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Dianne L Durante
Few of us are completely happy with the world as it is. But to change the future, you have to know the past. What actually happened? What ideas drove those…
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Dianne L. Durante
Looks at figures and events that changed New York, the United States and the world. This handbook provides a compact method for studying sculpture, inspired by Ayn Rand’s writings on…
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What were the important events of Hamilton’s life? What were the ideas that drove him? This brief biography includes substantial quotes from Hamilton’s writings, dozens of full-color images of Hamilton…
Using writings by Hamilton, Washington, Burr, Eliza, Angelica, and others, these 2 volumes stitch together an image of Hamilton’s life, his times, and the ideas that drove him. Perfect for…
Using writings by Hamilton, Washington, Burr, Eliza, Angelica, and others, these 2 volumes stitch together an image of Hamilton's life, his times, and the ideas that drove him. Perfect for…
*Central Park: The Early Years* looks at why and how Central Park was created in the 1850s and its history during the formative decades of the 1860s and 1870s. With…
In the late 19th and early 20th century, the most capitalistic era in American history, it was considered normal that the immense popularity of Augustus Saint Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies and…
UNIQUE: looks at Hamilton's programs from the perspective of Hamilton's contemporaries, using primary sources. In late 1789, what would the man who cornered Secretary Hamilton in a tavern, or the…
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Anthology of 98 poems, by topic: Inspiration, Art & Beauty, Work & Leisure, Courage & Perseverance, Family, Country, Nature, Travel, Truth & Knowledge, and Love, Loss, & Recovery.
Focuses on innovations that gave the painters who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers stop, look, and think about sculptures.
Focuses on innovations that gave the painters who created them - and all those who followed - greater power to make viewers stop, look, and think about paintings.
What makes an effective tribute? What makes a memorable memorial? Via half a dozen sculptures in Battery Park, New York City, this essay provides lessons that can be applied to…
172 recommendations of paintings, sculptures, architecture, decorative arts, music, film, TV shows, novels, dramas, short stories, poetry, and select works from museums and exhibitions.
A series of essays on how to get from the visual to the verbal: from looking at a sculpture to thinking and talking about it. Includes how to identify a…
Why did subject and style in art change so dramatically over the course of the 19th century? We'll look for an explanation through a combination of art analysis and philosophical…
Given that he loved his wife and family, why did Alexander Hamilton choose to have an affair with Maria Reynolds? And why did he publish a pamphlet five years later…
Henry Kitchell Webster
A battle for business and romance on a tropical isle.
The outcast inventor of a flying apparatus, a courageous woman, a murderous pirate: when a storm leaves these three stranded in the Arctic for six months, who will survive -…
Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world. The endings are upbeat and…
Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world. In this volume: 20 short…
Henry Kitchell Webster, Dianne L Durante
Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways, sometimes in the business world. In this volume: 11 short…
Henry Kitchell Webster, Dianne L> Durante
Webster, a popular author of the early 20th century, wrote short stories with intriguing characters pursuing goals in unusual ways. In this volume: 5 short stories, 3 plays, 17 essays…
Will Cynthia find her purpose in life with an ambitious religious leader or the brilliant young architect he has hired to build a temple?
