom-town fusing Miami with Sodom and Gomorrah. Founded on the principle that it is easier to prospect gold from people`s pockets than from the earth, it is a city threatened with catastrophe but also obsessed with pleasure and the problem of how to pay for it. The Seven Deadly Sins of the Petty Bourgeoisie, Brecht`s supremely ironic ballet libretto, is the story of two sisters who in seven years traverse seven cities. In each, one sister is tempted by one of the seven deadly sins. First performed in Paris and London in 1933, with music by Weill and choreography by George Balanchine, it premiered in the United States in 1958 in a production by Balanchine. Of the translations by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman that are reprinted here, Hannah Arendt wrote in 1960 that she knew of no other adequate rendering of Brecht into English . Arcade`s definitive edition also contains an introduction by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, the editors of Brecht`s complete dramatic work in English, together with extensive notes and variants. AUTHOR: Bertolt Brecht, Chester Kallman, John Willett, Ralph Manheim, W. H. Auden
PUBLISHER: Arcade Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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 | Houses for Good Living by Royal Barry Wills Associates Staff
New England houses, among America's favorites for trim style and comfortable living. AUTHOR: Royal Barry Wills Associates Staff
PUBLISHER: Architectural Book Publishing Company, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture
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