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The Lost Painting
The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2005
**Told with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. **
An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed...
The Age of Insight
The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind—our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions—and how mind and brain relate...
Color
A Natural History of the Palette
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Finlay takes us on an enthralling adventure around the world and through the ages, illuminating how the colors we choose to value have determined the history of culture itself.
How did the most precious...
Diario de una ansiosa
Historias de mi supuesta vida adulta
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Un cómic sobre la ansiedad... esa que se te pone en el estómago y hace que quieras consultar Facebook cada diez minutos.
Si secretamente eres de los que te alegran cuando se cancela un plan; si, de hecho, tu plan favorito es quedarte en casa en pijama mientras cotilleas en el móvil compulsivamente,...
Crisis in the Red Zone
The Story of the Deadliest Ebola Outbreak in History, and of the Outbreaks to Come
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
The 2013–2014 Ebola epidemic was the deadliest ever—but the outbreaks continue. Now comes a gripping account of the doctors and scientists fighting to protect us, an urgent wake-up call about the future of emerging viruses—from the #1 bestselling author of The Hot Zone, now a National Geographic...
Wrestling with Moses
How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be....
The Artful Garden
Creative Inspiration for Landscape Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
**“I want to put the mystery back into the heart of garden design, where it needs to be. It’s what lures you in through the gate, keeps you moving through the landscape, and fills you with excitement along the way. The sense of mystery is what turns a mere display of plants, paths, and ornaments...
CodeNotes for Java
Intermediate and Advanced Language Features
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement...
CodeNotes for J2EE
EJB, JDBC, JSP and Servlets
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement...
by Gregory Brill
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2002
CodeNotes provides the most succinct, accurate, and speedy way for a developer to ramp up on a new technology or language. Unlike other programming books, CodeNotes drills down to the core aspects of a technology, focusing on the key elements needed in order to understand it quickly and implement...
The Rain in Portugal
Poems
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins comes a twelfth collection of poetry offering over fifty new poems that showcase the generosity, wit, and imaginative play that prompted The Wall Street Journal to call him “America’s favorite poet.”
The Rain in...
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2003
Masters of Doom is the amazing true story of the Lennon and McCartney of video games: John Carmack and John Romero. Together, they ruled big business. They transformed popular culture. And they provoked a national controversy. More than anything, they lived a unique and rollicking American Dream,...
The Piano Shop on the Left Bank
Discovering a Forgotten Passion in a Paris Atelier
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2001
A warm and intuitive portrait of the secret Paris—one closed to all but a knowing few—The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is the perfect book for music lovers, or for anyone who longs to recapture a lost passion.
Thad Carhart never realized there was a gap in his life until he happened upon...
Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin
Forty Years of Funny Stuff
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
For at least forty years, Calvin Trillin has committed blatant acts of funniness all over the place—in The New Yorker, in one-man off-Broadway shows, in his “deadline poetry” for The Nation, in comic novels like Tepper Isn’t Going Out, in books chronicling his adventures as a happy eater,...