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Aerobatics
The most knowledgeable book ever written on the subject of aerobatics, by the author who was British Aerobatics champion 12 times.
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Silk by Alessandro Baricco, Guido Waldman
A 19th-century silk merchant travels back and forth from France to Japan.

AUTHOR: Alessandro Baricco, Guido Waldman
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Alma W. Thomas by Alma W. Thomas
The passion and talent of African American painter Alma Woodsey Thomas shines through each of the full-color reproductions in this elegant book, the first comprehensive text published on Thomas`s life and work in over fifteen years. This collection of her paintings epitomizes decisive periods of Thomas`s artistic career, tracing the progression of her oeuvre. Six essays (by Tritobia Hayes Benjamin, Ann Gibson, Jacob Kainen, Jonathan P. Binstock, Judith Wilson, and Sachi Yanari) illuminate the life and work of this pioneering painter. A gifted and dedicated artist whose life spanned vast social and political changes -- two world wars and the Great Depression; the flowering of the Harlem Renaissance; the struggles of civil rights, Black Power, and the women`s movements; and the dawn of space exploration -- Thomas steadfastly maintained her unique vision and expression, forging her path without regard to political or social expectations from the art world. In 1924 she became the first graduate of Howard University`s newly organized art department, and in 1972 she became the first African American woman artist to hold a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

AUTHOR: Alma W. Thomas
PUBLISHER: Pomegranate Communications, Inc
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

The New Cottage Home by Jim Tolpin
A survey, with photographs and diagrams, of small, attractive, environmentally conscious, cottagelike houses constructed in the 1990s.

AUTHOR: Jim Tolpin
PUBLISHER: Taunton Press, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Spaghetti Nightmares by Gaetano Mistretta, Luca Palmerini, Margot Winick
Spaghetti Nightmares is a forty-year journey through Italian horror films. This book grants producers, directors, screenwriters, make-up artists and actors an opportunity to express their views and opinions, as well as their hopes and disappointments through a series of interviews.

AUTHOR: Gaetano Mistretta, Luca Palmerini, Margot Winick
PUBLISHER: Fantasma Books
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture

Skylight by David Hare
In North London, a teenage boy visits a teacher to ask her to come back to his father. But the couple's differences are much deeper than can be set aside by a boy's request.

AUTHOR: David Hare
PUBLISHER: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Art & Architecture