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480 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
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English
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Design: The Definitive Visual History is a gorgeous visual celebration of design across the decades. Find out all about the major design movements of the last 150 years from Arts and Crafts to Bauhaus and browse through the beautiful image catalogs of everything from glassware to posters and typography to chairs. Arranged chronologically, from 1850 to the present day, follow the fascinating evolution of how design has influenced the look and functionality...
4) John Brown, abolitionist: the man who killed slavery, sparked the Civil War, and seeded civil rights
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x, 578 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery, single-handedly changed the course of American history. This biography by critic and cultural biographer Reynolds brings to life the Puritan warrior who gripped slavery by the throat and triggered the Civil War. When does principled resistance become anarchic brutality? How can a murderer be viewed as a heroic freedom fighter? The case of John Brown opens windows...
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Criterion collection volume 274
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2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded booklet/poster (2 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 48 x 37 cm folded to 19 x 12 cm ).
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English
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Two-bit hustler Harry Fabian aches for a life of ease and plenty. With a history of nowhere schemes, he stumbles upon a chance of a lifetime. But there is no easy money in this underworld and soon Fabian learns the horrible price of his ambition.
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x, 766 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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English
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A best seller when first published in Germany in 2003, Jens Malte Fischer's Gustav Mahler has been lauded by scholars as a landmark work. He draws on important primary resources - some unavailable to previous biographers- and sets in narrative context the extensive correspondence between Mahler and his wife, Alma; Alma Mahler's diaries; and the memoirs of Natalie Bauer-Lechner, a viola player and close friend of Mahler, whose private journals provide...
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