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  • Timeline 1700-1799
    Dianne L. Durante
    Discover Timeline 1700-1799, a groundbreaking history book that transforms the past into a living guide for the present, and helps you shape the future. This meticulously researched work by Dianne L. Durante explores a century of major events, ideas, and trends. Read it decade by decade or follow specific categories such as politics worldwide, U.S. presidents, science, philosop...
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    42,22 €

  • Collected Short Works and Related Correspondence Vol. 3
    Dianne L. Durante / Henry Kitchell Webster
    In an era of unprecedented economic growth in America, Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) was one of the first to set novels and short stories in the world of business and industry. He also sympathetically portrayed the new type of woman who was emerging as the Victorian era waned. His charming, intelligent heroines seek (and usually achieve) not only romance and family, but ed...
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    28,50 €

  • Collected Short Works and Related Correspondence Vol. 4
    Dianne L> Durante / Henry Kitchell Webster
    In an era of unprecedented economic growth in America, Henry Kitchell Webster (1875-1932) was one of the first to set novels and short stories in the world of business and industry. He also sympathetically portrayed the new type of woman who was emerging as the Victorian era waned. His charming, intelligent heroines seek (and usually achieve) not only romance and family, but ed...
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    28,35 €

  • Seismic Shifts in Subject and Style
    Dianne L. Durante
    Uncover the philosophical undercurrents that propel a century of artistic revolution, jolting cutting-edge French art from the calm elegance of David’s Madame Recamier (1800) to the psychedelic world of Matisse’s Luxe, Calme, et Volupte (1904). How? By looking at 18 leading artists through the lens of their paintings and of their writings on several hotly debated topics in the ...
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    18,24 €

  • Getting More Enjoyment from Sculpture You Love
    Dianne L. Durante
    How do you get from looking at a sculpture you love, to being able to think and talk about it? In this book, I demonstrate my easy-to-remember 'visual to verbal' method by looking at 15 sculptures, in essays that move from simple to complex. All these sculptures stand outdoors, so if you’re in New York City, you can visit them at any hour and see them from any angle. If not, th...
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    26,93 €

  • Sunny Sundays
    Dianne L. Durante
    Enjoy a treasure chest of 172 hand-picked masterpieces in visual arts, literature, film, and music, with brief, jargon-free comments. Ayn Rand described art as 'emotional fuel'. My goal-and my selfish pleasure!-is to help you find more of that fuel and use it more efficiently. How? By showing you art that’s inspiring, thought-provoking, skillfully executed, and/or beautiful, an...
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    31,69 €

  • Starry Solitudes, a collection of inspiring and thought-provoking poetry
    Dianne L. Durante
    In a world that rarely pauses, take a moment to give yourself some emotional fuel: 98 poems that uplift, challenge, and delight. This joyfully idiosyncratic collection includes timeless classics (Kipling’s 'If', Henley’s 'Invictus', Tennyson’s 'Ulysses') along with far less famous gems such as 'One Good Thing' (a wonderful poem for reading to a child at bedtime), and new transl...
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    22,72 €

  • Innovators in Painting
    Dianne L. Durante
    How did artists progress from cave paintings (top image on the cover) to a work such as Lerolle’s The Organ Rehearsal (lower image on cover)? To find out, we focus on innovations that gave the artist who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers stop, look, and think about their works. Included are more than 200 illustrations, some of whole paint...
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    11,14 €

  • Innovators in Sculpture
    Dianne L. Durante
    How did artists progress from Egyptian sculptures (upper left of the cover) to a work such as Frishmuth’s The Vine (lower right of cover)? To find out, we focus on innovations that gave the artist who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers stop, look, and think about their works. Included are more than 100 illustrations, some of whole sculptur...
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    12,46 €

  • Financial Programs of Alexander Hamilton
    Dianne L. Durante
    In 1789, what would the man who cornered the new Secretary of the Treasury in a tavern, or the woman who sat across from him at a dinner party, tell Hamilton he urgently needed to do? Even laymen knew the US was a nation in crisis. The economy was so slow that people had trouble making a living. States continued to act unilaterally rather than as part of a whole. Added to that ...
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    28,61 €